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   by api 9y ago

   Agreed. What do you think is the best Linux desktop distro these days? For hardware it seems like the higher-end Dells are the winners. I have a co-worker with one (runs Windows) and the hardware is excellent. He has some issues with the TP
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   by api 9y ago

   This is what happens when you hyper-optimize for a single dimension in a many-dimensional optimization problem. In this case it's "thin and light." MacBook Pros have been thin and light enough for nearly a decade. If I want t
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   by api 9y ago

   I'm really getting the sense that we're going to need to upgrade all our asymmetric crypto soon -- as in 10-15 years time frame. Best contenders I see so far are supersingular isogeny ECC and NTRU or other lattice based algorithms
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   by api 9y ago

   It's distributed stuff day! Also learned about TiDB today.
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   by api 9y ago

   Paging Jepsen. Paging Jepsen. Edit: some work's been done: https://pingcap.github.io/blog/2017/09/01/tidbmeetsjepsen/
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   by api 9y ago

   That's one of the least questionable ICOs. Most of them are much more vaporous.
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   Supersingular isogeny key exchange(en.wikipedia.org)

   2 points by api 9y ago|0 comments
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   by api 9y ago

   I still think his ascendancy is due to economic depression in the interior. This isn't mutually exclusive with your view though. Racism and xenophobia are always ascendant during times of economic stress, and the state sometimes encour
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   by api 9y ago

   That's kind of why I said "hysteria." I was thinking of the blanket suspicion of any and all GMO products because they are GMO, not more nuanced thoughts such as yours. Technologies are just tools. It's all in how they a
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    by api 9y ago

    We've known about horizontal gene transfer for a long time. We do seem to be learning that it's more common than we thought, making species boundaries much more fuzzy and fluid than previously believed. Common ancestry is probably
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    by api 9y ago

    This once again shows why complexity is evil in cryptography. The likelihood of a vulnerability in a cryptosystem increases exponentially with the number of state transitions it has. http://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.10.05&#x2
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    by api 9y ago

    Part of the issue with buses is the maps. Trains usually have nice schematic style maps but there seems to be a law mandating that bus maps be illegible tangles of purple lines with little hard to read numbers and a table of what those numb
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    by api 9y ago

    I think you are conflating conservatism with libertarianism and anarchism. Conservatism tends toward traditionalist communitarianism. There is a disdain for top down imposed collectivism but not for bottom up faith/family/communit
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    by api 9y ago

    A counterargument would be that the US government's job is to represent the people who pay taxes to it. Mexicans don't pay US taxes. That and every major growth story involves some protectionism. China is very protectionist with t
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    by api 9y ago

    Anyone know if this is better in Alpine Linux with musl libc and smaller stacks?
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    by api 9y ago

    Kernel threading doesn't scale well beyond hundreds or maybe thousands of threads. A server can have a million concurrent requests in progress. Of course a better solution would have been to fix the kernel rather than go back to 1980s
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    by api 9y ago

    When we built the Internet this is the future we thought we were building. More please.
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    by api 9y ago

    I somewhat agree, but my skeptical counter-argument would be this: You're assuming that the establishment is looking at reality. The cranks would contend that the establishment is itself deeply ideologically biased and is not looking a
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    by api 9y ago

    > All it has is anomaly-hunting, which looks like research until you realize how dishonest it is, and endless whining, a droning blare of outrage at the people who are mostly ignoring them and making a concerted effort to advance actual
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    by api 9y ago

    I sympathize deeply with the complaint that science is too bureaucratized. I myself left science when I realized I'd never actually be able to work on anything close to what I wanted to work on. Instead I'd likely end up like so m
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    by api 9y ago

    This just seems like the tech mega-corps have grown to the point that they now command the same level of influence as other massive corporations. How many wars and "covert ops" have we fought for oil, gas, bananas, and sugar? How
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    by api 9y ago

    "Futurism is the American dream on overdrive: a disdain for the status quo and a belief that we can solve it all without unions, public education, and social safety nets." So scratch futurism off the list of usable political terms
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    by api 9y ago

    Does it work in Safari in High Sierra? I thought they had WebRTC now.
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    by api 9y ago

    There are lots of them with varying trade-offs between ease of use and power. The problem is that there are none with enough of a user base to have a network effect, and users hate installing new apps. It's 2017 and it's still har
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    by api 9y ago

    Europe has always had more open cell networks.
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    by api 9y ago

    PCs are comparatively much more open than phones, and it is actually possible to disable some of that stuff with various hacks on some systems. Phones are closed, locked down, and bugged by design.
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    by api 9y ago

    Smart phones followed a very different path of evolution that was heavily influenced by cell carriers. Apple had to fight really hard to get the iPhone carried, and to do that they had to lock it down to comply with what I am sure were a lo
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    by api 9y ago

    You're right, but at the same time you should not have to. Software should be secure by default.
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    by api 9y ago

    I have a friend who's just spooky in his ability to predict the movement of culture and politics, often many years in advance. He's a genius about other matters too. He clearly possesses an off-the-charts IQ as well as a lot of va
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    by api 9y ago

    Read Zero to One. Assuming that is in any way representative of what he thinks, he's a Futurist. Then again it's also possible that he's massively inconsistent and full of contradictions. Humans are not perfectly philosophica