Tloewald

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by Tloewald 11y ago
My theory as to Amazon's valuation is that investors assume at some point Amazon will get a stranglehold on retail (giving it both monopoly and monopsony positions in many markets) and then extract rents on a staggering scale until reg
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I think that retiring before 50 is not the solution to unemployment after 50, although the idea of living frugally so you can retire early seems great until you try it.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Android browsers do not, by definition, run on iOS.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
IE11 is "Edge".
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Wake me up when Chrome or Firefox have decent accessibility and then explain to me why I should care about indexeddb support over battery life or accessibility. IE only ever had decent accessibility support because it was ubiquitous and thi
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I don't see how Apple is sabotaging the performance of Android-based browsers. Please explain.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Right now for my work, IE11 is the new IE. It has spectacularly bad performance issues in its nooks and crannies that slow our web application down by a factor of something like 1000 (it's hard to tell -- but after two days of hacking
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by Tloewald 11y ago
According to the linked article the episode was from 1998, which actually makes it fairly early in the game even for poking fun at stupid dotcom sites.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
It's as versatile a joke as the old Slashdot Meme (apparently originally from South Park, which I did not know): 1. Do some stupid thing 2. ???? 3. PROFIT! In fact: 1. Use regexp 2. ???? 3. PROFIT! http://knowyourmeme.com&#x
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by Tloewald 11y ago
You do realize that the example of the hard disk industry in The Innovator's Dilemma is actually one of the weakest in the book: "In fact, Seagate Technology was not felled by disruption. Between 1989 and 1990, its sales doubled
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by Tloewald 11y ago
If the Swedes have tried and haven't been allowed in then it's disingenuous on Assange's part. If the Swedes haven't really tried, then they're outright lying. Someone is lying, and it would be worth knowing who. Ma
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Actually they're not so much faster -- although the camera companies don't have the economies of scale to iterate nearly as fast as the phone companies (so they hang onto a processor generation for a couple of years). A good smart
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Good point -- if this worked even moderately well -- e.g. it lets you capture 20 bits of DR -- a photographer could go crazy with the old film approach of "expose to the right" and simply keep settings such that every shot is &quo
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by Tloewald 11y ago
<snark>Luckily msn is here to report on big companies that invade our privacy that aren't Microsoft.</snark>
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by Tloewald 11y ago
All good points. (And my figure actually assumes 10x faster and no loss of time between clearing wells and capturing photons -- i.e. 90% of time is spent capturing photons and 10% is spent clearing the well with no downtime -- to be generou
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Ecuador has denied this: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/10/us-sweden-assange-... > The Ecuadorian embassy also said in its statement that no representative from Sweden has turned up on their s
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by Tloewald 11y ago
And we haven't even gotten into issues like thermal noise... Who knows, it may be great, but right now it just looks like a press release :-) Oh the 1/10,000,000th comes from assuming they need to reset 128 * 8000 times per second
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Assange is claiming they can talk to him any time and the Swedes are saying they've tried and can't. That's a pretty direct conflict. Either one or the other is being disingenuous at best and outright lying at worst.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
There's a concrete dispute mentioned in the article. Assange says the Swedes can interview him any time in the embassy, the Swedes say they've asked, and been waiting months, for permission. The article blithely quotes these confl
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by Tloewald 11y ago
He's not relying on the UK, but on Ecuador (which doesn't have such a great track record either). Then again, Snowden is relying on Russia. Enemy of my enemy, and all that.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
> This is a "computer scientists" understanding of photography, and this phrase alone can even be seen as "dangerous" by photographers. The actual headline of the article is actually more informative and less mislea
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Good point! But the key was either something a person had to memorize or a physical object. So it comes down to questioning (which goes back to the 5th amendment) or search and seizure (which is what the 4th amendment is clearly about). In
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by Tloewald 11y ago
You're right -- it's the "square mile" in particular that's under massive surveillance. But that's "The City of London". The point is that claiming the UK doesn't do mass surveillance is hilariou
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by Tloewald 11y ago
If you're going to make these arguments you need to allow that there are two sides to the argument. It's not that the other side is completely wrong. The kinds of encryption being discussed go beyond the fourth amendment when it
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by Tloewald 11y ago
City of London? That's rich. The United Kingdom is ground zero for bulk data collection. They're been keyword-grabbing phone calls in real time, and had London under near total video surveillance since the 90s.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I'm surprised that the IMSAI from Wargames would be valued at only $25,000 but at that price it's far from the most valuable personal computer ever, for a start there's the Appls I sold for roughly $400k at auction: http:&#x
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Everyone I've ever discussed LoTR with either can't remember Tom Bombadil or despises him. That's about 20 data points for what it's worth.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I think you're correct but I don't think the author was arguing his version was Tolkien's intention, just that it fits the evidence surprisingly well.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Fascism has no perfect definition but the conflation of race, nation, and morality that is implicit throughout Tolkien is pretty much at the core of fascism (it's also responsible for many of the worst fantasy tropes). Calling Tolkien
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Replace "history" with any body of knowledge and you get an equally valid truism.

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