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901.
by ci5er 10y ago
From what I can tell, whenever you hear about "subsidies", as it relates to combustible hydrocarbons, it isn't the kind of free-taxpayer-money boondoggle you see with (for example) a loan guarantee to Solyndra. It usually tak
902.
by ci5er 10y ago
Thanks for that link. My original sighting of the phenomena used the exact same graph, but made no attempt at being explanatory. I have since then, been searching, but failed to re-find a copy of that graph to stick into my files. Now, than
903.
by ci5er 10y ago
"IT Professionals" is a broad label. Maybe we can think of getting a 'degree in a field' as a proxy-variable for 'interest in the field'. What's astonishing to me is through the 60s, 70's and into the
904.
by ci5er 10y ago
Good to know. I've been more-or-less able to keep clear of the government purchasing super-fun-games for a few years and anything I may have ever known about that world has gotten stale. Thanks!
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by ci5er 10y ago
I think I know the kind you are talking about. They show up on Quora wondering how they can get a co-founder to do all the tech work for 30% of the company -- IF they can find someone who won't balk at signing an NDA to get a glimpse a
906.
by ci5er 10y ago
Better than DSL? Pfft. I know folks that would be absolutely delighted if they could get DSL.
907.
by ci5er 10y ago
I got banned from an energy-related sub-reddit for making a point in a discussion about solar using the diagram in your first link. Context is a bannable offense! :-) Seriously, though: context is very important. You can't have a meani
908.
by ci5er 10y ago
> Growth Hackers Based on its usage in these last two comments, I think I must not understand what the phrase "Growth Hacker" means. I thought it was someone who was critically focused on increasing the numerator and decreasing
909.
by ci5er 10y ago
I don't track these things closely, but hasn't 18F come to be considered a disappointment in terms of results-per-dollar-spent, so far? (Not to mention results-per-unit-hype)
910.
by ci5er 10y ago
For myself, decades ago, my learn-as-you-go project was a distributed rendering system. Here's what worked about it: - Ray-tracing (for example) is easy to reason about in an object oriented fashion (this was before functional was
911.
by ci5er 10y ago
> Good luck convincing the in-power party of that, no matter which side of the aisle they sit on. Yup. That's true of all "true" reform. Most of the campaign finance reform laws that end up passing could more accurately be
912.
by ci5er 10y ago
> Do you know who Jeffrey Eisenach and Mark Jamison are? Uhhh. Yes. > if he were to be serious about dismantling Net Neutrality, what would he have done differently than exactly what he's doing now? Beyond his most insane proposa
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by ci5er 10y ago
> The sarcasm in your post is, funnily enough, the opposite of the truth Isn't that one of the primary mechanisms of sarcasm?
914.
by ci5er 10y ago
The executive staff at telecoms I have talked to have mixed expectations. I don't know anyone at/with cable -- which I think this was aimed at in the first place. The reclassification of services necessary to make the ruling in th
915.
by ci5er 10y ago
Well, sure. In theory, he could do anything by fiat within the bounds of established regulatory discretion. Of course, I wouldn't worry too much about all of the stuff that "Trump could do" until he gets around to doing it.
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by ci5er 10y ago
Oh - cool. It wasn't clear to me from your top-level comment how far back you'd gone. Even though it's old, I still think it's pretty good, and thought you should be made aware if you weren't already. Good to see th
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by ci5er 10y ago
IBM's Citadel project and Doug Tygar's group at CMU researched crypto co-processors about 20 years ago. You can still find Bennet Yee's PhD thesis online. It and it's bibliographical references gave a pretty good overvie
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by ci5er 10y ago
I'm not sure I'd be overly eager to hang my hat on either number. Here's the FBI's stats on property crime in the US in 2012 [1], which they claim is higher than $341M. [1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-th
919.
by ci5er 10y ago
Ah. I did not know that. When I was growing up, there was a 24/7 coal-mine near-by and everyone was on two-week rotations for their shift. Which (naturally) sucked. Eternal jet-lag. I thought that letting people simple pick their prefe
920.
by ci5er 10y ago
I know it's pushing it, but couldn't one go w/ 1 team of 5 (probably 6 for minimal downtime/buffer?) in NA to cover 24/7?
921.
by ci5er 10y ago
Well, sure. Those are the conclusions of people who have already formed their own mental structures. Somehow. That part is not shared. Or maybe they haven't read the books available themselves; there's a shocking number of humans
922.
by ci5er 10y ago
At only a book a week, you'll easily hit > 200 in 4 years. No need to complete one in a day. Except for technical text books, most books can be "got through" in well under 4 hours. For most people, if they simply read inst
923.
by ci5er 10y ago
For me, for a new field, I never know which is the "best" book. And whichever it is - it's not complete; there are additional nuggets to be found, maybe in the corner of a minor chapter, in many/most of them. I will read
924.
by ci5er 10y ago
The language is ... odd. For me, ... not good. But the datastore itself reminds me of some of those early NoSQL object stores. It isn't JSON, but you can throw anything in there and get it back -- pretty efficiently! It's hard to
925.
by ci5er 10y ago
How can be alienating half of America by taking this stand, instead of remaining silent on the point and a maintaining a non-ideological product/business stance, be a good idea for them?
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by ci5er 10y ago
I was not there. I helped design power generation and radio-telecom systems & packaging for them. Now, it's not two C-containers on skids, to be sure! :-) They were support for very (very) small sites. They were called FOBs by the
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by ci5er 10y ago
Yup. For small units on the move (or operating all stealthy-like), you can airdrop a few C-containers (FOB-in-a-box) right at (or behind!) the front line and be up and ready to go in not-that-many hours.
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by ci5er 10y ago
It didn't used to much in the late-PC rah-rah of the 80s or the dot-com 90s, but I understand it's increasingly common now. Not wanting to be beholden to the VC's growth paradigm handcuffs[1], especially going into an economi
929.
by ci5er 10y ago
CDC rolls up data they get from vital stats - but that rolled up product pretty sparse; it's not much more than in the WaPo article: - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/suicide/rates_1999_2014....
930.
by ci5er 10y ago
Is it just the quest for ratings or is it outright advocacy for a position? (Probably both, but...) It seemed (to me) to be that for Brexit and for the US Presidential election, the majority of the media outlets, the editorials, the analyst

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