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   by api 9y ago

   With really big money came intellectual gentrification. Serious People(tm) don't talk or even think about things like psychedelics, consciousness expansion, fringe science, etc. Doing so can lead to excommunication from places like aca
2. 11522.▲
   by api 9y ago

   I've said this before but... I really do not get California's obsession with cars. Of all the places you'd want to be walkable, one that is nice outside almost all the time and gets no real winter to speak of seems like an
3. 11523.▲
   by api 9y ago

   I think he ran a very public and very successful publicity stunt for Gab. Trolling works.
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   by api 9y ago

   Here in SoCal I see a massive generational divide. People over 40 tend to be NIMBY and against things like public transit. People under 40 are completely the opposite, especially about LA's expansion of subways and light rail.
5. 11525.▲
   by api 9y ago

   I was speaking of statistical averages of course. On average religious believers have more kids.
6. 11526.▲
   by api 9y ago

   I wasn't arguing the opposite -- that people have some kind of duty to have kids. I was simply pointing out that there exists a complete void in secular philosophy and culture when it comes to this aspect of human existence. Many peo
7. 11527.▲
   by api 9y ago

   Your last sentence brings up something I've been thinking about for a long time, namely that secular philosophy seems completely blind to children or to the needs of family and child rearing. It's a fairly massive shortcoming. Phi
8. 11528.▲
   by api 9y ago

   So wait... Your hovercraft actually can get full of eels? Whoa!
9. 11529.▲
   by api 9y ago

   Skinny Puppy had a hidden track like this too. I think it was on Brap but I could be mistaken.
10. 11530.▲
    by api 9y ago

    AMD has pulled up to match or beat Intel, so both companies were absolutely rushing things out. It will settle down and these bugs will get fixed by microcode updates.
11. 11531.▲
    by api 9y ago

    I did a lot of work with artificial life and evolutionary computation in the early 2000s. Wish we had these chips back then.
12. 11532.▲
    by api 9y ago

    Wireless could help with the literal last mile. The cost of deploying broadband becomes exponentially higher as you near the edge due to the sheer number of links. Hundreds of megabits with one mile range is easy now and is faster than many
13. 11533.▲
    by api 9y ago

    The first point is pretty valid. The second I don't buy. Pretty much everyone but the ISPs has aligned interests toward net neutrality.
14. 11534.▲
    by api 9y ago

    That's the cloud for you.
15. 11535.▲
    by api 9y ago

    I wouldn't be so fatalistic. While I personally find some of the ideological currents behind Trump abhorrent, his rise does prove that a huge grassroots movement focused on a specific goal can generate results.
16. 11536.▲
    by api 9y ago

    This is absolutely the best answer. Competition would fix this more effectively than net neutrality regs, but competition in ISPs is typically blocked by state-enforced monopoly laws or by the technical and economic challenge of deploying a
17. 11537.▲
    by api 9y ago

    Bitcoin was the first practical secure distributed ledger and cryptocurrency. The first of something is never the most efficient or capable. I'm sure there are better ways.
18. 11538.▲
    by api 9y ago

    0.0000001% of the power runs a slow append only database. 99.99999999% runs a security system for it.
19. 11539.▲
    by api 9y ago

    I've heard that some actually mine at a loss, since the real purpose is to get money out of China and they can charge fees for that service that compensate.
20. 11540.▲
    by api 9y ago

    Try a small VPS provider in your area. There are many boutique ones. ARP Networks in Los Angeles is one I've used and it's ranges seem clean. Tried DO and Vultr and got captcha hell.
21. 11541.▲
    by api 9y ago

    You're not wrong, but I had early wifi (even on Linux) and Bluetooth today is worse. Bluetooth is not a new standard. I've dealt with it's internals to a small degree. It's overengineered and excessively stateful, leadin
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    Doppio: JVM written in JavaScript(plasma-umass.github.io)

    228 points by api 9y ago|88 comments
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    by api 9y ago

    I used Fedora years ago at 19 and 20 and it was great then. It worked and... Worked. The desktop came with sane defaults. It... Worked.
24. 11544.▲
    by api 9y ago

    So now the hypervisor is ring0, the cloud provider is the OS, and the OS is the app. IP is the IPC and the Internet is the IPC bus. I suppose the hypervisor is more minimal and secure. Tenenbaum, thou art avenged.
25. 11545.▲
    by api 9y ago

    It reminds me of the Kickstarter and Angellist video fad.
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    by api 9y ago

    Top tier schools are almost like a noble title on the East coast. Out West it's less extreme but it still matters. I've lived in both places.
27. 11547.▲
    by api 9y ago

    They also likely acquire a lot of amazing connections at those schools.
28. 11548.▲
    by api 9y ago

    The cloud-to-butt browser plugin once again delivers.
29. 11549.▲
    by api 9y ago

    It could be only ~5%, but it could still have a >5% effect. The existence of a big price-insensitive well of cash buyers in the housing market could easily set off a feedback loop / bubble.
30. 11550.▲
    by api 9y ago

    I'd love to see some real data on just how much Chinese and other flight capital being dumped into RE is contributing to these price increases.