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by dwoozle 7y ago
They could have also ended it when he got his cancer diagnosis.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
So you should be able to do things like un-GPL code you’ve published?
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by dwoozle 7y ago
That’s fiction...
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Do you really need a botanist on board? I would think you need space travel / survival / engineering hands on deck who then gather samples and bring them back. A botanist isn’t going to be able to do much on Mars that she can’t do
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by dwoozle 7y ago
If the conclusions here are as statistically robust as they seem, why wasn’t this published in Nature or Science?
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Well, this died.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
And I’m sure that China could just block or otherwise disable this app or just go kill the protesters if they wanted. But that’s not what they wanted. They wanted Tim Cook to drink a cup of Xi’s diarrhea in public and Cook happily did it.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Jeez... when Apple loses Gruber you know they’ve fucked up. But what can they do? Generations of greedy American CEOs handed over the reins to China and turned them into a superpower. And now we’re all fucked.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Well Facebook is just a user of compute, not a seller of it. Google and Amazon sell compute as a business. The incentives are different. Facebook, despite its size, will never be a large fraction of Linux usage, so they are much wiser to be
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by dwoozle 7y ago
The motivation is a Japanese fascination with order, perfection, and presentation... nothing to do with humidity.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Japanese humidity is a bit of nonsense. Places like Florida, India, Singapore, and Brazil all have much higher humidity.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Having a demographic you “hope to hire” should be flatly illegal.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
That’s a very weird take. That’s probably one of the highest value problems to solve in the entire economy.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
You’re mental if you think that this is normal. We’ve been on a huge bull market since 2008. It’s not due to Obama or Trump but Obama got credit and got re-elected and the same will happen with Trump.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Myself, the planet where a president with a stronger stock market and unemployment than when he entered ~always gets re-elected.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
50 years ago we could have squashed China like a bug. Instead we singlehandedly turned it into a superpower. We needed Trump’s China stance in a normal person five decades ago.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
China is successfully extending their censorship regime to US companies who are gladly accepting it. All because 50 years ago pro-business deregulationism got us $50 million CEO bonuses, $100 TVs, and gladly turned China into a superpower.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Few “great men” are psychologically well-adjusted. Their poor adjustment is what creates the friction that causes them to reshape their surroundings.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Any notion of why the Earth has only one moon and other planets have hundreds?
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Probably fewer than 10% of Harvard graduates could tell you anything substantive about Millard Fillmore’s presidency. He isn’t covered here either.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Nobody should get credit for inventing something in secret. You make your decision — invent for corporations or the military industrial complex and get the big bucks or the jingoistic frisson, or for academia and get the accolades. No way a
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Larry Niven is still relevant while Millard Fillmore is not.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
I did that too. I felt cool for saving someone’s life but then three blocks ahead they were doing it again so I figure I probably only gave them another few weeks on Earth.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
It’s amazing how much information we ignore. I used to volunteer at a nursing home and I was pushing a blind lady down the hall and she said “this room is mine.” I asked her “how did you know?” And she explained that she could hear the rece
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Yeah, many cryptographers forget about the XKCD “hit him with this $5 wrench” approach that governments can take.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Sure, they didn’t engineer for the feel of the click, and you are evidence that there’s a market for it. Car manufacturers get this — flip the windshield wiper lever on a S-Class Mercedes and it feels completely different from doing it on a
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by dwoozle 7y ago
In every market in human history, increased convenience has led to increased transaction volumes.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
And what was his 100 hour work weeks fueling a drug addiction leading to an early death all for? A flash in the pan Trivia fad which is all but completely forgotten.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Not really, overengineering is bad engineering.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
LOL, they’re not Martians. They knew what it meant and just wanted to flex their quality.

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