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8881.
by api 7y ago
It was probably some kind of scam. Either that or the funders backed out or never had the funds to begin with.
8882.
by api 7y ago
Host a personal site and use it as an arbitrary shell box from which to test network stuff. I also have it set up so I can route through it when traveling to avoid crappy captive portals and suspect networks.
8883.
by api 7y ago
Assuming it stands up, SIKE and its variants are probably the leading PQ replacements for Diffie-Hellman and RSA type key exchange primitives. This is because their key sizes are small, not much larger than ECC.
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by api 7y ago
Another factor in China's rise is deciding to not care about the environment at all. Western nations spend quite a bit to have clean air, clean water, parks, etc. The cost comes in the form of more costly energy, raw materials, and was
8885.
by api 7y ago
A few I don't see mentioned: They are strategically lazy, putting a lot of thought into how to simplify at all levels. Great engineers loathe complexity and indulge in it reluctantly. Solutions should never be more complex than what th
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by api 7y ago
Maybe startups should try cities like Pittsburgh, Columbus, Atlanta, Knoxville, etc. Lots of talent that will work for less for the simple reason that the cost of living is not so stupidly high. Hell even SoCal, Portland, Austin, and Chicag
8887.
by api 7y ago
An interesting thing about managetialism is that it's basically what made the USSR fail. The MBA is our exact equivalent of the Soviet "apparatchik." We postured ourselves as the opposite of the USSR but in reality US busines
8888.
by api 7y ago
So far that seems to be how its done.
8889.
by api 7y ago
Trump won in part because his Internet ground game was better. Look for the Dems and everyone else to not only copy but improve on that, fake news and trolling included. Prepare to be force fed propaganda like a fois gras goose every electi
8890.
by api 7y ago
Nothing is "truly yours" at a national scale. Inventions happen everywhere and nations get concentrated expertise by either accumulating it by being on the receiving end of brain drain, purchasing it, or stealing it. This is purch
8891.
by api 7y ago
I've heard that SpaceX is a bit like that, and is advertised as such. People sign up. I do think people are willing to plow into things that truly are that inspiring, but we just don't do much of that stuff. It's usually not
8892.
by api 7y ago
If you don't need SSL it's almost free via places like GitHub.
8893.
by api 7y ago
I don't understand why anyone who was on the Internet in 2016 couldn't see this. The troll farming was obvious and clearly different from the norm. In some cases the Russian origin was overt, e.g. RT all over alt-news sites.
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by api 7y ago
This is a point that needs to be made more often. People think nuclear isn't big because of greens, but greens almost always get beaten into the ground politically when they go up against the fossil fuel industry. Fossil fuels are much
8895.
by api 7y ago
> it's very few people > They just happen to be very vocal > The internet tends to amplify things, especially twitter. Yeah, that's kind of what I suspected.
8896.
by api 7y ago
I always find myself having layers of skepticism about this stuff. Layer one: come on. Context matters. Do people really freak out about words in isolation that resemble words in unrelated sentences? That's silly. Layer two: Do people
8897.
by api 7y ago
Looks like its landing on Tattoine, which is appropriate for that thing.
8898.
by api 7y ago
Well I guess if you need a flame thrower in hell...
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by api 7y ago
A long time ago I found this series and LOL'ed and then had to email him a link I found to an experiment in using fluorine instead of oxygen in a rocket as an oxidizer. It resulted in the highest specific impulse ever recorded for a ch
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by api 7y ago
It probably is more of a hassle but it would also be cheaper and lower emission. Of course I dont know if fuel is a significant cost to farmers. There may be ways to make it less of a hassle by automating it somehow. I'm thinking of so
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by api 7y ago
Not dragging but way overhead from something about the height of a radio tower. There could be one about every square mile in a grid. It could have a smaller battery too to permit driving between them. Drive up, hook on, unhook, go to next.
8902.
by api 7y ago
Cables can be thin and long. Look at high tension wires which carry vastly more power. It stands to reason that a much thinner lighter cord could run a combine.
8903.
by api 7y ago
You are asking a cartel to vote to increase supply and decrease prices. That's not what cartels do.
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by api 7y ago
I've always wondered why you couldn't just string a wire from a tower down to a combine, tractor, or other piece of farm equipment and run it right off the grid. Using very high voltage could allow the wire to not be that heavy.
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by api 7y ago
Pioneers in the wilderness told their kids about mountain lions, bears, and wolves. We have to tell our kids about this. We can't helicopter them 24/7, especially as they approach their teens.
8906.
by api 7y ago
This nicely shows that they don't need more surveillance. A simple honey trap appears to fill up like a bug zapper tray in Mississippi in July. No dark web, no Hollywood hacker shit. Just go on social media and pretend to be a pretty u
8907.
by api 7y ago
Good. I'm not convinced that a unipolar world is a good thing. As long as open war does not occur, some national rivalry stimulates innovation just as corporate competition does. A unipolar world is like a stagnant monopoly in the busi
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by api 7y ago
I wonder what percentage of the massive compute power of huge cloud data centers is spent just chugging away on ugly clunky hacks to run bad code?
8909.
by api 7y ago
A fully loaded aircraft gets pretty good fuel economy per person, at least as good as a Prius. I've seen figures from 50-100mpg depending on aircraft and of course how fully loaded it is. So it's basically like driving a little le
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by api 7y ago
That's a great way to lose tons of manufacturing, skilled craftsmanship, assembly, repair, and service sectors jobs along with many people in the arts, cinema, music, and... well almost everything but coding, finance, and the CAD parts

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