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by wasx 9y ago
Nitpick but shouldn't it be read code on Github, rather than read code at Github?
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by wasx 9y ago
Wiping earth clear of humans and still having a habitable planet left over would require far more resources, risk, lives of your own and time then simply building a few colonies on planets like Mars.
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by wasx 9y ago
Then we'd certainly have evidence of this genocidal society no? They'd definitely be actively looking for other intelligent life forms, and if they were systematic in eliminating it, they'd have to have the infrastructure to
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by wasx 9y ago
That is true, but I don't think fair parallels can be drawn between a southern European empire in 1492 when humanity was still discovering itself and it's place within the universe to an interstellar society. Society matures in mu
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by wasx 9y ago
I put humanity in quotes because I didn't really know what else to name it when talking about some other form of intelligence. I guess I'm talking about that part of our society that craves peace and stability, that has enabled ou
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by wasx 9y ago
I've gotta disagree with you on this. Personally I think intelligent life is probably very rare in the universe, the sheer number of factors that need to go right for it to arise, and then the sheer number of factors that need to not
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by wasx 9y ago
I'm kind of glad to hear that to be honest. It's already too far away from us and going too fast for any spacecraft that could currently be built to reach it. It would have been a very cruel joke if the first opportunity for inter
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by wasx 9y ago
Hopefully once the technology matures and becomes more widespread we get a FOSS alternative. I don't trust Microsoft and would not want to work with a stack that is monopolized by them
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by wasx 9y ago
Why has this disappeared from the front page?
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by wasx 9y ago
Scalability and de facto centralization was always going to be the slow death of Bitcoin,from the size of the blockchain, ASIC miners (which locked out people who couldn't afford to build warehouses of them, creating a centralized mar
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by wasx 9y ago
Awesome news. gcc has had experimental support for C++17 for a while now, any idea on a potential time frame for it to move from experimental to final standards compliant?