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by frongpik 6y ago
The state I was thinking about is stable electron configuration. If an atom has two such configurations, and can switch between them, that's one bit worth of storage.
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by frongpik 6y ago
What do you mean? I thought atoms in crystals are well localized and only oscillate around their average grid position.
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by frongpik 6y ago
One more reason why JS must be off by default and enabled selectively by uMatrix.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Oppression -> safety measures.
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by frongpik 6y ago
The twitter replies are rather interesting. Regarding tests for "software engineering fitness", one simple test for abstract imagination would be very predictive: ask the candidate to imagine a 3x3 grid with digits, tell the digit
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by frongpik 6y ago
Tbh, I think that in the near future we'll figure how to flip one bit worth of information in a single atom, perhaps with a high precision magnetic field, and use crystals to store amounts of data we don't have prefixes for yet.
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by frongpik 6y ago
First thing that comes to mind is the scientology cult: almost legal opaque organisation with the most fishy activity conducted on the three "sea org" ships that don't belong to any jurisdiction. Someone really wants to make
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by frongpik 6y ago
Well, my employees are on special non-transferable visas and they can't just change jobs. In fact, it only takes me a call to department of labor to get any of them deported.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Such a law would give competitive advantage to evil businessmen who will own these plantations. Imagine you run a sandwich shop and pay respectful salaries to your employees. Then I open a shop across the street, but use slave labor, pay ne
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by frongpik 6y ago
Serfdom, rebranded as something related to high tech. And there will be enough desperate people who would fill these zones. Tata consultancies and the like hire echelons of h1b workers from India and China and those workers may never see a
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by frongpik 6y ago
What counts as drug trafficking? Carrying weed across county lines?
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by frongpik 6y ago
No, that's a lie. Manifest v3 is carefully designed to allow spying, but prevent blocking.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Management is usually made of middle aged experienced people with really good speaking skills who have lived in the country for a decade or two at least. I suppose that the migrants in germany meet none of these criteria.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Very cool. How's uBlock Origin support? It's funny how these days I have to check before upgrading that uBO won't be crippled.
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by frongpik 6y ago
I wouldn't bother insuring against crashing into a car thats so rare. Otherwise I'd have to insure myself first against bear attacks, lightning strikes and high energy cosmic particles.
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by frongpik 6y ago
People keep saying this about WSB. Is it just the abrasive language they use?
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by frongpik 6y ago
That's really clever to tie taxes to the declared scope of IP rights. Would be good to get this idea seen by Sanders. RIAA would do just about anything to stop this law. Right now they claim that a downloaded song (without their permis
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by frongpik 6y ago
I find it entertaining that lsd and mushrooms is a no no in the US, while drugs like Ambien that often cause somnambulism are "safe" to treat sleep problems.
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by frongpik 6y ago
The value of a shiny new Veyron. Once it's driven off the dealership premises, its value begins a free fall to the ground. I'd be surprised if an average veyron is worth more than 300k.
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by frongpik 6y ago
What's "white privilege"? A secret spell that a white dude from a trailer park can pronounce to summon wealth?
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by frongpik 6y ago
With UBI, it's going to be difficult to extract labor out of people who aren't desperate. Without UBI, the same set of people will revolt one day. I think these are the choices being considered.
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by frongpik 6y ago
We must be watching a budget 1 star movie. In the first half of the movie, the action takes place in a casino. Players have figured how to win the rigged game and the casino is losing big money. Managers have to drop the pretense they follo
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by frongpik 6y ago
TVs will sign a deal with telcos that the latter give access to 5G to certain GUIDs hardcoded in TVs.
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by frongpik 6y ago
What matters is the lower 50% (aka the poor) get to see, for a brief moment, how the machine really works. WallSt will get their way this time, but I doubt those people will just live as usual with the gained knowledge.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Ultrasound 3D scanners is a thing.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Iirc, 5G is going to solve this problem: TVs will directly connect to a 5G network, without bothering the user with WiFi matters.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Well, in this case the ToS will be a contract one needs to "digitally sign" in order to open an RH account. RH would simply claim that its customers didn't have to accept the terms, regardless of how bs those were. I'm n
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by frongpik 6y ago
In other words, the secret sauce of a scalable, in terms of people, software project is the lack of any clever bs in it: such a project uses only boring predictable patterns in everything.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Don't the ToS include a waiver of taking any legal action against RH, class action suits in particular, and a binding arbitration clause in case you really want to make some noise?
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by frongpik 6y ago
I don't. Part of the reason is I'm ok with a small chance of a few thousands dollars bill, but a bigger reason is I don't trust insurers: their standard contract would first explain how I have no rights and then add that if I

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