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   by api 10y ago

   This also looks limited to 16gb, adding credibility to the claim that Apple's limits are driven by Intel.
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   by api 10y ago

   On the contrary I see inequality as a driver here. Working class people have become considerably more un-equal as a result of globalization and other policies, and a lot of that anger is boiling over.
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   by api 10y ago

   I don't see much evidence that these things matter outside of loud minorities. That and all societies have these things. In Saudi Arabia it is illegal to insult the prophet and they have declared what amounts to a "safe space&quot
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   by api 10y ago

   You're right about food, which yo-yos like other commodities and is somewhat tied to energy. Housing, health care, and college tuition are the great Satans of the economy for the middle and working classes. These have inflated without
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   by api 10y ago

   Related to the hollowing out of the middle class is the insane super-concentration of opportunity into cities. Even some suburbs around hot cities are now no-go zones.
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   by api 10y ago

   If you want to know why Trump won: https://morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/unnecessariat/
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   by api 10y ago

   I know a number of Trump supporters. The issues are outsourcing, outsourcing, job losses due to cheap overseas labor, and outsourcing, in roughly that order. Few people on either side actually care enough about PC to sway an election. This
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   by api 10y ago

   This is absolutely correct from a perspective of bog-standard evolutionary biology. A "fork" of a species into two very different environments with limited gene flow between them is virtually guaranteed to eventually lead to speci
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   by api 10y ago

   Your last point is one I don't see mentioned often enough: minimalism as rebellion against over-stimulation and cognitive overload.
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    by api 10y ago

    At some point you have to trust someone unless you refine you own silicon, make your own chips, audit every line of code they run, etc.
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    by api 10y ago

    This is a common problem with nearly all software, especially on phones.
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    by api 10y ago

    People need to get the fact that all traffic across the Internet traverses lots of people's systems. There is no difference between it relaying off Google vs Verizon, AT&T, Amazon, OVH, or dozens of other carriers and cloud provide
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    by api 10y ago

    "The problems with the world are not user error." - wow. This is why HN is mostly the only forum I hang around. If you really want to go deep study game theory. IMHO it offers very satisfying hard mathematical explanations for at
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    by api 10y ago

    When I first saw Docker I saw something with all the characteristics of a developer fad, namely that it was a magic new thing that in reality was nothing but a barely-novel rearrangement of old things but promised to make a lot of very old
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    by api 10y ago

    This phenomenon exists everywhere. Who's an expert? A person with a history of being an expert, of course. It's a socially distributed form of confirmation bias.
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    by api 10y ago

    That reputation as a menace was purchased with a huge amount of tobacco industry money.
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    by api 10y ago

    I think this is a variant of (1). Anything like this should be able to be computationally approximated efficiently.
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    by api 10y ago

    I've long suspected that the brain might be using quantum computing techniques. It's a good physically plausible explanation for how you can get more compute than a modern at-scale data center on 40-60W of power and in a volume ab
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    by api 10y ago

    Ads will win the arms race. There's a clear economic model and "black hats" always have the advantage due to instant feedback on the success of attacks (REPL-like instant feedback learning vs. speculation). The problem is the
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    by api 10y ago

    IMHO the problem is that you actually do need a decent chunk of all that stuff. Not all, but a good chunk. A UI engine is a problem on par with creating a good game engine like Unity. If you don't have a loooooooong list of capabilit
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    by api 10y ago

    The advantage is long-term at the level of the ecosystem. You can leverage the world's largest developer pool and ride the coattails of major corporations. Qt, GTK, and other desktop techs are "weird" little tiny niche skills
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    by api 10y ago

    I wrote a blog post once about how the web is the new presentation layer for the desktop, that this is not necessarily a bad thing, and that a desktop OS (e.g. a Linux distro) should just fully embrace it by implementing a desktop that runs
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    by api 10y ago

    I recall having an idea at least a bit similar to this years ago when I was heavily studying evolutionary informatics. Some particularly avant garde types in that field have posited that the universe rather than having two constituents -- m
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    by api 10y ago

    The oil and gas industry regularly spends that kind of money. Look into offshore drilling.
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    by api 10y ago

    They are much cheaper than paid labor in many ways.
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    by api 10y ago

    I've considered the switch too. Having a Windows VM on Linux seems workable albeit clunky for the ~5% of things that I must have like GoToMeeting, etc. Thing is I already use a Windows VM on Mac for some things like that because I am
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    by api 10y ago

    Humans are wired for scarcity, but scarcity thinking is bad economics. We need to realize and own our power and start thinking in positive sum race to the top terms instead of fear based austerity terms.
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    by api 10y ago

    Depends on how you define things. The fact that a gas car will have issues with very cold fuel or fuel outside an octane rating range is not a design flaw. But it is a thing you need to know. You could say they learned something new about t
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    by api 10y ago

    After initially being skeptical and disliking him for libertarian leaning political reasons, I've come around to wondering if John Maynard Keynes might have been even more right than we have imagined. Slave labor is kind of an extreme
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    by api 10y ago

    It makes perfect sense that they'd be novelties. Play is creative. It's really harmful to science that it's become so institutional and bureaucratic.