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12271.
by api 10y ago
Rather than seeing this as a (relative, historically contextual) vindication of the inquisition, I rather tend to see it as an argument against excessive dogmatism and intolerance toward speculation in science regardless of motive. I don&#x
12272.
by api 10y ago
The list of priorities at the top is just mind blowing. 10-20 years ago you would invert it. Top priority would be a super-extroverted business type with sales/marketing experience. Any tech talent on the team at all would be optional,
12273.
by api 10y ago
We let worker wages stagnate such that there is now insufficient demand.
12274.
by api 10y ago
Seconded. If you find the tactics in this book reprehensible and vile, it's even more important that you read it so you are not taken in by them. People do these things because they work.
12275.
by api 10y ago
I'd change it to "quality food." Junk food is cheap.
12276.
by api 10y ago
I didn't mean through the center, just orbiting it. Look up a Hohmann transfer. I was just saying it wouldn't be direct.
12277.
by api 10y ago
In that case I can just use S3 for blobs and use Digital Ocean and Vultr and Linode for compute. Amazon charges $0 for bandwidth ingress so uploading to S3 costs me nothing. We use VPS providers for compute and S3 for backup and large blob
12278.
by api 10y ago
Would it actually be a straight line? Going from e.g. Earth to Mars does not consist of aiming for Mars and firing your rockets. It consists of hitting a parabolic transfer orbit and then doing another burn to place yourself in Mars'
12279.
by api 10y ago
Interesting... so with Google and Amazon and the like I am paying more for the existence of capacity that I could hypothetically utilize? DO and Vultr are colocated at very large sites. For many locations they sit right next to carrier hote
12280.
by api 10y ago
That is true if you have infinite capacity, such as a hypothetical biology in an infinite environment with infinite resources. Is he proposing infinite universes? In that case I'm not sure I see the difference between this and multiver
12281.
by api 10y ago
Evolved how? According to what selection criterion? There has to be an environment or you just get a random walk across state space. Evolution is a learning process that transfers information from the environment into the evolving system as
12282.
by api 10y ago
I don't understand the AWS fetish either. I guess nobody ever got fired for using AWS. It's the IBM of the cloud. If you need managed services Azure and Google Cloud are largely better. If you just need compute and transfer Digita
12283.
by api 10y ago
We built ZeroTier initially for this use case, and though it's now maturing into something more powerful (SDN type features) it's still very useful for this and the WAN use case is not going away. https://www.zerotier.c
12284.
by api 10y ago
The urban/rural liberal/conservative cosmopolitan/tribal divide goes back to Roman times at least.
12285.
by api 10y ago
There are many, many relatively progressive places that are less expensive than SF. Pittsburgh is one. Smaller college towns are others. There are lots. The real monopoly SF has is its investor ecosystem. There's talent everywhere. I w
12286.
by api 10y ago
The Internet was supposed to help by breaking down information barriers but the effect seems to have been extremely minimal. I can now learn almost anything instantly in Nowhere, West Virginia but that doesn't seem to matter. It shows
12287.
by api 10y ago
Hate to be a hater too but this is pretty spot on. I too have been a Linux user since forever... 1993 to be precise. Linux is getting worse in certain respects on the server too, mostly due to the complexity explosion of systemd and its ilk
12288.
by api 10y ago
Or... continuing with the BFC concept... make chips with monster caches or even with all SRAM running at core speed. That's not been done in a while.
12289.
by api 10y ago
One thought that isn't on here: Once the process is "mature" and isn't changing every few years, the error rate could be squeezed way down. That would make it practical and economical to make larger chips. There are cool
12290.
by api 10y ago
Why couldn't Swift be this?
12291.
by api 10y ago
It could be something being floated to inflate the price in private markets as a prelude to trying to raise more money.
12292.
by api 10y ago
About the only thing I agree with Donald Trump about is that we should be more aggressive with China. They're clearly protecting their domestic industries very aggressively via tactics like the Great Firewall and subsidizing of domesti
12293.
by api 10y ago
Business in general is filled with cargo cult thinking in my experience.
12294.
by api 10y ago
If the crypto is solid the transport is irrelevant. This points to deeper vulnerabilities. IP networks are no safer than SMS.
12295.
by api 10y ago
This is extremely good news for anyone doing... well... pretty much anything interesting with network protocols. This troll covers among other things: anything P2P, SIP, DNSSec, VoIP that does not flow through a central server, certain type
12296.
by api 10y ago
Not everything is a web site. Also personally I find V6 more useful under the fold. For a gateway it's nice to support but doesn't give you anything. In your intranet it makes address conflicts go away forever and lets everything
12297.
by api 10y ago
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have never added IPv6 support years and years after saying they were "working on it."
12298.
by api 10y ago
I get the sense privacy review is "how can we maximally invade privacy?" I'm sure it got through fine. Since everything is free now, spyware is the only viable B2C business model.
12299.
by api 10y ago
Open means it is documented and anyone can interoperate or create a compatible implementation. The S3 API is open and there are many competing implementations, but Amazon de facto holds the reference implementation. A SaaS value add "o
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by api 10y ago
Something like this if done well would be a huge step forward. Maybe we can stop totally ruining the network with local isolation and fascist firewall defaults if we can get some sense of standards in place about the quality of code require

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