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511.
by woodman 11y ago
Stacks burn, but not as energetically as a single sheet with a high surface area to volume ratio. The stack might just smolder for 229 years, because the flame resistant treatment turned out to only be flame retardant. Something something
512.
by woodman 11y ago
That is assuming rational self interested actors and equal cost/benefit. We don't need to look very hard to find examples of irrationality and imbalanced incentives. Also, how many times have you been exhorted to act against you
513.
by woodman 11y ago
Oh I remember my highschool civics lessons, but I then went on to study game theory. Consider the incentive imbalance: if it costs me 10k hours to legislatively get one penny from every citizen, and the same number of hours are required to
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by woodman 11y ago
If the State's power is derived from the consent of the governed, then a lack of political participation on the part of the governed should be considered a vote of no confidence. This would solve the problem of imbalanced lobbying inc
515.
by woodman 11y ago
So that they can imperfectly be held accountable by all imperfect people. Now let us find a nice foundation of sand to build a castle on.
516.
by woodman 11y ago
People are bad, therefore we need a government made up of people are bad...
517.
by woodman 11y ago
> It's called opportunity cost. The law of conservation of energy, as close to the metal as it gets. I remember reading about the same thing in terms of algorithmic complexity (in the context of data compression), and how one can o
518.
by woodman 11y ago
Your description of "human intelligence" sounds more like a bounded random number generator. Also, your thinking is restricted by sensory input - just like the AI.
519.
by woodman 11y ago
Well they don't kick down doors, but they have picked plenty of locks. You probably don't need to worry about the Special Collection Service [0] though, unless you live in some kind of communications facility. The NSA's cry
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by woodman 11y ago
That is putting a lot of faith in both Microsoft and the windows firewall, which has historically been very weak. Microsoft has also indicated that they're not adverse to bypassing users' obvious attempts to protect themselves fr
521.
by woodman 11y ago
> Seriously, Wikipedia is not your friend. I wish you went on to back that statement, because I'm going to have to use context clues to guess that you've either failed at reading comprehension or basic abstract thought. The ar
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by woodman 11y ago
LtGen Riper disagrees [0]. The drones don't need complicated control links if they've got rudimentary autopilot functionality with a few extra routines that would not be out of place in air to air missiles. Take a page from the
523.
by woodman 11y ago
> That has only been possible for a few years... I had a Linksys WVC11B IP camera like 12 years ago, I don't remember how expensive it was but it was definitely cheap and targeted consumers for home use.
524.
by woodman 11y ago
Well those ideals are pretty subjective, I'd say that the ideal language would be flexible, performant, safe and productive. As those goals conflict with one another, the ideal language would find the perfect balance. I don't kn
525.
by woodman 11y ago
> For example I never could understand why we need enums. > Why should I ever put const in the argument of a function? Reducing potential state and conveying programmer intent. Both lead to safer and more performant code (by way of c
526.
by woodman 11y ago
I'm pretty sure that is already a thing. Are you talking about something like L2ARC or swap disks?
527.
by woodman 11y ago
> Perhaps globalisation isn't international cooperation as much as international action I'm not sure what kind of cooperation has a more positive impact than economic. It brings peace and prosperity. > Clinton brought NAFTA
528.
by woodman 11y ago
> Internationalists, international cooperation ... are the province of the left and of moderates. This is the first time I've heard this charge. Consider which group is constantly demonized for globalization, and which group riots
529.
by woodman 11y ago
Latencies of 100 ms may be common because TVs don't have strict latency requirements. 16x16 is a very small window, I have no idea what they're using for TVs, but 128 isn't uncommon in post production ANN upscaling. Also con
530.
by woodman 11y ago
I'd be very surprised if a modern cpu couldn't handle the task, especially if you were clever about detecting regions of interest, predicting head movement and cache maintenance. But I'd also be surprised if they go to marke
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by woodman 11y ago
Training an ANN is computationally intensive, using a trained ANN is not. No context switching for system calls, no memory management, just matrix math.
532.
by woodman 11y ago
None of that changes the fact that it is a voluntary and self appointed responsibility. If you can't do your thing at the south pole without worrying about getting permission, filling out the requisite forms, paying the various fees a
533.
by woodman 11y ago
I'd agree if the rescue team was comprised of draftees, but I'm guessing that it is an all volunteer group that is aware of the responsibility before signing up. The complaint has the same sound to me as cops that moan about the
534.
by woodman 11y ago
> And the proliferation of IEDs in Iraq suggests that those skills are readily transferable. Nope, there were a small number of bomb makers who provided the bombs to a distribution network - this network then assigned the bombs to emplac
535.
by woodman 11y ago
It would, and a ball-peen hammer is better at mashing potatos than a baseball hat. Just attack the company parking lot or the city motorpool. This whole thing sounds like the darkest rube goldberg machine ever.
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by woodman 11y ago
I'm guessing that you're concerned about a place that has no parking authority, highway patrol, corporate security, nosey neighbors - because an abandoned vehicle won't last more than two days otherwise. There is a reason wh
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by woodman 11y ago
> Curious the downvotes on that comment, it's totally feasible. I'm guessing that you got downvoted because the logic is ridiculous: LPRs are to be feared because bombs can be attached to them. That is true of every technology
538.
by woodman 11y ago
> ...for the implementation of Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) verified gross mass (VGM) regulations... I wonder how you define "free market".
539.
by woodman 11y ago
Sure, you woke up and didn't kill yourself. As did most every human being that has ever existed, because humans don't do that outside of very strange circumstances that are out of their control.
540.
by woodman 11y ago
Nope, exceptions get their own subclass. Babies would be baby-humans, the mentally ill would be - well you get the idea. These classes are actually a predictable reality given an accurate definition of "human being", a component

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