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12601.
by api 11y ago
How long before we can have open source CPU cores made a la carte by pure play foundries? Beyond Moore's Law I wonder if we'll just see a massive drop in the cost of computing power to the point where something near parity with a
12602.
by api 11y ago
The largest provider where I live in Southern California does not support IPv6. The largest cloud providers don't either. Amazon, Google, and Microsoft all lack any IPv6 support at all.
12603.
by api 11y ago
True enough, but can you have hits without misses? Most new stuff will not work, but there is no way to avoid trying without also eliminating progress. I'm of the opinion that science today is too conservative and gun-shy. Science need
12604.
by api 11y ago
Only way to tell is to do actual science. :)
12605.
by api 11y ago
We stole movable type and gunpowder from the Chinese. It's payback time.
12606.
by api 11y ago
"Yes, they're still using warp drives to heat food..." - alien observers
12607.
by api 11y ago
The effect is so tiny it could easily go un-noticed. How many people are trying to do ultra-sensitive acceleration measurements on microwave cavities?
12608.
by api 11y ago
Even if this works, reactionless drive would be my last hypothesis after exhausting all possible things it might be interacting with via some as-yet-unknown means: dark matter, nearby gravitational bodies, etc. The infinite energy device
12609.
by api 11y ago
One of the things that keeps me intrigued about this is that this is not the first time someone has claimed anomalous thrust from an asymmetrical EM device of some kind. It could be measurement error combined with a little wishful thinking,
12610.
by api 11y ago
Worst case scenario: nothing. The R&D goes away. Look at aerospace for a nightmare scenario. In the early 20th century we got fixed wing flight. In the teens and 20s we got motorized fighters and the first passenger planes. In the 40s w
12611.
by api 11y ago
You can turn hibernate off with 'sudo pmset' on OSX. It's one of the first things I do on a new Mac since I find it pointless.
12612.
by api 11y ago
I'm also annoyed by the nature of the ads on Facebook. A whole lot of them seem to be for quack medical products... I mean we're talking stuff that Deepak Chopra would roll his eyes at. Facebook's main advertising niches se
12613.
by api 11y ago
This is directly tied to EROEI. If the EROEI of a cell is greater than 1X, it will produce more energy that it took to manufacture it. In that case it's net-negative -- over time it replaces fossil fuels in a net sense. Lately I'v
12614.
by api 11y ago
I've seen the same. How has HN (partly) avoided this? I guess having a separate "show" category helps. I think the high-brow tone helps too. Sometimes it chafes but it's way better than the alternative. People do self-pr
12615.
by api 11y ago
It's a fuzzy definition like any other social category, but I'm not sure a restaurant is a startup unless it aims for significant growth via some novel approach to running and scaling restaurants. What's "significant gro
12616.
by api 11y ago
The secret to good UX design is to imagine yourself as the user and imagine yourself raging against the hassle of having to do this.
12617.
by api 11y ago
They create an environment where the nanotube is the lower energy state.
12618.
by api 11y ago
Same with Bush. I recall reading that he grew government almost as much as LBJ. I suspect that both Cruz and Trump would do likewise, maybe more than Clinton or even Sanders. Trump in particular I predict would be a big spender. But this mi
12619.
by api 11y ago
It takes a long time to learn enough and accumulate enough experience to have a high chance of doing something new. Not saying you can't do it young since many obviously do, but this doesn't surprise me at all. I also think that y
12620.
by api 11y ago
Virtually everything the author wants exists in a technical sense, but it's not usable for the average person. I've said this many times, pretty much whenever this topic comes up: A thing that works is maybe 10-20% of the way to b
12621.
by api 11y ago
Use whatever works. Use the present to build the future.
12622.
by api 11y ago
There are more platforms today, but the tools are much better. Maybe it's a wash. In terms of platform sprawl I feel like we're back to the 1980s when there was Apple II, Mac, IBM PC, IBM clones (not always compatible), TRS-80,
12623.
by api 11y ago
If you think cross platform development is bad now, go back to the late 90s or early 2000s... this brought back some painful memories. Look at the old Mozilla C++ guidelines for more cringe-worthy stuff.
12624.
by api 11y ago
This is one of the pragmatic/apolitical reasons the USG (or any other government) should not key escrow or hold encryption backdoor master keys.
12625.
by api 11y ago
This is negotiation. It's an adversarial system. The proponents of this bill know they are not going to get everything they ask for. The point is to stake out a position very far toward what they want so as to force opponents of this
12626.
by api 11y ago
I highly recommend a book called Season of the Witch by David Talbot. It's a great history of SF in the 50s-80s with a strong focus on the 60s and the counterculture. It's some amazing history that many people don't know much
12627.
by api 11y ago
Again: that is a problem. If that is possible your internal network is insecure. The castle and moat model is obsolete anyway. Most attacks today come through "pulled" vectors that bypass the firewall. If you rely on a physical ne
12628.
by api 11y ago
This happens to any good or service that everyone needs but that we stubbornly refuse to fund publically.
12629.
by api 11y ago
If internal IPS are critical security info, something is very wrong.
12630.
by api 11y ago
The current market cap for all cryptocurrencies is less than $8B, which means that about 75% of all cryptocurrency would have to be focused on the sort of thing you describe to have a chance of competing with Facebook's $5.8B 2015 reve

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