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by ebbv 10y ago
Do you think that perhaps there were crickets because the people with the money/position to be able to take the bet have good reason to share your bullish view because they also stand to benefit from you being right? So they have to no
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by ebbv 10y ago
If you have a bad nation state actor wanting these exploits in place I don't think it's beyond reason that they would go to any steps. Imagine they could get a backdoor into every smartphone on the market by getting TSMC to manufa
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by ebbv 10y ago
This is really cool. It proves something that anyone with a reasonable amount of knowledge about hardware and software should understand intuitively; that the ultimate trust for any computing platform is put in the hands of not the hardware
874.
by ebbv 10y ago
No, it absolutely is not. Of all the ideas of how to power transportation in the future this is one of the worst. First, the idea that it is carbon neutral is absurdly wrong. If you're pulling the carbon out of anywhere but the atmosph
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by ebbv 10y ago
That's putting it mildly. :)
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by ebbv 10y ago
If your car gets hit to the point where you have to replace body panels it's not as mechanically sound any more as you might think. Only weird, edge case accidents can result in a body panel being destroyed to the point of replacement
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by ebbv 10y ago
> How common will electric charging stations be if it turns out that EVs can't rise above 10% of the total car market? One of the beauties of EVs is you don't need charging stations. I leased a Nissan LEAF 2 years ago, and it a
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by ebbv 10y ago
> Right now, electrics comprise a tiny part of the automobile market share. Yet Tesla is already running into supply issues, particularly with lithium as there are only 3 companies in the world that do industrial-scale lithium mining, th
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by ebbv 10y ago
You're talking about a $60k+ (realistically probably more like $80k) vehicle. Aluminum body panels for luxury cars in that class have long been similarly priced. If you bought an all aluminum Audi A8 in 1999 for a similar price, you&#x
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by ebbv 10y ago
I don't want to call someone I don't know a bad developer, but as a general rule if software is moving more towards safety and reliability and you are resisting that change that's a sign there's a problem with your habit
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by ebbv 10y ago
> Microsoft promised developers that Windows would run anywhere. This summer, it finally will. Bullshit. Versions of Windows that are all labeled Windows 10 are running in a lot of devices, and you can write applications that in theory
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by ebbv 10y ago
Because Google of 2010s is the same as Microsoft of the 1990s. The only difference being most of the tech world in the 90s realized how badly Microsoft was abusing their position and almost nobody complains about Google. Just to be clear; I
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by ebbv 10y ago
History truly does repeat itself. Shall we go over the shortcomings and problems with thin clients again? Network problems mean you are screwed. Even short of full on connectivity loss, if you're suffering congestion or packet loss f
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by ebbv 10y ago
Similar to the point that I'm sure it is a subconscious plagiarism. In other words, the person who created the logo had seen Reason magazine's and unintentionally channeled it when creating the new one.
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by ebbv 10y ago
He does but then he immediately hedges it every time by pointing out what he's done with it in the past. As if that were proof that Ruby is fast. I wanted to state it clearly with no equivocation; fast is relative and Ruby might be fas
886.
by ebbv 10y ago
"Fast enough" is a subjective, not objective term. For some things Ruby is fast enough, for other things it isn't. It depends not only on what you are doing with Ruby, but also how you are using Ruby. Just like any other tool
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by ebbv 10y ago
The title of this link is misleading. A former CIA spy (is that even confirmed?) claimed it. That's incredibly different from the CIA actually admitting it. Which is not to say I really doubt his claims (assuming it can be verified he
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by ebbv 10y ago
You shouldn't be "coding as fast as humanly possible", that's how you end up with bad, brittle code full of technical debt that will be a nightmare to maintain. Nothing's ever perfect. But code can anywhere in a spe
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by ebbv 10y ago
I've written a fun little OS X/iOS game in Swift 2.0 and found the language incredibly satisfying. Swift 3.0 seems to bring a ton of improvements including some of the bugbears I encountered during that first project. It's pr
890.
by ebbv 10y ago
So to summarize this article: - Agile is Dead because people abused it, so we should move on from the term. - Instead use the term Continuous Delivery. By the way this term doesn't mean anything, use whatever system you want. - Lots of
891.
by ebbv 10y ago
Like I said all evidence and logic leads to the conclusion he's a fraud, but it is a bit strange that the real Satoshi has not commented on this when he did on the Dorian Nakamoto stuff.
892.
by ebbv 10y ago
I said that exact same thing in literally the next line of the comment you're responding to. :)
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by ebbv 10y ago
One thing that gives me a little pause and makes me think maybe he is telling the truth (even though all other evidence and logic says he's a fraud) is that the real Satoshi has not put out a statement calling this guy out as a fraud.
894.
by ebbv 10y ago
Yes and some people will spend their UBI on weapons and murder people. Does that mean we try to figure out who's going to be murders so we don't give them any money? Some people have problems. That doesn't mean you scrap a go
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by ebbv 10y ago
This "article" is barely two paragraphs, and doesn't have any new information. There's a reason Art History majors working as baristas is a well worn cliche.
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by ebbv 10y ago
Those prices are dropping drastically too as manufacturers have been opening manufacturing facilities and the technology continues to improve.
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by ebbv 10y ago
There's a third possibility not many seem to want to consider; he's telling the truth and it turns out the real Satoshi isn't the benevolent genius everyone imagined him to be. He's a fuck up con man.
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by ebbv 10y ago
Digg died not just because it was a redesign, but because it sold out as part of that redesign. Built into it was highlighting the content of media companies, and elevating it above the submissions by regular users. Reddit has avoided get
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by ebbv 10y ago
That's because Bitcoin's value is entirely belief based (you can't do anything useful with a Bitcoin if nobody else believes it has value), so the whole thing is much closer to a religion than anything based on reason and log
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by ebbv 10y ago
I would go so far as to say anyone who brags about not using Google to look for answers (or looks down on someone who does so readily) is worse off for it. Nobody can know all the answers to every problem they will run into (this goes for a

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