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by linkdink 4y ago
With occupational safety, just like anything else, you can hire professionals and set whatever objectives and deadlines your budget allows. Companies that embrace it get much better and faster results than companies that resist it.
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by linkdink 4y ago
Maybe it will lead to treating the oceans as more of an actively managed resource. So that's one possibly positive thing that could partially offset the inevitable negatives. Personally, I'm also really interested in learning more
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by linkdink 4y ago
So there's no benefit to collaborating because of distances and time scales. A system of machines is plausible, so there's a non-zero risk of encountering something like that. Civilizations decide to hide because only bad things c
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by linkdink 4y ago
I thought those were all-in-one nanobot things?
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by linkdink 4y ago
Is that really an old story? There's usually no memory allocation after initial startup in safety- and mission-critical systems. Rolling over past the max value of an integer data type is a thing though, and they do reboot for that.
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by linkdink 4y ago
Still a strawman because I didn't say sci fi replicators. You could make an automated system that travels, mines, and manufactures. Like a 3D printer that prints copies of itself. That's not unbelievable.
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by linkdink 4y ago
Replicator machines could outlive their creators. Then maybe most civilizations think it's safer not to risk being discovered by one, just in case it exists. That seems reasonable and doable.
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by linkdink 4y ago
The DFH doesn't claim that the aliens would be "god-like" per your definition. They just have a first-strike capability and motive to use it. Could be a low risk-tolerance for coexisting with other aliens. Or something else.
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by linkdink 4y ago
By keeping up with capabilities, features, and compatibility. The algorithm doesn't become wrong, but it and the implementation do get surpassed in utility.
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by linkdink 4y ago
The line sounded funnier to me in the less pedantic way.
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by linkdink 4y ago
> The Mercury-4 is the culmination of years of research I'm imagining some researcher after years of investment and experimentation eventually accidentally discovering the solution: "you mean it just shuts _itself_ off?!?!&quot
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by linkdink 4y ago
That's something that mechanics books do a lot better than EE books, as far as I've seen.
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by linkdink 4y ago
That's already how the world works. The bridge design company takes out insurance reflecting their liability. If something happens, they pay. If their supplier messed up a component, they can turn around and sue the supplier. Licensed
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by linkdink 4y ago
I have a copy. I wouldn't say it's "too light" because there's nowhere else to easily get this type of information, especially not all in one place. There's no "heavier" alternative. Most documentatio
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by linkdink 4y ago
You're conflating drag with drag coefficient. The plot you linked doesn't say anything about drag. Drag is more strongly proportional to speed than drag coefficient. That type of proportionality analysis is what's usually in
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by linkdink 4y ago
Can they at least let me make it smaller? I did the workaround with the registry setting, but it cuts off some of the time and date.
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by linkdink 4y ago
That ambiguity is where a judge has to use their judgement. So it's interesting that they started with the assumption that they had to make a mutually exclusive choice, but didn't defend that assumption.
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by linkdink 4y ago
The majority shares your layman's understanding, but the dissent does not. Last paragraph of page 111 basically says that the whole point of 230, as confirmed by the person who wrote it, is to avoid the either-or mutually exclusive cho
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by linkdink 4y ago
The last paragraph of page 111 is interesting because I don't think the majority opinion tries to rebut that criticism, and it destroys the premise of most of their arguments. It's also interesting to compare the tone of the two o
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by linkdink 4y ago
> No digital records Is it really no digital records, or just fewer/obfuscated digital records? I would think that the ATM keeps tracks of the serial numbers of the notes it gave you?
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by linkdink 4y ago
It's trivial if you're doing an opportunistic design, but it's challenging to match the safety and reliability of a hydraulic system while beating the cost.
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by linkdink 4y ago
I see what you're saying now
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by linkdink 4y ago
I think you've lost sight of the initial concern that was raised. There's still a common-mode failure of loss of control power. Control power is different from actuation power, the latter of which is what you're addressing. A
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by linkdink 4y ago
Slamming on the breaks is not a solution. Part of what makes hydraulic breaks safe without power is you can still control the breaking force.
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by linkdink 4y ago
The past button, like you said, doesn't always work like that. And I know how to search. I'm wondering why there isn't a button when people always post comments to achieve the same thing a button could.
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by linkdink 4y ago
Why isn't there a button for this? There's one for the domain as a whole, but not for the full link.
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by linkdink 4y ago
Well, I'm satisfied with that answer. But maybe that's because I think brass and copper look better than stainless steel.
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by linkdink 4y ago
In your opinion, what would be the lowest hanging fruit that could be changed to have the largest positive impact?
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by linkdink 4y ago
The advice I was once given was to spend 1/3 of the time on the positive lift, and 2/3 of the time on the negative release.
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by linkdink 4y ago
Your comment was not cordial. It was concern trolling.

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