breischl

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by breischl 13y ago
The newest Azure data center in Iowa(?) was going to be open air. Basically a pile of these containers in a field, with a big fence over it and a roof similar to a big car-port (no walls). They figured it was going to be better for cooling.
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by breischl 13y ago
I believe this was literally Chapter 1 (ok, maybe chapter 2 or 3) of "Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears" [1]. Life imitates art, I guess? Or maybe that author is more prescient than I gave him credit for. [1
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by breischl 13y ago
It's no secret that if you defy the authorities they escalate the amount of coercion they use. You just need to follow the progression far enough to get to the violence. They start with a polite court summons, then send a police office
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by breischl 13y ago
But they're not really competing on the absolute scale of how fast they can execute a trade, but rather on how much faster than everyone else they can execute. If everyone else is slowed by an equal amount, the game doesn't chan
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by breischl 13y ago
Certainly SSN could be improved by making them harder to guess and adding check digits. Other than that, I don't see how any other number scheme is any better. Ultimately there is some number that is associated with you, and is therefo
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by breischl 13y ago
>> and who are you to say that all of these things are "better" than watching a season of dr.who on your comfy couch? why is outside by default better than inside? That's a fair point. I don't intend to be prescrip
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by breischl 13y ago
So your observation was "Unknown or expired link" ?? :)
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by breischl 13y ago
OK, but you don't need things in order to relax. In fact, many of the best ways to relax don't need things (or at least, very many things). I think that's the point. Rather than owning an obscenely large flatscreen (and stand
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by breischl 13y ago
Wait, weren't you complaining about all the "wizard clickety clicky" things in another thread? If you hate wizards, and you hate "obscure incantations", which I'm assuming means code, then what do you like? Do
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by breischl 13y ago
I'm reading this while I wait for a 10MB upload to crawl to completion on my 768Kbps up connection that costs $40/month. Which is especially sad because I live less than two miles from the dead center of Denver. So yeah, I'm
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by breischl 13y ago
In addition... <blockquote>To get the cash, applicants had to form a group with others in their village and submit a proposal showing how they planned to use the money</blockquote> It's not clear how selective they wer
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by breischl 13y ago
"Clearly the society should not subsidize their medical treatment..." That's one big problem - we do subsidize it. Many states even require drug addiction treatment to be rolled into health insurance. Everyone has to pay for
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by breischl 13y ago
Completely agree there. Consider using TestDriven.NET, it provides great integration with NUnit. I think it's really the integration that MSTest should've had. The only downside is that it doesn't seem to work with async test
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by breischl 13y ago
It's specifically called out in the wiki page linked to earlier, under the "United States" section.
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by breischl 13y ago
But wouldn't the resulting iron shortage just cause bigger problems? I mean, gold is great, but steel is really useful. Not to mention all that oxygen we'd be locking up, too. People might start suffocating! </sarc>
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by breischl 13y ago
They're not, but Obama was referring to a prior program that was basically equivalent. So by the definition that Obama himself was using at the time, these are wiretaps. Also, check out the news on PRISM, which comes much closer to the
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by breischl 13y ago
I can sympathize with Geithner about his errors, but his situation seems much more obvious than the notion that you'd have to pay US taxes even if you're living and working outside the US. I bet most people would not even think that it was
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by breischl 13y ago
No, we're only supposed to believe they "didn't know" if they're the Secretary of the Treasury, or a Congressman, or something like that.
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by breischl 14y ago
Greater income only last until you stop working, which may not be very long if you're seriously planning on retiring early. But you can maintain a lower cost-of-living until you stop living, which will hopefully be a much longer time. :)
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by breischl 14y ago
Most dehumidifiers are basically an air conditioner. They cool down a coil and draw air over it to cause the water to condense out. This sounds like some sort of nanotech approach that causes the water to condense without needing a temperat
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Android's Overblown Fragmentation Problem, Part 2(nick.typepad.com)
4 points by breischl 14y ago|0 comments
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Old Farts Know How to Code(nick.typepad.com)
114 points by breischl 14y ago|71 comments
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Android's Overblown Fragmentation Problem(nick.typepad.com)
84 points by breischl 14y ago|79 comments
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Nick Bradbury: Android Apps Shouldn't Be Crappy Clones of iPhone Apps(nick.typepad.com)
19 points by breischl 14y ago|5 comments