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by api 9y ago
I have one and am a bit indifferent to it. Personally I slightly prefer the older version but it isn't a big deal. I also am kind of indifferent to the touch bar. It looks neat but is not that useful except in one or two apps. Overall
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by api 9y ago
If I were ordered to do something that deeply immoral by the state I might pretend I was going to comply, but only long enough to pack a "go bag" and get myself and my family out of the country. You picked an incredibly extreme
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by api 9y ago
You can make an exact comparison. Not too terribly long ago I saw protests holding up poster sized pictures of prisoner abuse from Abu Gharib and Guantanamo Bay, which is roughly like holding up a poster-sized picture from the 1989 massacre
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by api 9y ago
I think this is "whataboutism." America's respect for individual liberty and the rule of law has eroded over the years, but it is still considerably stronger than what's found in China. You see some of the same corruptio
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by api 9y ago
I've become rather disturbed by the amount of pro-autocratic sentiment I've encountered in tech circles. It comes in both the "right" (and "alt-right") and "left" varieties, as well as a few other wei
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by api 9y ago
Unfortunately your list of rivers means its largely China and India's problem. Not a lot we can do other than pressure them.
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by api 9y ago
Ultimately we do need to secure our endpoint devices. They need to be secure by default. NAT and firewalls let us get away with insecure broken OSes and services for a while, but not forever, and they create the "soft underbelly proble
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by api 9y ago
That just sounds like realism.
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by api 9y ago
I think it's safe to say that today any "evidence" without verifiable provenance can be entirely ignored. Absolutely anything can be forged, and in many cases using consumer PCs and readily available software. That means an
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by api 9y ago
Is there a case where ground breaking innovation resulted in a successful business? Usually innovation is too costly and the first incarnations lack mass appeal.
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by api 9y ago
The SV crowd picked up a lot of hubris from SpaceX, Uber / Lyft, AirBnB, and other efforts to disrupt moribund industries. The key to success in those cases was that those industries were quite moribund. In the case of space it was nea
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by api 9y ago
Where did mesoamerican people get the idea for pyramids? It's possible that it is just a logical easy to build structure, but I've always wondered. There are other similarities too. I seem to recall an attempt to cross the Atlanti
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by api 9y ago
True, but I think what they are getting at here is that sensorimotor skills are not simple to compute.
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by api 9y ago
It is at least as abundant as carbon, but it's not found pure in nature and purifying it requires a lot more energy than carbon and is a lot dirtier.
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by api 9y ago
The concern is the precedent. If we let people just put up anything we could end up with (worst case) Kessler syndrome.
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by api 9y ago
I've heard both positive and negative, which is not atypical for a young company or any company for that matter. Some managers are good and some are probably assholes. Work hours are very long at SpaceX but they tell you that up front.
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by api 9y ago
"Razors" of this sort are only rules of thumb that tend to be right often enough to be useful. They are not laws of nature.
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by api 9y ago
You've shown that it is possible to shorten or lengthen sentences by picking less or more applicable or "conceptually dense" words. Example: "the wall is black" vs "the wall absorbs a significant fraction of th
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by api 9y ago
They're both likely true. Unions, conventional automobile companies, and the oil industry are all terrified of electric cars. EVs mean less jobs, less parts, longer renewal cycles, and of course removing inflexibility from oil demand.
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by api 9y ago
Yes, that was my thought too and I was disappointed to see them defending JS at the top of the article. Getting away from dynamic language mush is one of the biggest attractions I have to WASM.
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by api 9y ago
Webpacked and possibly optimized/minified JavaScript is basically the same thing as compiled code. We are already there.
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by api 9y ago
It's proposed but it's also already possible if you use a very thin JS glue layer.
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by api 9y ago
The recalculation window is substantially larger than the permitted clock drift window, so it would take a large number of consistently malicious actors to affect difficulty. Even then all you'd get is a difficulty adjustment, so it&#x
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by api 9y ago
I think an argument could be made that we've passed a point at which technology is required for our species to survive. We can still hunt, farm, eat, and reproduce without it, but not at present population scales. As a result any techn
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by api 9y ago
Yes, the personal router is a logical spot to put an always-on converged router/server device. Unfortunately nobody's done it well enough yet. It's an area that's ripe for an "iPhone moment." The other problem
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by api 9y ago
My seldom-updated personal site is http://adamierymenko.com/ It's actually worse than doubling. The nature of distributed systems means that participating in resources consumed normally triples resource consumption at
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Relational Programming Language(wiki.c2.com)
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by api 9y ago
Mobile as a whole is an unsolved problem for decentralized systems. The mobile revolution is and has been by far the most powerful driver of centralization in the last 10-15 years. Mobile devices are slower, have less memory, and must consu
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by api 9y ago
Amphetamine is fascinating in both a good and a bad way. Low to moderate doses seem to be performance enhancers for many people, but high doses and abuse can be incredibly destructive both to the self and... others... and in curious ways. P
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by api 9y ago
They could have discovered fission much sooner.

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