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10741.
by api 9y ago
If we kept inflation close to zero (or negative) wealth would tend to concentrate in fewer and fewer hands, and the bias would be toward idle rentiers. People like property landlords would get unbelievably rich by collecting mandatory conti
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The Hype Cycle(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by api 9y ago|0 comments
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by api 9y ago
I think the author of this article is making an either/or argument about centralized vs. decentralized trust when this can just as easily be a both/and proposition. Cryptocurrencies have not yet eliminated and may never eliminate
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by api 9y ago
Even for regular IPv4s you often get upwards of 20-40k SSH probes per day trying common passwords against root. IPv6 largely makes this go away since it's too big to brute force scan.
10745.
by api 9y ago
The fact that this is even a thing is the problem. Is this industry creating anything of actual value or is this just a giant MMORPG where the object is to grind long enough to get a house in the Hamptons?
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by api 9y ago
Why would they be raising VC then?
10747.
by api 9y ago
Housing could already be in a bubble in some places. It's far beyond what's reasonable vs. median income and is reportedly being propped up by a huge amount of foreign cash making cash purchases. A lot of commentators I've re
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by api 9y ago
SF's street environment is unlike any other city I've ever visited. It's like a quantum superposition of dangerous ghetto and unattainably expensive luxury enclave.
10749.
by api 9y ago
But it had to be thin and light! The new keyboard is usable for me but is absolutely worse than the old models.
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by api 9y ago
Ahh I forgot about zero instruction set computing. Maybe CISC should just stand for Compressed Instruction Stream Computing because on today's chips that's exactly what it is. Cache hit-rates being similar may just show that the a
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by api 9y ago
Traditional VC fund raising can do this too in that the founder is often pressured to fund raise more than running the company and to optimize the company for the next round rather than for real customers.
10752.
by api 9y ago
Yes, and you can also de-link a binary into an object (.o) file and then re-link it into another binary.
10753.
Wcc: The Witchcraft Compiler Collection(github.com)
153 points by api 9y ago|14 comments
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by api 9y ago
Questionable legality? Dealing with scammers and people interested in get rich quick schemes? The biggest downside is probably negative signaling. The ICO market is so scam-ridden that any company doing an ICO can easily be labeled a scam.
10755.
by api 9y ago
How much did this save you in energy and hosting fees?
10756.
by api 9y ago
I think the death of conventional Dennard scaling and Moore's law is part of why interpreted super-dynamic languages like Ruby have lost their luster. We can no longer just ride CPU performance increases to get increasing application p
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by api 9y ago
The thing that really killed plain vanilla RISC is memory latency. Compared to on-die registers and cache memory might as well be disk. True RISC is more efficient to execute but it results in more instructions and hence more code that has
10758.
by api 9y ago
Even worse he attempted to fake a signature and was caught doing so. He's a con man.
10759.
by api 9y ago
I think he's hugely underestimating the power of violence. Physical force can't break math, but it certainly can quite easily force you to surrender your key or physically take possession of any infrastructure. All the digital stu
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by api 9y ago
They are separate issues, but history has shown that changes in architecture (or form factor) is often used as a pretext to also make other changes. Mobile transformed the computer into a portable surveillance and addictive media device aim
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by api 9y ago
There seems to be a strong anti-Tesla campaign afoot. I'm not surprised given that the entire auto industry wants them to fail and a significant portion of the auto industry (and unions, etc.) want EVs to fail in general. Tesla seems t
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by api 9y ago
I've hypothesized that the recent blast of negative press about Facebook and other social media companies like this is driven in part by the realization at the heights of US intelligence that these massive surveillance honeypots are a
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by api 9y ago
My concern is that they are going to completely lock down and cripple MacOS and turn it into iOS, making it worthless as a professional machine. The CPU doesn't matter but the versatility and user-centric-ness of the OS does. If they&#
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by api 9y ago
Thanks! That's interesting. I've always thought and always heard that Mac had ceased to be important to Apple and was almost EOLed due to the iPhone, but your take is also very plausible. I have yet to see an Agile/Scrum orga
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by api 9y ago
I used it for a while a few years ago at work. My impression was that 90-95% of it works well but there remains this persistent and very stubborn 5% load of edge case bugs. The problem is that when you hit one of these issues it's infu
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by api 9y ago
http://adamierymenko.com/web_eating_desktop.html
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by api 9y ago
Or the implicit third party of the state, more specifically the legislative and judicial branches. I think the bottom line is that contract law is an AI-hard problem-- meaning it takes a "real intelligence" to negotiate and enforc
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by api 9y ago
So "get out before the bubble pops" applies all the way up to cosmic scales?
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by api 9y ago
They aren't immutable. They can be fixed.
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by api 9y ago
They should (on closed tracks) test self driving cars with drunk and deliberately stupid drivers. Do they do this? Because if you mass market such a car you will get people using it to drive themselves home drunk.

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