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by dave333 5y ago
Article is pretty good and gets a lot of things right. So what will the world be like in 2122? Climate catastrophe? Will AI have taken over? Will democracy survive? Will people still travel or just interact virtually/remotely?
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by dave333 5y ago
Looks interesting but how do you change the styling - the jaggy cyan text really hurts my poor old eyes...
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by dave333 5y ago
I still read all the same feeds I had on Google Reader first on Digg Reader and now on Inoreader free version. Main way I consume news although I do look at Facebook for family stuff and twitter for very topical stuff and following folks li
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by dave333 5y ago
Basing severity on dollars stolen is flawed - it should based on the percentage of the victims assets stolen. Taking $1 million fraudulently from Warren Buffett is not the same as taking it from the average pensioner.
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by dave333 5y ago
Skilling of Enron fame got 24 years and was released after 12. That seemed a far worse crime than Theranos IMHO.
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by dave333 5y ago
As a recently arrived Brit at Bell Labs in Naperville in the early 1980s I was presenting code in my first US code review. The code was typical K+R C with single character variable names x, y, and z amongst others. All seemed to be going we
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by dave333 5y ago
The cost of power is about to drop significantly. A leased 250 KW Suncell generator could mine a lot of crypto. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011186387437
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by dave333 5y ago
There are slow low energy ways to get around the solar system by using the Lagrange points in the orbits of various planets/moons. Large amounts of refined minerals could be distributed this way assuming a solar powered refinery on a l
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by dave333 5y ago
Whenever companies lay off a significant amount of people they have to be very careful they don't fire more older people or they run into problems with Dept of Labor. Most FAANG big tech hasn't had to layoff much if ever yet but i
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by dave333 5y ago
I was in a similar situation in 2007 having been out of programming work since the dot com bust in 2001. I got hired at a small startup where I happened to do well on the interview - I aced a couple of brain teaser like interview questions
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by dave333 5y ago
Bought a $4k house out of state and flipped it remotely with one 3 week onsite visit to supervise the major renovations. Took 3 years elapsed to renovate and eventually sold it at a break even after expenses but learned a whole lot. Now pla
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by dave333 5y ago
Ad rates are around $3 CPM meaning for 1000 page views you get $3 so do the math. Sudoku sites are unusual since one page view can last hour(s) as the user solves the puzzle.
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by dave333 5y ago
sad, but I had to google what Match Group is :-(
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by dave333 5y ago
I run a string of free sudoku sites that have earned around $1000/month from advertising and donations since 2005: https://fiendishsudoku.com https://samurai-sudoku.com https://sudokuprintables.org
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by dave333 5y ago
Does Gigablast ignore or downrate stuff on .info domains? Seems to like https://www.fiendishsudoku.com/ for "fiendish sudoku" search but doesn't know about https://www.extremesudoku.info/ for
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by dave333 5y ago
NASA should have a crash (NPI) program to re-booster most of its missions on reusable boosters. And reimagine its goals in the light of the vastly cheaper cost of mass to orbit (that will likely soon be) achieved by Starship. Of course pork
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by dave333 5y ago
Blacklisting himself is a silly and comic thing to do that has now drawn huge attention to the controversy. Depriving The Cambridge Union of his appearance is a much bigger penalty for them than it is for him. He is also suggesting people w
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by dave333 5y ago
OP chose an unflattering photo of Cleese - is there an agenda here? The worst thing I've heard is the wag on twitter who said it's the funniest thing he's done in 30 years!
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by dave333 5y ago
He revolutionized the computer industry 3 times with the Apple II, then the Mac, then the iPhone, and the film industry once with Pixar.
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by dave333 5y ago
With your technical background you are really no worse off than most software people who have to learn the latest new framework/language/stack since these change every 2-5 years. Some tools last a long time such as Unix shell comm
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by dave333 5y ago
There should be another article for the prospective witness: Dealing With The Snarky Lawyer
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by dave333 5y ago
They could do this a lot cheaper just by stacking some of the glut of empty shipping containers in a huge block.
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by dave333 5y ago
Haven't read the paywalled article but the idea that nuclear is clean compared to coal is ridiculous as evidenced by Chernobyl and Fukushima and Three Mile Island and Windscale. Nuclear pollution is about 1 trillion trillion times wors
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by dave333 5y ago
I was in this boat in college in the 1970s and I joined various sport teams/activities with mixed success - all of the few friends I made were other guys I met on the all male golf team. The sailing club was the best mixed gender club
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by dave333 5y ago
I enjoyed the 4-player flash version of Hex Empire that used a hex grid. User played one team and AI played the other three at various difficulty levels from naive to cutthroat. Was my favorite online game until the recent demise of flash.
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by dave333 5y ago
Village Homes in Davis Ca https://www.villagehomesdavis.org/home Widely viewed as an improvement over plain tract suburbia but not copied anywhere that I'm aware of although cohousing does the same sort of thing on ste
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by dave333 5y ago
As does the show "The Last Kingdom."
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by dave333 5y ago
No - it would be a standardized subject matter test without any of the personal baggage that sinks most interviews, that an applicant can take online at minimal time and expense.
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Someone should start an employment scheme where employers and employees both sign up to a broad pool eg "javascript developers" and then employees are assigned to employers arbitrarily but everybody gets hired once before anyone i
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I worked on the systems used to implement various switches such as #4ESS and #5ESS and the goal was less than 2 hours downtime in 40 years which means you can't even reboot and have to upgrade software method by method on the fly. Need

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