ak217

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by ak217 15y ago
There's a fine line between open-mindedness and having a hole in your head. Seriously though, it's very certain that global climate change of unpredictable magnitude right now is not desirable. The key problem is that we're not prepared to
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by ak217 15y ago
Sorry, I have no idea which spikes you're talking about. Could you elaborate or find a picture?
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by ak217 15y ago
> Do you think large business are going to sacrifice control of their data to a "cloud" rather than their own datacenters and be held hostage to a recurring fee? Yes. They already pay the recurring fee to their IT department. Big compan
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by ak217 15y ago
Although international law doesn't spell it out verbatim, the generally accepted principle is that sovereignty does not extend to the altitude where satellites fly. As such, it's impossible to prevent anyone from taking pictures of any coun
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by ak217 15y ago
It does. The problem is, the terminology in the menus is completely inscrutable (i.e. many commands are named unintuitively), the menus are poorly organized, they have a small subset of all the commands, etc. I've never been able to learn a
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by ak217 15y ago
That author, like everyone else I've ever heard argue against the basic connectionism/neurobiology first principles model, takes a bit of biology, a bit of physics, and then throws in philosophical crap that has nothing to do with science,
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by ak217 15y ago
> especially in something like Vim. give me some help to learn the shortcuts as i work, FFS. on a GUI you look at the keyboard shortcuts beside the menu items, and get to know them naturally. This. I hate both vi and emacs for not havin
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by ak217 16y ago
How do you use stored credit card info if the cc# is not stored? Unlike passwords, the encryption for the cc#s has to be reversible. That's part of the reason why they introduced CVCs, right?
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by ak217 16y ago
Wadhwa ends up helping Thiel's cause, not challenging it. He starts by proclaiming his bias and stating he "asked three [engineering deans] to help me quench this fire". But the deans try to challenge it with statements like "most will fail
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by ak217 16y ago
Nvidia already has grabbed a huge chunk of market and mindshare in HPC, and have stated that Fermi was developed as a compute platform as much as a GPU. The "most FPS" contest is really beside the point. AMD is going to suffer as soon as op