Nrsolis

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by Nrsolis 15y ago
Dude. Putting any kind of weaponry payload on a civilian aircraft (RC or otherwise) is highly, highly illegal in the US. I'm sure it's illegal practically everywhere else that's sane for the exact same reasons. It's not just "remote hunti
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
I didn't feel it here in Fairfield.
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Dont forget that a lot of trades didn't clear. I read somewhere that something like 30% of trades used to fall through because of paperwork mixups and other problems before electronic exchanges. How would you like to think you sold at a pro
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
Wow. Tinfoil hat moralist much? Economics is not a morality play. Your "currency" isn't worth squat without someone to accept it as a medium of exchange. Don't forget that gold was at times an inflationary currency that also happened to h
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
Seconded.
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
How many municipal ISPs are there? Municipal fiber companies? Careful. I used to work for a municipal fiber company and they are FAR from being the best group to build the kind of Infrastructure we need. Don't even get me started on the
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
1) You couldn't be more wrong. Moment by moment psychology is and had been a part of the market from the beginning. The market is about INFORMATION, namely who knows something and who doesn't. Adding computers to the mix might have sped
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
Ya know, most people would agree for you until you ask them to pay for the stuff they call a "social good." I went with my fiance last Christmas to donate food and money to a local food bank. She got teary when she saw were so many people
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
So you'd prefer a single market-maker to control price discovery rather than have several parties compete to do the job? You can argue that /liquidity/ is fine if you have a small number of market-makers but price discovery (otherwise known
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
I'll bite. Right now you're doing OK because you've got a relatively high metabolic rate. By the time you hit your mid-30s to early 40s, a natural drop in testosterone is going to slow that metabolic rate right down and you'll see a gradua
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
No. You're missing the point ENTIRELY. As average bandwidth consumption PER ENDPOINT increases and moves from very bursty to somewhat constant bit rate, the effects up the cost chain start to chip away at the design parameters that went in
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
My main point was to illustrate just how far we've come in absolute terms. My second point was to point out that there are real reasons why the assumptions made about what broadband "costs" aren't really relevant to what you "pay" for it. W
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
Ya know, I can't help feeling that this quote is apropos: "Everything is amazing, and nobody is happy." --Louis C.K. It used to be the case that you couldn't get ANYTHING approaching 5mbps download speed in your home. Now we regularly get
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
IIRC, there are already companies doing this in the mobile phone space. In essence, they beam steer using slight differences in the arrival time of the signal to actual antennas which in turn causes constructive interference in the desired
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
The people who participate in sit-ins are IDENTIFIABLE. It's often the whole point that you show your face and identify yourself as an aggrieved party. Furthermore, lots of those folks get arrested. It's exactly the point that you force t
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
This. Sit-ins were a LAST resort, not the first. There was a long, long history of unequal treatment and oppression by the state before non-violent resistance was used. More importantly, there was a consistent and protracted political mov
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
I don't buy your argument at all. For one thing, you can apply it to almost any instance of mob action against some other party. Is that really what you'd like to see? I also don't buy your argument that it's nonviolent. By DDoSing a sit
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
Vandalism? If I break your window, that's vandalism. If I burn down your home, that's arson. DDoS attacks I've seen have completely shut down some major sites and had some pretty significant second-order effects. There are real dollars an
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
Civil disobedience usually requires that you perform your action openly and notoriously. Running a program in your home and using an alias hardly qualifies. Seriously, you're defending DDoS attacks?
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
Aren't we using some interferometry techniques to communicate with the Voyager spacecraft?
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
(As someone who had Internet access in the UK (dialup) for quite a while before moving back to the US, I can tell you that I was surprised at how well it worked and how CHEAP it was. I had Demon and I was amazed at how clueful they were; e
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
What I meant in #2 was that there are market structure rules about things like minimum price improvement levels and how widely a buy or sell order is circulated before finding a cross. The HFT guys are masters at exploiting the market micr
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
There are some other important differences: 1. In the US, most exchange operators are the counter-parties to all trades. They also interact with settlement and clearing services that ensure the verification of proper ownership and conveyan
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
Do you have employees? How about lots of capital assets with varying depreciation schedules? Do you operate in a business that gets different tax treatment for operating in a special zone? Do you get income from many states? Your situati
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
Actually, I was referring to the assertion that you're in the 35% tax bracket when your salary hits ~375K. There is a lot of confusion in this area, especially when things like pass-through entities (like LLCs and S-Corps) are involved. Ke
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Source?
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
I'm not really sure. TBH, it's not really the limiting factor. The interconnect between the RE and PFE is something like 100mbps.
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This. Juniper has always used a (heavily hacked) FreeBSD core running on an embedded PC platform (Intel-based Routing Engine) for JUNOS that did all (or most) of the protocol related stuff and left the actual forwarding of packets to a spec
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
Whole careers are made on improving some existing process by a few percent. Kudos to that guy.
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
Like I said, franchise agreements are hardly uniform and the large telcos can often muscle the politicians to doing things their way. Add in tax revenue promises and other inducements to side with the telcos and it's easy to see where the

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