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by duaneb 10y ago
> How would that break any laws? It's essentially doing a commercial mesh-net of sorts, like many are already doing in Europe and elsewhere. I believe—depending on the municipality—if you knowingly and explicitly share internet with
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by duaneb 10y ago
Failing/losing money in what time frame? That makes all the difference. If the time frame is "now", you might be right, but investors typically want some type of return....
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by duaneb 10y ago
I can safely say I never look at my keyboard.
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by duaneb 10y ago
> One advantage, from the point of view of someone that likes using C++, is being a safer programming language. How so? Last I checked swift doesn't have garbage collection (but does have refcounting, which is nearly as good, but
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by duaneb 10y ago
Unless you trigger on control alone (e.g ctrl + ctrl). This is super frustrating.
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by duaneb 10y ago
How is the memory management? That was always the downside of objective-c. Does it allow aliasing memory? If not, I don't see a huge amount that it actually improved over C++. Why should I use swift for server stuff over c++/go&#x
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by duaneb 10y ago
SpaceX doesn't need to compete in a consumer market, though.
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by duaneb 10y ago
To my understanding, capsaicin is in the flesh around the seeds, but the seeds themselves are not spicy and tend to add sweetness. Is that correct?
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by duaneb 10y ago
Well it's still influenced by the Iowa caucus, which they ignore.
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by duaneb 10y ago
That's reductive, even if it does indicate the competitive edge tesla has.
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by duaneb 10y ago
This is open source but not free software. Open source is still better than closed.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Yea, but it's also plaintext. Super easy to tap, if I understand correctly. Still, I prefer it to isps snooping.
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by duaneb 10y ago
I find them rather comforting, oddly enough. It's the humanity that terrifies me.
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by duaneb 10y ago
This is so much easier to say if you're not a historian. "What if" scenarios are invaluable. You might as well say we should have killed him. Easier said than done!
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by duaneb 10y ago
At the same time, declaring unilateral war against hitler would have been stupid.
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by duaneb 10y ago
It's orthogonal to centralization. Abstracting your infrastructure allows you to easily replicate infrastructure providing the same services. This is only ironic if you expected moving to the cloud to be what provides the redundancy.
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by duaneb 10y ago
> push/pull operations. Exactly what I need: the opportunity to merge when trying to read my email.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Yes, but beware, they (at least used to) resolve unknown names to a page filled with ads.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Really, your main argument is that it's ugly? At least address the design concerns outlined by your parent post. Also, I believe SF buses are generally electric except to cover excess load. In any case, how do you expect people in the
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by duaneb 10y ago
This is true. But I also remember being sick of that rule by age ten. Competition is very necessary to enjoy the game.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Stepping through code is only useful when you know where the code diverged from your expectations. If you proactively log well enough, you sometimes understand the state of the program well enough to bypass the debugger completely. If hope
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by duaneb 10y ago
Seems like it would be much more expensive than the elastic demand model used now unless you used the guarantee.
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by duaneb 10y ago
> The term made into pop culture from parents who were physically showing up to college classes and arguing with lecturers on behalf of their children. No, it came from a huge variety of behavior. I've never even heard of the above
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by duaneb 10y ago
Maybe internally such situations translate to a termination anyway.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Agreed. Refactoring tools would help address compiler concerns quicker, however.
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by duaneb 10y ago
> Don't look at some crufty apache product, but look at medium size business apps... What do you think those medium sized business apps are built off of if not things with JVM dependencies? It's not so simple.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Perhaps because "true AI" is an illusion. There is always a better term that has meaning. And yet people like Ray Kurzweil toss the term around as if it does have meaning. What's the point unless you define it? You might as w
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by duaneb 10y ago
> America's voting system is undemocratic and next to useless. If you're discarding the definition of 'democratic' where citizens vote on government, no country in the world is democratic. Representational democracies
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by duaneb 10y ago
While a flexible battery would be really cool, I thought flexibility was a major problem for lithium ion.
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Has this stopped?

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