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by zeteo 13y ago
Yes, but the article talks about military technologies and their impact on the extent of civilized areas. Neither Islamic nor Mongol invasions were based on new technologies (if anything, they had less sophisticated equipment than their opp
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> Where do you get the idea that 500-1500 CE didn't change much? If we consider military technology, gunpowder had hardly begun to have an impact. Machiavelli's Art of War (1521) still recommends Roman military equipment and
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Oh I've read the article, and many like it. I'm not sure you've read my comment carefully though, because you seem to be missing the main point. Such studies are largely invalidated by their very influence on the phenomenon t
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Maybe this is legit, but 500-1500 CE seems the worst historical period to be testing such models. Neither civilized areas nor technology (except in China) changed much during that period. Models that were accurate for periods such as 3500-2
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>Students invest in a program and later earn money in their chosen career And also they invest in a suit and later earn money when they show up at work wearing it. There are definitely professions in which nobody will take them seriously
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This kind of BS analyses are exactly the root of the current problems with the higher education system (insane tuition, CS majors who can't do fizbuzz etc.) - because they are self-fulfilling prophecies . For comparison, let's im
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by zeteo 13y ago
Yeah, as I said it depends on how long the code ends up running. For sections of the code that you end up changing all the time you'll have a much higher proportion of developer time to "running core" time, so you obviously c
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by zeteo 13y ago
> One programmer costs ~ 300 cores. [...] If your code consumes less [than 300 cores], you should care about productivity. Adding cores is easy while adding programmers is hard. [...] Do not make performance-productivity tradeoffs below
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Blast Off Orbital Sciences Cygnus Headed to ISS(popularmechanics.com)
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by zeteo 13y ago
Just addressing the OP's point that "if you're smart enough to safely write that C code, you won't".
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>They were too dumb to understand that they were writing unsafe C code "Too dumb to catch vulnerabilities in their code" is a much wider category than "too dumb to learn anything else [besides C]". You're not rea
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> If you aren't smart enough [to safely code a website in C...] the first clue that you aren't is that you think that you are Gee, isn't that epistemology at its finest. Personally I've never met anyone who programmed
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> What if I develop simple statistical models based on the number of squares that are already filled in? What if you were unable to? NP-hard problems are weird like that. What if the underlying statistical distribution had random varianc
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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_hypothesis Sorry, a bit in a rush but that's the main idea. Expecting no specific change is the scientific default.
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Rationalism is more about mental hygiene than any specific beliefs. I don't think it precludes emotion, but it definitely involves being aware of how undisciplined emotion can drive you away from actual truth: confirmation bias, tribal
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"It's warming" is not falsifiable because any immediate developments can always be written off. An actual scientific statement is on the lines of "using methodology X, the recorded temperature next year will be between Y
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by zeteo 13y ago
You may be too emotionally committed to listen to any skepticism, but for whatever it's worth: 1. Your language ("sin", "evil", "believe") indicates a major subjective component in what you're saying.
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It really depends where you're coming from. For the kind of sites that prevailed maybe five years ago, you could separate HTML and CSS quite neatly and JS was a minor element used to add some effects. But these days you're startin
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by zeteo 13y ago
>I'm an Australian who recently became a Canadian Permanent Resident using a "sponsorship" process [...] Make no mistake about it, bringing in foreigners lowers the quality of life for the original citizens, and only helps
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by zeteo 13y ago
>you need to classify what gives the highest percentage edible matter in the whole plant and needs the least mass of things like water Maybe if you don't care about total area. Stalks and all, grains and tubers are the most efficien
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by zeteo 13y ago
>Leafy greens are ideal, ready to be consumed as soon as they’re plucked [...] The most outlandish crops would be wheat and rice. [...P]lants that need processing make less attractive candidates for space travel. Well, these "outlan
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by zeteo 13y ago
Because what are the lives of hundreds of millions in the Third World, compared with the fears of entitled (sub)urbanites who have never produced their own food that we're twisting our connection with "Nature".
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by zeteo 13y ago
I may be digressing but the symbolism they chose for these names is rather spooky. The US program is named after the first battle in the American Civil War, and its UK correspondent after the first in the English Civil War.
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by zeteo 13y ago
The American political process has four stages: money primary, party primary, general election, and lobbying. The will of the public often doesn't get expressed into policy because: 1. By the time the average citizen can play a role in
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>I've been in this business for over 25 years [...] The difference between shit code written by shit coders and less than optimal code written by good coders dealing with constraints is quite clear. [...] Most code out there is shit
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by zeteo 13y ago
It was a lot easier to tolerate risk when people had a common Big Picture. This could be provided by religion, ideology etc. Such attitudes still hold in some places, e.g. Amish communities seem more resilient after school shootings [1]. [
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>What makes you think that you can give a probability that a program has an infinite loop in it? I can't. That's why I basically rummage through the code base, using all kinds of heuristics, most of which I make up on the spot.
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>It's not that one day programs will write programs that write--oh wait, that's already happened Hi, I write software for a living. Just replace the most tedious part, please: debugging. Say what? You can't even give me a
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by zeteo 13y ago
>perhaps the answer is that there is no barrier, and we're about to get flooded with supply. One of my earliest memories is listening to my old grandpa give multiple arguments as to why computers were a passing fad. Needless to say,
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by zeteo 13y ago
>that doesn't mean Capitalism itself is problematic I think you've misread my comment: I was condemning the Communist position, not defending it. Capitalism has historically functioned as an economic system only. There are im

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