UltraViolence

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by UltraViolence 4y ago
The article speaks of a tipping point and has aided in pulling it forward. Unlimited greed is what eventually sinks a company. We saw it with AltaVista in the '90's (when the search results were all ads) and Google is slowly repea
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
With USB2.0 you're talking about 53MBytes/sec data rate. That's more than sufficient for lossless Full-HD video. Yes, for anything higher quality (UHD 4K) you need more expensive hardware.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I recently read a frightening article which postulates that a move towards digital currency will make NEGATIVE interest rates feasible for Central Banks.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Repairing a gene cannot be patented because it's a "trivial invention" forbidden by patent law. Obviously a repair technique would still cost money but it would prevent pharmaceutical companies from demanding ridiculous price
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
And the first sequencing of the human genome took 10 years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Today you can do it for $100 in a couple of hours. The same will happen with CAR-T and CRISPR.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Not exactly. You can't patent repairing something that's broken because it's a trivial invention. But hell, who knows. Maybe with today's fucked up patent system you can.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
The EQS without this option is still a very desirable car, mind you. I suspect this is merely an experiment to see if people buy into this stuff (Hint: I believe they won't).
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Most people fail to see that BEV's will eventually be much cheaper than ICE cars. This in turn will mean a huge drop in revenue and profits for car companies. They know this and are therefore (trying) to switch over to subscription bas
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
It's only a matter of time before RISC-V takes over the market completely, even high-end stuff. Currently the biggest gains are to be had from small embedded processors where the ARM licensing fee makes up a hefty percentage of the tot
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
In the not to distant future your commercial operating system will police everything you do on your computer, checking if you're not talking to underage girls too much and whether you're looking at kiddie porn. It's this kind
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I'd say that SiFive has already proven you wrong with their cores which compare favorably to ARM9. IMHO RISC-V is already up to par with all but the most exotic ARM cores and will soon surpass it.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
So sad to see ARM being run into the ground by greedy capitalists. The thing that did it was the stock flotation in the late '90's, the root of all evil. After that it was merely a matter of time before greedy shareholders wanted
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
The big win with Rust is that it's not only memory-safe but also thread-safe, which is hugely important in a web application. IMHO C# is also an excellent choice, but there's a lot going on behind the covers to keep it working pro
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
"I would much rather have my team sink time into debugging the occasional memory leak or type error for code written in, say, Python or Go, than have everyone on the team suffer a 4x productivity hit for using a language designed to av
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Which is essentially a Raspberry Pi 4 with an LCD display. However, not wanting to spend time and money integrating the hardware and the software and building an enclosure around it I'd say it's still a fair deal. Amazon is merely
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I like it. Now they simply have to make it fully functional and add some intelligent AI.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
In my entire life I've only met a handful of people who had a "Smart Speaker" (Alexa, Google Assistant or HomePod). People don't see any value in it. And some technically inclined acquaintance will probably point out tha
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Amazon is not a philanthropy. The company needs to make money and as much of it to satisfy shareholders (who, BTW, are never satisfied). Having spent tens of billions on something that doesn't add up to the bottom line doesn't go
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Besides not being monetizable I refuse to have some spy microphone in my home which sends all my conversations to Amazon Central. The market penetration is therefore finite, limited to geeks and early adopters. I'm somewhat surprised t
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
There's no such thing as bad publicity.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
They're an alternative to Bitcoin, whilst at the same time guaranteeing government oversight and control of the money supply. Money == power. Alternative currency not created and vetted by the government will mean a loss of power for t
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Because there's no added value in having a digital dollar variant which is ultimately controlled by the government and Big Money. But its existence will give independent digital cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin more legitimacy, which tran
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I believe ASP.NET is vastly better than most other web application frameworks and relatively simple to use. Also, I love the built in Outputcache support, which is absolutely critical in reducing latency and load on a web server.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
How about one giant wafer with thousands of CPU's on it. Oh wait...Cerebras.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
In other news: the several international banks are moving forward with their "Digital Dollar" experiment. It's news like this that keeps me holding on to my Bitcoin. Once digital cryptocurrencies become in vogue again BTC wil
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
You would obviously only need to repair the DNA in cells of cancerous tissue.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
I believe they started out with the intention of becoming a true democracy. However, somewhere along the way politicians came to the conclusion that democracy is a merely nuisance and only pay lip service to it. Democracy also means transpa
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
You do understand this is purely speculation, do you? India has never, ever explained its blocking of videolan.org. Only spurious remarks were made by government officials, mostly from agencies that weren't involved in the blocking.
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
What really concerns me is that India blocked Videolan.org without explanation and still hasn't explained its rationale for doing so. A country which prides itself on being a democracy should at least explain its actions, especially wh
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by UltraViolence 4y ago
Each generation has to discover for itself that "Free Love" is always disadvantageous to women. The Free Love movement in the 1960's petered out because women found out that having sex with multiple partners leaves them holdi

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