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by api 11y ago
But cloud, because cloud and cloud cloud! We recently did the math on some cloud database solutions vs. warehousing data ourselves and using Glacier as a last-resort backup. Turns out it's orders of magnitude cheaper to DIY and would r
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by api 11y ago
A chip is a distributed system of transistors too. It's all a matter of scale. The CAP theorem applies there too. Discrete systems choose CA over P, which is why they crash (loss of A) if any single part of them is partitioned in any w
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by api 11y ago
There was a dip, sure, but that's not what I meant. There was no lasting correction.
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by api 11y ago
Housing fell a little bit off the 2005 highs and the result was very nearly a total collapse of the financial system. The Fed and the government did everything they could to backstop housing (at the expense of housing affordability and ba
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by api 11y ago
Absolutely. Housing prices are like wages: very "sticky." Nobody wants to ever sell a house at a loss or drop their rent, so housing will sit idle on the market rather than take a write-down. The only way housing could conceiv
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by api 11y ago
Our financial system?
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by api 11y ago
I've never even heard of this, and I definitely pay attention to the news. This is basically WWIII in terms of overall combined casualties and... I'm just speechless... I have never even heard of it. Absolutely incredible.
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by api 11y ago
"You will," but we won't build it because we can't bring ourselves to cannibalize existing long distance and toll based business models nor allow permission-free innovation within our organization. -AT&T
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by api 11y ago
Yeah, I just said that to draw a line somewhere. You could eat LSD powder with a spoon and be technically okay, provided you could contend with the spoon's Ka in the liminal realm.
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by api 11y ago
I used to think you can draw sharp lines here, but not anymore. Marijuana is demonstrably less harmful than alcohol. It being illegal is flat out insane and can have no explanation other than ignorance, stupidity, or malice. I definitely th
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by api 11y ago
You can write bad code in any language. .NET was more productive for good code too.
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by api 11y ago
Why? If end user devices are just thin clients for the cloud and we can always just make data centers bigger, where is the trillion dollar incentive necessary to make the leap? The constraint on tech is usually more about what is economical
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by api 11y ago
They're just as conservative too. They'll go to .22nm from .32nm but they're not going to invest billions up front in a fab to produce a completely untested chip technology based on graphene and optics or something. Not unles
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by api 11y ago
The next level future of UI would be something as developer-productive as Visual Basic .NET from 2007: lay out my app visually in minutes, double click to add code, build, run, ship. It's 2016 and I'm still using a soup of hacks t
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by api 11y ago
Monstrously capital intensive industries are conservative for obvious reasons. Computers were never as capital intensive as a large power plant, and transistors and ICs made them exponentially less. When a project that costs twenty billion
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by api 11y ago
I wonder if the real origin of war progress isn't Keynesian, and if a basic income, a lot of R&D spending, and a lot of incentive to invest might not achieve the same thing without all the death. War seems like a way to sell stimul
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by api 11y ago
> questioning the government gets you labeled a conspiracy nut or traitor Happy to see someone else pointing this out. For someone who grew up in the 90s it's weird how conventional and pro establishment the mainstream and especiall
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by api 11y ago
Yes, fixed. Mobile is the foot rub.
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by api 11y ago
My favorite retort to those who blame the post-WWII tech boom on war: if that's true why wasn't WWI the cause of a similar boom? And why weren't the Aztec or the Mongols much more advanced? War can certainly accelerate and mo
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by api 11y ago
A lot of this revolves around the new business model of using the Internet to lock everything down. Basically half your car, house, whatever will be in the cloud.
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by api 11y ago
You are correct. Linux is a single user OS. Any rogue program can almost certainly escalate privileges using any number of strategies across a vast and complex surface area. It's been almost two decades since unix systems were routinel
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by api 11y ago
If Bitcoin governance is miner voting, doesn't that mean the Chinese now effectively control it? Or at least nearly so?
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by api 11y ago
That's rather obvious. Due to Dunbar's number (the rough maximum number of human relationships you can maintain), reputation is a very scarce resource. To the extent that corporations and brands are virtual individuals, I think th
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by api 11y ago
Seems like: security (for ordinary users), usability (and popularity), openness (lack of walled garden), pick two. The two extremes would be: iOS: security and usability. Linux: security and openness.
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by api 11y ago
A smart actor who broke Bitcoin would do things at the edges to manipulate the market and the value of BTC to extract as much as they could before people realized something was seriously wrong.
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by api 11y ago
"They often view the people working on Bitcoin as a bunch of crazy Libertarians who came up with a cool idea but believe that a bunch of hired guns could put the same thing together given enough money." This is my favorite point.
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by api 11y ago
I'm sure the valuation cap will be low, and maybe SAFEs with a discount too. It's corporate payday lending. Not necessarily saying it's bad. Payday lending to poor consumers is scummy because you're addicting them to hig
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by api 11y ago
A list would be tough. I'd personally bet on a Chinese vendor or a perhaps yet to be born startup with explosive growth on a trendy home automation product. I'd say by 2020 or so there will be a major well publicized leak or scand
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by api 11y ago
Basically everything B2C today is a data play. Customers want everything to be cheap or free, so the only way to make money in B2C is to turn the customer into the product. It's a deflationary race to the bottom. The bottom is a hell w
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by api 11y ago
"Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy" is flat wrong. Due to attention limits, brands, and the hierarchical nature of DNS, hyperlinks actually accrete value up the hierarchy and promote winner take all markets. Do people follow hyperlinks

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