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by azernik 7y ago
Of course it's a net positive to consumers. It's a business being run at a loss, and propped up with constant capital inflow - i.e. a massive transfer of wealth from investors to consumers.
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by azernik 7y ago
Resistance to state actors is a pretty high bar.
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by azernik 7y ago
There are MANY things that changed in that period.
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by azernik 7y ago
The lack of patent laws was very clearly a positive for Germany; the argument for those is IMO much weaker than for copyright. Especially for developing, backward economies (early-19th-century US, late-19th-century Germany, and contempora
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by azernik 7y ago
Who would be contributing to this Kickstarter? People who already know her, and know that her books are good? That's not where the real money is, or the measurement of market value of an author's labor; the money is in the flow of
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by azernik 7y ago
We are seeing them, they're just in early phases; e.g. Italy has already announced its plans, and CA/OR/WA are talking about very specific goals before opening back up ( https://abc7news.com/when-is-california-
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by azernik 7y ago
"We're all in this together" is more of an aspirational phrase, meant to motivate the better-off to contribute. When it doesn't work, the people who aren't better off will of course be reminded every time they hea
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by azernik 7y ago
As I noted: > (And in fact, Apple and Google aren't following this protocol, they're coming out with their own joint system that they claim is DP3T-inspired.) Criticisms of DP3T should be separated from criticisms of the Apple&
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by azernik 7y ago
1. That's exactly what I was referencing? i.e. I interpreted your saying "with a lot of assumptions. Like that Alice can limit what she reports" as saying "a feature of the protocol, explicitly mentioned in the comic, is
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by azernik 7y ago
1. Alice limiting what she reports is a function of her phone software; this is trivially doable by just not broadcasting beacons, or after-the-fact by not reporting your beacons (or reporting false beacons) for certain times. 2. The number
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by azernik 7y ago
If you have a good CS background, I highly recommend the lecture notes for the security class I took in undergrad: https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs161/sp10/ That's from 10 years ago, so you might be able to
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by azernik 7y ago
No particular reason why a higher orbit is any better than a lower orbit. As long as you're a good 1000 kilometers away from the GEO belt at closest, and preferably a little inclined so that closest approach only happens ~2 times a day
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by azernik 7y ago
This fragility is a result of an intentional trend - lean supply chains. To cut capital tied up in inventory, manufacturing and retail businesses have worked very hard to remove warehouses full of inputs and finished products from their s
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by azernik 7y ago
For a somewhat cooler visualization, which also gives you a comparison to the GEO belt and other satellites but may be bad for browser performance, see http://stuffin.space/?intldes=1967-066E&search=1967-066e
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by azernik 7y ago
The article says GEO, but actual quotes in the article say "GEO graveyard orbit". What this means is that, at the end of the satellite's service life, it was boosted into a lower (in this case [1]) or higher (also common) o
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by azernik 7y ago
Don't know if the workload was all that hard compared to, say, the experience of my MIT friends, but the level of intellectual rigor and methodical thought was high.
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by azernik 7y ago
61A was easy in terms of math, but hard in terms of everything else. Every student I met who had never programmed before taking 61A found it intellectually quite challenging, both before and after the switch to Python; even without math,
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by azernik 7y ago
UC Berkeley (where I did my CS degree) follows this model after admission. There's CS61A, an introductory class for people with some math/computers background, and CS3, an introduction for people coming in with no background. Su
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by azernik 7y ago
Sure. I just happen to agree with the author's reading and disagree with yours. You're placing a very high weight on relatively mild side effects (a small amount of political dissent and violence), and a low weight on the main eff
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by azernik 7y ago
> I was using both as self-evidential statements. They are not. > I'm talking about a completely different premise / system of thinking about medicine that I learned from several Indian / Native American tribal attitude
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by azernik 7y ago
To me it seems the opposite - persuasion didn't get people to wear masks, and enforcement did .
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by azernik 7y ago
> if something heals you, is it not sacred? And likewise, if something is sacred, it heals you. Let me explain in two different ways why this is wrong. First, because we are after all a site full of programmers, let me put this in terms
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by azernik 7y ago
The ITU has done just fine, as far as I can tell.
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by azernik 7y ago
Still a very big departure from humans with masks.
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by azernik 7y ago
Farscape did pretty well with having relatable characters played by puppets.
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by azernik 7y ago
Not until CGI aliens with non-humanoid body plans become cheaper than masks on human actors.
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by azernik 7y ago
No, the logic doesn't make sense. When you're in a liquidity crunch, you should be cutting short term costs.
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by azernik 7y ago
Other way around - the idea is to create an LLVM frontend for 6502 machine code, and then transpile that code to run on a modern CPU architecture.
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Murum Aries Attigit: A Philosophy for Litigation (2012)(defamationlawblog.com)
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by azernik 7y ago
Let's look at the SpaceX launch manifest for the next year (not counting Starlink), to get a look at what their cash flow comes from: - 6 military (US, South Korea, Germany) - 6 commercial telecommunications - 4 ISS cargo and crew tran

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