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by worren 15y ago
"They throw it at you..." I've the same gripe. Maybe, I can elucidate the parent's point. I can appreciate the mathematician's fancy for reducing numerical manipulation to an indivisible, atomic precision. Creating poetic abstractions is de
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by worren 15y ago
As I was later to understand, "The Republic" is slang that indicates a sympathy for Republicans, Irish Catholics, some of whom rather notoriously caused "trouble" for the Crown and it's subjects. The offences were mutual. Open hostility rel
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by worren 15y ago
I am sensitive, having insensitively used the term "The Republic" to refer to Ireland when speaking to a British customs agent, to your argument regarding sovereignty and the necessary discretion of government officials. I simply didn't kn
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by worren 15y ago
If damage is done...you can be held criminally responsible I was very careful to condition my statement. If something happens, then there is a probability of penalty. The current system conditions operators to gamble. The perceived risk
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by worren 15y ago
do we really need a Fukushima size hacker-induced failure to wake people up. There's no incentive to install the systems correctly or to ensure that they remain secure. It isn't illegal to operate a vulnerable system. A Fukushima-like eve
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by worren 15y ago
It's rather lovely to see simulations providing robust direction. The old method of seeing what sticks to the proverbial wall is horribly tedious.
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by worren 15y ago
"...burning the warehouse to the ground..." If you've a militaristic mindset, and there's a bad guy in the warehouse, this is exactly what happens. A siege mentality, and the simplicity and effectiveness of execution reinforce the approach.
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by worren 15y ago
To a certain extent, a program like this can pay for itself. A school's influence greatly affects the attention (read: grants and contracts) that labs and faculty enjoy basking in. Conversely, competitors theories and techniques are left cl
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by worren 15y ago
Past observing tadpole behavior, science takes a strongly dangerous bent.