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10021.
by api 8y ago
When I was at University of Cincinnati they had a "recreational computing" mailing list. One day some CS people decided to build a cocktail table video game console using MAME or something like that. This rapidly became the MALE G
10022.
by api 8y ago
What is the deal with George Soros anyway and why is he such a bogey man to the far right?
10023.
by api 8y ago
For our application it would make it a lot easier to directly communicate with phones and other devices on mobile networks among other things. It's a UDP-based native protocol. Google has UDP load balancers, but they obscure source IP
10024.
by api 8y ago
The fact that GCP doesn't have IPv6 yet (except for load balancers) is insane.
10025.
by api 8y ago
TDD is yet another in a long line of "methodologies" that don't work. Tests are not a bad thing of course. The problem comes when you turn testing into an ideology and try to use it as a magic fix for all your problems. Same
10026.
by api 8y ago
The worst I've personally seen was a many tens of millions of lines C++ Qt GUI app. Won't mention the name to protect the guilty but it's something some people here might recognize. It didn't really need to be that big.
10027.
by api 8y ago
Code like this makes me think of the famous line from the film version of Hellraiser: "I have such sights to show you..." Contrast PostgreSQL or... uhh... virtually any other database. Oracle's mess is clearly a result of b
10028.
by api 8y ago
I'd like to point out that a lot of "defense" research ends up used primarily or even exclusively for things other than military applications. The military is used as a feeder for R&D because calling it defense is how you
10029.
by api 8y ago
These kinds of demands for special treatment need to be made illegal. That would help.
10030.
by api 8y ago
It's because this age is a key marketing demographic. They have some earning power but usually dont have kids or other bigger responsibilities. Its worship in the sense that a hunter might worship the spirit of their prey.
10031.
by api 8y ago
The reason I've been concerned about this for a while is our degree of economic imbalance. War is historically the solution when things get like this. It's a way of selling Keynesianism to conservatives as well as a way to redistr
10032.
by api 8y ago
I dont understand it. We seem to have decided as a culture that absolutely everything had to be in like five cities. Its a major contributor to division and polarization and a trend that is destroying the middle class.
10033.
by api 8y ago
Crowdfunding works for small scale stuff like radio shows, podcasts, and sometimes simple documentaries. Good films and TV shows are too expensive.
10034.
by api 8y ago
I think it would exist, but it would be even more ad and propaganda driven than it is today and the content would be even lower quality. The goal would be to achieve literally 100% ad time by transforming even ordinary content into stealth
10035.
by api 8y ago
Who maintains this server in a family with no IT people? Who fixes it when it's down? Who maintains it when you are busy? What happens when its attacked and you're too busy to respond?
10036.
by api 8y ago
It wouldn't be a problem at all if opportunity weren't so concentrated. I don't know about the UK but in the US opportunity is very concentrated in a few cities.
10037.
by api 8y ago
No. Self sufficiency is a continuum, not a boolean. Cash decentralizes permission for economic transactions.
10038.
by api 8y ago
Shhh... politicians are likely to read stuff like that and think "what a great idea!"
10039.
by api 8y ago
Tesla proved the EV market and made EVs sexy and cool, which is helping tip EVs into the mass market. Without Tesla you wouldn't see BMW, Mercedes, VW, Nissan, etc. making mass market and luxury EVs. They'd be making no EVs at all
10040.
Isogeny-based quantum-resistant undeniable signatures (2014) [pdf](cacr.uwaterloo.ca)
2 points by api 8y ago|0 comments
10041.
by api 8y ago
Good. Name one major technological innovation that was not largely or wholly a product of government subsidies. The only ones I can think of were out of Bell Labs and Bell was a government backed monopoly so they don't really count. Th
10042.
by api 8y ago
> They were busy snoring when it came to 9/11. Fake WMDs, never ending wars against goat herders, snowden, not to mention 13 Russians who apparently swung an election. Ouch. All apparently true, but ouch. This kind of things won&#x2
10043.
by api 8y ago
I had a psychologist tell me about a case once where a person had a condition (I forget which, I think it was mild diabetes) but only when they were living at home with their family. They tested positive for this condition. It wasn't a
10044.
by api 8y ago
OVH is also quite inexpensive and in our experience is a bit less problematic than Hetzner. With Hetzner you get a lot of power really cheap but you also get fairly minimal tech support. We had a lot of issues with instances being randomly
10045.
by api 8y ago
You answered your own question. They were ahead for a long time so they got complacent.
10046.
by api 8y ago
Yes, though there are some other problems too. Laser fusion basically gives you a series of small thermonuclear blasts. There are ways of confining these (like doing them underwater) and extracting heat/power, but a real power plant wo
10047.
by api 8y ago
Single-threaded performance is a toss up and depends on work load. Overall AMD beats them on price/performance and multithreaded performance, which matter more for everything but some games and a few not easily parallelize-able tasks.
10048.
by api 8y ago
Even with all the shade, AMD still beats them in price/performance. That and performance/watt matter the most if you're building a big data center.
10049.
by api 8y ago
Oil and gas are non-renewable.
10050.
by api 8y ago
> In politics, rational thought often favors the majority over the minority. Almost everyone ends up as the unfavored minority for a few issues. Seems like that argues against simple majoritarianism being rational. > Rational thought

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