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by drcross 6y ago
Removing personal choice should sound alarm bells for anyone who has read Brave New World, 1984 or the Gulag Archipelago. If you permit me to stereotype the HN demographic here- you are probably reading this comment from the comfort of a wa
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by drcross 6y ago
If you told six month ago me that we'd be treating people who are high risk of this disease the same as people with low risk I would have been in complete disbelief.
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by drcross 6y ago
>they can't refute the ideas of Covid flat-earthers What is a covid flat-earther? If you are trying to lump flat earthers in with a group of people who are lockdown sceptics you're doing yourself a disservice.
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by drcross 6y ago
>You criticise the article but then post this without any backup. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-020-00808-x SARS-CoV-2-derived peptides define heterologous and COVID-19-induced T cell recognition >ditto.
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by drcross 6y ago
N=1 in this study. No mention of race, vitamin D levels or BMI, all of which are very useful data to have in the context of Covid-19. All viral respiratory infections have the potential to have some side effects to varying degrees but I can
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by drcross 6y ago
People seem to forget 90s Bill Gates. He was terrible and spiteful. There's no reason Jobs wouldn't turn into the current Bill, if he was able to live that long.
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by drcross 6y ago
Location: Dublin, Ireland Remote: preferably Willing to relocate: possibly Technologies: CCIE level Network Engineer with 12 years experience, Data center deployment projects, IP Telephony, Linux, Python. Résumé/CV: pop me an email and
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by drcross 6y ago
All those things have been or can be fixed. They're still moving massive amount of products. I'm no apple apologist but you're overblowing things.
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by drcross 6y ago
It's got a stronger chance of occurring in the chip fab than in the CFO's office.
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by drcross 6y ago
Why not use a Raspberry Pi populated with several USB to console adaptors, there are USB console cables with up to four serial ports per connection which would result in 16 console ports per Pi.
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by drcross 6y ago
By viewers you probably mean "people they aim to track"
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by drcross 6y ago
It says more about the PR campaign than the people.
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by drcross 6y ago
It seems I have to repeat myself here. >He's a businessman, not a scientist This is the point that my comment refuted.
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by drcross 6y ago
How do you know they really know their stuff? Is it because they used a lot of words you're not typically familiar with? It's straight out of the "blind them with bullshit" playbook and the modus operandi for a lot of HN
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by drcross 6y ago
>But autopilot is explicitly a term for hands off operation. I see you've never skippered a boat.
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by drcross 6y ago
>But Musk as a human isn't so great. I would be very hesitant to criticise someone who has arguably done/will do more for the continuation for humanity than anyone else who has ever lived. Maybe it's your definition of &qu
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by drcross 6y ago
>He's a businessman, not a scientist How can you even say that? I've heard more scientific discussions out of him compared to all the other CEO's I've ever heard speak combined. Musk has a head for physics and numbers
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by drcross 6y ago
This is incorrect if the output measures lag the input.
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by drcross 6y ago
x64 doesnt excite me as much as Arm does at the moment, for power draw.
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by drcross 6y ago
I always downgrade people in my estimations when I see they correlate old with being bad without a good reason.
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by drcross 6y ago
Caveat emptor
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by drcross 6y ago
Watch his videos of don't. Make up your own mind.
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by drcross 6y ago
Specious comment because if SpaceX funds itself from HFT their goal is to make life interplanetary which is arguably the best thing to do for society.
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by drcross 6y ago
Musk has recently commented that his main goal for starlink is not to go bankrupt. Everything else therefore, would feed from that.
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by drcross 6y ago
While i'm not fundamentally anti nuclear the long lead time and high cost of installation surely makes renewable and battery storage a serious contender against nuclear at this stage, right?
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by drcross 6y ago
You're forgetting delays on the switch side like spanning tree checks, arp table population, DHCP. But yeah, there's no reason it shouldnt be improved.
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by drcross 6y ago
Same. I'm at 7680x2160 pixels but over two 24 inch screens at 60hz. Once you get used to it you won't go back.
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by drcross 6y ago
This is why I like the Tech Lead on Youtube. He's now retired but he encapsulated the typical engineer playbook we are all striving for, get highly educated, get a good job, be happy. From examining his outlook we can see that there ra
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by drcross 6y ago
Batteries being made today will last 30 years, the first 15 will most likely be in a car and after that in a house battery. In 30 years we'll have drastically different ways of coping with waste so this concern about recycling is such
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by drcross 6y ago
Starlink has its place but it's not anywhere close to reaching the terrabits that fiber optic can do.

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