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by yk 4y ago
> The question is, does science contradict how maories build boats? as you claim in your next sentence > The question is not if Maori had incredible seafaring skills and knowledge about navigation. so no, they work therefore they don&
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by yk 4y ago
The author gives quite a few examples what science supposedly is not, however doesn't really say what science is. From the declaration of totalizing aspiration, "I would argue that there is only one kind of knowledge, at least abo
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by yk 5y ago
The way the author dismisses engineering concerns lets me strongly doubt that he is an expert. There is a discussion on fuel, spare parts and personal, where he basically says that he doesn't care. The burning of nuclear fuel is actual
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by yk 5y ago
Just rewrite twitter as a simple github client. You could tag the version the person retweeted or liked. Since you don't mind the repository being public, you could actually use a free account.
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by yk 5y ago
The most strangely maintainable code, though I should probably put maintainable in scare quotes, I have ever seen was a astrophysics code that calculated the changes to spectrum during interactions with background fields. That thing hat two
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by yk 5y ago
> This question is a trap. If you try to answer it, you’ll find yourself beset by semantic questions. What’s intelligence? What’s a factor? And if you get past those, you’ll then find a bleak valley of statistical arcana. Thing is, build
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by yk 5y ago
The thing is, your proposed change to the scale has to work exactly like "invisible stuff on the scale." So, we can observe dark matter in the early universe with the CMB, we can observe it in the large scale structure, and we can
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by yk 5y ago
Pretty sure. The problem is, that neutrinos are too light, and when they are produced in the early universe they are too fast. That means galaxies do not form like we observe them. Basically, neutrino dark matter would "orbit the outsk
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by yk 5y ago
I agree, the actual question is, why don't run they point of cooking ads already?
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by yk 5y ago
Iran's nuclear program, that looks actually a lot like Germany's in the 60ies. Both are most likely some kind of nuclear threshold strategy, that is one tries to exploit dual use technology and push the actual decision wether it i
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by yk 5y ago
There are also a lot of systematic biases in western media, first of all they all write that the west is really, really great. If they don't write that, and only write that the west is really great, then their readers will look for a p
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by yk 5y ago
Greenpeace wrote a report about nuclear power plants in Ukraine two days ago.[0] The short summary is, that a npp needs to be managed after shotdown, and the most likely scenario is a loss of offsite power like happened in Fukushima. Additi
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Cory Doctorow: Amazon's $31b “ad business” isn't(pluralistic.net)
15 points by yk 5y ago|3 comments
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by yk 5y ago
The article appears to confuse several different mechanism, that all would manifest in inflation. On one hand there is the expansion of the monetary base after the financial crisis, that never ended up as price increases because the money g
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by yk 5y ago
Yes, in Marxist terms you need to produce the surplus value to sustain development. So whoever wants to exclusively work on that coal problem presumably has to convince others to help him, either by providing supplies or by helping directly
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by yk 5y ago
Presumably whoever thinks that it is important to mine coal.
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by yk 5y ago
The radical position is, if nobody wants to mine coal, then we will need to either not use coal (great idea, saves a lot of Co2), or make the coal mining job better. Of course nobody wants the dirty, unhealthy and dangerous job that capital
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by yk 5y ago
The one sub I know opts out of r/all is r/nfl. Which is kinda strange for such a rather non controversial topic, but judging by the treats on r/all probably wise.
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by yk 5y ago
To the best of my knowledge, there is no design for a laser induced fusion power plant. However, at the current stage all fusion experiments are precisely that, experiments and laser induced fusion is currently the only way to generate a pl
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by yk 5y ago
The video should be entirely neglected. So yes, you can define your own variables, and in particular what you call Q_total would be important for a power plant. But nobody claims that current fusion experiments are power plants, and as a ma
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by yk 5y ago
Because the compiler has to introduce code implicitly. The control flow is usually very explicit in C, with this feature it is less explicit.
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by yk 5y ago
Cleanup labels are just a conditional jump, it's explicitly in the code. The defer feature would introduce implicit guarantees by the compiler.
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by yk 5y ago
I don't like it. The great advantage of C is the very simple virtual machine and therefore very easy to reason about code. This bolting on language features is the hallmark of C++, which don't get me wrong has advantages, but in c
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by yk 5y ago
The fuel production does not deal with heavy metal mining and then processing. The reactor itself is save in the sense that the worst thing that can happen is, that you scorch the reactor wall, because there is just not enough energy in the
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by yk 5y ago
I hope it's just badly thought through marketing. There is currently a AWS spot during nfl games, that shows a spectacular catch and then proclaims that the catch probability is only 3.6% or something. You are meant to be somehow impre
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by yk 5y ago
I fail to understand what the problem is. They send a mail asking the procedure of GDPR in a way that implies they consider using their rights. Now there is outrage to the extend that the researchers scrap their study, which is probably eve
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by yk 5y ago
So just 6G, but add at the end of the specification "All data needs to be json encoded with a >>Semantic fingerprint<< tag." I mean there may well be semantic network ideas beyond just QoS that are actually interesting
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by yk 5y ago
If memory serves, the update from 2.x to 3.x was the one were suddenly skins no longer worked and they decided to base the program around a db instead of the file system. Which is not that bad (though still strictly inferior to file based)
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by yk 5y ago
Run! Or at least go to your manager and make very clear that it is simply not possible to provide anything like 24/7 incident response when you are alone. That is the kind of conversation, where it is just better to get fired rather th
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by yk 5y ago
Over fitting to crash test benchmarks is a kinda obvious problem. From an engineering perspective one needs to have a good idea how a crash looks like to be able to optimize safe vehicles. The two options are, to write the standard oneself,

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