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by codex 13y ago
Even if you could trust these RNGs, it is possible that they will malfunction at any time through a manufacturing defect or thermal issue. Blindly trusting hardware is naive. Linux never did, and decisions like this make me less likely to
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by codex 13y ago
America is a republic and not a direct democracy. Sometimes the professional makes better decisions then millions of less informed armchair quarterbacks that consider the issues for minutes each year--and of course it's impossible to
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by codex 13y ago
Are treaties normally negotiated in public? I don't recall Obama live tweeting any closed door talks with Putin--it's just not a good idea. You can't be frank when you have to worry about covering your ass to prevent attack
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by codex 13y ago
In other words, a potential highjacker would be a allowed to being a gun aboard if it is small enough and attached to a monkey? I dub this the "monkey loophole."
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SolarCity Introduces Energy Storage With Tesla Battery Technology(insideevs.com)
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by codex 13y ago
Xenophobia is a natural reaction to competition for scarce resources.
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by codex 13y ago
Is there an canonical opinionated configuration of Emacs where each component works relatively well with all others? I love Emacs but I don't want to spend 100 hours on research and tinkering to have something modern.
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by codex 13y ago
If you were a doctor, would you rather charge more, or less? What keeps you from charging the highest fees in the world? Your reputation. If you're not the best, you cannot charge the most. All of capitalism works this way.
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by codex 13y ago
If 1,000 CS grads found startups attempting to solve a problem they each have, are they guaranteed success? Or will there be five outliers which exit for billions and then tell everyone all they need to do is to solve their own problems? T
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by codex 13y ago
For every positive article on MongoDB there are ten which are negative. Now that's a strong brand.
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by codex 13y ago
This would be more attractive if Amazon Fresh weren't completely unreliable--it's often out of stock of the products I want. I must throw my recipie plan in the trash on a regular basis. Whole Foods or PCC it is most definitely
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by codex 13y ago
Typically larger startups are sold as an acquire for peanuts and their failure is spun as a success. Often the employees get better jobs than they had, so they're not out on the street. If you have any contacts at larger companies, u
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by codex 13y ago
I should note that less experienced programmers tend to start with higher level languages, as a rule, so the average experience of a C programmer is likely higher than that of the HLL programmer. This general experience level alone gives t
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by codex 13y ago
While I think it is much more useful to learn from others' success than others' failure (lessons from your own failures are invaluable), let's not forget selection bias. A lot of startup success is luck--or, in other words
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by codex 13y ago
How is this post technology or hacker related? Other forums exist for general political activism.
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by codex 13y ago
Grade inflation stepped up a notch during the Vietnam War, when professions were reluctant to fail students out of college an into the draft. Now it's done to protect a college's graduation rate, which affects rankings. Elite Ivy
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by codex 13y ago
Yes, but it's a PITA to move buffers between the panes. No drag and drop? Horrible.
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by codex 13y ago
Great--now when can we get decent font rendering for IDEA in Linux? The Swing rendering is horrible.
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by codex 13y ago
One salient new feature: Transparent maintenance with live migration and automatic restart At Google, we have found that regular maintenance of hardware and software infrastructure is critical to operating with a high level of reliability,
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by codex 13y ago
Maturation cannot occur without independence. The Great Recession has prevented independence for a large number of young people.
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by codex 13y ago
Loud jumbo mosquitoes constantly buzzing around my neighborhood, ruining my view and endangering my kids? I want 30 minute delivery, but not that badly. I can plan ahead and exercise patience, or use a bike messenger.
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by codex 13y ago
That sounds quite loud. Are you sure it's not gas?
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by codex 13y ago
Will these be gas powered? I hope not, but I don't see any way to get the required energy density. Flying lawnmowers here we come.
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by codex 13y ago
Heaven help us if Bitcoin becomes the world reserve currency without some central authority like the Fed controlling the money supply. Bad things would happen without counter cyclical fiscal policy.
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by codex 13y ago
The author has a huge conflict of interest: FaceCash. Therefore, his opinions are nearly worthless.
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by codex 13y ago
Have you seen professional acrobats? They look 15 years younger than they are.
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by codex 13y ago
iPhone's Siri does something similar, but for a different reason: reliability. It multipaths each query.
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by codex 13y ago
I've seen a trend in HN where the comments from a previous story are cherry picked by a third party and turned into a blog post, which is then submitted to HN. It could be coincidence, but it looks like that's what happened here.
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by codex 13y ago
To put it simply: software estimates are hard because nobody has made that particular bit software before. Why? Because software doesn't rust. There is little need to exactly duplicate software which has already been written. Thus,
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by codex 13y ago
I don't think you can buy a biometric firearm (yet).

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