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14551.
by api 12y ago
UAC overdid it.
14552.
by api 12y ago
I'm a bit skeptical. I'm not sure that a creative enterprise like entrepreneurship is amenable to any sort of factory model. While theoretically it could be a bit like drug discovery -- make lots of permutations, test them, iterat
14553.
by api 12y ago
Sounds like classic poor security UX design -- it encourages people to allow everything, and encourages apps to claim everything.
14554.
by api 12y ago
There's a general trend of mobile apps that ask for everything: camera, microphone, sensors, access to local files, WiFi, etc. These are apps (like Uber) with no good reason to need access to such things. In most cases I can think of n
14555.
by api 12y ago
I consider this a pretty fascinating piece of art. It's like an artcar, but it's an artOS! It reminds me of Salvation Mountain in Southern California, but with preemptive multitasking. :) http://www.roadsideamerica.com&
14556.
by api 12y ago
If this were the case it would be no better than laser propulsion. You could theoretically propel a spacecraft with a beam of photons, but you'd need to borrow God's laser pointer and a power plant that pumps out a couple exawatts
14557.
by api 12y ago
Electric motors can be ~90% efficient, or even higher for really well engineered ones, so very high efficiencies in converting electricity into movement are common. Electricity is basically movement already -- of electrons -- and is usually
14558.
by api 12y ago
Actually according to what I can find results have been mixed: one claimed positive at Lockheed, one claimed negative at a national lab, and several non-conclusive results. As others have stated it's incredibly challenging to accuratel
14559.
by api 12y ago
"It would be the single biggest discovery in the history of science." Yeah, it'd be pretty huge, but it wouldn't "overturn" anything. All the science we've done to date remains quite valid. Our current the
14560.
by api 12y ago
"nobody was going to fund what he wanted to work on and he needed a job." That's very logical -- it's incredibly hard to fund anything speculative. My underlying point is that being honestly wrong doesn't make you a
14561.
by api 12y ago
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." -- I don't hear anyone claiming otherwise. Woodward publishes all his work an has invited others to attempt to replicate it or tell him where he's wrong. "such
14562.
by api 12y ago
Try to crowd fund this and you'll bring out hordes and hordes of Skeptic Movement Skeptics who will scream "con man!" and "pseudoscience!" and do everything they can to sabotage the campaign. Kickstarter would proba
14563.
by api 12y ago
What exactly makes this pseudoscience? Is it pseudoscientific to investigate unlikely or speculative possibilities? They have presented evidence and a proposed mechanism, have fully published the details of their work, and have invited othe
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by api 12y ago
If that orbital transfer took a long time, someone would argue it's interacting with the Earth's magnetic field. The only real absolutely unambiguous test I can think of -- other than finding a way to massively boost the effect
14565.
by api 12y ago
"When highly theoretical phenomena are talked about in engineering terms" That may be true, but you also mention that measuring tiny transient forces is incredibly hard. Thus, the only way to actually get an accurate measurement f
14566.
by api 12y ago
My guess is he's using lock-free data structures + a lot of cleverness.
14567.
by api 12y ago
True, but that could be viewed as a big bank (government) eliminating smaller competitors. I think the OP was saying that governments can almost be viewed as a type of bank.
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by api 12y ago
"There has been much talk about component architectures but only one true success: Unix pipes. It should be possible to build interactive and distributed applications from piece parts." Java has many success stories in this area,
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by api 12y ago
Good article. While I don't consider myself a Marxist in any dogmatic sense, I do think Marx was pretty good at diagnosing the problems of capitalism. I just don't think he was any good at fixing them. The real successor to capita
14570.
by api 12y ago
Great reply, but I think it supports the nobility thesis. Non-conspiracy mechanisms are more effective than conspiracies... a real conspiracy is hard, and most utterly fail. The essence of your post is "the only source of actual compet
14571.
by api 12y ago
I'd love to see a really scholarly non-sensationalistic analysis of who this new nobility actually is and what the real power structure really looks like. I've seen bits and pieces of that, but they always strike me as kind of
14572.
by api 12y ago
The response to the 2008 financial crash had a deep and profound effect on my image of my home country, the USA, in a way nothing else in my lifetime has. Until then I'd always harbored at least some sense that the USA was different
14573.
by api 12y ago
Hmm... good point there. Could also be a private entity -- governments aren't the only ones out there doing this kind of thing. There's a lot of money to be made on commodities markets, for example.
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by api 12y ago
I agree that US/UK are most likely but I see other possibilities too: Israel, or one of the other EU states. Israel might not have any qualms about targeting American targets -- at the very least they would have no legal restriction ag
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by api 12y ago
It's fascinating to me the power of the spirit of an age. Lord of the Rings was in all its explicit elements a novel pining for agrarian feudalism. Yet in spite of this it could not help but be progressive. Were it written in the clima
14576.
by api 12y ago
A good chunk of open source is reimplementated copies of closed source.
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by api 12y ago
Agreed, and then some. I don't think it's always bad to reinvent the wheel -- especially if the wheel as it exists today is wobbly, flat, or square.
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by api 12y ago
I'd like to see data on "no accelerator". This of course would be tougher to put together, since by definition there exists no coherent list of such companies in one place. Other related data breakdowns I'd love to see:
14579.
by api 12y ago
Big bro is watching you.
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Why there could be life on Venus(qz.com)
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