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by PeterisP 3y ago
Does it really make a difference if after the fire the burnt-out structure is still standing with the dead owners in it?
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Especially since for the migration example you can trivially set the ambitious goal by measuring not the % of users migrated (since you need all of them) but measuring the time or cost of doing so; e.g. set an OKR to finish it in X days or
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Time dilation also has an effect, since you're receiving 10000 Earth-years of laser energy over 10 ship-years.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
This is already an unrealistic thought experiment, since continuous 1g acceleration for 20 years is so ridiculous that it requires a magic engine (i.e. consuming most of the ship mass in a matter-antimatter reaction) so if we're at it,
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by PeterisP 3y ago
I don't really see why such a side deal would be possible - if the VC goal is to get the founder-manager to try for that narrow hope of few percent of major success and discourage them from settling for a lower-value stable business, a
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by PeterisP 3y ago
When it's still enough runway to trim it down, there's often still some hope of greater success - and a VC investor might believe that it's more valuable to have a 1% chance of it becoming a unicorn or a few percent chance of
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by PeterisP 3y ago
That's kind of the point, US Telcos don't really validate customer identity - probably because they can't, due to the general limitations of USA documents leading to relatively easy identity theft where merely having enough i
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by PeterisP 3y ago
I feel this comes down to the four freedoms and specifically "The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1)". In this article it still is clear that this is what both t
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by PeterisP 3y ago
That's not a problem anywhere else - if you have two (or two hundred) locations with different tax rates, just calculate whatever is the highest total, and advertise that - you're definitely allowed to sell stuff for cheaper than
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by PeterisP 3y ago
You could say that it serves the industry better in the long run, however, for each specific company arguably it's not a benefit - there's no competitive advantage if the same new builders are available to their competitors, and
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The general idea is that an exploitable remote code execution bug is some specific circumstances where the processor starts to execute whatever is in some wrong address which can be manipulated by an attacker. If the bug is successfully exp
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Floating a balloon to the upper atmosphere doesn't make a meaningful difference in escaping the planet, it saves you a few percent of the energy but you still have to do most of the work to bring it up to escape velocity. Going to spa
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by PeterisP 3y ago
If what you propose would be implemented, why would anyone ever write a letter of recommendation? I'm currently doing an unpaid favor to the institution which asks for letters of recommendation, as I spend my time so they get my opinio
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Having lived on both sides of the pond, you'd tend to buy different kinds of products, in USA the grocery variety pushes you towards less fresh/spoiling products and more towards various processed products which will up a fridge f
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by PeterisP 3y ago
If you need to give out a number that you'll never pick up, why not just use any random non-working number?
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Because the reasons that are there aren't good; most of the other countries had a similar situation but switched decades ago.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
In a walkable city you go by a store every time you go outside - you come back from work, you pass by a store or two where you can buy fresh groceries. This has also an impact on healthy diet, giving access to fresh goods which wouldn'
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by PeterisP 3y ago
You can slowly, gradually reduce parking minimums.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
IDK, working on research experiments has a lot of required effort that can be done by pretty much everyone, I'd estimate that about 80% of our total person-hours is spent on all kinds of "glorified plumbing", wrangling data
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Your last paragraph is kind of the whole point - the (predictable) outcome of requiring a playground to be safe results in a lack of places for creative unstructured play, as playgrounds either prohibit it or get shut down.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
It's not a unique opportunity in any way, if the German government somehow decided that it would be awesome to hold $2B or $20B of BTC, they can simply buy it at any time.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
My experience with propaganda bots is that the really nasty hate stuff will usually be posted by actual, real people (perhaps as a result of being prodded by bot-provided outrage), and bots will rather have all kinds of more subtle hinting
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by PeterisP 3y ago
We probably could, but only after we'd figure out what exactly is causing it.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Are cereals, tubers and legumes upstream of algae? They are "pretty much everything* as far as food security is concerned, they constitute 90% of calories consumed by humanity; the three main species - rice, maize, and wheat - curren
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Such a response would generally be a crime; existing cybercrime legislation generally does not have any clauses permitting retaliation as "self defence", and also very often you'd be DDoSing an innocent third party, another v
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Currently you can get encryption if you care to configure it, so some have crypto and some don't; but if all certs are trusted, then everybody gets compromised crypto, which isn't much better than no crypto, so it's IMHO a do
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by PeterisP 3y ago
I think a problem is that this press release is mixing content from the scientific study with an interview of experts talking about it, and the colloquial assertions made in that conversation happen to have a bunch of extra speculation that
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by PeterisP 3y ago
They obviously didn't, and didn't need to - that sentence is not making any assertion, it is suggesting a hypothesis that can be tested in future work by them or others. The sole assertion this study is making is about the existe
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The bytecode is not a novel creative work and does not have a separate copyright, this affects, for example, copyright terms (not that they are already relevant for code with the terms being so long) - the effective copyright date is when y
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Copyright law cares about what generated the material, because it protects certain rights of the creator of the work, and if you can't point to a human creator whose rights were violated (a machine or program has no legal rights) then

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