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9601.
by api 7y ago
I think that's a cop out. A system should be secure enough to isolate untrusted code.
9602.
by api 7y ago
The defense is to point out some genuinely useful work going on in the space that doesn't revolve around speculation.
9603.
by api 7y ago
It reminds me of when the first buffer overflows were disclosed and they were followed by a massive rash of buffer overflow vulnerabilities that continued for over a decade.
9604.
by api 7y ago
I've started to think Itanium might have been sort of on the right track but ahead of its time and in some ways poorly executed.
9605.
by api 7y ago
> You can't really schedule 100% load better Sure you can. You can do math while another HT is waiting for memory. Sometimes you can even multiplex use of multiple ALUs or one HT can do integer and another can do floating point. It&
9606.
by api 7y ago
There are probably fewer than 1000 people in the world capable of finding these kinds of vulnerabilities. Sounds about right to have 10 at Intel.
9607.
by api 7y ago
Apparently disabling HT won't save you from this one in all cases.
9608.
by api 7y ago
It's a measure of energy efficiency, so I think it's a fair measure. Note that China has a much higher emission rate than India, a nation at a similar place in their development. I bring up CO2 emissions simply to point out that t
9609.
by api 7y ago
Unfortunately I find myself agreeing with the critics/cynics here on this one: people are contorting their brains to let China off the hook for what (if this study is to be believed) is a mostly Chinese problem. I don't think the
9610.
by api 7y ago
Tesla won't go bankrupt. They have a very valuable brand and a lot of valuable IP. What could happen if they don't make it is that they get bought by another auto maker or company that wants to enter the space at a price that is m
9611.
by api 7y ago
This is inevitable. In the end we'll face a choice between basic income, revolution, or totalitarian police state to enforce extreme inequality.
9612.
by api 8y ago
I lean strongly toward your second paragraph. If we can make many core programming easier I think we can dispense with a ton of complexity and just scale out cores with transistor counts. I think an under researched area is the application
9613.
by api 8y ago
Virtually every alarmist article from the past 50 years about mass surveillance, tech lockdown, etc. seems prescient now. Today's surveillance capitalism exceeds the wildest fever nightmares of 1990s shortwave radio conspiracy nuts.
9614.
by api 8y ago
There was no Grand Congress but there was a loose confederation of ideologues who saw GG and saw a major opportunity to radicalize young people. I don't know how organic GG itself was. It didn't look organic but then again it&#x27
9615.
by api 8y ago
Targeting gamers is neo-fascism's bread and butter strategy since they proved the concept with "GamerGate." I remember seeing all that stupid GG nonsense and having no idea I was watching the beginning of a massively successf
9616.
by api 8y ago
> If software A requires four clicks to do something, but B has a way to do it in 3 The difference is usually more like "software A requires an hour of setup and constant maintenance on a dedicated VM or container due to dozens of d
9617.
by api 8y ago
In the US I seem to be able to find people saying virtually anything. Certain privately owned and operated platforms have kicked off certain voices (as is their right if you believe in property rights), but they've just moved to other
9618.
by api 8y ago
Only when we have much better things of course. Progress is being made. The thing about nutritional science is that progress seems like it's just not being made at all. We go from fad to fad.
9619.
by api 8y ago
You really can't reason about alien intelligence at all. Look at how hard it is for, say, a typical American to reason about a devout Muslim in Iran or vice versa. In that case we are talking about two beings of the same damn species w
9620.
by api 8y ago
A lot of the super cranky claims around the Bell come from Joseph Farrell and others. It could have been any number of things if it did exist. My money is on an enrichment device or something else related to a-bomb R&D. It could also ha
9621.
by api 8y ago
Nutritional science seems worse, but I think that's because real (not pop) psychologists seem to be giving up on simple good/bad and fad advice. There is so much of this in nutrition because there is profit motive via the food ind
9622.
by api 8y ago
My favorite speculation about Lazar is that they subjected him to some kind of giant put on (basically a black project version of the "big store" con) as some kind of disinformation campaign aimed at foreign intelligence or even j
9623.
by api 8y ago
It's entirely possible that there have been secret R&D programs looking into such things. It's also possible that these programs were fruitless since there may not be such a thing or the energies required to access it may be w
9624.
by api 8y ago
Try photographing a bird with a phone camera. Then try it with no advance notice, whipping it out and shooting as fast as you can. You'll get a blur, just like the crappy phone camera photos of "UFOs" all over the Internet. I
9625.
by api 8y ago
I was expecting something more like 1%.
9626.
by api 8y ago
Do you think reusable rockets or mass market EVs would have happened as fast without Musk? I doubt the first would have arrived for another 25-50 years, while the latter would probably be just appearing right now. I don't think Trump d
9627.
by api 8y ago
I don't worship him. I do admire his determination and abilities and wish there were more people with them who also had the means to actually get stuff to happen. Hmm... actually... the fact that people like Musk are so rare is discour
9628.
by api 8y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent
9629.
by api 8y ago
This is true, but I also think the answer is addressing the problem of seemingly all opportunity being concentrated in less than 10 cities. Cities face inevitable scaling limits. There has always been regional inequality of opportunity, but
9630.
by api 8y ago
Airlines are giving people what they want: cheaper tickets. The only way to do that at this point is pack more people on a plane.

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