bmcusick

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by bmcusick 9y ago
Organize for growth. Windows will continue to be a big fountain of money for decades to come, I'm sure, but the desktop market isn't growing. Mobile and Cloud are growing, the MSFT lost the war for Mobile. It has to go all in on C
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Bricklayers are probably safe from a robot that can perfectly replicate human bricklaying skill. What they're not safe from is whatever machine-built module that can be easily assembled by unskilled labor on site replaces brick walls.
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Buddy, may I introduce you to the concept of comparative advantage? :-)
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Globally, the main thing is that married families have transitioned from small farm cooperatives (where the husband works the fields and the wife in the house) to market-based work for both of them. The problem with market based work is tha
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by bmcusick 9y ago
That website gave me a good chuckle. Was that your actual website from back when, or did you just "take inspiration" from the old days?
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by bmcusick 9y ago
IPFS is its own standard, so your homepage might look like ipfs://blog.iagovar.co But since most browsers don't support IPFS natively yet there are IPFS gateways that allow you to access IPFS sites through them.
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Not necessarily. IPFS is sort of like Bittorrent on steroids. You can think of yourself as the first seeder of your website, but as long as there are other network participants that have a full copy of your site, your home PC doesn't n
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Fantastic. The web falling into the AmaGooBookSoft silos has been convenient, but it hasn't been good for censorship or personal sovereignty. Making it push-button easy to publish to IPFS a great way to return editorial control and own
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Right, it’s in the public interest to keep open vulnerabilities that China and Russia can exploit.
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by bmcusick 9y ago
America needs to figure out what it wants from diversity efforts. Does it want-- 1. To just achieve color-blindness. 2. To achieve color-blindness AND help counter-act the cumulative effects of past discrimination. It is wants to achieve 2,
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Venus all by itself is minimal. These planets would be closer and there'd be a lot more of them. If they're supposed to be Earth-like they'd also have clouds, making them reflect more like than airless worlds like the Moon do
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by bmcusick 9y ago
I love how turning the entirety of the asteroid belt, and maybe Mercury, into livable space stations "is a much more modest scope". :-D Not that I disagree! We also have the Hilda, Trojan, and Greek asteroids (in Jupiter's La
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by bmcusick 9y ago
It's real question how dark these planets would ever get. With 416 planets reflecting light, the closest ones would be pretty bright all the time. Maybe even visible discs from the surface, although I'm not sure. Brighter than Ven
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Although obviously ridiculous in many ways, the ability to design large stable systems is relevant for when thinking about the question "How many O'Neil cylinders can we build in the habitable zone?". If we mine the asteroids
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by bmcusick 9y ago
I am completely, 100% cool with banning people based on "off platform" activity. I know that making Nazi comparisons is cliché, but would you allow a Nazi on your platform even if he only did Nazi stuff off your platform? I wouldn
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by bmcusick 9y ago
I'm completely cool with this, because -All platforms have the right to exercise editorial discretion, and -Those people are awful, and -This will only drive the adoption of censorship resistance platforms, which I'm generally i
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by bmcusick 9y ago
These Amazon contest ads are getting out of hand. The story is unreadable on mobile.
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Bitcoin is a great export product for Iceland. Their biggest disadvantage is being so remote from the rest of the world, so the ability to produce something locally that has zero shipping costs isn't one to be missed. It's effecti
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by bmcusick 9y ago
And with so little wear and tear! Sure, the ionizing radiation will eventually do a number on the paint job, but compared to any other car that's travelled 180 million miles, it looks FANTASTIC!
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by bmcusick 9y ago
This NASA filing undercuts Elon's claim that the Roadster is headed for the Asteroid belt. 1.7 AU is past Mars (1.5 AU) but well short of Ceres (2.77 AU). I think it's fair to call him out for unreasonable exaggeration on that one
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Uber, but for Ceres
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Came here just to make the XKCD reference. Good stuff.
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by bmcusick 9y ago
So what’s a whole human genome sequence cost? That’s the usual metric machines are listed by.
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Oh MAN this is exciting! And I realize it's the first Falcon launch in some time where no one is confident it won't blow up. The Falcon 9's record of flights and landings in 2017 were so consistent it almost started to feel &
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Seven miles is WAY outside the range of any sniper rifle.
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Once Blue Origin and SpaceX have rapid-turnaround, their rockets will be able to fly, land, refuel, and fly again within a day or two. It's not just a cost thing. Rapid reusability also increases the launch cadence.
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by bmcusick 9y ago
What they’ve accomplished is amazing engineering. I’m sort of scratching my head at the economics though. Their cost to orbit is about $15,000/kg. That’s more expensive than the Space Shuttle was. And the CEO has said they’re not worki
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by bmcusick 9y ago
Link is dead
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by bmcusick 9y ago
The cameras are a positive step anyway. The political debate cannot help but be effected every time a cop is caught on video doing something shady, but nothing happens. Over time this repeated evidence will cause social change, even if it d
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by bmcusick 9y ago
I have no idea whether there are services for this. I'll just offer this, based on my experience- 1) Electrolyzing is overkill. Steel wool and elbow grease is fine. If you really want to go to town, get a steel whisker brush for your h

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