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by ballenf 3y ago
I always interpreted "battery" to be lazy shorthand for using the humans as data storage or computation. Like an external hard drive or compute cluster. But I knew I was amending the story so I could stay invested in it.
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by ballenf 3y ago
Just one note on my experience finding an apartment as an Ausländer there, I overpaid and had few options until I greatly grew my local network. So many apartments changed hands between friends/friends-of-friends -- person moving out i
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by ballenf 3y ago
> If you think the speed limits should be higher so you can drive faster, fine, but that's completely orthogonal to the point here. But putting in place a system which distorts incentives around setting speed limits, seems like a ba
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by ballenf 3y ago
Unless there remains some antisceptic by-product, the flora can quickly take back over if mixed with "healthy" soil. I would be more concerned about effectively turning the soil into clay, that is reducing the particle size too sm
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by ballenf 3y ago
The average American kid in the 90s never had a chance to go either, but knowing that Disneyland is a real place changes your perspective or relationship with the content. It feels more real and more permanent. Knowing that millions of peop
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by ballenf 3y ago
I'm not even sure it would do that. Many "wealthy" people show virtually no income. This will create one more incentive to hide income for those who can afford to do so. And one more tax on those who don't play games wit
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by ballenf 3y ago
> But we have a pretty clear idea of what we want. The bellwether for me personally is waiting for a system that can generate something conceptually novel. Something like the move from the real to the complex number systems. Or the move
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by ballenf 3y ago
How long until Waze-like "ads-when-stopped" show on your heads up display? Or "I see you're navigating to McDonalds, would you rather go to Burger King and get half off your Whopper meal?"
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by ballenf 3y ago
Retractable badge holder with AirTag. If only the "left behind" alert could be a bit smarter and alert me if I leave it behind when heading to office, but not when I'm heading elsewhere.
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by ballenf 3y ago
The sugary foods advice is true if you're talking about refined sugars, but I recall a study showing that raisins, e.g., are much better than refined flour in terms of damage to teeth. Despite having much higher sugar content. Here&#x2
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by ballenf 3y ago
Next week's news: Nvidia prohibiting collateral loan agreements as part of their partner agreements. The last thing they want is a glut of these hitting the market due to bankruptcies. But their sales team or other execs who have incen
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by ballenf 3y ago
Fissionable resources are plentiful and we've barely started to extract them.
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by ballenf 3y ago
Targeted by the FCC seems worse than violating a Tesla clickwrap agreement.
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by ballenf 3y ago
Are you saying dash cams are illegal broadly there?
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Your LCD is useless without this (anisotropic conductive film) [video](youtube.com)
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by ballenf 3y ago
There are two major gaps in this analysis: - Extra tall buildings generate significant extra tax revenue to the city that could easily be used for acquisition and maintenance of public spaces. - Zoning laws that limit square footage result
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by ballenf 3y ago
Password managers could take over and manage cookie storage/retrieval. Or browsers could treat cookies more like passwords and have a user-controllable flow on each new session: "Here's this site's cookies from your last
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by ballenf 3y ago
But then there are apps like Discord which log you out of the app if you don't use it for X days.
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by ballenf 3y ago
And for excitement, you might catch a shark with your lure.
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by ballenf 3y ago
> how attestation is handled (and can be trivially abused to kill companies) What's this issue?
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by ballenf 3y ago
In the case of a death or bankruptcy, yes it does work. There is a hard cutoff date and if they miss it the debt is uncollectible. It does not work for the living.
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by ballenf 3y ago
That sounds better than every recent sequel coming out of Hollywood, imho. Would watch.
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by ballenf 3y ago
Why would it be so localized to one country? Does Germany have a unique enemy compared to other NATO countries?
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by ballenf 3y ago
Would a steganographic hiding of payloads be possible and usably efficient inside permissible content/protocols? Has it been tried?
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by ballenf 3y ago
The bigger threat, imo, is a device that is still authenticated or trusted by some service I've forgotten about. A bank, email provider, Apple, etc. Yes, it's "easy" to fix any single one of these but hard to remember th
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by ballenf 3y ago
They could rotate the code every few seconds.
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by ballenf 3y ago
gmail app on iOS refuses to load a link from an email in Safari. It will monthly ask you to confirm if you want to load it in Chrome. If you stick with safari it will load the site in an internal safari webview, requiring a second tap on th
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by ballenf 3y ago
Vanilla ice cream. Can't hide behind overpowering flavor distractions.
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by ballenf 3y ago
Red Hat stopped distributing the source code to Enterprise Linux except to paying users. Those users have a new restriction that the source code they receive may not be shared. The author points out that this is not necessarily the clear GP
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by ballenf 3y ago
Something's wrong when a business's excuse for failure is that each of their customers acted rationally.

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