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11041.
by api 9y ago
Is there a reason innovative work always seems to feature such insane burn out? You hear it everywhere you see really major strides being made. The thing I find disturbing is that moving slower doesn't just result in the thing coming s
11042.
by api 9y ago
Native desktop development is dead.
11043.
by api 9y ago
Give the gift of pervasive surveillance!
11044.
by api 9y ago
Reserves means currently known. There has been little serious exploration until recently. Lithium is more common in the crust than lead, and we currently mine more lead. I'm not concerned. I'm totally blown away by how much oil an
11045.
by api 9y ago
Two things are attractive from an employer standpoint: (1) Elasticity-- it's hard for both personal/morale reasons and legal reasons to lay people off, but it's easy to increase or decrease contractor utilization as needed. (
11046.
by api 9y ago
There are boards with all that. The fastest low-cost networking board right now (that I can find) is the espressobin, built around the Marvell Armada chipset. It's got three full-duplex GigE ports that can actually run as such as well
11047.
by api 9y ago
So here's my Christmas present, and maybe an excuse to learn Rust. Ho ho ho!
11048.
by api 9y ago
Just to play devils' advocate: I totally believe that we could identify any normal alloy, but what about more far-out kinds of materials? Humans have already experimented with metamaterials, weird composites made of many different kind
11049.
by api 9y ago
If it's anything else such as allowing insiders to exit before a crash really takes hold, then people are going to jail.
11050.
by api 9y ago
There are two big factors driving it: (1) Branding-- many companies actually maintain a faux office in the Bay Area because having a Palo Alto or Menlo Park address makes you look smarter or more legit. (2) Investors-- talent and opportunit
11051.
by api 9y ago
This is a sell signal if I ever saw one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnj0UG9biLc It's been in the silly phase of bubble for a while now.
11052.
by api 9y ago
Would like to see Vultr, OVH, and maybe the big ones like AWS, Azure, and Google in there too.
11053.
by api 9y ago
What does it do? I visited the site and I just see a token. What do I do with it? Transfer money? If so how does it differ from a less used higher transaction volume capable coin like Litecoin or Bitcoin Cash? I see something about price st
11054.
by api 9y ago
It very well might if it were useful as a currency. Hyper-deflationary token systems that not only don't scale but lose their utility when adopted are horrible currencies. The more people use a particular block chain the less utility
11055.
by api 9y ago
It's Bitcoin Scale!
11056.
by api 9y ago
Unqualified Americans can invest in some startups since the Jobs Act under Obama, but for various reasons it hasn't been very popular. Startups are hesitant to use it because they're afraid of being blackballed by VCs... or at lea
11057.
by api 9y ago
This one is crazier than the dot com bubble by far. I recently went around to lots of places and asked if anyone was actually using an ICO backed system. Crickets. People used the dot coms. Even most of the really bad ones had utility. The
11058.
by api 9y ago
With sufficient funds you can often buy your way into the future. Saturn was awesome but nowhere near economically sustainable.
11059.
by api 9y ago
Hacker News nobility is a dubious title haha. Btw on post quantum crypto: the problem is that most of it has not yet had enough conventional cryptanalysis. Makes no sense to use an algorithm immune to quantum speedup if it's convention
11060.
by api 9y ago
In the process they'd get key exchanges too and it's easy to correlate traffic. I thought it was a really straightforward obvious idea. I'd do it if I were them and had such deep pockets. QC is clearly coming. Lots of news la
11061.
by api 9y ago
Not uncommon for a new protocol. Question is whether they will get around to it.
11062.
by api 9y ago
I've thought for a long time that this explains why the NSA is recording so much encrypted data. When QCs are available they will be able to decrypt all the things. Imagine what they'll learn.
11063.
by api 9y ago
My pet speculation on why Java attracts this stuff is that it's actually a very robust and strongly backward compatible (and forward compatible) language that runs on a very robust VM. I can take a compiled .jar file from the late 90s
11064.
by api 9y ago
Modern media is about for click bait and virality to drive ad impressions. That's it. Quality doesn't matter because nobody pays for it.
11065.
by api 9y ago
The ET speculation is the most popular because we know for a fact that other stars and other planets around those stars exist and we know for a fact that it's (theoretically) possible to travel between at least nearby stars with suffic
11066.
by api 9y ago
Was this ever not the case? Look into the history of e.g. how marijuana prohibition came about. I think we are just more aware of it today. History is more of a battle between the haves and the haves than between the haves and the have-nots
11067.
by api 9y ago
We're also assuming Snowden was not an intentional leak. Spy games get weird and complicated. They don't call it the "puzzle palace" for nothing.
11068.
by api 9y ago
Why not just annihilate us now then? That would minimize risk, since there is always a non-zero probability that we might suddenly make some powerful discovery or other circumstances might change.
11069.
by api 9y ago
The problem with ORMs is that they're an attempt to hack relational models into languages that lack them. The thing nobody has ever done is add relations as first class citizens to a language. Instead we have only maps, arrays, and lis
11070.
by api 9y ago
It's the future.

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