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by fivesigma 10y ago
I want drug research (and approval) to _not_ cost billions of dollars per drug just to justify the salary of a few bureaucrats.
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by fivesigma 10y ago
If the market were free drugs would be commoditized, like aspirin. The reality is: * As a pharma company you can't compete because another player is holding the patent for decades * Governments around the world will indirectly spend tr
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by fivesigma 10y ago
Not US specific: * Ridiculously long patent validity periods. Let's put aside the fact that patenting a fucking molecule is even a thing, 20+ years is way too long a term to guarantee profit to a private corporation. Enforced by govern
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by fivesigma 10y ago
Cloudflare is a major source of centralization. The more providers offer something like this, the merrier. I understand that this isn't a layer 7 solution, but that has it's downsides as well - Cloudflare (or any other reverse pro
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by fivesigma 10y ago
I love atom, I use it daily and it is my editor of choice for web stuff. But think of how many software abstractions/levels each line of atom code has to go through. I mean, each keypress probably produces in the order of 100 million C
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by fivesigma 10y ago
Agreed. JS on a website that is otherwise not an app has its use cases ie. tabulated data, search, filtering, realtime data etc. But a static website displaying a simple article has no fucking business running any code other than HTML/
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by fivesigma 10y ago
Spiral arms aren't static objects, they are a denser region of the galaxy as stars pass through them. There's also a small speed variance between different systems, so on average it all evens out. Then there's dark matter whi
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by fivesigma 10y ago
>Can someone explain to me how Ethereum fulfils the "dream of having a truly decentralised web"? It doesn't. It's hyped up bullshit. Every Ethereum node runs the exact same code (single threaded too) with heavy comput
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by fivesigma 10y ago
More like, "Half of websites having problems in the EU". Cloudflare is that big.
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by fivesigma 10y ago
>WPA/WPA2: 3177.6 kH/s 22.5 minutes (11.25 on average) to crack a randomized 8 hex digit password that a good number of wifi modem/routers come with (mine certainly did)
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by fivesigma 10y ago
This is disturbing. What happens once they are able to wipe SMART data? Is that even possible?
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by fivesigma 11y ago
Here's how it could be done: Spin up a hefty AWS instance and connect to every single IPv4 IP while sending a HTTP get request on successful connects with a Host matching that of the domain. There are only 4 billion IPs. Look for succe
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by fivesigma 11y ago
Let us hope that the IoT buzzword doesn't get abused as much as "cloud" has in the past 4-5 years.
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by fivesigma 11y ago
Both velocity and gravity (distance from the nearest planet/star) affect time. It does, but the difference is negligible unless we're talking about the surface of a neutron star.
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by fivesigma 11y ago
Tried that, didn't work. My guess is that Photoshop ran some kind of script that re-enabled it. I went to great lengths trying to gracefully disable all the CC crap before I gave up and rm -rf'd every damn file/directory cont
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by fivesigma 11y ago
On OSX with just Photoshop CC installed, there's around 10 adobe related processes running at any given time, all the while making connections and sending data to both adobe and non-adobe (CDNs) IPs. And that's AFTER you disable a
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by fivesigma 11y ago
Success = selling hyped up "smart thermostat" for $3.2 billion
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by fivesigma 11y ago
That would be 10^80 which is much, much larger than 2^80. Unrelated, but 2^80 isn't that astronomic when it comes to computers, considering that the entire Bitcoin network has performed 2^84 hashes.
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by fivesigma 11y ago
I guess they were unable to grok responsive design CSS practices, even at a $1b valuation. Case in point of some people who get it: medium.com
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by fivesigma 11y ago
Who would've thought that blog posts about the evil patriarchy cannot generate enough revenue. Also the fact that tumblr blogs look like they came straight out of 2006. We have mainstream 24-27inch screens with 1920 horizontal pixels n
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by fivesigma 11y ago
I bet most of those users are on mobile networks. The need is very apparent: every mobile device needs to have internet access, and there's a lot of them with more being activated every day. Mobile providers don't have enough IPv4
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by fivesigma 11y ago
Nice PR misdirection, Tim. Apple is the kind of company that will skimp on updating base storage to 32GB on their €650 smartphone because it might reduce their margins by 0.001% (number pulled out of my behind but you get the idea). It cert
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by fivesigma 11y ago
TL;DR version: If there's any quantum phenomena going on in that device, it is only happening within the 8-qubit domains and not between them. Bonus food for thought: how much more of a speedup factor would an ASIC farm provide compare
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by fivesigma 11y ago
Thank you Intel for disabling ECC capabilities on consumer grade CPUs. With smaller and more dense DRAM chips every year, it takes an even smaller amount of disturbance to flip a bit. ECC needs to go mainsteam yesterday.
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by fivesigma 11y ago
I do not accept the legitimacy of arbitrary region restrictions. It is still the moral thing to do and much faster/easier than torrenting.
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by fivesigma 11y ago
10000% by mass is a more accurate figure and since you like dimensional scaling, that's 364% scaling. The GoFast Rocket weighs 350kg. Scaling it by 35% (1.35 ^ 3) would make it weigh 861kg. The rocket you mentioned weighs between 30 an
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by fivesigma 11y ago
A 160km altitude cubesat would require a minimum 7.8km/s of delta-v. Anything less than that and it will burn up in the atmosphere after a few orbits. GoFast Rocket achieved a top speed of 1.6 km/s (3580 mph). It needs to go 4 tim
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by fivesigma 11y ago
The difference between such a ballistic trajectory (1/5th of escape velocity) and LEO is huge. >you don't need to scale "go fast rocket" up by that much My napkin math says you need at least 2 orders of magnitude more
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by fivesigma 11y ago
The inverse square law is a bitch.
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by fivesigma 11y ago
Because then the IPO underwriters (big investment banks) wouldn't be able to make a shitload of money on top of their IPO fees.

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