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811.
by digikata 12y ago
If all the gas stations in an area are owned by Exxon & priced too high, the customer drives their car elsewhere. There is a very, very high capital barrier to entering the market, but customers still hold choice. You can probably obse
812.
by digikata 12y ago
Shipping and oil refining are different. If you apply capital to over come the cost barrier of entering those businesses, you can still access customers and potentially put all that capital to work generating profits. With last-mile interne
813.
by digikata 12y ago
> I personally think its rather unfair to ask a for-profit company to compete against a tax funded service. But if last-mile links are a natural monopoly (or at least demonstrably low competition markets), how do we get better broadband
814.
by digikata 12y ago
Yes, I think the adjective in it's more modern form usually occurs as 'phosphorescent'.
815.
by digikata 12y ago
The output of the previous nano-electronic era might be considered the MEMs accelerometers and rate sensors packed into most smartphones, DLP micro mirrors, etc....
816.
by digikata 12y ago
The overall concept is good, but there could be things that go wrong in the real world. How fast the heat ramps up vs the failsafe plug in the vessel melting, or the chance of some material failure shedding debris which could potentially pl
817.
by digikata 12y ago
It may not have been an intentionally initiated plan either. Say NK starts getting suspicious traffic, one possible response is to just pull the plug. I doubt that there are a lot of non-state users to worry about - and if an enemy of the s
818.
by digikata 12y ago
Or this could be some kind of reverse false flag operation (a soccer flop?) to give NK a platform to escalate some other negotiation point...
819.
by digikata 12y ago
Firing bullets at it when the tank is new is just a publicity stunt. Those tanks need to be holding hydrogen for at least five years, all while being cycled from full to empty, then lets see how well they hold up.
820.
by digikata 12y ago
You are paying for your equity in opportunity cost. So, roughly, if you take your possible market salary minus your current salary over some time period, that's what you're paying to purchase that equity. The straight financial ca
821.
by digikata 12y ago
There's a wide range of ARM processors, but you can maybe sort them into three tiers: small AVR-like scale (e.g. Cortex-M), the smartphone speed (e.g. Cortex-A8/9 what most people come into contact with), and edging it's way
822.
by digikata 12y ago
That depends: is the average distance between Amazon warehouses and recipients higher than the distance between a neighborhood pizza shop and it's customers?
823.
by digikata 12y ago
More like Amazon's warehouse workers with constant countdown clocks, except on the open road. Which sounds like a potential hazard for other drivers.
824.
All major movie chains have moved to stay away from “The Interview”(arstechnica.com)
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825.
by digikata 12y ago
Do people mostly use sticky notes / white boards for this? In theory UML tools should be great at this, but in practice I've found that they mostly get in the way. Even if the tool itself works well - then disseminating the info l
826.
by digikata 12y ago
Does the stock exchange price of long issued shares really matter in the success of the company? If the stock price of the company goes down, no money actually exits the company. You may have an issue in executive retention if bonuses are t
827.
by digikata 12y ago
That sounds very interesting, I'll have to give that podcast a spin. Though I do wonder if it sounds too much about the process of the media, instead of a recalibration of the stories themselves. And I also worry about already getting
828.
by digikata 12y ago
I would love to subscribe to a news outlet that did nothing but put popular stories under the microscope, fact-checking and even putting an uncertainty value of various facts - not just presenting them in black and white, and then putting t
829.
by digikata 12y ago
The ROI for a given bit of science over a one year span will almost always be a big negative. The ROI for "Science" over the last century is a huge portion of the GDP of the world. I'd assert that for optimizing some mostly k
830.
by digikata 12y ago
I think we should be doing both - and that anyone that claims to know the ROI for that kind of exploration doesn't know what is being measured.
831.
by digikata 12y ago
He's probably recalling 66Mhz as the clock as 64k.
832.
by digikata 12y ago
I suspect that crypto libraries and embedded systems might also be good areas for Rust. Basically anywhere that a buffer overflow or memory leak is a relatively high-penalty failure.
833.
by digikata 12y ago
Obviously, you need metrics to monitor the metrics. But more seriously, I've attacked this kind of problem in the past by agreeing on a common set of first-look metrics. What is a one page set of data you start with when trying to iden
834.
by digikata 12y ago
Have you looked at non-trivial simulink models? The graph of connections between logical programming elements is too high to nicely represent in a single two dimensional plane. Once you render all the required connections, the gain of a cle
835.
by digikata 12y ago
And really really expensive. If the point is a safe society without high costs of maintenance it seems foolish to overlook rehabilitation.
836.
by digikata 12y ago
That's because product designers used the improved performance to reduce package volume and weight.
837.
by digikata 12y ago
These numbers should also say something to free market advocates that dream of multiple companies installing redundant infrastructure to compete for customers.
838.
by digikata 12y ago
Customers may not know which ISPs are throttling Netflix. Netflix is stuck in a bind because customers have few if any ISPs to choose from. In that situation, if Netflix passes on ISP fees for users of that ISP, then the ISPs video offering
839.
by digikata 12y ago
Walmart has historically been pretty good with logistics. So it will be interesting to see if they can get stores to also serve as buffers for localized shipping of products to where many customers already live.
840.
by digikata 12y ago
There were problems with very similar symptoms back when Mavericks was newly released. Apple eventually fixed it, but it took a few revs.

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