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by ckocagil 6y ago
That's encryption for the state, not for us peasants.
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by ckocagil 6y ago
If this isn't evidence of a monopoly, I don't know what is.
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by ckocagil 6y ago
Going to Mars faster isn't a good idea, but I hope Nuclear Thermal Rockets will develop further so the payload can be greatly increased.
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by ckocagil 6y ago
Releasing carbon is an externality that isn't taken into account because it doesn't immediately hurt you (in your wallet or otherwise). Taxing it is simply taking that externality and putting a price on it. Once you tax it markets
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by ckocagil 6y ago
How are you going to privatize infrastructure? There can be no competition in big infrastructure projects. What's a competitor to do, lay a new railroad next to the existing one? This is also why fiber lines should be owned by cities a
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by ckocagil 6y ago
Nothing prevents patent trolls from becoming copyright trolls overnight: acquire companies, sue everyone.
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Quantum Mechanics: Schrödinger's discovery of the shape of atoms(youtube.com)
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by ckocagil 6y ago
Profit margins aren't a "the total shall be X billion USD" division across countries. Making less profit in one country has nothing to do with what your profit margin will be in another one. Prices are always set to maximize
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by ckocagil 6y ago
Last time I checked Saudi Arabia was a fundamentalist, religious kingdom with many known inhumane acts and practices. Yet they control a ton of US companies.
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by ckocagil 6y ago
All sorts of transportation are very fragile. Everyone with a driver's license is trusted with operating tons of steel that can move at enormous speeds. Society's based on some amount of mutual trust. We can't lock everything
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by ckocagil 6y ago
At a cursory glance there might be. However this restriction will force companies to experiment with other designs. Maybe they'll have to use proper gaskets. Maybe phones will end up being 1mm thicker. These _might_ be negative, but IM
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by ckocagil 6y ago
Have you tried replacing a phone battery recently? It involves using hot air to soften the glue, a lot of manual labor, unplugging wires, and carefully replacing the battery. Then you need to glue everything back together and pray the devic
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by ckocagil 6y ago
You're saying unexpected but China has likely simulated this situation a million times and prepared a plan. I would bet China is constantly monitoring for such deployment and will react long before the troops set foot on Taiwan. AFAIK
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by ckocagil 6y ago
Big cloud companies can all chip in a few billions, like they're doing with Linux. TSMC fabs everything for everyone anyway. The big cloud boys have too much money to tolerate being screwed over.
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by ckocagil 6y ago
>Regardless, one has a right to their body. It is their property. To what extent? Does this principle apply to indentured servitude? How about work related accidents, should a company be legally required to prevent them? Should a mining
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by ckocagil 6y ago
If no one is entitled to anything why did humankind abolish slavery? Child workers? Indentured servitude? Think about it. Indentured servitude is nothing but a contract between two people. By your ideology it should be of no one else's
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by ckocagil 6y ago
This is absolutely the reason. So much was unknown at the time that a huge chunk of inventions and discoveries were completely accidental. There's no way a young adult can build a particle accelerator and play with it in his basement a
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by ckocagil 6y ago
This is not a good thing. Eventually countries will heavily regulate satellites and then SpaceX will be the monopoly that keeps small players out. Instead of postponing the problem of getting rid of an evil monopoly, citizens should realize
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by ckocagil 6y ago
The costs of installing and maintaining infrastructure scale down to nothing with population density. Also you can upgrade a switch but not if it's on a satellite. I am very convinced that the two approaches will complement each other
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by ckocagil 6y ago
One could argue that it would be bad for the consumer since their subsidized divisions have zero incentive to improve. It's nearly impossible to beat a free offering, so no competition will arise. Therefore innovation halts. This is wh
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by ckocagil 6y ago
Even if that happens Epic still wins. Customers will no longer get their discount and will blame Apple for it.
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by ckocagil 6y ago
Capitalism is fine, just don't treat it as a religion (looking sternly at you, HN crowd) and know that it needs to be fixed from time to time. We've been patching capitalism for centuries if not millennia: abolishing indentured se
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by ckocagil 6y ago
Did you come across Datalog?
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by ckocagil 6y ago
I'm not impressed for two reasons: 1. Anyone striving to build a better SQL should make a comprehensive list of common (but difficult!) database tasks for OLTP and OLAP workloads. This will expose the weakness of their language. SQL ha
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by ckocagil 6y ago
I don't understand how this is surprising or why this is a bad thing. Comparing a country's actions to ethical ideals is great, but it is subjective and does not achieve much. The only realistic benchmark is to compare one country
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by ckocagil 6y ago
Generally, national academies of sciences are very highly regarded. In the case of CAS, Wikipedia says that they've been the number 1 institute on Nature Index for years. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-
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by ckocagil 6y ago
Every single time this happens it's because there isn't much money to be made due to the low volume of sales, therefore no competition and no economies of scale. They make very exotic and state-of-the-art products. Where else woul
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by ckocagil 6y ago
I do electronics as a hobby. I sometimes buy chips from very dubious shops in China for fun. Some of these sources are sketchy even by Taobao/Aliexpress standards. Then I decap the chip by boiling the package in acid and inspect the di
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by ckocagil 6y ago
50% doesn't mean much when the website itself loses its relevance: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=kongrega...
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by ckocagil 6y ago
What was atrocious about Flash? AS3 was a decent language. Better, more open tools were coming along. Insecurity and privacy concerns were addressed by properly sandboxing it. The biggest downside of Flash is that it wasn't an open web

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