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811.
by emn13 9y ago
Glass backs. Blech.
812.
by emn13 9y ago
Apple has used Sony sensors repeatedly. I can't remember an iphone without one, and some googling shows that the past three generations (6, 7, 8) have used sony sensors. If anything, flash is a poor bet for apple. Sure, there's
813.
by emn13 9y ago
Oh, I don't think there's any doubt it would be terrible for consumers if apple bought Sony. But as I read it, the article suggests it would be good for Apple to buy Sony. And that's a little more plausible. Although histo
814.
by emn13 9y ago
Being able to take pictures quickly does depend to a considerable extent on the quality of the sensor; getting all that data off of it isn't trivial; and analyzing it to pick a focus and other settings is similarly hard to do quickly.
815.
by emn13 9y ago
Given the injustice of justice, "wrongful" won't do much. "Unreasonable" would be a better standard. E.g.: have a retrospective sample of cases analyzed and ranked by independent reviewers; punish those deemed unrea
816.
by emn13 9y ago
That's sane sounding. But given how poor people are at dealing with low-probability, high-impact risks, the more individual levels of risk probably should have some formal guidance and/or legal requirements imposed by the the lay
817.
by emn13 9y ago
Yeah, that's a neat case in point (and illustrates nicely that there are cases where async is super-valueable!).
818.
by emn13 9y ago
In some really abstract way: that makes sense! But the problems of a widespread long term power outage sound like something a centralized preparation could cope with at least as effectively, if not more so; partially because it can simply b
819.
by emn13 9y ago
Yeah, and the devil is really in the details there; not all context switches are created equal. If you're dealing with less than (rough ballpark) 1000 requests per core per second, there's just no way context switching is going t
820.
by emn13 9y ago
Since outer space is still cold, that temperature differential always exists. But to transfer heat, the system uses water vapor, and that is not relative. If the whole system is warmer (and still firmly below absurd extremes such as boi
821.
by emn13 9y ago
And it's totally normal in dynamic systems for even tiny buffers to have huge impacts on how the whole system behaves. It's sort of like saying having a network stream buffer is pointless because the complete transmission doesn&#x
822.
by emn13 9y ago
Simultaneously, people overestimate the costs of threads, and underestimate the efficiencies they provide. At extremely high loads, they become an issue, but it's quite rare. And at normal loads, threading is (IME) often simply more e
823.
by emn13 9y ago
...and there's no doubt that warm ocean temperatures are a requirement for hurricanes; so making the assuming that a warmer waters overall nevertheless won't affect hurricane frequency and intensity is at the very least weird enou
824.
by emn13 9y ago
His comparison of wetland absorption and rainfall is comparing apples to oranges - if his numbers are accurate in the first place; which given the lack of citations and a piece that clearly is trying to prove a point, I think is an unreason
825.
by emn13 9y ago
I seriously doubt this is going to damage vicious speed freaks driving 8mph, pretty much no matter what it's made of.
826.
by emn13 9y ago
They'll use nails then.
827.
by emn13 9y ago
One way this is beneficial is that it allows them to steer e.g. the evolution of stuff like https://www.ampproject.org/learn/who-uses-amp/amp-ads/ Some ways of implementing fast (mobile) loading have the pote
828.
by emn13 9y ago
Not always. If a firm wants to avoid that, it's not too hard to do so - it's got to make sure that the transfer was customer initiated, because those aren't necessarily reversible. There are other exceptions too, some of whi
829.
by emn13 9y ago
It's a lot less open than html; and the development is clearly steered by platform companies, and thus is unsurprisingly biased in their favor, over that of lots of other stakeholders. I don't think AMP would have a snowflakes cha
830.
by emn13 9y ago
Well, why AMP, and not plain HTML? It's pretty clear at this point that AMP isn't any faster than simple HTML, and some of the limitations are clearly shift control (and advantage) to platforms like google, away from the hosting
831.
by emn13 9y ago
I read that: the point is that 2.4bn just isn't all that much given what it does to the value of the company. It's probably a risk worth taking as long as you can get away with it. And yes; that means you'll need to eventua
832.
by emn13 9y ago
Google's revenue is all about data collection. If they can't collect lots of data, the whole business model is a lot more questionable. In the face of that, 2.4bn once is a trivial fine; consider that that's something l
833.
by emn13 9y ago
I'm not so sure. And it's not just ad-targetting - all kinds of personalized stuff and simply general purpose data mining suffer too. And don't forget that they wouldn't get the full 4% immediately; and would likely be
834.
by emn13 9y ago
Nevertheless, a 4% fine is very low, given the low frequency of fining. Tech firm margins are much larger than this; so while it's clearly unethical to do so, it may be more profitable to simply accept the fines as a kind of tax for a
835.
by emn13 9y ago
In the case here, the lawless actions have repeatedly been demonstrated; and the speech promoting them isn't vague in the least. I agree that there should be some limits on what can be censored (although really, I'm not sure this
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by emn13 9y ago
Yep. And a whole host of other speech is illegal too. And the world isn't failing quite yet. And I have no doubt that the precise details of exactly where you draw the line between what is acceptable and what is not isn't alway
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by emn13 9y ago
So I'm fascist now, really? I guess I better change my mind faced with this reasonable objection.
838.
by emn13 9y ago
Incitement to violence isn't necessarily protected speech in the US. The boundary is of necessity vague. IMNSHO: arguing that free speech should be absolute is almost tantamount to arguing it is irrelevant. Isn't the point that m
839.
by emn13 9y ago
Note that even if everyone were equally able to strategize, doing so would reduce efficiency: after all, to strategize students lie about their preferences, and the lottery takes those lies into account. It's the garbage in; garbage
840.
by emn13 9y ago
...and that would reduce efficiency again. It's not at all clear that the loss of efficiency from false preferences is smaller than the loss caused by students getting each others preferences. In fact, the article is a little too kind

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