bioh42_2

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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Exascale systems are 1,000 times more powerful than the Tianhe-1A, the Chinese supercomputer that was recently ranked as the world's fastest. Alright, who here watched Watson on Jeopardy and now thinks what ever 1,000 times more powerful
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Sometimes I wonder why big corporations can even exist competitively as there is such downward pressure on productivity as they grow. High barriers of entry. In 99% of cases the barrier is either capitol requirements, government regulatio
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
This sends chills down my spine. Allow me to rephrase that: Eventually the machine will better diagnose your symptoms. More accurately then a human doctor could.
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
First we need a viable airline industry any where in the world.
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Ugh, worst typo ever. I did not mean to compare ruby to self-mutilation.
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Why don't they go to their local Muay Thai/Boxing/etc. club and learn proper technique? It's serious, and requires a large investment of time, in other words its hard. This on the other hand is easy, lets be out of shape and bash each oth
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
How does this differ significantly from self-mutilation (cutting)? How does American football (or ruby) differ significantly form this?
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
I would guess that such groups are being manipulated by exceptionally smart people for specific ends, some significant fraction of the time. I think that's a tempting theory to have. Explains a lot and is easy to understand, but I think i
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Wow, I'm bachelor dude and I don't care for stuff like this and even I want to order from them. If this is how I feel, I can't even imagine what... this is going to be HUGE.
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
a local mine going dry might incentivize exploration, which might in turn lead to even faster economic growth. This might be true in a modern commercial banking driven economy. But in the old days, the mines running dry usually resulted i
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
wouldn't the scale of mining operations within a given community be proportionate to the scale of the overall economy? If we consider mining success as a function of investment AND natural deposits, then if the natural deposit goes to 0,
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Oh I bet they know. We (I'm from a hugely corrupt East European nation) also know. But corruption in semi-functioning democracy is a strange phenomenon. It's a cultural thing that goes very deep. But it's also like a chicken and egg problem
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
You are correct, mining did increase the money supply! I hugely oversimplified things. But central banks do tend to be a more steady supply of new currency then mines.
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
99.9% of cases, where servers have to support standard protocols and normal user. True. True for all small and big companies' IT. But if you are a security or even just a forensics firm, then you ought to be in the other 0.1%
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
As you read this, keep in mind that in Socrate's time the money supply was fixed. So any extra coin your pocked was one less coin for everyone else. With a fiat currency, we tend to "create" money of thin air. The money supply is intended
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
John Maynard Keynes did suggest welfare should be employing people to do things, even pointless things like building giant structures and them demolishing them again. It seems silly, but if we truly recognize that long term unemployment has
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Is getting rich a bad incentive? Is advancing the technology of a civilization a worthy goal? If yes, then getting rich only accidentally contributes to advancing knowledge and technology. It could accidentally (because the goal is to get
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
I'm hoping passive aggressiveness and lack of communication is not typical of high-tech or R&D. I have no trouble believing it is common and maybe even typical of BIG companies, even if you're not in the R&D department. I have worke
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
I find it hard to imagine sites like hn and reddit when the bulk of the tech savvy users are 40+.
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
It would be like mobile chat roulette with a lot less dicks... well depending on which part of town you roll to. It sounds great, but I'm not sure how pricing would affect subscriptions?
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Even at that, the opportinity to significantly lower launch costs should be embraced. But didn't you read the article? It explains clearly why even halving launch costs would not make much of a difference.
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Great article but the modern oil industry did not grow out of whale hunting. In fact it bankrupted whale hunters because it provided cheaper oil. Also we would only end up as "the Ottoman empire of the 21st century" if someone else creates
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Giles Bowket made almost the same point, but he was much funnier: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/05/never-hate-only-eve...
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Yes, at $15000 I am afraid the market for it will be quite small. I had to read that a few times to make sure there wasn't an extra zero.
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Well you are right about the sarcasm, but otherwise the only fallout I can see is it would take longer to ship things and cost a bit more because more fuel will be used. As I mentioned, the biggest ships today already can't use the Panama c
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Didn't Brandon Lee die because someone mistook a real gun and bullets for prop ones?
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Oh no, ships will have to go all the way around Africa! You know, like the biggest ships today, too big for the Panama canal, have to go around South America.
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Destabilizing Egypt could destabilize the entire area. This is quite the statement. To me personally shocking, but sadly not shocking in general. Allow me to rephrase: We must hold an entire nation hostage to a brutal and incompetent dict
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
I too fear we are outliers. But surely there must be a market for people like us who are also more likely to be high earners and tech opinion setters. And surely there must a way for a company to build trust and explain how/when/where adver
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
I think it is also fair to say the kinect is revolutionizing computer vision. And as someone addicted to Minecraft I have to think that kinect controls forcing you to make swinging full body motions to dig would provide quite a workout.

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