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by azernik 3y ago
Those are some mighty speculative shares of GDP
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by azernik 3y ago
Full writeup at https://www.businessinsider.com/kenneth-ballenegger-vc-fired...
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by azernik 3y ago
They may be a factor in where the services are built ; they are not a factor in consumer choice. It's not like there was a European Facebook competitor that users shyed away from because of European speech restrictions.
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by azernik 3y ago
They don't have that preference because of American free speech principles; they have that preference because software is generally better in the States and there aren't European competitors. You can make all kinds of arguments ab
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by azernik 3y ago
Americans did not invent the concept of free speech, but they take it to an extreme that is extremely far out of the mainstream in Europe and always has been.
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by azernik 3y ago
Mentioning Section 230 is to back up the "To be honest it's a pretty uniquely American view..." part of the GP comment.
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by azernik 3y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37685644
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by azernik 3y ago
1. If you want the solution of IPv4 packets being a subset of the address space of IPv6, your options are rather limited in regards to tampering with the original packet. IPv4 hosts can't deal with the larger addresses of any IPv6 host
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by azernik 3y ago
Pedantic note: For Netflix the cost is actually especially low. Cost as a percent of bandwidth is (a few bytes / packet size), and when you're streaming enormous media files packets are almost always max size.
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by azernik 3y ago
Any hardware router introduced in the last two decades has IPv6 support; in my somewhat outdated experience the barrier to implementation is implementing dual-stack logic in software built for single stack.
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by azernik 3y ago
This concern about an extra few bytes is substantial in approximately zero organizations' IPv6 adoption decisions.
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by azernik 3y ago
This is exactly how NAT64 works, and still doesn't solve the problem of IPv4 clients trying to connect to servers with only IPv6 addresses. The backwards incompatibility is irreducible, inherent to the special place of Layer 3 in the n
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by azernik 3y ago
Economies of scale only apply if you have scale, ie lots of (paying) users. If you're making this fancy thing for only the Israeli security services you won't be able to pay your developers.
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by azernik 3y ago
Yeah, I think the appropriate comparison is if a weapons manufacturer made "selling to dictatorships for suppressing dissidents" the core of its business strategy.
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by azernik 3y ago
Because it's an arms supplier to states, who use them on domestic targets. Selling tear gas rounds to tinpot dictatorships generally doesn't get you treated as a terrorist group either, just economic sanctions (which were already
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by azernik 3y ago
They don't really leverage it for diplomacy. Israeli arms exports policy consistently prioritizes getting better R&D economies of scale over actually affecting foreign states' behavior.
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by azernik 3y ago
Even more likely is that, as we're already seeing in rich countries, demand does not continue to grow exponentially and economic growth mostly happens in non-energy-intensive sectors.
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by azernik 3y ago
Yes. The article itself is about lobbying against a law the President is proposing (and pushing through commissioned studies, hired experts, &c) See eg this polemic from House Republicans blaming him for it: https://waysandme
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by azernik 3y ago
Yes. It is literally illegal for him to make that simple system without Congressional approval.
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by azernik 3y ago
Compared to Lyft or Uber, that's a fine price. Those are its real competition.
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by azernik 3y ago
The evidence from dual language speakers (primed language changing the task performance) suggests it is in fact about the language spoken - these are actual controlled experiments. Small effect sizes and not super interesting effects IMO un
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by azernik 3y ago
Generally research of this type finds that dual language speakers' remembered details depend on which language they've been primed with (ie made to use or listen to just before the activity). It's also much more subtle than t
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by azernik 3y ago
> If his models could predict useful room temperature superconductors, it seems we would have found one already. A model that can check a given solution is not one that can quickly check the entire solution space. For a pure-CS analogy,
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by azernik 3y ago
Could indicate some superconducting regions in the whole sample, or some weird anisotropic superconduction at higher temps... That sharp drop, if not equipment error, could be a lot of things.
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by azernik 3y ago
But on the warm side for a superconductor, and displaying some weird behavior just below water ice temperatures.
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by azernik 3y ago
A limitation...at ambient temperature and pressure. Usually this is an optimization frontier, where something that has tetchy critical current/field at high temperature is going to have very good critical current/field at the same
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by azernik 3y ago
Despite some criticism of the original work, they seem to have been very conscientious about making replication easy. =========== Nadya Mason, a condensed matter physicist at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign says, “I appreciate
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by azernik 3y ago
That's a separate category of admissions advantage - "dean's list" or "donor" is usually what it's called. "Legacy" is just children of alumni regardless of whether they've donated, and &quo
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by azernik 3y ago
And that is the heart of a decently profitable economy around the Dead Sea, on both the Jordanian and Israeli sides.
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by azernik 3y ago
Literally "so much for Marxism": they removed any mention of Marxism, Leninism, or communism from their (mostly-rhetorical) constitution way back in 1992.

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