Accujack

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by Accujack 5y ago
>Isn't that like saying an MIT Media Lab degree has reduced in value due to their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, Nicky Negroponte and other deplorables. Yes, and this is also true.
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by Accujack 5y ago
Prosecute, no. However, if this were in a more traditional scientific field, this sort of error would be treated as a serious lapse of experimental oversight protocols and the school or the participants would be sanctioned according to thei
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by Accujack 6y ago
Uh... no, not likely. Nuclear weapons have some utility as a deterrent to invasion, but they're useless in most kinds of war. The US would fight to prevent China taking over Taiwan by force, and Japan and others would assist them, b
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by Accujack 6y ago
>How do you propose a group of 50,000 people interface with their elected congress critters? Setting aside the reasons this situation exists and the problems it's creating, I believe the usual methods are mail, e-mail, and phone cal
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by Accujack 6y ago
Nope. Reddit has never developed/deployed the tools to clean anything up... today (literally) it's virtually guaranteed that someone on the site is trading child porn, someone else is arranging the sale of illegal narcotics, and
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by Accujack 6y ago
> Does reddit have any audit trail or safeguards when admins edit comments? No, and despite being told multiple times over the years they have not made any attempt to develop anything like this, despite it being an obvious step to preven
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by Accujack 6y ago
You'd almost need to invent a technology to efficiently separate them from their shells, not to mention harvesting them in the first place. They glue themselves to their substrate quite strongly, and my experience is that rather than
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by Accujack 6y ago
It's slightly more complicated than that, depending on how much time has passed since the creators of the system left, but you're correct in general. Usually, since admitting that they were stupid to let all the knowledge of the s
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by Accujack 6y ago
>The "something" to be manufactured isn't nuclear power plants. Wrong, actually. Whenever multiple nuclear plants for submarines in a given class are manufactured, the fact that multiples are being built does lower the c
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by Accujack 6y ago
Like most discussions of nuclear power here, this will rapidly devolve into proponents of nuclear arguing it's necessary for our near term future while opponents argue that everything that made nuclear weapons bad and 1960s reactors ex
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by Accujack 6y ago
>I was also a big fan, but there are many alternatives now. Do some research. There are essentially no alternatives to nuclear power for 100% carbon free generation. That's due to how power is produced, transported and consumed (i
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by Accujack 6y ago
Study up on modern nuclear technology (which solves a lot of the economic issues as well as a lot of safety/regulatory issues). Also, learn about how power grids work. Simply building in over capacity of renewables won't solve th
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by Accujack 6y ago
>Nuclear will always be many times more expensive than equivalent power hydrocarbon powerplant. No, you're behind the times. You're thinking of present nuclear plant technology, and in that you're correct. Newer plant de
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by Accujack 6y ago
To someone with a technical bent, it (NFT creation and sales) seems pointless and crazy, but it's no more so than things like fiat currencies or stock shorting. Essentially, people are gaming human psychology to trigger the desire to
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by Accujack 6y ago
Addressing your points in order: The cost of Fukushima has to be measured against the benefit, IE the cost per gigawatt-hour of power created. FYI, the estimated cost is about $200 billion per the Japanese government: https://a
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by Accujack 6y ago
>all he has to do is create his own internet and a procedure for assigning DNS names and IP addresses Or, y'know, just set up a copy of the DNS system using the existing software and standards for the existing Internet, but using di
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by Accujack 6y ago
How? You're basically describing RAM caching. Putting all the ram physically close to the processor gives a giant performance gain that's mostly lost if any of the system's RAM is "remote" on the motherboard.
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by Accujack 6y ago
Well, the most obvious problem for the average lay person is that the movie "Sneakers" would suddenly gain relevance again, and most of the cast are too old (or too dead) to make a sequel. Also, that whole thing about lots of comp
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by Accujack 6y ago
I'm going to make a prediction here: Including memory on a multi-chip module/building systems around an MCM SoC is going to become the standard for a large fraction of the personal computer market. The performance gain from doin
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by Accujack 6y ago
Exactly... this is in fact the overall problem with the US government. Start by fixing that, and then the smaller systems like military procurement that depend on corruption higher up will become fixable.
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by Accujack 6y ago
Reddit's main product at this point is their userbase... information on them, the ability to influence them via echo chambers and censorship, the ability to sell things to them...
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by Accujack 6y ago
> r/coronavirus and r/COVID19 have been pivotal in making sense of the situation in early March (though r/coronavirus turned into a parody of the former self once Covid started spreading in the US). I watched this happen f
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by Accujack 6y ago
>The real money is in capturing subreddit moderators. Right. This also leads to some of the clearest evidence that Reddit (the corporation) isn't interested in actually being a discussion board, but has completely given itself ove
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by Accujack 6y ago
>I'm surprised there's no SRAM product for enthusiasts/cost-no-object performance seekers. I suspect it's because the trade-off for the increased performance would be more than just the price, and that's not even
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by Accujack 6y ago
>Each new human innovation is based on a massive mountain of previous human innovation. That's a general rule of thumb, but it's not a law. There are innovations that are non sequels of previous developments. Sometimes inven
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by Accujack 6y ago
>you're a lot more likely to enjoy watching the big game with friends and family This is more a comment on the state of VR software than the technology itself. With the Apple product described, it's pretty easy to imagine softw
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by Accujack 6y ago
A chip isn't a complete device. What about the rest of the machinery? The software? Construction of the devices, calibration, testing and commissioning? There are probably less than 10 people worldwide capable of determining if m
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by Accujack 6y ago
Correct, my old memory conflated GME with AMC, who did issue stock to retire debt.
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by Accujack 6y ago
It doesn't guarantee that it's occurring, but it's strong indicator that something sketchy is happening. In this case, the important point is that a hedge fund with a 140% short position is more vulnerable to loss than a hedg
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by Accujack 6y ago
Also the possibility that people spreading the narrative that people are dishonestly spreading narratives to pump the stock. My summary above is rough, and it's based on most of the information I've read about the situation. As

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