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by alacombe 6y ago
> it might be too late to untangle the mess the web has become without strong market regulation Are you really ready to ask senile boomers who barely understand the tech industry to regulate the tech industry ? It sounds like a recipe fo
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by alacombe 6y ago
When you pay that kind of money, it comes with strings attached.
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by alacombe 6y ago
At worst, Google relocates the dev team outside of US jurisdiction, in an entity itself owned by another independent foreign entity owned by Google, but funded exclusively in non-USD currencies, preventing any retaliatory actions from the U
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by alacombe 6y ago
Give it 10 years and a lot of engineering time, maybe half a trillion USD and you'll get the equivalent in the mainland US. Until then, it's more convenient to use the US military resource to protect Taiwan from PRoC.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Sounds like discrimination to me, and not desirable. Are you allowing everybody who want to have sex with you to have sex with you or are you discriminating to a select few / unique person ? Discriminations is part of human nature
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by alacombe 6y ago
Did you ran the math of first (your computer), second (transferring the data to HN), third (broadcasting the data back to all HN readers, including the energy spent by their computers) and so on (hardware requirement down the line, shipping
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by alacombe 6y ago
> ... but rather whether the resources spent on it (energy expenditure of the distributed BOINC nodes used) is worthwhile Is 8k gaming worthwhile ? How about 4k ? 1k ? text-mode gaming ? gaming in general ? Shouldn't we all better o
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Well, there's a difference between doing something for fun that takes some resources, versus doing something for fun that takes a huge amount of resources Do you realize the whole gaming industry revolves around NOTHING but consum
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Some ugly unit economics. Cash coming from the CCP is pretty much infinite, especially given the massive US trade deficit.
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by alacombe 6y ago
A student in my gf class got killed during commute in a morning as he exceptionally drove an old beater instead of his pick-up. A full-size transport truck crashed into it. He would probably still be alive had he been driving his pick-up.
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by alacombe 6y ago
Just as if we were machines capable to blindly pick up where other machines left off and follow the same... programming (quite literally). Quite the contrary.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> I can't afford $10,000 for FCC certification, and therefore I have no solution. That's not how it work. You start by selling them, prove the concept, and when you have the money, you sort out certifications & whatsnot. Yo
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Come on, it doesn’t take much effort to think of the benefits of controlling the quality of batteries that are put in the devices. Nobody's barring Apple / John Deere to provide the replacement parts.
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Epic Games asks court to stop Apple’s ‘retaliation’ after App Store ban(cnbc.com)
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by alacombe 6y ago
Which might be a good thing if the loss of knowledge came from employee turnover. If the architect / author leaves, the visions leaves too. Next step is monkey patching, fast forward a couple years, a decade or two, more turnover, and
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by alacombe 6y ago
> will be your Waterloo If you're English, that's actually a good thing ! :-)
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by alacombe 6y ago
> 12 Years back I worked with an org who had an AS400 which they considered legacy What happens when the hardware fails ?
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by alacombe 6y ago
> I wonder how costly it is to fill your walls entirely with water pipes. Pretty costly in water damages for sure, people tends to drive nails in pipes all the time already, just imagine this * 100x.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> fussing with the humidity in the air like most AC does Humidity will have to be dealt with no matter what, either by the AC system, or though condensation, as cold air holds less water vapour as warm air.
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by alacombe 6y ago
The US has 2 reactors under construction...
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by alacombe 6y ago
> 2) Carbon Taxes everywhere Which was locally recently show to be ineffective - https://biv.com/article/2020/08/bc-carbon-tax-ineffective-ce...
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by alacombe 6y ago
> Elon Musk's plan to connect major cities with Hyperloop tunnels is raising the interest of investors. Boring Co. It's pretty clear that Hyperloop is part of the scam.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> He has never attempted to make any money from it, That's a blatant lie. https://www.engadget.com/2019-07-25-elon-musk-raises-120-mil... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boring-company-fundra
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by alacombe 6y ago
Didn't Musk's "Boring Company" solve the problem of underground boring cost ?
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by alacombe 6y ago
> cruise missiles Cruise missiles aren't necessarily evil, quite the opposite, they could be guaranteeing Liberty.
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by alacombe 6y ago
No, no, it's working as intended. Product Management failed to properly define the spec, the software works as defined.
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by alacombe 6y ago
That's the summary for the Boomer & X'ers.
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by alacombe 6y ago
> The problem is the lack of value of the word "engineering" in several countries Or the fact that "enginnering" has be co-opted and made de-facto illegal for all but the small minority who agree to pay the local mafi
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by alacombe 6y ago
> How do you hire an architect to design your house? Depends where you live and how much local architects have been regulatory captured the housing market. Other than that, building a house is easy.
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by alacombe 6y ago
static void destroyBaghdad() { destroyCity("Baghdad"); } Here, it's done.

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