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   C4: C compiler in 4 functions(github.com)

   1 points by api 11y ago|0 comments
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   by api 11y ago

   But what about the tiny-ass screen? It makes my head hurt to think about writing code on an iPad. Are they going to add HDMI? Also wake me up when iOS isn't an absolutely fascist walled garden.
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   by api 11y ago

   Something fundamental . There's a qualitative difference between fundamental and incremental innovation. An example of a fundamental innovation would be radio. Before radio there was... no radio. Nobody could communicate across vast d
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   by api 11y ago

   The central problem for a long time has been that central banks have done this with the effect being rising prices (or at least prevention of deflation) almost everywhere except wages .
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   by api 11y ago

   I've thought for years that fundamental technological innovation basically stopped around 1970, and that almost everything since then has been refinement and broadening existing technology. I've observed a similar thing in areas l
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   by api 11y ago

   If they truly have insider government backing, they may never collapse for the same reason as GM, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, etc. If your backer is a state with access to a printing press, failure is synonymous with either failure of said s
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   by api 11y ago

   That isn't particularly outlandish. The Red Mercury hoax is pretty well documented and very similar: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/magazine/the-doomsday-scam... The whole thing might have been a
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   by api 11y ago

   Years ago there was a thread on the old less-moderated /r/science about "Are there any of today's 'kooks' that you think might eventually be vindicated?" Hancock was one of the most popular answers, along
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   by api 11y ago

   Take a look at balboa.io too. Similar slack-like idea and developed by folks with a strong crypto background.
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    by api 11y ago

    I personally think it's a complexity management problem and a version management problem. Shared libraries make sense for "timeless" stuff like math or very core system stuff, but beyond that there is too much variation both
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    by api 11y ago

    So given that torture is objectively not reliable for obtaining truthful evidence, what is a good non evil non stupid explanation? I consider torture itself evil under all but the most extreme and rare ticking time bomb scenarios. Little to
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    by api 11y ago

    Awesome, but them are going to be some fat static binaries. Of course I get the sense that shared libraries are being abandoned so that seems to be how things are going. You have to ship qt with any qt app anyway.
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    by api 11y ago

    ... which is valuable if you want "intelligence" to launch the next war.
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    by api 11y ago

    I'm still skeptical that we know enough to absolutely positively rule out FTL, but I will say this. If you think deeply on it, a universe with FTL is pretty weird. In some respects it would be identical to time or dimensional travel. I
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    by api 11y ago

    This one just validated that good credentials worked and bad ones didn't. It passed of course. Good to ship.
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    by api 11y ago

    Most embedded engineer types know nothing about and never think about security. One example I saw once was an FTP server where the auth commands worked but were irrelevant. All commands always worked. It passed the unit tests therefore it w
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    by api 11y ago

    Have traction. Accelerators, mentors, and good connections help too but traction is the #1 thing. Traction is press/attention, user growth, and revenue growth in that order and with exponentially increasing importance in that order. Lo
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    by api 11y ago

    Wow. After reading that I personally call fraud. Even if there is any real tech behind the scenes, these people obviously didn't ship it to their Kickstarter backers. They hoodwinked Kickstarter as a source of easy money and then immed
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    by api 11y ago

    Total tangent but: one piece of LOL I've been noting lately is Gen-Xers talking about how "kids these days" are too mainstream and too pro-establishment and are not rebellious enough. Where's their hate for authority
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    Orange County California VC Funding Reached $1B in 2015(ocregister.com)

    1 points by api 11y ago|0 comments
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    by api 11y ago

    It'd be surprising if the Internet revolution didn't drastically alter languages. The printing press did the same, standardizing them and eliminating many font eccentricities that did not translate well into movable type. What I s
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    by api 11y ago

    I think this comment is relevant.
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    by api 11y ago

    I've wondered for a while if you might make a case for a right to encrypt around the second amendment. If anything encryption seems more relevant today than gun ownership in terms of the second amendment's original reason for bein
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    by api 11y ago

    I've seen some things I'd have to tone down to sell as believable fiction, and this was several years ago doing consulting for startups. Standard issue asshattery include things like: - Paper-thin mock up demos of a product being
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    by api 11y ago

    > Except that once you implement it, investors start anchoring to how small your numbers are. Catch 22. Are investors really that irrational?
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    by api 11y ago

    This is right to some extent . A valuation is not money-- it's basically a fictitious number that the company and its investors come up with to make the percentages work to everyone's satisfaction for a round. The problem is that
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    by api 11y ago

    As many have mentioned: the big wildcard here is how economically incestuous the startup world is. How many smaller startups are dependent on trickle-down from the unicorns? If the answer is "not too many" then it will not affect
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    by api 11y ago

    Kuntsler has valid and good points about aesthetics but beyond that he's a kook. He's also rather reactionary when you peel back the layers.
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    Network Containers Beta(zerotier.com)

    1 points by api 11y ago|0 comments
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    by api 11y ago

    Desperate people living in poverty will be just as responsible as those living in developed countries as soon as they can work their way out of poverty. Those in developed countries are never going to go back to the standard of living found