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by bcrl 4y ago
As the number of crypto exchanges that have imploded spectacularly keeps rising, I'm starting to think that crypto exchanges can't be run profitably. From Quadriga to FTX now, I have friends that were burned 5+ years ago, and yet
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by bcrl 4y ago
It started even further back almost 34 years ago. The first PowerPC Macs shipped with Motorola 68000 emulation in 1994, but development was being investigated back in 1988 or so. Apple has successfully made this kind of transition before,
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I find having to switch between different roles is also quite energizing. There's a variety to my days that just plain feels good compared to staring at code for 8 hours a day.
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by bcrl 4y ago
The other major challenge Intel has that contract manufacturers like TSMC don't is an addiction to inflated monopoly level margins on their chpis. The entire organization is bloated and unable to control costs meaningfully like TSMC b
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by bcrl 4y ago
It doesn't help that the US keeps throwing tariffs on top of Canadian softwood. Let's increase inflation by raising prices on a critical input to housing construction!
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by bcrl 4y ago
That's a pretty lame straw man argument as I'm pretty sure that virtually every human on the planet learns how to deal with broken glass at some point in their life. Dropping a full plastic gallon of milk on a childs toe will stil
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by bcrl 4y ago
Maybe if you ignore the weight of contents of the liquid in the bottle. The pacific garbage patch isn't filled with glass bottles. It is, however, filled with plastic of all shapes, sizes and forms. Micro particles of plastic are impa
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by bcrl 4y ago
Isn't shorting a market then taking actions which directly cause the market to crash illegal?
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Glass bottles were reused then recycled for many decades. Why exactly are we using plastic? Plastic is not "cheaper" if the total cost of all externalities resulting from its use are included. One of our local grocery store fin
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by bcrl 4y ago
That looks like a lot more fun than the Metaverse!
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by bcrl 4y ago
Except that Intel currently fabs ASICs for roughly 0% of the cell phone market. TSMC has a massive lead on that front. Intel selling off StrongARM 16 years ago was massively shortsighted.
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by bcrl 4y ago
I think Facebook's issue is more a complete lack of confidence by public investors in its CEO. When a CEO with absolute control takes the company in a direction that results in massive losses that the investors aren't in favor of
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by bcrl 4y ago
That's because in the gaming industry, the player experience is king. In Facebook land, the user is the product. Meta just treats their users like garbage, which is basically the complete opposite of the gaming industry. A friend bo
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by bcrl 4y ago
Privatize the profits, have the government cover the loses. Looks just like corporate welfare.
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Municipalities or other levels of government usually have some amount of distance they can encroach onto properties in conjunction with the right of way for the road. It's quite rare for a utility to put facilities serving anyone othe
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by bcrl 4y ago
That's not how this works. As a carrier, I would always try to exhaust use of municipal or other public rights of way before dealing with a building or property owner. Given that mmWave radios need clear line-of-sight to work properly
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by bcrl 4y ago
I actually have a couple of hard drives mounted in bubblewrap. Cuts the noise down quite a bit! =-) [Okay, not that bubblewrap].
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by bcrl 4y ago
I worked on the drivers and firmware for a few ISDN cards back in 1997-1999. One of my performance optimizations for the BRI cards cut ping times from ~30ms to ~16ms. The Motorola MC68302's puny 68000 CPU took a long time to memcpy
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by bcrl 4y ago
The bigger question is will Starlink be able to retain the customers that they have now as more FTTH is deployed deeper into rural communities. My own company's FTTH service is: faster (1Gbps), better (lower latency, no congestion iss
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by bcrl 4y ago
Not only do we have to understand how things go wrong externally, we have to recognize that our own internal understanding maybe be incorrect. It's pretty hard to trust others when we can't even trust ourselves.
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by bcrl 4y ago
I found the Impossible Whopper has one major flaw: it's just a bit too dry. Taste and everything else is pretty good. The Beyond at A&W is good, but it's definitely not a meat patty. Price for both is on the high side.
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by bcrl 4y ago
Btw - I genuinely believe that there are applications of blockchains that would improve governance in the real world. Most notably, blockchains as a public ledger tracking the actual ownership of publicly traded stocks and other financial
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by bcrl 4y ago
I read up on Henry Duncan prior to making my previous post, and it's mostly irrelevant. He created savings and loan entities that were still regulated by the government and had to abide by the rule of law. More importantly, they were
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by bcrl 4y ago
A friend of mine was bipolar and died of lithium toxicity. Bipolar is a challenging disease to treat, and the treatments don't work for everyone. We can't get better treatments and ways to figure out which treatment will work fo
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by bcrl 4y ago
What most people don't know is that the CRTC is practically a court. This means that if information is not put on the record, then it effectively doesn't exist. Time and time again, I have seen things happen that the CRTC probab
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by bcrl 4y ago
Bitcoin doesn't have a defined mechanism for honoring the rule of law when society determines that something bad has happened. That's a pretty fundamental and potentially fatal flaw for some (unless, perhaps, you're a libert
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by bcrl 4y ago
Saying the only reason Bitcoin is needed is to help facilitate illegal transactions is not exact a resounding endorsement that will enable its widespread adoption. Most people don't want to actively encourage / support the breaki
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by bcrl 4y ago
At least the community won the funding. Out where my company operates (eastern Ontario), the province just gifted C$483 million to the incumbent in a program (AHSIP - see link below) that was structured such a way that it was impossible fo
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by bcrl 4y ago
BGP is bad, but SS7 is worse in some regards given how SMS messages are abused for 3 factor authentication. At least over IP networks we can check SSL certificates.
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by bcrl 4y ago
I've been of the opinion that emails really needs to have a form of "Local Number Portability" (LNP) akin to phone numbers. Sadly, the traditional way of handling this is via forwarding, which isn't really how LNP works

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