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by extropy 6y ago
That's rover directly to earth, when reconnaissance orbiter is used to relay it's around 2 mbit to orbiter.
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by extropy 6y ago
Relative time (in five minutes) without relativistic speeds is actually uniform. The is no observable difference to either participant. And there is no concept of now in a significantly distant location. Related video: https://yo
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by extropy 6y ago
She both did and did not until we observe :p. And even that is not correct. Events happening propagate with speed of light - the event horizon. We can predict we will receive information of something happening, bit that's just predicti
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by extropy 6y ago
Publicly disclosing the algorithms would drastically increase the pace of gaming them and resulting in pay to play system where the fanciest SEO wins. Google and Facebook partially relies on the obscurity to keep the fighting the spam battl
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by extropy 6y ago
Australia thinks they can extract value from news aggregators. There is the argument that showing news snippets next to the link is what you bare paying for. But otherwise it's a pure media money grab backed by the government.
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by extropy 6y ago
This is a tricky balance. No google are not profiting from borrowed content. You can always deindex yourself by robots.txt or otherwise. It's just google is providing a huge value to the market and content creators have gotten lazy and
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by extropy 6y ago
The problem is that true random is quite expensive without dedicated hardware and you can still easily bias true random if you are not careful. IMO there is no use of true random unless you really know what you are doing. Also there is true
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by extropy 6y ago
Need to have lava shields for that.
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by extropy 6y ago
SpaceX initially planned to have 5 laser links per satellite but settled with 4. That's 4 separate lasers maintaining contact with 4 neighboring satellites. The two in front and back are nearly stationary. The sides are constant moving
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by extropy 6y ago
a = 5 b = 5 a = a ^ b = 0 b = a ^ b = 5 a = a ^ b = 5 You where saying?
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by extropy 6y ago
Right and someone at the board meeting will ask - what if we dropped that 10B annual patent fee.
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by extropy 6y ago
GP probably meant maintenance fees: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maintenance_fee_(patent) Would be nice to see increasing annual maintenance fee. 1K for first year 3K for second, 10K for third and so on. After 6 yea
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by extropy 6y ago
What's wrong with attaching said microchip to a piece of copper for increased size? Genuinely curious. To be useful in a data center you could cool a slab of copper the size of a fridge and surface mount thousands of chips on it.
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by extropy 6y ago
IMO it reads they will not be sharing any WhatsApp messages on your Facebook profile publicly (for others to see). But says it will be used (shared) internally to target ads and product suggestions. Very weasely indeed.
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by extropy 6y ago
Not buying this. There must be a backdoor for lawful access or the government's would have been after WhatsApp long time ago.
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by extropy 6y ago
Or just use the lite version? It removes the heavy features like descriptors and reflection. More details: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/referenc...
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by extropy 6y ago
The DJI drones that can do that are significantly larger. A 250 gram DJI mavic mini can do 30 minutes and with significantly larger propellers. The efficiency goes down with smaller blade sizes (more losses to vortexes) so from the photo 20
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by extropy 6y ago
Gecko is old and, while still in use, is being actively replaced by Servo for last 3 years.
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by extropy 6y ago
It's the information it contains about the composition of billions of tons of similar material that is still back there. And then some of that price goes towards technology advancements for future missions.
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by extropy 6y ago
Elbrus is very much security first chip/OS for Russia. With primary goal to avoid any western IP. The performance is probably ~5 years behind industry standard and price is probably 5-20x more. But that's fine, when the only buyer
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by extropy 6y ago
Defense against cold boot attacks? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack
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by extropy 6y ago
Nah, the human eye has only ~5 MPix worth of sensors, most of them grayscale at that. We just need inexpensive eye tracking and foveated rendering. https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/cameras-vs-human...
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by extropy 6y ago
That's organizational incompetence not technical one however. IMO there is no good fix for that past certain company size.
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by extropy 6y ago
I will bait too, as someone who has stood in line for male toilets in a Google office. In the office I was in there where generally 1 sitting and 2 standing seats per male toilet. The standing one are quick in / quick out and almost al
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by extropy 6y ago
The concept of identifying information being sufficient for identity theft is so weird for me as a EU citizen. Can't we please finally separate identification from authorization in US?
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by extropy 6y ago
The problem with protect and conserve is that is leads to limited resources mentality. "There is not enough to go around" becomes ugly very fast. https://mobile.twitter.com/robert_zubrin/status/1013477057
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by extropy 6y ago
Hydrogen starts to make sense when we have 200% overproduction of solar/wind energy. Assuming energy is essentially free Methane synthesis would be a more viable option IMHO.
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by extropy 6y ago
The second obviously. On serious side, Tesla definitely could implement a security check if it's rebooted and there is no network connection on startup. Obviously not when already driving.
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by extropy 6y ago
There is very likely small print in the contract stating subject to cell coverage availability. Also beyond warranty period IMO it's reasonable expectation the owner pays for any upgrades.
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by extropy 6y ago
Everything is measured by if he can deliver. A superstar with leadership skills is arguably a better superstar. You can also have asshole superstar who just needs other people for dumb labor. And who can micromanage them to project success.

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