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by K0SM0S 7y ago
As someone who took actual law courses, I can only share your sentiment. Briefly, - that xkcd is (as usual) pretty spot-on - the most ancient piece of "law" that we have is Hammurabi's (~3200 BC but don't quote me on tha
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Interesting, thanks for the recommendation! I recently read Permanent Record[1][2] by Edward Snowden and it'll be interesting to contrast his account from Bamford's some 30-40 years ago. I have to say, Snowden's autobiography
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Isn't it time to consider writing a new Constitution then? Most countries have had "a few" (2, 3, 4...) since the inception of the formalized idea. We now know how to draft "good enough" Constitutions by common stan
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The irony might seem spectacular — between marketing and HR at Apple, essentially, how execs choose to treat others based on whether they're customers or employees. However, it's (morally questionable but) common practice (and act
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This is a very interesting perspective. The evident benefit of async helps us see a world/civilization where indeed computing is pervasive to a much, much deeper/higher degree. Positive note: it could certainly help take silicon-b
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Could you please elaborate? I'm pretty sure I only get 10% at best of the implications of this. I understand crystal clear what you mean — very much agree. FWIW I can't stress enough that this is just a question / thought exp
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
What an intelligent bird's-eye view of the problem. Thank you. I love the perspective, you kind of blend the evolution of simple bits at the hardware level (increasingly lots of them, but nonetheless "known category of application
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
> memory round trip delay Is that where Zen's architecture, with memory controller central to the chip (close to memory IO up/down) and 'chiplets' containing cores left and right, makes so much sense? I'm partial
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That was kind of my intuition, from what little I know about these things (nerdy culture, but tangential and second-hand at best). Tangential remark, however, I hope there's room for post-silicon / -electronics technology. We are
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I guess the choice thus comes down to how much potential benefits may be possible, versus what software actually needs? (I can see first-hand we don't need more single-thread performance in so many use cases) I just have no idea "
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Question to people who know anything about circuit, processor design: are we confident that current designs and paradigms are almost-as-good-as-it-gets for our classes of materials, or is it just the result of 'good enough design + sca
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
This is incredible. I think I've just found my new late-night / fall-asleep 'fictional' TV show — because it really feels that way, in our weird cognitive perception of the past. Thanks a lot for the pointer. This may sp
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
So long, Odo. You gave me some of the best times of my life watching DS9. Thank you forever for seeding my love of space, and belief in the future of humanity. Here's to you, old friend.
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Very cool! I like that you don't actually fix bad code, you just hack the hell out of it to get to your objective. It's a fun and refreshing way to look at code when you're usually always striving for best practice, idiom
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Having 10 million dollars as of 2019 and being unable to at least keep up with inflation means making terrible choices, many, many times over.
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> Note I consider the latter [manipulation] at least as important as privacy. I second that. It's somewhat reassuring to know that others realize that as well. Most people just have no idea how marketing and now 'deep learned&#
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Ballpark estimate, how much would you pay for the entirety of your digital life being private? All of it, bar none?
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I find that it usually falls down to a 'supra'/'infra' (or meta/within) dichotomy: - the 'supra-comments' are essentially used as "section headers", "block title / description&quot
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
> I just don't get the seemingly recurring obsession with artificially limiting growth. At a basic level, it's a cognitive bias regarding economics, the idea of ultimate scarcity: a pie that's forever limited in size and t
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
> That's very idealized Agreed, as we speak. This is why I generally think we ought to take control back of our data, massively, as citizens. And devs and the tech community in general are front and center to lead the charge, obviou
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This makes me realize that from now on, most human beings will probably increasingly be "memorialized" online. I can't help but see in this a new form of modernized, digitalized mortuary ritual, comparable to all the things w
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That would be assuming the French labor market is efficient at selecting candidates for productivity, but given the general rigidity of labor laws in that country, the fact that productivity is pretty much a bad word culturally ("bad A
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Correct. I find that most meaningful information you can derive from such numbers is inter-national, i.e. comparing countries over periods of time wherein internal indicators don't change (and that's already a tall order, but cons
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Late reply: we don't know the details but it's entirely possible that part of their knowledge from their experience at Apple is allowed to be used so long as they do not compete with Apple products using that knowledge; and the se
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> ~1.5M that could be conscripted. That's not huge, but it's enough to give an enemy a bad time, especially with the Swiss terrain and strategic defenses. Switzerland is filthy rich, too. Private fortunes thought to rival or su
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You're totally right. I agree, and wasn't disputing these facts indeed. Just thinking out loud I guess... > Other companies like Apache, Redhat, etc also offer us free things to use/play with while monetizing their enterpr
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Indeed obvious to some but necessary to hammer until everyone gets it — especially the business types who make decisions, as new devs themselves would quickly grow to learn this. > What ever they are offering cost them money to develop,
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Your second paragraph has to be the single best account I've ever read of my own view. Kudos for nailing it so well yet so concisely. (note: which isn't to say that it's easy to avoid perception- or value-induced biases, no
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> Maybe I should rent a seaworthy boat at some point and go overnight (not sure how much preparation that would take, I've only heard of sea dangers from fiction, no clue if an inexperienced person can just do that with a decent ren
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
A glance at his wiki page says he's my kind of author, indeed. Thanks for the pointer!

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