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by aquadrop 10y ago
We're still coming up with everyday tasks/usage that require more and more power, storage and internet bandwidth. First everything was text. Then we started using photo/audio, then we started using low res video, then video r
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by aquadrop 10y ago
I think it's speeding up. 1975 Cray-1 had approximately same 160 MFlops as first iphone had. And it was 32 years between them. So, probably we'll have 130 petaflops around 2033-2035? :)
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by aquadrop 10y ago
> Short term (especially weekend) tenants don't care about the neighbours or the building. So probably the smaller period the higher rating/experience of the tenant. And of course fines for landlords. > I'd like to see
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by aquadrop 10y ago
Maybe it's unpopular opinion here, but why short term rentals are bad? I personally love short term rentals, hotels suck compare to them. I hopped over asia and europe with 4-10 days at one place at a time, using AirBnB and it was grea
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by aquadrop 10y ago
> But yeah, I've noticed the same thing: the more we incentivize people to go to college by way of grants and loans, the more expensive it gets But it gets more expensive for those who don't have grants. Maybe that's the p
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by aquadrop 10y ago
> Thats really selfish And it's not selfish of her to demand spending tons of money 'just because'? Of course each case is individual, but the whole situation can be a signal for a bunch of bad things (bad with money; can
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by aquadrop 10y ago
> Cubic is cheap and tacky Why the fact it's cheap makes it tacky? There's plenty of good CZ jewelry and 99% of people won't know the difference with diamonds or moissanite if you don't tell them. Moassanite is good,
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by aquadrop 10y ago
And I'm happy to pay for their 'yearly license'. Great companies should have great revenues. I don't want them to end up like FoundationDB or RethinkDB. The fact that they get steady revenue ensures me that they won&#x27
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by aquadrop 10y ago
> smart but artless So, it's just not for you. You fail to see art in it, That happens, it's ok. Maybe you need to think about gradually moving to the movie business, they need programming too, you know.
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by aquadrop 10y ago
Seems to me you didn't actually left programming :)
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by aquadrop 10y ago
They are selling cars at loss because of large capital investments in the future. If you look at R&D department of BMW, it won't be profitable, but it has rest of the established business of BMW to support it. Tesla now is a large
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by aquadrop 10y ago
When Tesla' sales will show visible dent in their sales it might be already too late to start acting on it, so they probably will want do it preventive.
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by aquadrop 10y ago
I just don't understand what they gain by pissing off power users. Set whatever defaults you want, but let me control when I want it.
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by aquadrop 10y ago
> A lot less people die climbing Everest than commuting to work. If you're talking about absolute numbers, I don't even know why you want to mention this. Otherwise, it's just plainly not true. > Seriously though, why d
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by aquadrop 10y ago
Seriously, climbing Everest is just glorified russian roulette, mortality rate is more that 5%. I wish people would stop doing it.
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by aquadrop 10y ago
> It will always be the case that circumstances can change faster than something with the momentum of a fast moving car could adapt. Somewhere between "you're boned" and "your car saves the day" lies room for a s
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by aquadrop 10y ago
Those computers probably won't get into situation like this in the first place, being able to stop or react preventive. Anyway, it will be so rare an occasion with no guaranteed outcome (it's all about probabilities), so it's
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by aquadrop 10y ago
But I fail to see why due process wasn't followed... Judge should have sanctioned raid in that case anyway, right (or how does it work)? And there's always some arbitrary line where someone decides 'that's enough for a r
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by aquadrop 10y ago
I see, though there could be third party, which could be hurt by not using this evidence (e.g. 'their rights were infringed' in some sense). Imagine how would feel family of a victim of a rapist/murdered who was freed on a te
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by aquadrop 10y ago
Lets go one step further. Some man was convicted for serious crime and sent to jail, shortly after that in parallel case investigation comes up with very strong evidence (like videotape) that actually this person they are trying to convict
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by aquadrop 10y ago
What will his punishment be if the court will decide it's his painting? In that case price of the picture will be high again and no damage was done, so nothing to punish for :) P.S. Funny thing, nobody actually cares about the painting
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by aquadrop 10y ago
Hitting people in the face is illegal; hitting people in the face in self-defense is legal. So... It would be interesting court case :)
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by aquadrop 10y ago
Thanks for the link, powerful footage.
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by aquadrop 10y ago
That slo-mo video is so good it can win on some short art-house films festival.
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by aquadrop 10y ago
Node.JS is actually pretty well adjusted for Windows. They made it cross-platform from the beginning and you have zero problems unless need some linux-compiled native dependencies. VS2015 is using node successfully for built-in grunt/g
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by aquadrop 10y ago
What I'm more afraid of, is that if you say that to regular people, they'll answer "So, what?" and keep not thinking of any their online actions.
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by aquadrop 10y ago
I can't believe they do it either. It's a button. Its main purpose is to be pressed. They literally say it will cost you 2 cents per button push.
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by aquadrop 10y ago
I sometimes do short virtual walks around the globe on google street view (to clear mind) and your town is probably the best small town I saw (not in rich areas at least), Chicago area is probably the place I'd want to live in, if I wa
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by aquadrop 10y ago
You can't crash airliner because you can't get into cabin anymore. So most terrorists can do is kill everyone on board, which is the same as to blow a bomb elsewhere (you underestimated potential harm of bomb in security line), an
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by aquadrop 10y ago
It's absolutely unrelated matters. There always was a possibility for one pilot to barricade in the cabin. And in any case, he could just bash his co-pilot with something and do whatever he wants. If you got pilot who wants to crash th

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