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by api 9y ago
I agree but I must also point out that in some parts of the country not being a Trump supporter could have serious social consequences. The entire country is not San Francisco.
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by api 9y ago
Worse still-- past employment at the majors is seen as a strong "social proof" indicator by many including other employers and investors. I saw an angel.co drinking game once. I think you had to chug two drinks for "worked at
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by api 9y ago
One of my favorites is the Speck cipher, which has been released before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speck_(cipher) I'd be very interested in more public cryptanalysis of this. It's a damn simple cipher to
11614.
by api 9y ago
Yeah, I've found that generally to be the case with superficially ridiculous sounding cases. Google the details of the famous 1990s McDonald's coffee scalding lawsuit. It wasn't just hot coffee. It was PWR nuclear reactor cor
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by api 9y ago
Yes. They frame it as 'stop hippies from wasting our money on namby-pamby renewable fantasies' but the real concern is 'stop the tech industry from destroying the entire fossil fuel economy with disruptive innovation.' H
11616.
by api 9y ago
It still exists among right-wing conspiranoids determined to believe that absolutely everything is a lie.
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by api 9y ago
Most of what we do is irrational. Entertainment is irrational. Music is irrational. Sex for pleasure is irrational. Climbing Mt. Everest is doubly irrational, since lots of people have already done it so it's nothing all that special.
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by api 9y ago
I think we are at the early stages of another major "disruptive" event. In 20-30 years fossil fuels could be obsolescent. I'm sure everyone realizes how incredibly destabilizing this will be to the world economic order among
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by api 9y ago
> Curious what you would consider an example of such a field? The frontiers of physics always strike me this way. The names and explanations are incredibly strained and bizarre. This is probably the canonical example and is perhaps why T
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by api 9y ago
I strongly disagree. Complexity is real, but understanding means being able to conceptualize a system at such a high level that it becomes possible to convey the most important key ideas simply. This may involve some amount of over-simplifi
11621.
by api 9y ago
Putinophobia is more accurate, and it's somewhat justifiable albeit probably a bit overblown.
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by api 9y ago
You're right when it comes to die size and transistor budget, but complexity can sometimes have hidden costs. Complexity can limit and constrain the design of other aspects of a system in ways that are nearly impossible to predict and
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by api 9y ago
"The result is that qubit 2 now contains the state of qubit 1 after Hadamard operation." This is really going to be a barrier to understanding. When I was a little kid I could not only grasp but very easily remember what OR, AND
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by api 9y ago
I've always seen this kind of unhinged NIMBYism as a backdoor passive aggressive way to implement housing discrimination, though more based on class than race. It's a way of making sure the "wrong people" (poor people, u
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by api 9y ago
Petrochemicals and plastics are only a small fraction of oil demand. The vast majority is used as fuel. So no, we won't totally eliminate the need for oil for a long time. We also won't totally run out of oil for a very, very long
11626.
by api 9y ago
The problem is largely with their docs, or lack thereof. Just figuring out how to use one as a token for ssh is incredibly painful. The docs are very "enterprise," meaning half-done, overly complicated, confusing, scattered, etc.
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by api 9y ago
I agree, but for me there's Android which will let you load any app you want. The latest Galaxy is also IMHO a much better phone, and even includes a headphone jack. I wish there were more than two options, but the modern mobile market
11628.
by api 9y ago
Game theory should be taught in high school.
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by api 9y ago
> The founder and chief executive officer of a now-defunct Silicon Valley technology start-up company was charged in an indictment unsealed yesterday in Orange County, California with allegedly defrauding several of his company’s former
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by api 9y ago
SoftBank is interesting to say the least. Google it and Saudi funding. They even have a cute (kawaii) mascot. So cyberpunk.
11631.
by api 9y ago
I've ported a lot of code back and forth and I've never encountered any difficulties related to weak vs. strong memory model. It might matter for lock-free data structures and other potentially hardware sensitive code, but it does
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by api 9y ago
NAT is pure evil. It adds huge complexity to anything wanting to do any kind of end-to-end or peer-to-peer connectivity, and it does not scale at carrier sizes very well. Even for regular client-server stuff it introduces performance and
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by api 9y ago
Neoliberals are found in the same place as social justice warriors, the rational economic actor, millennials, and bigfoot. (The Pacific Northwest?)
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by api 9y ago
Montreal has low pings to the US.
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by api 9y ago
OVH has absurdly low prices on both. If you have a baseline load take a look. Their enterprise offerings are pretty rock solid and they have multiple data centers with direct fiber backplane interconnects. IMHO the big cloud providers only
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by api 9y ago
There are also no jobs. Relative to median income housing is actually kind of expensive in many of those places. Jobs, affordable housing -- pick one. There are a few bargain markets like Detroit, but not many.
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by api 9y ago
Isn't all this just an artifact of the file descriptor API? What would happen if programs could register callbacks to be called directly by the kernel in any of N threads? This would be a bit like signal driven I/O. I'm think
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by api 9y ago
That was my first thought as well. I was hoping for a high-end system that I actually own, but nope. Nobody will provide that. Apple still provides the closest thing, at least on Mac. (iOS is another story.) Their telemetry is more minimal
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by api 9y ago
Unless they've found a way around the second law they would still have to reject waste heat. The second law is probably one of the very best scientific laws in terms of having been solidly and repeatedly proven. The most efficient gene
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by api 9y ago
Low interest rates inflate real estate prices and rents. This is murdering the lower and middle class, especially those who do not yet own a home or who had to take out some kind of ridiculous suicide loan to squeeze into one. I know people

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