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10981.
by api 9y ago
Any theoretical bearing on the Alcubierre Drive or is this a different domain-specific concept of negative mass?
10982.
by api 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
10983.
by api 9y ago
Intel is in trouble. They've lost mobile and they're in danger of losing desktop/laptop and cloud. While AMD is some threat there, the much larger threat comes from high performance ARM64 cores. Intel would rather see AMD tak
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Peter Thiel submits bid for Gawker(reuters.com)
97 points by api 9y ago|145 comments
10985.
by api 9y ago
A practical laundry folding robot that really worked is something in the "take my money take it take it!" category for me. I'd easily pay thousands of dollars for one.
10986.
by api 9y ago
I have a touch bar. I find it kind of neat and occasionally useful but I would not pay extra for it. The keyboard is fine. I don't have a strong preference for it vs. the older Mac keyboard or vice versa. My speculation is that the tou
10987.
by api 9y ago
The energy required for a transfer orbit from Mars is only a bit more than the Moon. Energy matters more than distance or time.
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Hundreds of Smartphone Apps Are Monitoring Users Through Their Microphones(independent.co.uk)
3 points by api 9y ago|0 comments
10989.
by api 9y ago
I didn't intend to be reverse-age-ist. Was just pointing out that bubbles are more obvious if you've seen a few, and I must admit that I assumed the parent to have not seen many since this one is so damn obvious.
10990.
by api 9y ago
Have you lived through a bubble before? One ad in isolation doesn't mean much. It's the whole picture. Bubbles have a certain look and feel. I am 39 which is like 80 in programmer years. I've seen a lot of fads and bubbles in
10991.
by api 9y ago
Cryptocurrency is currently in the silly phase of bubble. It looks exactly like the peak of dot.com mania. A crash is coming fairly soon. My top end estimate for time remaining would be a year, but I'd warn anyone contemplating a short
10992.
by api 9y ago
Unfortunately this doesn't have enough RAM or storage to do much of anything. Even basic asymmetric crypto usually requires more.
10993.
by api 9y ago
That's a nice hypothesis. We are now almost a decade into cryptocurrency. Where is the evidence that this hypothesis is true? Don't get me wrong. I want to believe. I want a decentralized trust-free ubiquitous computing future.
10994.
by api 9y ago
How is paying for electricity with Ethereum better for me than paying with a card? I don't see the advantage. When VisiCalc was demo'ed there were people lined up literally pulling out their checkbooks and offering to pay almost l
10995.
by api 9y ago
That's the core use case I mentioned: currency and wire transfer. I've used it for that and the value is there. I will add though-- the major reason cryptocurrency has so much value in that space is that the alternatives (bank wir
10996.
by api 9y ago
What I'm really looking for (and I've been asking this question in a lot of places recently) is some concrete examples of real world cases where this tech is being... you know... used as something other than just novelty or tink
10997.
by api 9y ago
Yet so far I still see almost nothing on the block chain (beyond its core currency use case) that is useful outside the domain of block chain stuff. The only exception is things like Sia, and that's not cost or convenience competitiv
10998.
by api 9y ago
There seems to be an active astroturf campaign against SpaceX and Tesla.
10999.
by api 9y ago
Lawyer. Call one you must.
11000.
by api 9y ago
Title is incorrect and sensational. Sources say the satellite may have failed or may have issues but it's all classified, and we do not know whether the problem (if any) was in the launcher or the satellite itself. It's also n
11001.
by api 9y ago
In today's world I think having no foil in your hat is naive. We are living in a cyberpunk novel collaboration between William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and Tom Clancy. Doesn't mean you should uncritically buy into conspiracy theor
11002.
by api 9y ago
But it can absolutely be easily manipulated by a government. Governments have the resources to pump/dump coins, buy huge amounts of mining hardware, etc. Even a smaller nation state could, if it wanted to waste the money, launch a 51%
11003.
by api 9y ago
Yet what have any of these startups delivered other than tools for the crypto world? The whole thing seems almost 100% self-referential. It's like a financial MMORPG. Does the crypto world have anything to offer the real world? Persona
11004.
by api 9y ago
That's yet another nasty thing about this-- namely the amount of money scammers, con artists, and the mob are making off this bubble. That money is going to go to fund a lot of not-so-good things in coming years.
11005.
by api 9y ago
There's another issue that I don't see mentioned much here. I was contemplating writing a blog post about it. Over the past year I've seen a serious decline in early stage angel investment. I've talked to a lot of people
11006.
by api 9y ago
... and the majority of traditional aerospace execs still apparently think reusable rockets will fail. This is why sometimes you just have to "reboot" an industry or other system and replace its institutions. IMHO the next industr
11007.
by api 9y ago
Mostly yes. The only exceptions are very high end areas like CAD and high end games that make full use of local hardware. Everything else is going web. Even native clients are often boxed web UIs due to the cost savings of developing the UI
11008.
by api 9y ago
The point about piracy is important and is a major hidden factor here. The cloud is DRM.
11009.
by api 9y ago
We applies it to the bare metal DB servers for my.zerotier.com and there is definitely a detectable increase in IO cost. Reducing syscall overhead is going to become even more important.
11010.
by api 9y ago
People are missing the point-- it's not an htop problem since a simple console app running as a user should not be able to do this at all. This gives me the willies. Methinks another OSX security bug is incoming.

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