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by duaneb 10y ago
> Although I think they should have explained why they didn't use Azul Zing for this, I realize it's expensive but this seems like the exact use case for it. Azul Zing is extremely expensive for commodity hardware; that'
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by duaneb 10y ago
> It seems everything that makes food more profitable also makes it less healthy. There are two sides to this: it's cheaper to supply unhealthy food, but only when people buy it. Other brands (Whole Foods, Amy's frozen foods, a
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by duaneb 10y ago
> Who lost a job because of an Xbox game? Book authors, most likely. > I think you could argue that software like Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office are net positive on job growth. Yea, I can see that. It's still replacing
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by duaneb 10y ago
> A few years ago I made a vow to myself that I wouldn't work on software that puts people out of jobs. Arguably the whole point of software is to automate tasks that would have been done by humans. How do you avoid this when making
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by duaneb 10y ago
I don't believe he wrote the original fast inverse square root trick; but he is no less an inspiration for it.
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by duaneb 10y ago
> That would be like saying "we can't do journalism properly", because proper journalism is unbiased. I'm not entirely sure about this. Trump's been eating the media's lunch in interviews; perhaps a more bia
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by duaneb 10y ago
Yea, but not their own recognition of the bias (which is the useful part).
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by duaneb 10y ago
I think this is more of a refutation of "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day", not of the meal entirely.
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by duaneb 10y ago
If your internet connection sucks, or you need hardware access, or you're doing anything that requires a low latency, or you want to run the software locally for any reason, cloud VMs won't work. I can only imagine it working for
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by duaneb 10y ago
If you're giving every text message to a third party, it's not e2e encrypted anymore....
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by duaneb 10y ago
It's a little different as gmail is useless without search. This is an extension to messaging that nobody was asking for. Furthermore, email was never secure to begin with. E2E encryption has finally been making its way to devices; thi
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by duaneb 10y ago
> The bad news is that it took us so long to think of it and millions more might die of new diseases before we can finally get efficacy at scale out of these techniques. This isn't new, though, that's just reality before this d
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by duaneb 10y ago
I do think removing DRM would increase viewers in the long term: the data has always been the valuable part, and opening it allows innovation in interface, suggestions, and integrations. Unfortunately, it seems like netflix's desire to
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by duaneb 10y ago
They offer more than any comparable service.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Somehow I don't think that their hardware is as much an issue as their price point. As a developer you'd still be a fool (or just loaded with elbow grease) to attempt developing with a chrome book.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Well, sure the US has debit cards. But people use credit cards because they want the credit.
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by duaneb 10y ago
> If you use 50 as an example, he absolutely would not exist with his early mixtapes. You cannot release those on an official platform without running the risk of getting sued into oblivion. No label is going to back something like that.
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by duaneb 10y ago
> Nothing boils my blood more than someone referring to all short term loans as "payday loans". You must be into usury.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Sure. But for some number of trees planted, you WILL eventually displace the carbon.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Ultimately, what is "reasonable doubt" is up to the jury. I can't say I agree with the use of circumstantial evidence, but that's how the court works. Additionally, many people do get off based on lack of clear evidenc
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by duaneb 10y ago
College is far from a panacea for becoming accustomed to how an adult lives and interacts with other adults. American society encourages taking on massive debt, moving away from a support base, and tying social interaction to practices that
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by duaneb 10y ago
Why would planting trees not work?
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by duaneb 10y ago
The whole point of them is to block analytics domains. If you don't value their users that's your problem.
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by duaneb 10y ago
> Apple's, among other streaming services, has impacted this music negatively, and whether you are a fan of rap music or not, it does set a precedent that affects all styles, genres, and tastes of music. I don't share this inte
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by duaneb 10y ago
Depending on your needs, that may be sufficient. It's certainly much simpler if you can tolerate a higher rate of downtime.
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by duaneb 10y ago
I think it's unrealistic to think the average human can generate more (or even equivalent) capital than a custom-built robot.
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by duaneb 10y ago
What would you have used as a deciding factor? Often times circumstantial evidence is all there is to work with.
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by duaneb 10y ago
> I would have thought you would have had to write a program to do it. Oh, definitely, but drawing itself was a primitive. With Javascript you need html, css, canvas.... it's a damn nightmare.
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by duaneb 10y ago
> When the margins on x86 cross below that of ARM chips, Intel will come in and destroy all the ARM manufacturers. Unless the world has moved on. Profitability happens over time, so even declaring a market unprofitable may shut you out f
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by duaneb 10y ago
...none of these are "turn on and play". For any of the above, what's the command to draw a triangle?

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