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   by api 11y ago

   It's not just about number of addresses. It's also about preventing conflicts. Let's say my company uses 10.0.0.0/16. Now let's say I set up a VPN. Half my users will be on local networks that are also 10.0.x.x. Fai
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   by api 11y ago

   I wish they hadn't. Anything that prolongs IPv4 use is bad.
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   by api 11y ago

   The majority of chemtrail reports are doofuses seeing contrails, but the rumor mill may have started around a kernel of truth. I've thought about a couple possibilities: (1) Cloud seeding, either experimental or operational. (2) Experi
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   by api 11y ago

   I've started to dislike this phrase. Extraordinary is subjective. Obviously you can trot out edge cases. The claim that extraterrestrials run the US government is quite extraordinary. But edge cases aren't that interesting. Most c
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   by api 11y ago

   "if you ignore all the crazy, what's left isn't crazy." That's exactly what I'm saying. If you ignore all the crazy, the stuff that's left was stuff that almost nobody else was saying : that there was som
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   by api 11y ago

   Time seems to have had a way of vindicating at least some tin foil hatters, yet people today are just as ready to dismiss as 'crazy conspiracy theory' any similar extrapolations or speculations. If you strip off the really genuine
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   by api 11y ago

   This is mostly dead, replaced with 'every program shrinks until all its features are off-loaded to the cloud, security and privacy be damned.'
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   by api 11y ago

   Ethereum GPU mining?
9. 13539.▲
   by api 11y ago

   I'm using Postgres for a new project. After playing around with various NoSql stores, I've come to the following conclusion: If you want a super scalable eventually consistent database, use one of the more minimally structured glo
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    by api 11y ago

    Spam mostly, and other forms of abuse. But mostly spam.
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    Ask HN: Will non-FIPS or non-standard crypto lock you out of enterprise?

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    by api 11y ago

    Audiophiles have got to be the most gullible consumers. Homeopathy is more plausible than what I see advertised on those sites.
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    by api 11y ago

    First of all, manned fighter planes are dinosaurs. No human being can possibly react as quickly as a drone. Secondly, there are existing designs that I'm sure could be refreshed for a lot less than $1.5 trillion dollars. There's
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    by api 11y ago

    I recall a long time ago reading something about potential uses of a 128-bit CPU architecture with 128-bit addressing. Obviously 128-bit addressing isn't and probably never will be needed to address memory, at least not in this geologi
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    by api 11y ago

    The government paid 1.5 trillion for an employment program for upper income engineers and managers that happened to produce a fighter jet as a side effect.
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    by api 11y ago

    I keep beating this horse, so I'll beat it more: The same thing is happening to the digital world that happened to classical media. People want cheap and/or free. It's also incredibly difficult to compete with cheap/free
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    by api 11y ago

    Mostly agreed. Fundamentally a perfectly rational world is unrealistic. Humans do behave irrationally, even insanely. Humans also behave sub-optimally because they are trapped in systems full of crazy perverse incentives. The world itself i
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    by api 11y ago

    Good speech recognition is that expensive? ... and people think sentient AI is on the horizon. :P
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    by api 11y ago

    ... on a Pentium I, using 1990s machine learning algorithms, sure. Nobody's answered my question as to why The Cloud is the magic pixie dust that solves this problem, and why it could not be solved locally with modern compute power and
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    by api 11y ago

    It could be done, but it would require a lot of hefty cryptography-centered engineering to implement zero-knowledge data sharing schemes, etc. Who's going to pay for that?
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    by api 11y ago

    MS is so aggressively international, I can imagine that they might cave to subpoenas from other governments. So now my home country plus at least the rest of the G8 can request my data. Nope.
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    by api 11y ago

    We had speech recognition back in the 1990s on computers less powerful than a Raspberry Pi V1. We're talking 200-400mhz 32-bit Intel boxes. So yes, the cloud dependency is very dubious. If leveraging a lot of data allows for better s
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    by api 11y ago

    I'm increasingly believing that for privacy to live, a necessary (but not sufficient) condition is for free to die. By free I mean free as in beer, not free as in freedom. The problem is that if everything has to be free, there can nev
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    by api 11y ago

    You get what you pay for. Everyone wants everything to be free, therefore it is shit, and you shouldn't complain because if it's free you are not the customer. The advertisers are the customers. Of course radio and TV are the same
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    by api 11y ago

    A few packages are needed, but in their standard configurations . Bocker does not require you to install hundreds and specially tinker with each one the way many web stacks do.
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    by api 11y ago

    "Squeezes" is very relative. These phones are equal to or larger than most desktops 10-15 years ago, back when I was doing AI research with evolutionary computing and genetic algorithms. We did some pretty mean stuff on those mach
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    by api 11y ago

    Nothing wrong with linking together a couple things to build an app... I call it Rube Goldberg (a.k.a. ball of mud, pile of crap, etc.) when it's like dozens of things that all have to be tweaked in exactly a certain way or everything
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    by api 11y ago

    I have mixed feelings about Docker. I've found three major use cases so far: (1) Testing. (2) Build environments -- it's helpful to build distribution Linux binaries in older Linux versions like CentOS 6 so that they'll work
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    by api 11y ago

    I thought the same thing. Today we'd never do something so "woo woo." The sorts of visionaries who could be both imaginative and rational are a dying breed... We're left with stiffs and wackos. Either you're a card
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    by api 11y ago

    Simpler version: war is how you sell stimulus to conservatives.