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by csense 3y ago
Clearly, we can't have users with uses you don't approve of [/s] https://xkcd.com/129/
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Ars Technica links to the NAS website, which wants you to give an email address to download a PDF of the report. Anyone have a direct link to the PDF? As a product of the US government, it's likely in the public domain and completely
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by csense 3y ago
Think back to the 2021-2022 pandemic-triggered supply chain chaos, when the media widely reported that car companies, for example, were all having very painful experiences with parking lots full of $50k trucks they couldn't sell due to
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I thought custom ASIC's were done when you have some computation that takes many instructions to implement in a CPU, for example for Bitcoin mining your computation might be "Find the sha256 of a fixed-length input and tell me if
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The operator defined is associative and commutative and doing it twice gives you the identity. So to me, it seems a strange choice to notate this as some kind of word algebra; it feels much more natural to use binary vector notation. In a
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If you're a small poor country and you borrow money from China to build infra on your territory, what happens if you simply... don't pay back the loan after the infra is built?
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> Why not have people on it? Simply looking at costs and complexity "on paper" from an engineering / accounting perspective doesn't really capture all the differences between humans and machines, especially considerin
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> All this campaign will do is generate a ton of false positives The way a totalitarian government thinks, false positives are a feature, not a bug. Better a hundred innocent people are kidnapped by the secret police and tortured to deat
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According to Wikipedia, iron ore is basically various oxides of iron, and humans use energy to de-oxidize it. So if you burn iron you're basically un-doing that process. Iron might be feasible as an energy storage system. Article says
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by csense 3y ago
I would think the fee would be even worse for F2P games because they rely on a huge install base. If 5% of the installs generate any revenue at all, they'd have to generate 20x the fee in revenue on average in order to break even.
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by csense 3y ago
I don't really understand analog electronics very well and I wish this was a bit better explained for a general audience. I think +18V is enough for some quantum physics to happen and suck an electron through the first transistor even
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Overconfidence? Hubris? "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."
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In one car I've driven, whenever you turn it on, a pop-up appears that says (paraphrasing): "Taking your eyes off the road to interact with this screen can cause an accident. Press OK to continue." Irony...
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by csense 3y ago
Orb of Creation [1] [2]. Tons of different systems and mechanics to unlock, the graphics and overall theme are original and on-point, and good music too. It's well worth the $5 price tag. (I'm not associated with the developer i
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by csense 3y ago
China is an evil empire. What to do about it without starting World War 3? Here are some of my ideas: - Heavily tax or cut off business with them, with an explicit linkage between specific evil behaviors and the monetary costs / damag
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by csense 3y ago
A couple thoughts: - If you don't have cancer and stop eating, you'll likely die of starvation before you get cancer. - California made a law that says you have to label products if they contain stuff that might cause cancer. As
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by csense 3y ago
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are over. Osama bin Laden is dead. These laws were supposed to stop terrorist funding. They are no longer useful, and should be repealed. What bothers me is not that they haven't been repealed, but th
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I always thought "Water, water, everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink" didn't refer to alcohol at all, but was simply pointing out that sailors can ironically die of thirst on a ship literally surrounded by water, because
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https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
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Parent and GP are using different definitions of "dollar." GP is using a strict definition (only dollar-denominated liability of the Fed is a "true" dollar), parent is using a looser definition (a dollar-denominated liab
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by csense 3y ago
> Would be great to make the tech more accessible to those without the skills to recompile and deploy Originally, hand-writing HTML was a supposed-to-be-accessible-to-non-technical-users way to make a website. Until the late 1990'
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I see a lot of links to Twitter (here and elsewhere). I don't want to log in or use the app, I just occasionally want to see what people are saying when a tweet gets upvoted here on HN, or when I think "I wonder what XYZ is sayin
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I've never used code signing, and I'm not really sure how it works. Do you need to submit your source code or binaries to the signing organization? How are they checked? How is code signing supposed to prevent Eve from just payin
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"It sure would be a shame if we went around telling people your program is a virus. We can make sure that doesn't happen, if you pull out your credit card and pay us a three-figure sum." A financially lucrative but morally b
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If you give the government new extraordinary powers it will use them "only in necessary cases" but "necessary cases" has a way of creeping... - Year 1: Terrorists. - Year 2: Powerful gang leaders and drug kingpins - Ye
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Suppose I start a debate club in my living room. Do I have a right to say "Only my friends can join my debate club"? Do I have a right to say "Children of past participants are always welcome here"? Do I have a right t
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The willingness of the US to swap prisoners incentivizes the Russian government to jail American visitors on trumped-up charges. If I was in charge of US policy, I'd make everyone who wants to board a plane to Russia watch a 10-minute
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You're giving people alive today a benefit (free citizenship) in compensation for a wrong that was done long before anyone living today was born. I see a lot of ethical problems with this sort of thing [1]. It's basically original
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I've always been confused why climate change is so skewed to the downside. Why the asymmetry? For example, couldn't more rain lead to less droughts / wildfires in California, or turn deserts into usable farmland?
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> Why doesn't the government make their own document? (Sorry this is a US-centric explanation, I don't really understand how the EU system works) Sometimes legislators say "We don't feel like having government employe

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