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Wow, Doctor Who is actually a fantastic comparison I had never thought of before.

Ah, interesting, thank you.

I always thought that it should be home, but heard it more often as hone, so I figured there must be some etymological history I was unaware of. Apparently I just had a bad sample set.

This is pretty irrelevant to the actual conversation but, it's honing isn't it? Have I been saying it wrong this whole time?

I'm pretty sure this is just a joke in response to this: http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/21/investing/vw-emissions-cheat...

Yeah, Amazon's naming conventions are insane. I feel like it's a good reflection of the industry's apparent love of producing jargon.

At least with this one they kept it to a name that is already reasonably well used?

Landfills, specifically, are built to be as isolated from the environment as possible[1], will generally kills most anything inside and reduces the rate of decomposition.

Admittedly, that is being a bit pedantic, the question would still seem to hold if you were talking about traditional waste dumps, I have no idea about the environmental makeup of those. Although my understanding is that the number of dumps, in the U.S. at least, has dramatically decreased of the last few decades.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill

According to the link it can do a quarter mile in 10.9 secs, so I suppose it depends on what size/type of track you're talking about. Though obviously it wouldn't be able to sustain this for an incredibly long time, I imagine your distance per charge drops significantly at full acceleration.

> go ahead and believe these studies conducted by people you don't know

By that logic, the majority of people would hardly be able to believe a single scientific fact. According to my own physical experience and reasoning independent of what I've gathered from others, I have come to the conclusion that the sun revolves around the Earth.

Do you mean the Model X dos 0-60 in 2.8/2.2 seconds?

I don't entirely understand the logic here, you're afraid your ability to use X will be taken away, so you choose not to use X altogether? Isn't that sort of self-defeating?

Is it more of a concern about not being able to flag something when you feel very strongly it should be, the avoidance of feeling reprimanded by a community you care about, or something I haven't thought of?

Edit: At the heart of it my question is essentially the same as masterzora's. Perhaps I phrased it poorly? I don't mean to be dismissive or rude, I'm just trying to understand the psychology behind this.

You may have only played the Xbox version, which did have a strict constraint on the map size. The PC version, IIRC, has no such restriction aside from perhaps memory and/or maximum possible values. The Far Lands referred to are actually a result of this lack of constraint allowing the player to reach a point where floating point errors begin to wreak havoc on the map generator.

A concern about a rapid increase in EV usage that I see a lot is of having the infrastructure to cope with the increased electricity usage. To that end, wouldn't this be creating even more of a problem?

While 75% efficiency (I assume that's only under optimal conditions) sounds pretty good, that's still a lot of wasted energy. And wouldn't there be some overhead for running these roads while no EV vehicles are on it? Seems like a lot of wasted energy to promote use of something that is supposed to be more environment/energy conscious.

Thank you! I've been looking for this since the first time I found it I don't even remember how long ago! I found it really interesting.

From my understanding the oh-my-fish project has been around for a while and likely has some size of following. So the problem I see is the members of the organization using that existing notoriety to gain credit for the work the Wahoo creator did without citing it as his/hers. The fork and re-add wouldn't have the desired effect then because likely the core audience of OhMyFish still wouldn't see it.

Although I'm not sure if I'm missing something here as well, your guess is as good as mine.

I've had so many ideas for studies about the impact of fonts I wish I'd pursued. A psych professor of mine was interested in them and did at least one study that I know of[1], but information on speed and legibility would be fascinating.

[1]http://www.researchgate.net/publication/237229931_The_Influe...

Except that there aren't any legal moves for the white king, he's caught between the black square bishop and rook on 7th rank.

As Jobu points out from Wikipedia: he second proliferation resistant feature comes from the fact that LFTRs produce very little plutonium, around 15 kg per gigawatt-year of electricity ... This plutonium is also mostly Pu-238. According the article this seems like quite a bit more than is currently being produced, is it not viable for use in RTGs for some reason? Or is the cost of a LFTR over the course of a year less cost effective than the current method of Np to Pu?

I have very little knowledge of the science here, I'm just not sure what all I'm missing.

Fair enough, and in other cases I could see this as being an issue (particularly with smaller businesses perhaps where employees may identify more strongly with their company and its success), but in this case I just don't see it happening. As I said it doesn't really make sense at a company level, and on a personal level who would be the one motivated to punish these customers in such a way? It seems the onus would be on some individual(s) in the ticketing system to "Hey, that's one of those jerks from that lawsuit! I'll teach them to cause trouble with my company." That just doesn't seem likely to me.

I highly doubt it. Why would they take the risk in giving themselves a worse reputation? What would they stand to gain financially anyway? It's interesting that we seem to naturally assume that the business reaction would be congruent with what might be the reaction at the human level.

I don't know, I recognize that this is purely anecdotal but I still feel like more people are familiar with things like the Tesla coil, I mean there was even a fairly popular hair band named after him.

In my experience advances in the field of AI have only in the past 10-15 years shown a noticeable rise in awareness of the Turing test. Am I in some sort of minority and haven't realized it?

Probably singing to the choir, but Founders at Work[1] has a great interview with Wozniak that gives an interesting glimpse into some stories about Jobs in the early days of Apple. In true Woz fashion it also focuses a lot on the hardware he designed back then, which is also a real fun read.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98233.Founders_at_Work

Really? I feel like most people outside of CS/Mathematics have little to no idea who Alan Turing is. Tesla, on the other hand, has a seemingly large cult following due to the strange, almost mythological details of his life and inventive process. I've known plenty of people who knew more about who Tesla was than they even did about Hawking.

The page mentions Phil King as if that is a name I should be familiar with. This game was just before my time, is this some industry big-shot I should know about but missed?

Agreed. My guess is they didn't really do anything different internally. Aside from speaking subjectively about stuff like its particular timbre which may be affected by the type of wood used, but wouldn't be that insightful to just read IMO, there's not much else to mention aside from cosmetics.

That took me a few seconds, well played.

I'm sure you could find a few people in the U.S. that would consider the U.N. a foreign terrorist organisation.

Cool, I hadn't found any browsers that worked well with it mobily and Messenger has become the lowest common denominator for group messaging, among my friends at least, particularly for Android, I've just resigned to using it. I'll check out Tinfoil for Facebook though, thanks.

The odd thing about the example of Messenger is that as two separate apps they seem highly coupled. AFAIK you need to sign in with a valid Facebook account to use Messenger, so you're already very likely to have the normal app at that point as I can't imagine anyone who would trust FB for messaging but not everything else. On the flip side, barring a few possible holdouts of people worried about app permissions, I don't know anyone who actively have FB accounts but don't use their messaging service.

On the whole I agree, but I also think that the business person's decisions/consequences case only works out if you are fairly optimistic and fully believe in the trickle down theory.

That is, anecdotally it seems if an exec makes a good decision, or even if someone at a lower level does, they will benefit substantially more than the rest of the employees. At the same time, if they make a company-endingly bad decision, employees may be out of a job while they will still probably make out okay (golden parachutes and the like).

My assumption is that's just their default message. I've seen videos removed for similar reasons as well as essentially being pornography and as I recall the message is always the same unless it's a copyright issue.