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by dstorrs 14y ago
You get more for fixing the thread dispatcher: "Everyone in the company sees [your] plaudits and can pile on more unicorns if they agree that [you] did an awesome job." The only person who will be impressed by you helping Bob upload to Shar
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by dstorrs 14y ago
So..."the existing state of affairs" is outdated? http://www.thefreedictionary.com/status+quo
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by dstorrs 14y ago
1) The article writer completely missed Feynman's point. Feynman is talking about the nature of reality, not about society and its actions. If I say "bricks are nutritious" and the government forces everyone to eat nothing but powdered br
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by dstorrs 14y ago
> The people who do ask for it are obviously criminals. You're being sarcastic, but we're moving in the direction of "police need unlimited power to investigate, so let's make it illegal to ask for privacy". And yes, we're a long way o
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by dstorrs 14y ago
Jebus. Ok, I need to look into disk encryption (and maybe TrueCrypt) for my phone. AFAIK, there is nothing incriminating on it, but the cops can always find something if they really want to.
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by dstorrs 14y ago
Solar is a better bet for energy in near earth space as opposed to batteries. That changes as you go out to the Belt and Mars, but even then a radio thermal generator (RTG) is probably better. If you want to ship energy to Earth surface you
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by dstorrs 14y ago
Ten or fifteen years ago, they actually built a scale model of the Solar System up in up in northern Maine. As you drive north on Rt 1A, there's a particular rest stop with a shadowbox on the wall. Inside is a very small small sphere (siz
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by dstorrs 14y ago
Yep. It would also astound me if they didn't have at least some cyber-competent people in their organization.
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by dstorrs 14y ago
Yes, but the data on the server may still be valuable (e.g. to an identity thief).
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by dstorrs 14y ago
They may well be doing that in many cases, but we only hear about the occasional dramatic seizures. And the dramatic seizures may be prompted by internal politics -- some manager needs to show that his team is doing something in order to j
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by dstorrs 15y ago
The problem with this view is that if you look at the energy demand curve for the human race, there are only two long-term sources that can even potentially satisfy the demand: nuclear and space-based solar. Wind, geothermal, ground-based
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by dstorrs 15y ago
You think "space" and "everything you listed" are mutually exclusive? Not so. Products and technologies from space development end up benefiting us right here on Earth. Medicine? The software that was developed to do image-sharpening on
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by dstorrs 15y ago
Why is this being downvoted? It's not the popular view in these parts but it's a legitimate one and did not strike me as trolling.
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by dstorrs 15y ago
Galileo's argument is actually quite slipshod and is based on the ambiguity of language and the narrowness of what-we-commonly-experience as a slice of all-that-really-is. If Aristotle were right then the rocks would EITHER fall slower or f
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by dstorrs 15y ago
Several things: 1) They last a VERY long time as measured in "Internet time" 2) It's very hard to find examples of GOOD software patents. They tend to either cover too much (one click shopping), or they are really just math expressed in co
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by dstorrs 15y ago
SpaceX is launching things to LEO for about $5,500 / KG (which is $2,500 / lb) on the Falcon9, so it's getting better. Source: http://www.spacex.com/falcon9.php
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by dstorrs 15y ago
1) Building out sufficient solar power collectors to solve the Earth's energy problems forever. 2) Manufacturing medicines, alloys, and materials that can only be produced in micro-gravity. 3) Protecting humanity against social breakdown an
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by dstorrs 15y ago
Good point, but I would have said the big win with Tarsnap is the zero-effort encryption. It means that everything you send is safe, so you don't have to worry about whether there is sensitive data in some particular DB / directory / logfi
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by dstorrs 15y ago
Most clients (e.g. Irssi / MacIrssi) will handle logging. And you can have a bot do the logging for you.
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by dstorrs 15y ago
I'm impressed by the skill that goes into this but it doesn't seem like an even-handed technology -- it empowers governments, major corporations, and other large organizations more than it does private individuals. As a specific example, pe
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by dstorrs 15y ago
Fixed fee saves you from some issues and throws you square into the middle of others. Specifically, it means you now need a far more detailed requirements doc BEFORE you can start working (safely, anyway), and you need to manage changes muc
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by dstorrs 15y ago
Check out _The Mythical Man-Month_ for a refutation of this. Quoting from memory: - Nine women cannot have a baby in one month. - Adding more developers to a late project makes it later. The problem is that in order for throwing a thousand
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by dstorrs 15y ago
Mongo is specifically designed for horizontal scaling, so it makes it easy to establish replica sets and shards, and it includes an auto-balancer that will distribute your data between the shards. Pg (the database, not the guy!) can do muc
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by dstorrs 15y ago
>A poor tenant with a voucher is preferable, because the >government always pays the rent.) So we incentivize single- >parent households, which are more likely to remain in >poverty. Yes, there's an incentive here, but it
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by dstorrs 15y ago
BART: comfortable, fast, limited locations in the city but reasonably good coverage of East Bay and it will get you to the airports (SFO and Oakland). Price varies based on number of stops but roughly $4 to $8 is a reasonable set of bound
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by dstorrs 15y ago
A) Because every dollar invested in the US space program since inception has created about $7 of economic benefit to the consumer economy. B) (Related to A but worth mentioning separately:) Because the space program has led to major advanc
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by dstorrs 15y ago
I really want this to work, but it seems too good to be true, which bring my Dubious Dave side to the front: Sources: Avita Medical, Wikipedia, New South Wales Dept. of Health Image credits: Avita Medical If it's actually been successfu
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by dstorrs 15y ago
Here's a much simpler explanation: Because the cables cost $30 and revenue is good.
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by dstorrs 16y ago
For the love of god..."make nuclear power safe"? There have been...what, three nuclear plant failures EVER? Ignoring Chernobyl (which was caused by political pressure on the operators of one of the earliest plants ever built) there have be

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