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by yk 11y ago
So nuclear is cheaper if one takes the numbers from the industry for cost, while ignoring the problem of spend fuel. And ignoring the actual main cost of nuclear power, which empirically is the property damage in Pripyat and Fukushima.
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by yk 11y ago
Hopefully but I am a lot more cynical. I guess they want to start with what they believe is their strongest franchise. The job of the new Star Trek is to draw the audience to streaming, and the series needs mass appeal for that.
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by yk 11y ago
Sadly I agree. In modern TV it is unthinkable to have a character like Picard who tries to pursue a diplomatic solution instead of the shoot first, might makes right attitude so prevalent in modern newspapers and other fictions. On a somewh
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New 'Star Trek' Series on Way, but Why Just on CBS' Streaming Service?(forbes.com)
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by yk 11y ago
Yahoo had a nice stream, but actually it was not even the best stream I found yesterday. Interestingly Yahoo had apparently some problem with their CDN, at least when I switched on a US VPN, the stream improved considerably.
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by yk 11y ago
But electricity is in some sense the highest quality energy. You can easily replace heating with a resistor and combustion engines with electrical motors, where the reverse is usually much harder.
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by yk 11y ago
Yes, and actually I am a libertarian in that debate, but I think one can successfully defend a compatibilist view.
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by yk 11y ago
Not sure why you are downvoted, for presenting what amounts to the leading theory of free will. ( Compatibilism, the view that free will is compatible with determinism is the most popular theory of free will among philosophers.[1]) [1] htt
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The Staggering Impact of IT Systems Gone Wrong(spectrum.ieee.org)
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Graffiti on ‘Homeland,’ Unnoticed by Producers, Calls Show Racist(nytimes.com)
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by yk 11y ago
Well, there are a lot of stars and some fraction has anomalous light curves in one respect or another. I am not against investigating, but I believe that overhyping science does more harm than good.
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by yk 11y ago
http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03622 The paper. Basically Kepler, or to be more precise the Planet Hunter crowdsourcing effort, found a star with a rather strange light curve and the Atlantic jumped the gun and babbels of a
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by yk 11y ago
I would guess that recording was essential for VHS's success. By the time DVD became successful, ca. 2000, there was a infrastructure of video rentals available and hard disk recording of movies became possible/was just around the
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by yk 11y ago
Well, you are piping remote code directly into a python kernel,[0] so the user can always run arbitrary code with local rights. It is possible to limit the local rights far enough to prevent anybody from doing something bad, so use cgroups
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by yk 11y ago
If you compare the strength of the gravitational attraction between the proton and electron in a Hydrogen atom to electro magnetic force, then gravity is negligible. Or as my physics teacher once put it, while picking up a book: "There
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by yk 11y ago
Yes, however the numbers are still amazing.
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by yk 11y ago
Unfortunately I fail to replicate the assertions of the article, using the World Bank's povcal tool. [0] ( Linked in the article.) As far as my clicking around goes, it seems that a strong reduction in poverty is independent of the pre
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by yk 11y ago
As a avid reddit user, these two sentences scare me more than any of the stuff that happened this year: > Huffman believes Reddit can be mainstream, embraced by the larger world. But for that to happen, he’ll need to clean up the product
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by yk 11y ago
Sad to report, that most computers are a lot better at solving that CAPTCHA than I am.
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by yk 11y ago
And this is why we need better traffic rules for the information highway. Seriously, when was the last time that someone knowledgeable used the term "cyber?"
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by yk 11y ago
Came here to mention his lecture/BBC show Don't panic . Not only because it is interesting, but because a lecture that is produced like a TV show is a very interesting cross-over of genres. http://www.gapminder.org&#x2
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by yk 11y ago
Sorry for the late answer, just seen your reply. Again I am thinking about emacs, there you could have multiple cork boards, with multiple Windows. So basically, you open a cork board view, which in the background has a cork board buffer. A
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by yk 11y ago
They are probably storing compressed air in the cabin. You start the bioweapon-defense-mode, the fan raises the pressure in the cabin ( that uses outside air) and then shuts off. (Or they store a little bit of air somewhere, perhaps for the
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by yk 11y ago
Interestingly the top seven domains are now user generated content, while there were two old media (bbc, nytimes) and one probably in a similar mold (yahoo, I assume that was yahoo news) in 2007. Also what is asiacollege.ir (it redirects to
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by yk 11y ago
For academics, you can pry Latex from their cold dead hands, so better include a Latex mode. Personally, I like emacs and I think that modes, aka the plug-in architecture has really a lot of merit, so try to expose as much as possible of th
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by yk 11y ago
Because they want to fit as many dies as possible onto a wafer. The cost for lithography is largely per waver, so if they can cut more chips from a single waver, that is, if their chips are smaller, they can increase their profit per wafer.
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by yk 11y ago
I would guess the opposite, society needed a much larger share of its workforce for basic necessity. So assuming that the different opportunities to build something were similar, only a smaller fraction of the possibilities got actually bui
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by yk 11y ago
'naive' means unsophisticated, so in a certain way it is compatible with the meaning a grade-schooler would recognize. However philosophy often is concerned with the meaning of words and so the naive understanding can define the b
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by yk 11y ago
Well, "naive" is a term of the trade. So "holes" are a potential problem for nominalists, philosophers who want to claim that only specific objects - that chair - exist. Calling a position that is not influenced by the l
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by yk 11y ago
Black hodie, check Mirrorshades, check Hackers living in the margins of an orwellian society, check And all I wanted was a flying car.

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