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1. 9241.▲
   by api 7y ago

   Just assume almost everything is a data grab and you will be right more often than wrong.
2. 9242.▲
   by api 7y ago

   I hate when buzzword sneaks into buzzword.
3. 9243.▲
   by api 7y ago

   I am more concerned about what Facebook, Google, and a bunch of adtech firms are doing. The private sector surveillance machine is probably more competent and high tech than three letter government agencies (it pays better and gets first pi
4. 9244.▲
   by api 7y ago

   This is easily the best HN comment of 2019. It's also 100% true and completely accurate.
5. 9245.▲
   by api 7y ago

   Epstein has always reminded me of someone Batman would fight. He even had henchmen and an island lair. A while back some friends and I came up with his super-villain name. Batman had The Riddler, but Epstein would be... drum roll... The Di
6. 9246.▲
   by api 7y ago

   > his phobia of plants. > They decorate their offices with as many plants as they can and have even taken to wearing plants just to keep him from hitting on them. I used to live and work around MIT and I'm trying to decide if thi
7. 9247.▲
   by api 7y ago

   IPv6 is really just IPv4 with more address space. There are a bunch of extensions that nobody uses, sure, but nobody uses them and they can be safely ignored in most cases. The only other significant change from V4 to V6 is the use of multi
8. 9248.▲
   by api 7y ago

   Try writing P2P software and you'll see it. NAT is like 16-bit segmented addressing. Go find some old 16-bit C programs and see what a "near" vs "far" pointer is and that whole mess. IPv6 is like the arrival of 32-b
9. 9249.▲
   by api 7y ago

   It's much easier to deal with port opening or changing than it is to deal with a fragmented address space. NAT reminds me of the networking analog of segmented addressing on 16 bit 8086 processors, but worse as it is not systematic.
10. 9250.▲
    by api 7y ago

    It may have done that back when 128 bit addresses were actually expensive, but it also altered the evolution of that network from a more open peer to peer architecture to a closed silo mediated architecture. Things that should be simple and
11. 9251.▲
    by api 7y ago

    NAT is an ugly hack to extend IPv4 address space that breaks the internet. There are numerous ugly hacks for NAT traversal to fix what NAT breaks, all of which kind of seem like exploits, and some of which are effectively standardized in RF
12. 9252.▲
    by api 7y ago

    How would you respond if someone said something like: "The literal-minded personalities we often encounter in the engineering profession are just not cognitively capable of handling leadership positions. They suffer from autism, a form
13. 9253.▲
    by api 7y ago

    The pendulum has swung from "we give powerful, highly skilled, or accomplished people a carte blanche license to be total assholes" to a mentality where we're willing to ostracize people for certain types of assholery. Has it
14. 9254.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I think you're ludicrously underestimating what brains and biological neural systems in general can do.
15. 9255.▲
    by api 7y ago

    A bit of a further tangent but: I continue to believe that it's very likely that brains somehow leverage quantum computing. The human brain is able to accomplish computational tasks on only around 40 watts of power that destroy what
16. 9256.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Ahh, but that wouldn't have gotten as many clicks. The important thing to remember about China is its population. If China achieves even some degree of "first world" status, it's inevitable that it will dominate on aggre
17. 9257.▲
    by api 7y ago

    We are so much better at adding complexity than removing it. There are tons of incentives that drive that: the difficulty of upgrading old stuff, the need for companies to invent reasons to exist, bureaucracy, job safety and creating reason
18. 9258.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Which makes it a fake statistic.
19. 9259.▲
    by api 7y ago

    > a desktop browser and Unix terminal would be enough, and these apps are not that demanding for the CPU. That's called a tablet. You cal already browse, edit, and ssh from those. When I want a laptop I usually want something way mo
20. 9260.▲
    by api 7y ago

    No, it won't make commercial aviation a thing of the past. It will make any degree of privacy a thing of the past. This kind of thing will lead to an absolute panopticon police state, and one with popular support. Every single thing yo
21. 9261.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Nothing. It's just very very hard. One issue is that the mobile form factor doesn't lend itself to laptop or desktop class cooling. Some mobile chips can approach the performance of a desktop... until thermal throttling. There is
22. 9262.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I won't miss them bidding up house prices by buying them over asking and then letting them sit or being absentee landlords. Maybe "property speculators will miss China's money."
23. 9263.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I still wont buy them as the entire brand is tainted by this customer hostile crap.
24. 9264.▲
    by api 7y ago

    The first thought that came to mind here was that emphasizing heritability will lead to racism, nepotism, sexism, inherited classism, etc. This is merely an observation independent of how strong heritability actually is. Then I realized tha
25. 9265.▲
    by api 7y ago

    You get what you incentivize. Produce is typically sold by weight.
26. 9266.▲
    by api 7y ago

    China is closer to Gibson's Japan. The sprawl hasn't happened yet, but it could.
27. 9267.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Wow... I thought the US was bad!
28. 9268.▲
    by api 7y ago

    This needs to be repeated often. If you want to stop illegal immigration, arrest those who employ illegals. A few business owners spending the night in jail, being charged with felonies, and facing huge legal fees and fines will have a larg
29. 9269.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Well that would explain the Fermi Para... <kaboom> ... ... ...
30. 9270.▲
    by api 7y ago

    If it were an interstellar kinetic weapon it would not be decelerating, as the goal would be to smash us with as much kinetic energy as possible. :)