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by cbsmith 3y ago
The B2 bomber case isn't a precise analogy. The hammer really was purely an accounting phenomenon. It's not that the first hammer cost $600. The first hammer was part of a collection of goods, of a wide variety of different values
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> The hammer did indeed cost $435. If the government wanted to buy another one, the contractor would have charged them an extra $435. But the above statement wasn't true.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Isn't a challenge trial really just another way of doing a phase 2 trial? Whether you let it run through the population anyway really doesn't matter though. If you push the untested vaccine out to the population, you might turn a
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by cbsmith 3y ago
That's not entirely accurate. The case for letting covid spread hinges on whether you have the medical infrastructure to manage the pandemic. If you can handle a "more than flu season" chunk of your population needing medical
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Basically, the legal equivalent to the trolley problem. Worth noting that there are solutions in our legal code for this. Good Samaritan laws would be a good example. However, even in a world without such countermeasures, if the negative ex
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by cbsmith 3y ago
That's a curious description of insurance.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> $16 Billion in fees (so far!) means you and I, regular people, will be paying to bail out SVB, it's bad decisions, and it's account holder's bad decisions. Wonderful. Worth considering is the impact on us regular people
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Yeah, Sun stock really soared when they started going after Microsoft, but I kept pointing out that the valuation was from the distorted perception where they looked bigger because they were taking on a big foe. It was a sugar high that was
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by cbsmith 3y ago
HotJava was pretty much proof that you could have Java well integrated into the browser. If you can do the browser entirely in Java and run applets smoothly, then there is no reason why a "better" browser runtime/implemen
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Yeah, the headline even more "that's not news" when you're talking about modems. ;-)
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Honestly, that's what I thought it was talking about when I read the headline.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I worked at Sun during that time period, and as much as they liked to pretend they were a software business, they were a hardware business whose primary feature was software, which is really, really not the same thing. They never really fig
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Were you surprised when Apple chose to pick one recently used by a quasi-competitor?
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by cbsmith 3y ago
>If only we could get a new version of Java for the browser. Something more of a scripting language that is not compiled but interpreted. Could probably knock out a proof of concept in a week, might call it Javascript or something... I g
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> I feel for my friends in the industry but AI is going to wreck workers in entertainment. I seriously doubt that, but I imagine this is exactly the point where one needs to renegotiate to make sure terms are fair. Strikes are common w
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by cbsmith 3y ago
It's not like "Ultra" was novel when Apple used it...
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by cbsmith 4y ago
Agreed. It's pretty myopic to think that foreign censorship laws only impact tech companies.
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by cbsmith 4y ago
> See people, this is why free speech must be absolute. No, it's why, in a lot of cases, free speech doesn't really work the way you think it works. Private interests have all kinds of ways to influence speech that don't r
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by cbsmith 4y ago
Yup, the good ol' days of DataFellows, when I had to convince people to use SSH instead of Telnet... ;-)
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by cbsmith 4y ago
Another way I'm feeling old... I remember back when OpenSSH was just a plucky upstart implementation of SSH.
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by cbsmith 4y ago
I think the reality is making the SLA guarantees that Spanner in a third party cloud is just... not very practical.
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by cbsmith 4y ago
Distributed transactions are invariably latency (usually storage I/O) bound, rather than CPU or memory bound. I think your #2 is a big part of the challenge with RDMA, as well as the "trickiness" of the programming paradigm.
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by cbsmith 4y ago
s/Compal/Clevo/
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by cbsmith 4y ago
Their laptops are unfortunately all OEM Compals. The desktops they make themselves, but the laptops aren't there yet.
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by cbsmith 4y ago
Regarding the username... There's a lot of us. You wouldn't believe how much e-mail I get that was meant for someone else.
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by cbsmith 4y ago
I think it's great that they're competing with each other.
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by cbsmith 4y ago
I don't see how the forms for visas contradict anything in the story. It's not about what the minimum requirement is to apply. > Yes unsurprisingly a country wants to do basic background checks on people it is making permanent
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by cbsmith 4y ago
Lower courts can rule on it and provide injunctions. If it is appealed and the Supreme Court hears it, then it matters if they agree or not.
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by cbsmith 4y ago
I don't think the bill is really about privacy.
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by cbsmith 4y ago
I'm amazed this entire article managed to avoid mentioning ChatGPT.

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