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11011.
by api 9y ago
Economically healthy means there are jobs with healthy wages, etc. Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston would be healthier than say Detroit, Cleveland, or Bakersfield. Productive means the money causes things to actually happen like new p
11012.
by api 9y ago
These sorts of things are great reminders of just how bloated modern software is and what is possible if you can avoid the bloat. These systems are less powerful than a typical modern washing machine or refrigerator.
11013.
by api 9y ago
I do like seeing confirmation of what is patently obvious. Real estate is The Problem, at least in economically healthy areas. In economically vibrant cities real estate hyperinflation has soaked up all the gains and locked them up in non-p
11014.
by api 9y ago
Bugs happen. What is likely is that security agencies with their larger staffs and budgets do discover many of them before the private sector. It's certainly plausible that the NSA knew about this new class of attacks before we did.
11015.
by api 9y ago
LA slowly transforms into an actual city.
11016.
by api 9y ago
Most of what we do is pretty parallel: web hosting, servicing requests, databases, hosting tons of VMs and containers, etc. I don't buy it. My guess on Phi is that it wasn't a big win over fewer deeper cores and so there was not m
11017.
by api 9y ago
Lots of simple cores would be inherently better.
11018.
by api 9y ago
Good point about static analysis and C code. That means you would not be able to toss memory protection unless you introduce fast hardware support for bounds checking and bounds check everything in JITed code. I guess you could also have th
11019.
by api 9y ago
So why can't I build C++ as .NET? Actually doing a big of searching I think you originally could but for some reason they removed it.
11020.
by api 9y ago
A lot of people have noticed that High Sierra is slower than Sierra, specifically for filesystem operations with APFS. I wonder if Apple knew about this ahead of time and this explains the overhead?
11021.
by api 9y ago
So this is evil for virtualization hosting, which is the major enterprise application for Intel chips. Hosting on bare metal will become more attractive. Too bad you can't long OVH and Hetzner.
11022.
by api 9y ago
Bounds checking in hardware is an awesome idea. It's still simpler than full protection modes and is more versatile. Not only does it allow efficient software JIT implementation of protection but it also allows pervasive bounds checkin
11023.
by api 9y ago
At the meta level this is just a special case of "complexity is evil" in security. CPUs have been getting more and more complex, and the relationship between complexity and bugs (of all types) is exponential. Each new CPU feature
11024.
by api 9y ago
I don't think they took them seriously because video games, and because the entire thing appeared so unbelievably silly from the outside. I wonder if they might take them more seriously now?
11025.
by api 9y ago
There is no left anymore. There are only different kinds of reactionary.
11026.
by api 9y ago
My money is on it ending with the automation of propaganda and con artistry at scale. A small group of people could use AI and social media to virtually sit down with every single person and convince them of something using a detailed micro
11027.
by api 9y ago
You know all the preconditions and constraints ahead of time. With real world applied software that is very rarely the case.
11028.
by api 9y ago
PoW does that too since mining hardware costs money and is a constant arms race.
11029.
by api 9y ago
Coding everything to run on proprietary mainframes (sorry, cloud services) is going to "change the world." Sigh.
11030.
by api 9y ago
I'd do it if I were rich-- I'd look for companies with: (1) Breakthrough technologies and/or amazing numbers. (2) Introverted founders passed over by other investors. (3) A sales process that is not in-person where being intr
11031.
by api 9y ago
People will buy it. Look at the audiophile market.
11032.
by api 9y ago
On your second point -- namely why does Juicero get funded and qualitative innovation doesn't -- I think it comes down to the still very real weight given to subjective alpha-primate-ness in business decision making. On two occasions I
11033.
by api 9y ago
Another recent post from Reddit on a related topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/7mxn9i/is_facebook... A lot of circumstantial evidence for extreme pervasive surveillance by Facebook apps is
11034.
by api 9y ago
Wasn't the Rwandan genocide pushed through talk radio?
11035.
by api 9y ago
The blame can be placed on both. The person who faked a police report is guilty of homicide, but this was made possible by an overly trigger happy police force.
11036.
by api 9y ago
Japan? It has tons of problems: chronically low birth rates, one of the highest suicide rates in the world, extreme workaholism, decades of economic stagnation, and probably the world's most intense forms of social alienation. https:&
11037.
by api 9y ago
There are some very good criticisms from the alt-right. There are also great criticisms from the left and from the conventional right. It's easy to criticize. I always skip to "what's your solution?" The solution offered
11038.
by api 9y ago
I agree, but I'd add the failure of Christian eschatology to materialize at the millennium. Whether openly stated or not this was a huge chunk of the right's vision of the future. There were a lot of people who thought 9/11 a
11039.
by api 9y ago
I strongly suspect you need more than poverty or racial ghettos to get a crime epidemic. You need a culture of criminality combined with one or more criminal industries to make it a viable "career choice." I really wish crime stat
11040.
by api 9y ago
It's not speed so much as cost. Native means developing the app 2-3 times over with different languages, apis, and patterns. There is no reason for it to be this way other than vendor desire for lock in. In the end what the vendors wil

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