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571.
by dagss 9y ago
Not zero but... consider that just the oil refinery alone uses about the same energy to make gasoline to drive one mile, as an EV uses directly to drive one mile. EVs are hugely more energy efficient overall, which helps even if what energy
572.
by dagss 9y ago
Really depends on the computation.. what you say only make sense for some niches of computations.
573.
by dagss 9y ago
Some people store data in RAM not software.
574.
by dagss 9y ago
Come on, this is Show HN! Not some GitHub issue tracker. Try to insert please and thank you in that post ... it will make it sound rude! It will turn it from Show HN feedback to sounding like a feature request, which it is clearly not...
575.
by dagss 9y ago
I think they summed up multiple coin tosses (say 10). Then "scold" or "praise" the losers/winners with lowest/highest sum of 10 tosses. (So you get a probably distribution and regression towards the mean.)
576.
by dagss 9y ago
In a setting with much arithmetic "x" is also vastly easier to read. See pretty much any mathematics or physics paper or textbook -- made for reading...
577.
by dagss 9y ago
...at which point that untrusted code gains full access to the only userspace process that matters on that node. If you gain access to run code on a server process why escalate further, you already have access to everything that matters?...
578.
by dagss 9y ago
Servers don't have/need web browsers (in general). Some on premise compute clusters don't even necesarrily have internet access except SSH from a few trusted users and exploits to run code locally would go through them or SSH
579.
by dagss 9y ago
The world runs on computers: True. A faster operating system means a faster computer: True. World would be better with faster computers, to the degree that you can compare the negatives Gates has done with the positive: Ridiculous. During p
580.
by dagss 9y ago
I don't understand. By that logic, would not announcement with the date manipulate the market? Future known events are priced in in the market.. If the announcement came today instead same thing might have happened with prices.
581.
by dagss 9y ago
I am glad you understood my statement... If you can display how "better operating systems" and "make life better for millions" fits together I may change my mind. Basically anything that is not providing for basic human
582.
by dagss 9y ago
I think if you were on the receiving end of one of the Gates Foundation projects you would feel very different. "Preventing technological progress" -- so because of M$ shenanigangs perhaps rich kids got their toys a year or two la
583.
by dagss 9y ago
I hate spending lots of money on DAB infrastructure right before it turns outdated and irrelevant. The future is internet. Many are now switching from FM to Spotify or internet radio on 4G and ignoring DAB.
584.
by dagss 9y ago
Hmm. Could one simply put on many more wheels? It has to be some nonlinear function of pressure per wheel?
585.
by dagss 9y ago
Wait, you say a 26% reduction in traffic is not life changing? Congestion can be caused by a slight undercapacity. One case I know of from Bergen, Norway a reduction in traffic of 5% caused reductions in travel time of 50%. Bergen is seve
586.
by dagss 9y ago
A related news item these days rolling in Norway is how a big investment (Goliat platform) is posed to make a net loss, costing the goverment a lot of money due to the tax regime. (Jury will be out for many years, investments in arctic oil
587.
by dagss 9y ago
Oil in the arctic costs $40 or more to extract. Oil in Saudi-Arabia costs, what, $15? So at the very least there is a 50% exposure as the oil price will fall for all oil. It is not like Norway is the sole exporter. If oil price drops and th
588.
by dagss 9y ago
You have it on the head. The tasks we pick for computing are the ones that can be completed in seconds. There is plenty of interesting computation we could and would do if what now requires a year would only require a second.
589.
by dagss 9y ago
You keep defining crime as it suits you. You want to define one set of laws you agree with "justice" and another you disagree with "charity". That is namecalling and intellectually lazy. The same state and body of laws t
590.
by dagss 9y ago
To be clear, would you morally condemn someone for stealing if they would otherwise starve? It seems like you think the right to "property" is somehow above the right to life. In most of the world BOTH of those are guaranteed by t
591.
by dagss 9y ago
"Justice" means upholding laws? Most of the world has signed conventions that makes basic livelihood a right -- and puts it on the state to ensure this. Perhaps you don't agree with these laws and conventions. But please cons
592.
by dagss 9y ago
The thought of the drone shooting didn't even cross my mind. No way anyone would approve military equipment roaming the mountains like that. What if it shot a human? I was thinking flashlights and sounds to scare them off.
593.
by dagss 9y ago
In Norway we have sheep roaming the mountains in summer....and wolves. How many wolves to kill is a huge political issue. Government reimburses sheep killed by wolves. Building fences around the areas is basically impossible. But I hope som
594.
by dagss 9y ago
Sorry, I thought I was reading about the kind of diet where a potato would be the worst thing ever. I.e. avoid carbohydrates. Apologies. I agree that we grow more than enough food today but we also do not live sustainably, we must reduce re
595.
by dagss 9y ago
Look: Feeding the world on Paleo diet is impossible (right now ... with increased use of insects and sustainable ocean farming not based on rainforest soy that may change). When one choice is to recommend a diet that will significantly incr
596.
by dagss 9y ago
Haha, I see reports now on someone in solar industry saying that IEA is still very sceptic about solar and downplays it as much as they can in their forecasts, even as they announce that the age of solar is here in words (sorry only links I
597.
by dagss 9y ago
Well you need to subtract what is currently burned off in refineries in those calculations it is quite significant (roughly same amount of energy for refining oil and electric cars per mile driven but only 1/5 or so in electricity and
598.
by dagss 9y ago
Well yes, but there is a backstory here of IEA refusing to believe in solar, severely underestimating its growth for every projection over the course of the past decade (assuming linear rather than exponential). This has had real implicati
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by dagss 9y ago
The point is I think: Problem is somebody invests in the automation (algorithms and hardware) and then own all the results from the automation. You seem to assume that the proceeds from automation would be evenly distributed. Why would it?
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by dagss 9y ago
Consultant.

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