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   by api 13y ago

   Tangent: I was using a Microsoft surface the other day and thinking "wow, this really doesn't suck once you get used to it." I'm starting to come off my initial hatred of Metro. What does this have to do with the OP? If
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   by api 13y ago

   There could be startups here, but they would have to have different revenue models like directly charging for apps instead of monetizing eyeballs.
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   by api 13y ago

   I suspect Silicon Valley -- the place -- has already lost. The cost of living there is so high -- a million dollars for a starter house -- that operating there is unthinkable without big money and big success. And guess who has the biggest
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   by api 13y ago

   There's a left handed sock puppet and a right handed sock puppet. There's one puppeteer: the military-industrial-intelligence-academic complex and its vast revolving door apparatus. It's ultimately about power, oligarchy, con
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   by api 13y ago

   Our irrationality in the face of minor but "scary" risks (vs. chronic ones) is brilliant for Schneier to point out -- it's really one of the pivots on which the whole surveillance issue rests. Throwing away our freedom to pre
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   by api 13y ago

   So SSDs are bad for server loads... what secret sauce does Digital Ocean have that Linode doesn't? Did they write their own storage layer that's doing something cool?
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   by api 13y ago

   The PC revolution is also on the skids in a more general sense -- feudal models of security, centralization of networks, etc. There are many reasons for this, but one that sticks out to me as relating directly to this particular article is
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   by api 13y ago

   That's astounding, but not surprising. The wealthy 'burbs of Boston are even more stifled than the city or Cambridge. Boston should have been Silicon Valley. It had all the pieces, everything aligned, best of the best. But it&#x27
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   by api 13y ago

   "With sufficient energy, you can extract virtually anything from seawater (even stuff like uranium). But that "with sufficient energy" prerequisite is pretty much specifically the challenge we're looking at." Not so
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    by api 13y ago

    It's also computationally nontrivial to encrypt tens of gigabits in real-time. Quite do-able, but nontrivial enough to make it the sort of nice-to-have you'd back-burner if you were confident that you controlled the line.
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    by api 13y ago

    Tangent: I lived in Boston for a while. I'm glad to read stuff like this as it reminds me that it wasn't me. PSA: Boston is not liberal, except a little bit in the abstract NPR "latte sipping" academic sense. Culturall
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    by api 13y ago

    Panels are not irreversibly diluted or consumed. They just "fall apart" at the molecular level and have to be recycled.
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    by api 13y ago

    I'm suspicious that this is constructed, and is precisely the idea. American TV is one long stream of things to be afraid of-- other than the things you should be afraid of. It's distraction.
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    by api 13y ago

    Depending on the drug, are you sure you'd even want them completely gotten rid of? Ban psychedelics and you'd have a lot less good music and art.
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    by api 13y ago

    We can hope.
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    by api 13y ago

    "Once they do that, you no longer control that part of your business. You can't shut it down. You can't terminate part of your service. In a very real sense, it is not your business anymore." Totalitarianism.
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    by api 13y ago

    I had an awful experience years ago that reminds me of some of these stories. I'd have to tone it down to make it believable. Short short version: a guy with no money pretended to be a deep-pocketed investor, talked me into leaving my
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    by api 13y ago

    You're not paying for shades. You're paying for design .
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    by api 13y ago

    "He wanted Yahoo to be “like a cable TV provider.”" So she's firing aggressive, narcissistic, horribly overpaid morons. Clap, clap, clap...
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    by api 13y ago

    Yep.
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    Ask HN: Where to go for max profit? High coder salary, low cost of living

    39 points by api 13y ago|72 comments
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    by api 13y ago

    Ranking and selection systems -- fitness functions -- are very very hard to get right. I did a lot of work with genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation / alife systems a while back, and thus did a lot of work with writing fit
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    by api 13y ago

    Hasn't Google implemented stack ranking?
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    by api 13y ago

    It's 1950. You want to go to the moon. Find ten competent aerospace experts and line them up. Ask them what the moon is made of. Nine of them answer ditheringly: "I'm not sure," or "we don't really know yet,&qu
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    German government warns critical entities not to use Windows 8 [translated](translate.google.com)

    2 points by api 13y ago|0 comments
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    by api 13y ago

    I think it proves Heisenberg was right. Reality is determined by the political slant of the observer. :)
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    by api 13y ago

    Nearly every Fukushima mega-scare story I've encountered seems to go back to Arnie Gunderson, who is a professional anti-nuclear consultant. At the same time, I see a near information blackout from other authorities. There just doesn&#
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    by api 13y ago

    Both of these things are tests of our ability to be conscientious, honest, and to take the power we have seriously and act accordingly. They're tests of maturity and responsibility -- at a civilization level. So far on the nuclear fron
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    by api 13y ago

    ... that they will key escrow. Doesn't mean you couldn't implement your own secondary key though. Sign it with your ID and use that key for key exchange and you've defeated the escrow.
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    by api 13y ago

    As an outsider (American) it's long appeared to me that the British government thought 1984 was a utopian blueprint rather than a dystopian novel. :(