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by api 6y ago
Next up: lots of proprietary extensions to drive vendor lock-in to AWS at the binary code level, then much lower pricing for instances that use these features to herd customers into them. It's built right into the name of the product:
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by api 6y ago
> Some shipped with schematics and ROM listings. They were more open than an iPhone, but they were not particularly open to anyone with less than a CE/EE level of computer and electronics expertise. They certainly were not designed
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by api 6y ago
It's a problem on the whole ARM architecture and is one reason that ARM servers have not taken off. Every ARM board and chip is a special snowflake with its own weird boot and driver and hardware setup incantations. There's a bit
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by api 6y ago
I've come to the view that local zoning should be abolished. We should have standardized zoning at at least the state level patterned after Japan. Local zoning is nothing more than a property owners' cartel that restricts supply t
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by api 6y ago
I've argued that so far we've been in an era with smart phones that resembles early name brand closed PCs like the Commodore 64, Apple II, TI/99, etc. We may be about to enter an era more reminiscent of the PC clone era, whic
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by api 6y ago
Yeah, but wait an hour and its going to be all over social media as an actual Bill Gates quote. I'm starting to think satire is irresponsible. People are too gullible for it and will actually believe it at face value.
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by api 6y ago
https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/blogs/are-there-re... Not saying that's bad. It's just funny.
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by api 6y ago
I don't expect those popular areas to get cheap , but I'm speaking of the historic RE bull run that began in 2000 that saw the rate of increase vastly outstripping core inflation and wages. That was clearly a bubble, and RE is st
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by api 6y ago
Careful. It could go a lot lower. Millions and millions of boomers will be unloading homes too over the next few years. RE has been in a bull market since around 2000. That bull run may be ending. It's even possible that the true bubbl
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by api 6y ago
Makes me wonder if companies flipping homes and other fast high tech financial types getting into RE will actually lower prices in the long run. Part of the thing keeping prices high is that people see RE as a no brainer safe asset where th
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by api 7y ago
Its heartening to me to see this here, and to see people understanding that science and scientism are not the same thing. Scientism is actually anti-scientific. Science is a practice and a process, not a cult idol or a dogma. I think a lot
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by api 7y ago
There is actually a name for it: "the resource curse." You can even see it inside the USA by looking at the corruption and poverty in those states that have an economy based mostly on some kind of resource extraction. Oligarchs si
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by api 7y ago
> What the computers will run is up to us Adtech and cryptocurrency mining?
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by api 7y ago
Linus did most of his initial work in a country with a healthy middle class and a strong social safety net. Not sure about Zhang's situation but one thing I do see after looking him up is that he hit a home run pretty early and got a c
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by api 7y ago
You are both right. Labor was crushed by multiple forces.
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by api 7y ago
That's part of something larger I've heard best described as market fundamentalism: the belief that markets and markets alone can take over and handle all aspects and functions of society. Globalism was implemented in a market fun
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by api 7y ago
Another lesson: to do cool stuff you need money to burn. Even if this cool stuff can be profitable eventually it will take years and years to get there. So the first thing any innovator should do is be purely mercenary. If I had my life to
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by api 7y ago
Fusion is much better on safety, waste, and fuel cycle. The thing I wonder is whether it can be made cost competitive with renewables plus storage when the latter is experiencing falling costs at scale. At midday solar is already cheaper th
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by api 7y ago
It also means that if these get popular they will coalesce into an oligopoly. Those huge domains will then be pressured by the costs of hosting and the need to improve the protocol to monetize their users with ads or surveillance. Congratul
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by api 7y ago
I think you are underestimating how much we waste. The resources are consumed regardless.
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by api 7y ago
Oh yeah. I've been on about that for years. If extreme wealth or political power were a meritocracy most billionaires and high-ranking political officials would be similarly productive and competent and he'd be average for his soc
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by api 7y ago
It's the sort of problem that is easily prone to extreme optimism extreme pessimism cycles. You get 90% of the way there and then the difficulty skyrockets . Getting to 95% is as hard as going from 0 to 90%. Getting to where you need
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by api 7y ago
The lesson learned would be "don't do new things, and don't believe in anyone who suggests that you do new things." That's not a positive lesson. The other lesson could be "maybe we shouldn't rely on one
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by api 7y ago
I happen to think offensive shaming language is always more divisive. It also conveys less information and sparks less interesting discussion.
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by api 7y ago
> Hopefully, we'll gravitate toward companies that create privacy-centric services for their users. Not likely. The privacy-compromising services will be cheaper and will outsell anything else, so there's a lot more money in vi
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by api 7y ago
If unrestrictive compile time GC is possible, couldn't this be retrofitted into JITs for JavaScript, Java, .NET, WASM, etc.? Isn't this just another way of implementing GC?
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by api 7y ago
The whole framing of this is part of why there's so much division in this country and, well, why so many people believe in conspiracy theories. Try this: "The marginalized, lonely, isolated, and disadvantaged are more likely to di
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by api 7y ago
The others are being "subsidized" by TSMC's R&D expenditures, which are being amortized across a larger market namely mobile and specialized chips.
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by api 7y ago
The reason for the death of cool software is that nobody pays for software anymore.
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by api 7y ago
I sort of agree. In my experience scientists who are also good communicators are rare. Sometimes it's a personality thing but it's also a time thing. Most scientists don't have time to talk about science. They're too b

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