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by buran77 6y ago
The real reason superpowers clash is that they all want to be the dominant but there's only room for one at the top. The political or economic systems are absolutely irrelevant here. All that matters is what needs to be done to stay th
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by buran77 6y ago
Notably, the benefit may be "less" than expected but for all intents and purposes any building or vehicle painted black will be consistently warmer than the equivalent in white. Unless your item is built for purpose it's high
903.
by buran77 6y ago
Lasers! :) I'm talking about dielectric mirrors. Wikipedia suggests 99.999% or better reflectivity over a narrow range of wavelengths.
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by buran77 6y ago
Some mirrors can reflect a lot more light even if in narrower wavelength ranges. But that only makes the matters worse from a practical human perspective, when trying to use them on large surfaces outside. It would feel like staring into th
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by buran77 6y ago
I would expect it's twofold. This paint acts like a "diffuse mirror" so doesn't create any bright spots like specular reflection. This is great particularly in cities where every building would become a giant mirror. On
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by buran77 6y ago
It goes beyond newsworthy accounts and into what's in the best interest of the company. When I posted this [0] a couple of months ago if sounded far fetched for many. Facebook (and Twitter) will selectively apply any measure depending
907.
by buran77 6y ago
> For the next 250 years, despite the best efforts of the English to free themselves from this commercial yoke, the secret of that prodigious dye remained unknown to all but a select fortunate few of Spanish producers. But no production
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by buran77 6y ago
There's no perfect analogy between the real world and the digital one. This being said you're misconstruing the situation to make the "but terrorists" and "think of the children" argument. I've lived long
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Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile kill their cross-carrier RCS messaging plans(arstechnica.com)
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by buran77 6y ago
Not quite the same. If someone installs a hidden microphone in my house, or a multi keyed lock (where they have a working copy) I really expect the Police to ask me before they come in my house to remove the offending equipment or change
911.
by buran77 6y ago
Blocking the IP means having something in the traffic flow. This would likely be a firewall if your aim is to block any "weird" connection from your network. But both firewalls and proxies are substantially more challenging than y
912.
by buran77 6y ago
One big problem I see is that Google already has a lot of data. Just having that much aggregated data makes any company a bad choice.
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by buran77 6y ago
Hence why I said that the more data an app is trying to get access to, the more random variability should be introduced. Some apps might legitimately need access to some data points with "minimal" random noise. But if they start a
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by buran77 6y ago
Maybe it's just me but there's something deeply disturbing about the idea of Google also hoarding medical data...
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by buran77 6y ago
All apps rely on information provided to them by the OS. The OS can simply introduce (pseudo)random variability in that data, especially for apps that collect a lot of it so the probability for aggregating and correlating is a lot higher. T
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by buran77 6y ago
> I think reasons will vary A good one seems to be that they are afraid unionizing will push Amazon to close the delivery center. This has happened before when other companies (see Walmart [0]) just closed the location once the workers v
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by buran77 6y ago
The question is how effective that justice system was, not whether it existed or not. It's the same with medicine, it existed for quite some time but the effectiveness increased drastically and you wouldn't want to roll back all t
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by buran77 6y ago
On top of that, withdrawing from the country after breaking the law and being fined is like fleeing the country after being convicted of a crime. It's not a legal cover. The first move is usually to legally object to the fine if it&#
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by buran77 6y ago
> My worry with AMD is what will happen to the SoC chips that have actual ARM cores in the fabric (like the Zynq family)? Why does that worry you? AMD already has ARM cores in their portfolio at least for their A-series Opterons and the
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by buran77 6y ago
There's a philosophical discussion here longer than a comment can afford but the bottom line isn't "code is not people". While I took GP's "wife" remark as a joke, I feel like you're implying that as
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by buran77 6y ago
You can trust me on this one, as I've seen this process in the past in this kind of company and from the right vantage point: it stopped at "is it bringing us more revenue within the strategy we outlined for the next X years?&quot
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by buran77 6y ago
> quite an effort This feels like a misrepresentation of the kind of effort required. For a company of Uber's scale such an effort barely registers. And they could go live with the change in selected markets in the interest of minim
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by buran77 6y ago
Indeed but the view that survived from so long ago isn't coming from the "regular folks" but from a selection of people closer or fully a part of the elite. They're the people who could pass their ideas and experiences t
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by buran77 6y ago
Of course there are, just not imposed by the game. You set them up for every scenario you decide to play. A win can be to get to any state of the game. For example the win conditions in the scenario proposed by the article seem to be "
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by buran77 6y ago
When you try to "define" a black box, to find its edges, what you're aiming for is irrelevant. You'll give it input and analyze the output to find out what states it can be in and what are the "rules", and us
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by buran77 6y ago
These trenches have a slope of ~10-15 degrees on the steep side (and ~5 degrees on the gentle side). So it would go down 1mi for every 4mi further from the shore. To get to 4mi deep it only needs 12mi of horizontal distance in the steepest
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by buran77 6y ago
That's exactly what I meant. Bureaucracy is a result of large administrative systems and it's hard to avoid. Civil forfeiture (among many, many other things) is the result of massive systemic corruption at high levels. The kind
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by buran77 6y ago
We shouldn't call this euphemistically "greed and bureaucracy" when we can call it what it is: corruption at every level (from the legislator to the guy in the agency setting the policy). As I said in the past, we're tra
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by buran77 6y ago
The law of diminishing returns. Shrinking brings lower and lower benefits because the jumps may be hefty in relative values (10% smaller) but in absolute values (nm) they don't bring the same benefit as they did 15-20 years ago. On the
930.
by buran77 6y ago
Any perspective is usually purely idealistic and strongly influenced by the environment you were educated in. We tend to consider the theoretical aspects of democracy as the golden standard but ignore the practicalities of the implementatio

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