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11401.
by api 9y ago
If you have crazy high performance stuff you can do it in native modules.
11402.
by api 9y ago
One more: * Silicon is not a rare material. It's one of the more common elements in Earth's crust. The price is largely in processing and fabrication, meaning it's going to continue to fall like a rock due to economies of sca
11403.
by api 9y ago
The issue is absolutely not the overhead of schemas or managing them. The issue is the overhead of systems administration when clustering. Clustering is a requirement to support high availability, and Postgres clustering is a real bear to s
11404.
by api 9y ago
Criminal drug laws aren't stopping the opioid epidemic, and they prevent us from asking the real question: why is it that so many people prefer an opioid stupor to being productively engaged in our society? https://en.wikipe
11405.
by api 9y ago
People want to carry around little location aware Internet connected computers studded with sensors and that run third party apps, and there is just no hope of securing these systems against all possible vectors for unauthorized snooping. T
11406.
by api 9y ago
Psychedelics and similar drugs for clinical treatment are a genuine example of a suppressed technology.
11407.
by api 9y ago
If you know LaTeX you could probably bill yourself out to ICO scammers to port their white papers.
11408.
by api 9y ago
Yeah I have this sense that the hammer is hovering over some of these peoples' heads and we are about to see mass arrests. Some of these are flagrant scams with very identifiable names attached to them. I'm sorry but if you raise
11409.
by api 9y ago
I have a strong suspicion that some of these exist as fronts to move flight capital out of China, Russia, and other places that hemorrhage dodgy money. There almost seems to be an inverse relationship between reality and funds raised. Here&
11410.
by api 9y ago
No, this is substantially worse than the late 90s. In the late 90s there were a lot of very premature IPOs and a lot of money raised for bad ideas, but very few of them were total cranks or scams. I could in fact buy pet food on pets.com--
11411.
by api 9y ago
The scammy ICOs (which is most of them) aren't really pump and dumps. They're more like variations of the "big store" and other phony front investor scams. It's more like outright stock fraud. They're selling s
11412.
by api 9y ago
The irony of ICOs is that the very purpose nearly forbidden by the SEC and other global regulators -- namely issuing securities of a company -- is the most natural fit. Nobody wants a domain specific currency. If I want to purchase services
11413.
by api 9y ago
It's always been completely obvious to me that the firewall is about protectionism. It doesn't do much to actually censor anything but it definitely allows exclusion of foreign Internet services and creates a pretext for denying t
11414.
by api 9y ago
EVs are a good idea everywhere. Even if the power they use is dirty now, upgrading the power sources that feed the grid is a lot easier than upgrading millions upon millions of cars. It is for many reasons a much easier problem to solve.
11415.
by api 9y ago
"Too complex." This. Developers really must spend a lot more time and mental energy on UX if they intend things to be used by anyone other than developers with lots of time in their hands.
11416.
by api 9y ago
"The Blood Boys" Best punk band name EVER.
11417.
by api 9y ago
Books and papers don't have an agenda?
11418.
by api 9y ago
There was also a moral panic about "penny dreadfuls" and pornographic literature and similar.
11419.
by api 9y ago
With a headphone jack? I know several people who have switched because of that insanity.
11420.
by api 9y ago
I was discussing that with a friend once and I argued that a more intelligent species might fare worse in these matters. It would more rapidly and aggressively exploit its environment due to higher intelligence and would therefore run a g
11421.
by api 9y ago
This isn't a flaw in the species. It's a consequence of game theory and evolution and would likely be found in any species that was a product of evolution.
11422.
by api 9y ago
That's exactly my point. Systemd had a chance to replace the arcane cruft of sysvinit with something clean and well designed, but instead they developed something almost as arcane and unusable. It's pointless arcana to boot. The
11423.
by api 9y ago
I haven't had a lot of stability problems with systemd, but I hate it. For me the hate comes from its extremely arcane interface and configuration layout. It's as bad as git in that you have to Google to learn how to do anything a
11424.
by api 9y ago
Also: "As slim as you want, NodeKit uses the embedded JavaScript engines provided by the operating system."
11425.
by api 9y ago
Go far enough right or left and you get things that look pretty similar. Friend of mine calls it moronic convergence.
11426.
by api 9y ago
I have no idea if the parent is correct or what, but just for the sake of argument I can see one issue here. Docker Hub is a massive centralized store of software. If Docker becomes The Way to deploy infrastructure and services, Docker Hub
11427.
by api 9y ago
I saw a post called "Electron is flash for the desktop" a while back. I think that's basically true but the rationale is different. Flash was a way to get true high performance dynamic content on the web before high performan
11428.
by api 9y ago
That's not P2P hole punching. That's just a UDP to a cloud server. Stateful firewalls remember UDP sessions for a period of time. UDP hole punching is when both parties are behind NAT and it's used almost exclusively for P2P:
11429.
by api 9y ago
Yes, but IPv6 helps a ton. Hole punching with IPv6 is almost 100% successful as long as your firewall allows it (and most do unless you are whitelist-only). IPv6 kills symmetric NAT and over-provisioned NAT.
11430.
by api 9y ago
Sigh. WebRTC just uses hole punching, and its implementation (ICE+STUN+TURN) is as over-engineered as you would expect from a modern protocol stack.

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