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by Decade 12y ago
Because it's not, "your children are vaccinated they're protected, period." The vaccines are not 100% effective, and an extremely small portion of the population shouldn't be vaccinated. For the sake of the people w
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by Decade 12y ago
> Gates' previous actions didn't harm the quality of life for anyone Disputable. Getting people to use pre-XP Windows, and also strong-arming the PC manufacturers into not bundling other operating systems such as BeOS, definite
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Also, they're no longer using the Nvidia chip. They say it's because they decided that VT-d was very important, and the i7-4770HQ needed for the VT-d required them to use the Intel GPU. Honestly, I prefer the Intel GPU. I don&#x27
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by Decade 12y ago
The whole system sucked. Those things has little memory or CPU. Windows Mobile didn't have memory protections or preemptive multitasking. Pocket Internet Explorer sucked even worse than Internet Explorer 6. It was challenging to find a
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Snowden didn't disrupt anything. We have always known that the NSA spies on electronic communications and interferes with encryption standards. A lot of the time, it's not the specific artifact that is disruptive, but it's th
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by Decade 12y ago
Then there's the community that Chris Dixon mentioned. Soylent may not currently be the best food for everyone (actually, I'm pretty certain it isn't), but it has inspired the DIY community. Personally, I find Aleh's 100
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by Decade 12y ago
Ready meals are designed for taste and palatability, not for complete daily nutrition. (Except for military MREs, apparently.) The idea of Soylent is that it's an inoffensive, cheap, and simple way to eat healthily.
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by Decade 12y ago
The Librem 15 seems like a nice system, especially once the creator was disabused of the supposed merits of Nvidia for a free-software computer. https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-laptop
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by Decade 12y ago
SSD lifespan concerns are overdone. Tech report took 100TB of constant writing to get a TLC SSD to start showing errors, and you're not likely to do that. However, by avoiding swap, you're in all likelihood causing extra reads, wh
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The flip side is that this is helping those developers stay employable. I thought I was being all nice and responsible with money: keep it on a single server, watch out for memory and CPU, minimize harm to the environment, outsource to maxi
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by Decade 12y ago
Of course, the Linux attempt at a cathedral is systemd.
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by Decade 12y ago
Not at all. Given the history of TLS implementations, I would call "There are exploitable vulnerabilities" the null hypothesis, and require extraordinary proof that a particular TLS implementation doesn't have vulnerabilities
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Plan 9 was not free software and it is still difficult to make a practical, free Plan 9 system.
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The studio just can't survive after Hayao's retirement. I was especially disappointed when Ursula Le Guin trusted her Earthsea series to him, and he gave it to his idiot son. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt049559
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by Decade 12y ago
Utopian ideas never play out as intended in reality. Re: The history of radio and TV, how people thought they would be educational tools. Computers are tools of limitless possibility, but I hardly ever see them used that way. Much more ofte
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by Decade 12y ago
In the meanwhile, conservatives have "experts" like Anthony Watts to come and say that not only are we not in a horrible drought[0], but that our recent showers[1] are proof that the alarm over the drought is just part of the glob
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by Decade 12y ago
Maybe you're getting downvoted because you misused the term "negative feedback loop." As any beginning engineering student knows, a negative feedback loop is a system that tends to return to an equilibrium state when perturbe
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by Decade 12y ago
If it took 1 person to make, sell, and distribute those things, then $70 million are enough to retire comfortably. If it takes 100 people, then you could still retire, if you lived somewhere cheap. More realistically, you might sell a few h
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by Decade 12y ago
My early 90's Canon eventually leaked all over. It was a big mess. My Epsons clogged and prompted me to do futile head cleaning routines that wasted a lot of paper. My HP was sort of okay, but it turns out that I don't print enoug
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by Decade 12y ago
The presidential Bush family also gained some of their riches through slavery. I'm not going to draw any conclusions from this right now. I think a lot of African Americans are getting a bum deal out of life. Murder and drug dealing ar
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They are not all local attacks. The TV MITM attack can be launched remotely. If he can find a flaw in the content rendering code, then that's a remote attack. Also, his NAT router itself is a security time bomb, via its remote update m
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by Decade 12y ago
People form networks with their friends to help each other. This is not a remarkable thing, and it doesn't benefit all Chinese. I have a couple friends, immigrants from China, who wanted to retire and move to a part of San Francisco wi
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by Decade 12y ago
It's yet another example of security technology that has too many adjustable knobs, is poorly documented, and fails subtly. The main benefit is that it makes it much harder to spoof DNS responses. Qbaka just had an invalid zone publish
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by Decade 12y ago
This is exactly the sort of issue that's supposed to be eliminated by DNSSEC validation. The registrar's database gets corrupted? They are not hosting my DS records, anyway. That's in the top-level domain. You will be the lea
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by Decade 12y ago
There's one aspect that has made me leery about the Internet of Things: The Things tend to be stupid, insecure, and non-extensible. This wireless thermostat is a perfect example. So, good for Steven for figuring out how to make his lif
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As a rider, the trolleys are my least favorite vehicles. In theory, electric is great, lots of torque, whatever. In practice, they're the slowest vehicles in MUNI's diverse fleet. Go too fast, and the trolley pole comes off the wi
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by Decade 12y ago
Knowing the application is not important. What's important is having the connectivity, bandwidth, and latency. The applications will follow. The applications that people currently use most would not have been possible 15 years ago. Fac
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by Decade 12y ago
Apple refined the feature set, and Google ripped them off. Samsung ripped them off more blatantly. It's not my opinion that Apple invented all those features, though that's the public opinion. It's my opinion that Apple spent
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by Decade 12y ago
I had an iPaq, too, and I found the iPhone to be revolutionary. It's not just about features, but about making a good user experience. Cell phone service: The negotiations that Apple had with the carriers caused the modern low-cost dat
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by Decade 12y ago
There's a major difference between when a revolutionary new product has the same name as a defunct product line (Linksys iPhone, which got revived specifically to cash in on Apple iPhone) or a local failing product line (Proview Shenzh

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