eurleif

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by eurleif 12y ago
Where is the DC ultimately coming from in this scenario? Is the whole grid high-voltage DC, or what?
482.
by eurleif 12y ago
Well, it's not clear whether Google is buying the rights to the product with their $1MM, or if they're just offering the prize to spur innovation.
483.
by eurleif 12y ago
Amazon releases the client side of their API as open source. And none of their server-side code is available at all, so Eucalyptus is obviously not based on that. Seems different.
484.
by eurleif 12y ago
But since when are ISPs contemplating adding an extra 20-30 seconds of latency to connections?
485.
by eurleif 12y ago
>It will also avoid investing in payment systems or in mobile wallets, which require ultrafast transaction times to make sense. WTF?
486.
by eurleif 12y ago
You would want all that information for the purpose of proving the program was at fault, right? What if the company behind the software was automatically liable for all accidents? Wouldn't that answer that?
487.
by eurleif 12y ago
It's a reason to develop mobile Web apps instead of native mobile apps.
488.
by eurleif 12y ago
The comment you replied to said that it "should" be possible to work more without being taxed more, not that it "is". So what's your point?
489.
by eurleif 12y ago
The halting problem is solvable for a program which is known to use finite memory. It's only unsolvable on a Turing machine because Turing machines have infinite memory.
490.
by eurleif 12y ago
Stop trying to get an ought from an is.
491.
by eurleif 12y ago
Well, their slow response time is presumably because that's the best they can do.... how would you improve on it?
492.
by eurleif 12y ago
It's limited to pictures of people, but MyBestFace sounds like what you're describing. https://www.okcupid.com/mybestface
493.
by eurleif 12y ago
Somehow, in the context of Stephen Hawking, this joke seems a bit insensitive.
494.
by eurleif 12y ago
>I've been told repeatedly that we can't be told what is required under the NSLs by their very nature(despite being overturned by the Supreme Court). NSL power is defined by law, and is limited to metadata, not content. I suspe
495.
by eurleif 12y ago
NSLs and warrants are completely different things. Warrants are (or can be) for the contents of messages, and must be signed by a judge. NSLs only cover metadata, and only require an FBI agent's signature. An NSL is a type of subpoena,
496.
by eurleif 12y ago
> Google has a direct financial gain in fighting them Wait, what? Google has a direct financial gain in fighting warrants? How do you figure?
497.
by eurleif 12y ago
>The only thing objectively "wrong" about his opinion is that it is unpopular. Don't confuse disagreement with subjectivity. Racism is objectively harmful, and typically based on factual beliefs that are objectively false.
498.
by eurleif 12y ago
I think it's quite convincing once you know the scientific fact that dragging an object requires half the work on wet sand. What's the alternative: that the Egyptians did at some point drag objects on wet sand, but that they didn&
499.
by eurleif 12y ago
I like this part, in reference to a painting that shows water being poured on the sand in front of a sled: >“In fact, Egyptologists had been interpreting the water as part of a purification ritual, and had never sought a scientific expla
500.
by eurleif 13y ago
Why do the two courts have such different opinions? It seems surprising to me, especially since Supreme Court justices and Federal Circuit judges are both appointed by the President.
501.
by eurleif 13y ago
The post linked to by this post now says: >Update: As of version 36.0.1966.0 this has been removed. Iterate quickly!
502.
by eurleif 13y ago
>is raw_input the same as stdin? Yes. $ echo foo | python -c 'print raw_input()[::-1]' oof
503.
by eurleif 13y ago
Even if the mindshare isn't directly valuable to Microsoft, it's valuable to Google. Keeping Google from getting it should have been more important than squeezing every last penny out of Skype.
504.
by eurleif 13y ago
If this were true, why would Apple have been developing it in secret for so long? 1) If the point was to wait until it was perfect, why did Apple release Siri first? Siri would no doubt tie into Found, so the lack of Apple's perfect se
505.
by eurleif 13y ago
Regardless of Google's plans for the cars themselves, if people are freed from having to watch the road, they will probably use most of their newfound free time to stare at a screen. That benefits Google.
506.
by eurleif 13y ago
> iso.add(Shape.Prism(new Point(0, 0, 0))); How come the constructor for Point uses new, but the constructors for shapes are just called as regular functions?
507.
by eurleif 13y ago
Sounds like something some people would sign up for. If you compared the injuries between multiple people with similar effects, I wonder if it would be possible to find a way to reproduce it?
508.
by eurleif 13y ago
If something remarkable happened to you, wouldn't you write a book about it? Do you have any reason in particular to doubt his honesty?
509.
by eurleif 13y ago
Is it possible that's more to do with people testing over WiFi than with the speed of Google Fiber itself? It's hard to tell a lot about the data, since they only provide averages.
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by eurleif 13y ago
Seems like riders would become a huge problem under that system. I guess you could try to make them unconstitutional, but a rider is hard to define; it seems like you would always be able to sneak unpleasant but tangentially-related things

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