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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 bette…

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. Perso…

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. Civi…

I thought those were all-in-one nanobot things?

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 coex…

By keeping up with capabilities, features, and compatibility. The algorithm doesn't become wrong, but it and the implementation do get surpassed in utility.

The line sounded funnier to me in the less pedantic way.

> 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…

That's something that mechanics books do a lot better than EE books, as far as I've seen.

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 componen…

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" alternativ…

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 p…

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.

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 …

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 wro…

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…