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by gasbag 9y ago
Their FAQ seems to disagree with you: Is Dynamicland open source? Dynamicland shares many core values with the open source movement and in some ways goes beyond them. A primary design principle at Dynamicland is that all running code must b
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by gasbag 9y ago
Aren't Nest Protect alarms also linked? This harrowing video leads me to believe they are. It's a couple years old at this point though. (Turn your sound down, video is a poor soul trying to deactivate them.) https:/&#x2F
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by gasbag 9y ago
I drive a Scion xB, which has the aerodynamic efficiency of a toaster. When I bought it in 2005, the huge amount of bugs that the windshield caught was one of the few things I didn't like about the car. I'd estimate conservativel
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by gasbag 9y ago
This seems like something we ought to be able to do electronically. I should be able to encrypt a message with recipient's pubkey and a verified timestamp from NIST (for example) in addition to my digital signature, with a requirement
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by gasbag 9y ago
Awesome! I'm curious to try out your implementation. When I first stumbled upon Lucid early this year it seemed fascinating, but hard to wrap my head around by just reading the examples. I searched for a version that would work on t
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by gasbag 9y ago
Your last sentence also sounds a lot like Economics 2.0 (and some other things) from Charles Stross's magnificent book Accelerando.
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by gasbag 9y ago
Violence always shapes political discussion. When someone commits a terrorist act, there must always be a decision made on how to respond to it. Understanding what drives a terrorist does not necessarily negate any punishment for the act o
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by gasbag 9y ago
User acjohnson55 mentions below a Radiolab episode in which a debate team does exactly what you suggest. They had a lot of success with their strategy, but ultimately even as the community paid lip service to all of the issues they raised,
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by gasbag 9y ago
I don't think the US would stop trading with Puerto Rico, so I suppose the question is if the increased trade with Caribbean nations would offset however much trade with the US mainland would diminish. I don't know the answer to
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by gasbag 9y ago
The act says that anytime a non-US ship carries goods that are from a US port, including Puerto Rico, it cannot take those goods to any other US port. So instead of being able to do a sequence of [Barbados, Puerto Rico, Florida, Barbados],
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by gasbag 9y ago
> The Puerto Rican economy, at least on the coasts, is highly intermingled with the US economy In large part due to the Jones act, which discourages trade between PR and its Caribbean neighbors.
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by gasbag 9y ago
> The Senate wasn’t designed to represent “the people” anyway, it was designed to represent the interests of the sovereign states — of which DC is not. The House of Representatives is what represents “the people.” This was how it was des
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by gasbag 9y ago
State is the wrong entity here. A population tends to create a culture, and a culture's interplay of ideas runs on its human network. Which is not to say that a culture is conscious either, and in all likelihood if it does have a kin
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by gasbag 9y ago
This is tangential to the article, but one of the more interesting and less-discussed aspects of Seveneves is the ubiquitous surveillance that everyone is living under. Most characters hardly give it a thought most of the time. The way th
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by gasbag 9y ago
I haven't heard anything since the announcement. IMDB's last update was in January. It's not just Ron Howard though--it's also a bunch of the people who worked on the Apollo 13 film, which seems like a very good fit. U
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by gasbag 9y ago
Less useful to most people, sure, but most people also use their desktop computers for only those same things. I make music, and for the past several years, I've been pretty much exclusively using my phone and iPad to do it. The touch
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by gasbag 9y ago
The reason for the phenomenon is that some large percentage of how you hear your own voice comes from bone conduction. In addition, the higher harmonics of your voice are more directional, which is to say "aimed away from your ears&qu
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by gasbag 9y ago
If you're going to play the weighing game of pleasure versus suffering of domesticated animals, I would bet that factory farming far outweighs pets/animal helpers/more humane farms. The numbers are pretty incredible.
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by gasbag 9y ago
> no matter how effective you can implement your tax measures, at the end of the day people can move to other countries and your own country starts to suffer more than it benefits from the increased taxes. The first half of this--that ri
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by gasbag 9y ago
It's probably worth mentioning that Manna represents the dystopian path of development. The second half of the story is devoted to The Australia Project, a technologically-advanced utopia where people are free to pursue their own inte
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by gasbag 9y ago
> At a far more macro level, perhaps one of our biggest forms of "progress" in human history has simply been our shift away from the need to constantly spend all day, every day, hunting for sustenance to get thru the day and th
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by gasbag 9y ago
If you don't think the risk is much higher for a woman to walk alone, especially at night, you are not paying attention. There are several videos of women walking alone in city streets while being discreetly filmed by an assistant walk
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by gasbag 9y ago
You might be interested in the Luna programming language/dev environment. It's designed to have a 1:1 correspondence between the visual, node-based environment and the written forms of the code. I haven't been able to try i
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by gasbag 9y ago
That's a lot of accounts and a lot of passwords. You'd probably want to use a password manager. These kinds of passwords still have the advantage of being easy to hold in short-term memory, so when your password manager is on a
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by gasbag 9y ago
There is a Radiolab episode about this too. They talk about all of the things that we don't know about that happen between days 14 and ~30 (working from memory), and also how the person who came up with the 14 day rule chose that numb
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by gasbag 9y ago
I'm curious to see some of the historical examples in America, especially if there are TONS of them. Because when I think of "American capitalism at scale" in the old days the only thing I picture are the robber barons.
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by gasbag 9y ago
I'd like to see these cars' behavior when they encounter a road work crew with a closed lane and flaggers directing traffic.
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by gasbag 9y ago
You're right, I'm sure it's possible. And it would definitely be the more visually stunning of the two: the variety of places and buildings and artifacts and creatures that we'd get to see would unquestionably outstrip
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by gasbag 9y ago
That's a good list. I'm curious about what you're referring to in 6. The only thing I can think of is beneath Nessus, but I can't for the life of me recall how it plays into what Severian writes (or perhaps rather what
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by gasbag 9y ago
Yes, this tetralogy* is spellbinding. The world is vast and cannot be fully comprehended. As you said, it feels quite real, and everything that happens around Severian hints at so much more. This book ought to be at the top of every SF a

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