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by asfasgasg 8y ago
If I understand correctly, neither heat dissipation nor existing manufacturing techniques are amenable to this approach. Also modern CPUs do have more than a dozen layers IIRC.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
I don't really understand the argument here. Google once provided more OSS with Android, so they are obligated to do so forever? That's not really how OSS works. If you decide you don't want to give away quite as much of your
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
Uh, how does that follow? In what other domain do you get a pass for doing a little unnecessary harm because you could have done much more?
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
Integrity and privacy for all streams.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
Well, there's that too, but people complaining about Google's decision r.e. Reader don't like being reminded that there are dozens of alternatives.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
The saving grace, such as it is, is that these firearms are single-shot, and the rounds themselves are still metal and explosive-residue-detectable. While 3D printing has changed manufacturing methods, it's not like the method of depos
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
All major cloud platforms have occasional unplanned downtime. AWS had an outage last year that took many sites offline for hours. A single instance of Google having such unplanned downtime is meaningless without more datapoints. As for whet
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
Google+ only existed in the first place because of the thing that was killing the medium and its one hundred and forty character-limited cousin.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
You've got the causality reversed here. The medium was dying, so the Reader product was killed.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
I'm of two minds about this. Like most everyone, of course, I have this fear. I ponder the ways it is not adaptive. I find it lessens over time as I consider this.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
BA tops the list at 1B revenue NYC to Heathrow. Virgin runs 80% as many flights on this same route, so they should be making in the ballpark of 800M revenue on that route. This is more than a number of other entrants on the list. So I can o
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
How much did this affect performance?
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
They can't make it, but there is some historical evidence that they (or, more broadly, the USG) can ruin it.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
I've been confused by this in the past too, so let me clarify for you. Confidence intervals are for predictions of a given value. They are not for probabilities. It doesn't make sense to say, "I think she has a 70% chance of
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
Given that Clinton won the popular vote, and by a substantial margin, it is probable that more people were disappointed.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
If I remember correctly, there is some legal principle in the United States that no law can require anyone to do something that is impossible for them to do.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
I'm afraid to ask, but . . . which civilizations do you think have fallen primarily because of government regulation of private enterprise?
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
No, it does not. Generally speaking, Google "converges" a layer up (BigTable, Spanner, Colossus). There is no layer like LevelDB that is common to all of these.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
Oh weird. My guess is they miss their estimates again. They have been missing for months running, so it seems most likely that they will miss again. Doesn't mean they won't catch their aspirations eventually, just it doesn't
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
Well . . . some kids find other reasons to do the work. Competitiveness, simple affinity, or the reasonable observation that there's no reason to not do well in school.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
> Best of all, google won’t know I watched it at all Why do you think that? It would be very easy for Google to observe who is viewing PeerTube videos and to link that back to those people's YouTube profiles. You may trust them not
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
Even if the assets were acquired, I wonder why you can't sue the remaining shell and get a cut of the money that was exchanged for the assets. I guess the real issue is that smyte's contract probably said something like (from GCP&
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
That is a very privileged point of view. You want to think the grass is at least more interesting on the other side, but I've done a stint in fast food. It is hard, smelly, nasty, poorly compensated labor. It is not at all like home co
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
I am not commenting on the well-being of people working in fast food. Just on the availability of work. Whether such individuals can afford housing is totally beside the point of my comment.
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
Anyone with a pulse can have a job flipping burgers TODAY if they want it. Same with various other categories of work (farm labor, etc.). The folks living in tent cities who are not flipping burgers are choosing not to do that work. A rea
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
Unemployment is really low right now, and burger flipping is just about the least desirable type of work available. This has been said countless times, but it's worth noting that although there are very few blacksmiths or peat cutters
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
I don't buy that "the great wave of popular resentment" is driven by the type and quality of housing options provided to techies. I can buy that life proves too itinerant for people at the bottom, but as far as I could see, t
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
The people affected by these types of housing situations (except those in China) are generally wealthy, even by first world standards. Referring them as indentured slaves (not a thing, by the way -- there are indentured servants, and slaves
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
"Stop liking what I don't like," in twenty inches? Listen, some people want a short commute. There's nothing bad about Google building housing near its campus. It's good for the environment, good for health, good
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by asfasgasg 8y ago
x86_64, and some extensions, yes. However, as you may be aware, most interpreted code is hosted by a VM that runs compiled code. :) FB's HHVM is such a one.

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