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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
One thing those are good for is being a call center for white hat hackers. I.e. if you find some holes you can report to those agencies, and they'll take it from there. I know that's what people that speak about their findings on
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Anthrax is "self-safe" too. It's an organism made by evolution.
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
And there's much new fun to be had when you have this many servers around. For example - once you start shuffling around tens of petabytes a day you quickly notice that bit flips are very real. Computers do what we tell them to do with
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Renewables are great, but not deployed nearly quick enough: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption Not an expert, but right now I only believe in solar geo-engineering. And, of course, never buying a
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
While I agree it sounds like their networking modules cross-talk too much - you still need to store the networking config in some single global service (like a code version control system). And you do need to share across regions some infor
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
It's the superior format. Just like yyyy-mm-dd [hh:mm:ss.sss] is, because lexicographic string order matches the time order.
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
I'm 100% for progressive taxes (i.e. higher taxes on richer people). People should have decent lives even if they can't participate in the workforce/markets with great success. Also taxes are a very successful way of dampenin
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
About the intro: how many more people (since Karl Marx) will rediscover the Pareto distribution and come to the conclusion that it should not be the case ... It's perfectly natural, so many systems follow Pareto. From Wikipedia: - The
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
I'm confused. I simply don't work over 40 hours a week (average), don't want to lower my per-hour salary. Increased compensation for overtime would be the only thing to make me work over 40 hours, I think that's fair. Ge
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
This is the big way for p-value science to fail, even if every actor is honest. It's obvious once you understand what a p-value is (it literally takes 5 seconds to understand) but nearly nobody does. Even people I've worked with a
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
It is a kind of crazy cult - believing that more money simply solves problems, and that we should have full employment. There's extensive historical record on governments going drastically for full employment: https://news.y
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
I once wrote a PostScript program that generates Mandelbrot, tuned it so that it finishes up in reasonable time, and sent to some old laser printer. On next day morning the machine finished up churning numbers and spat out a known picture.
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
This is not true. There are fake news that have existed for thousands of years (religion), and the mass communication seems to have a negative impact even on those strongholds of fiction.
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
I used to fly gliders (sailplanes). There are many cases of pilots landing on trees with minimal damage, sometimes even to the glider. Of course the huge wing span helps. Big aviation has no such procedures because crash landing a Boeing or
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
The upvote is too small too.
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
It just means that on a long enough timeline everyone's and everything's survival rate drops to zero. For NY it may be 50 years, may be 5000 years, may be 5B years.
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Poorly done PR. Breaking News: The Suit is Back! http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
You clearly have not worked on a codebase with thousands of tests. At my previous job the build system had an option to run a test N times concurrently in the cloud. I used this whenever I wanted to commit to some other project but some of
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
It is much cheaper than I thought. Thanks!
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Touché. Where can I find such offers?
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
While I understand this will have superb latency, it's still not clear to me why would Starlink be cheaper than existing VSAT. VSAT is quite expensive (starting from ~thousand dollars per month): http://www.melatnetworks.com
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Starlink satellites captured on camera over Poland(youtube.com)
1 points by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago|0 comments
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Interactive Brokers ~23 Billion. So between the 5 companies and Robinhood the latter would take ~4% of the market cap. It's not that much, but I feel you.
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Apart from the launch method - how is this going to be different from existing VSAT deployments? They're quite expensive (starting from ~thousand dollars per month): http://www.melatnetworks.com/price-list.asp Or those
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
I'm genuinely doubtful that people would want a tech-associated fund to try and mess around running the government. I mean tech doesn't get much of good press lately. Not that I agree with that sentiment, but "something needs
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Well, ASHR's price has changed by about 0% between Nov 2013 and Feb 2019, and by about 10% to this day. It was also +125% at some point. So even in the long run investing in diversified top-of-the-country-stock-market ETFs may be &quot
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
How is this defensible? I'm out of words. > Indeterminism at the level of psychology is required for free will and alternative possibilities. That is entirely compatible with determinism at the fundamental physical level.
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
Which is absurd, considering it's involved in college admission process. Maybe we should also have a hidden citizen score, to be used behind the scenes in the courts of law?
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
This is all good, but the reality is we'll not have enough renewables any time soon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption We should seriously consider solar geo-engineering. Not as the ultimate
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by YjSe2GMQ 7y ago
It makes you feel better, even if unmeasurably. It belongs more with the arts rather than sciences - people will do it even if there's never any p-value that gets significant. The "is good for you" in the scientific sense asp

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