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by ethbro 6y ago
Not an expert, but the doomsday peak scenario seemed predicated on no fundamentally different oil sources becoming available (e.g. shale). As it played out, fracking technology matured, and a lot of additional supply was "added" o
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by ethbro 6y ago
I forget which contrarian this stemmed from, but it was probably linked on HN previously. There's a larger reason most central banks print money: most countries are debtor nations. If you are a debtor nation, and you have the option to
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by ethbro 6y ago
> > firewall settings, routing rules, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates > These things are more or less configuration, basically files that exist on the above. Part of the different perspective feels like managed cloud vs on
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by ethbro 6y ago
> We never had an income tax in the United States before WW2. Revenue Act of 1861 Wilson–Gorman Tariff Act (1894) Revenue Act of 1913 (and the Sixteenth Amendment)
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by ethbro 6y ago
That's the point. A mess in plain sight is a mess that gets resolved. Microsoft seemed to think shoving everything into a junk drawer was a better solution.
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Counterspiracy?
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by ethbro 6y ago
I would not be surprised if > 10% of people are unable to figure out where they downloaded it. The Downloads folder is a scourge that never should have been allowed to exist. Where should something be after I request it be moved to my
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by ethbro 6y ago
The closest I can describe is that it felt like I watched Blade Runner (director's cut), enjoyed and was invested, and then at the very end Deckard said "I'm a robot" and killed Rachael. I've debated this at length
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by ethbro 6y ago
What particularly irks you about the gameplay?
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by ethbro 6y ago
Ex Machina is one of my least favorite films of all time. The ending was an incredibly simplistic way to resolve the questions they brought up.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Explicitly explained 'robots can't feel emotion' tropes actively creep me out. It feels like moral abdication. Here's a thing that walks and quacks like a duck, but don't worry about it being a duck, because we tel
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by ethbro 6y ago
The original Deus Ex is still an approachable and fun game from a gameplay perspective, because so many of its gameplay choices became mainstream. And the story? Timelier every year.
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by ethbro 6y ago
I think most postal routing does something akin to (initial read) -> (write machine readable code) -> (internal mapping of code to location) -> (physical routing). And if it falls off the fast-path, remote human transcription is us
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by ethbro 6y ago
Postal magic is weird. I feel like we all remember the examples when something went awry, but rarely stop to think about the times it surprisingly goes right. I had an Amazon package divert across the country, before falling into a black ho
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by ethbro 6y ago
No idea if relevant in your situation, but postal companies are crazy good at mapping indicators to physical addresses. F.ex. high-throughput OCR in the 1960s! [1] To look at it another way, they were one of the first companies with access
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by ethbro 6y ago
The fact that some state doesn't mandate medically sound guidelines doesn't absolve Target, as a company, of not setting a better example. They're legally free to enforce whatever policies they want to put in place at their
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by ethbro 6y ago
That a government administration that failed to appropriately staff and retain employees finds itself unable to enact emergency policy in a timely and complete manner? I am shocked!
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by ethbro 6y ago
> > Target doesn't have any kind of social distancing policy so it was business as usual, no lines or anything. > That's definitely state by state, fwiw. Is it? As an employee of a T10 US retailer, I'm pretty sur
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by ethbro 6y ago
Point not being that subscription is not a lot of money. Point being that expecting someone with that level of disposable income to having savings that allow for capital expenditures (instead of amortized subscriptions) isn't likely ei
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by ethbro 6y ago
Subscription fee exhaustion seems an odd concept to me. Do people actually say "A service delivers me value for its price, but I already have too many subscription services, so I won't use it"? It seems an ironic perspective
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by ethbro 6y ago
Why don't we see more OS-level integrated remote computing in the Chromebook category? I get Google started it to run their webapps. But it doesn't seem technically infeasible to package and sell a set monthly subscription price,
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by ethbro 6y ago
I meant what I said. > since 2010, Facebook (the product, not the engineering team) has delivered little value to society That requires a different rebuttal than 'to a user.' If we rewound to ~2010, froze Facebook at its then
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by ethbro 6y ago
> If amazon copied all your proprietary data, you would almost certainly never notice, no criminal law would apply, and you'd have a hell of a time proving it in a civil suit. For a thought exercise, let's play this out. Amaz
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by ethbro 6y ago
It seems reasonable that lipid encapsulated viruses are fairly stable in a variety of temperature ranges, no? On the other hand, I can see the additional environmental UV saturation and vitamin D having a noticeable effect. Even a small dec
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by ethbro 6y ago
Nobody contests that. The negative outlook instead seems to be that since 2010, Facebook (the product, not the engineering team) has delivered little value to society. And at this point, seems to have ossified into a form that lacks the agi
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We'll see. Yahoo grew revenue too.
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> ps. I think the solution here is to teach more critical thinking in schools. 100% percent agreement. Specifically, as its own course. How this is not part of every democracy's required curriculum for at least 2 years (class in
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by ethbro 6y ago
The USAF employs averages in all kinds of interesting ways! "How US nuclear force modernization is undermining strategic stability: The burst-height compensating super-fuze" (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Undershoot and
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Or to put it another way: geeks fall in love with capability, but everyone else wants utility.
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I think this is what VLIW exposed. Real world optima are a union of hardware, microarch, compiler, and software optima. Even a global optimum for one is unlikely to be an efficient solution for all.

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