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   by api 9y ago

   This is correct but sad. It's why better languages like Elm and Rust struggle to gain acceptance while inferior but well marketed efforts like Swift dominate.
2. 10892.▲
   by api 9y ago

   I used to believe #2 but experience brought me to #3. People are really irrational. Racism, sexism, and ageism are really just a few of the many dumb conditioned biases that guide decision making. A random example: taller people and people
3. 10893.▲
   by api 9y ago

   I was thinking more of gender diversity than racial diversity, though the racial diversity of SV is not great. There are loads of female mathematicians, doctors, civil engineers, writers, journalists, etc. so obviously language and math is
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   by api 9y ago

   SV liberalism is kind of hypocritical and surface. Here we have an apparently super-liberal place whose main industry is mass surveillance and that does everything in its power via local zoning policy to price out the poor and minorities. T
5. 10895.▲
   by api 9y ago

   Being killed naturally would usually mean being slowly dismembered or crushed alive in some animal's jaws.
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   by api 9y ago

   They're more closely related to spiders I think. If we had giant spiders they'd probably taste the same with drawn butter.
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   Huginn: simple embeddable programming language with large integer support(huginn.org)

   3 points by api 9y ago|1 comments
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   by api 9y ago

   In my experience there are parts that fail in the first few years, but after that you get a long tail with some lasting decades.
9. 10899.▲
   by api 9y ago

   Three problems with ASICs: (1) Their higher capital cost, limited availability, and limited "appeal" promotes effective centralization of mining. (2) Due to #1 mining rewards go to fewer an fewer hands, promoting inequality and ce
10. 10900.▲
    by api 9y ago

    Couldn't you defeat ASICs pretty definitively (at least for a long time) by making the algorithm dependent upon a gigantic completely random substitution table? It would at the very least require ASICs to have giant amounts of ROM or R
11. 10901.▲
    by api 9y ago

    Oh get off it. Usually hunks of metal or concrete are used as test payloads. No science in that.
12. 10902.▲
    by api 9y ago

    Averages matter a lot. You can be magnanimous but it doesn't take that many greedy bastards to have an effect. I also think closet classism/racism plays into it. California has a liberal facade but there's a lot of "we d
13. 10903.▲
    by api 9y ago

    The instant you sign a mortgage it becomes in your economic best interest to limit the supply of housing. Housing cannot simultaneously be affordable and a good investment. Homeowners on average tend to be more politically engaged, so homeo
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    by api 9y ago

    http://www.jargon.net/jargon/jargonfile/c/cycleofreincarnati...
15. 10905.▲
    by api 9y ago

    I do not expect the pension to last. It seems like a failed socioeconomic experiment. Corruption and mismanagement play a role for sure but the big killer is increasing life spans coupled with declining fertility. With 1.5-2 kids per couple
16. 10906.▲
    by api 9y ago

    Africa is huge. Why would people be forced to migrate?
17. 10907.▲
    by api 9y ago

    There are lots of other options too like LizardFS: https://lizardfs.com Seems really nice and easy to deploy.
18. 10908.▲
    by api 9y ago

    Looks like I'm sticking with Samsung for the foreseeable future.
19. 10909.▲
    by api 9y ago

    > IPsec is astonishingly hard to setup and diagnose It often seems to me that networking people like things to be hard and obtuse. Almost everything in networking seems more complex than it needs to be.
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    by api 9y ago

    If conventional computers catch up, this might indicate that there exist conventional solutions to quantum problems. That could lead to new physics.
21. 10911.▲
    by api 9y ago

    So basically they're just throwing a car into space.
22. 10912.▲
    by api 9y ago

    The problem with this is the delta-V requirement to actually send it to Mars. Even with in-orbit refueling as proposed by SpaceX you'd probably require a big rocket and/or a lot of fuel to send something really massive. Ion rocket
23. 10913.▲
    by api 9y ago

    There is no ^publicly disclosed evidence of in-the-wild malware using Meltdown or Spectre ^yet. The real nightmare targets are cloud providers. Many smaller providers have not patched yet.
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    Hash Based Signatures: Part I (of III)(cryptologie.net)

    1 points by api 9y ago|0 comments
25. 10915.▲
    by api 9y ago

    That's a one time expense and is not that high for most people. Real estate is much worse.
26. 10916.▲
    by api 9y ago

    At that point haven't you just reinvented fiat currency?
27. 10917.▲
    by api 9y ago

    Wow. I didn't know about #1. That is absolutely, categorically fatal. If that's true then lightning is DOA. Nothing to see here.
28. 10918.▲
    by api 9y ago

    I'm guessing there are common parts like sensors and maybe some common code or electronics for doing things like determining vehicle orientation.
29. 10919.▲
    by api 9y ago

    This is the tech precursor of the Falcon 9 first stage, and shows that we could have been way ahead if we'd funded such things more way back in the 80s and 90s.
30. 10920.▲
    by api 9y ago

    It did and it didn't. On one hand, we stopped a panic that would have led to a true depression. On the other hand we did so by actually increasing the power and wealth of many of the people and organizations responsible for creating