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by greesil 5y ago
I took foreign language courses in high school and college. I couldn't actually communicate until moving to the country where they spoke it and living there for six months. Then I had to go back home :(
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by greesil 5y ago
And yet I pay $.55/kWH at peak times to PG&E. Ugh.
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by greesil 5y ago
SpaceX doesn't seem super interested in science, like you know probes 'n stuff. I would say that NASA was never super interested in reducing the cost to access space though. They complement each other very well.
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by greesil 5y ago
https://org.cs.pub.ro/dragos.tarcatu/llvmlinux/commit/058504... m->size must be of type size_t. It's slightly mind-blowing to me that casting to a smaller unsigned int can cause a vulnerability. But I
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Largest Naval Battle in History(en.wikipedia.org)
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by greesil 5y ago
Your literal blackout analogy falls apart pretty quickly when you consider that this story lives in the attention economy, a seething ocean of information all vying for our eyeballs. It's more like there's a town (with power) and
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by greesil 5y ago
It's more a question about the visibility of information, and HN increases visibility. HN originating content is irrelevant. News about Assange is niche, that niche is here. Lack of mainstream reporting might not be a vast conspiracy.
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by greesil 5y ago
But is it a blackout if it gets to the front page of HN?
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by greesil 5y ago
The last building I lived in was reinforced concrete. It was great, I definitely couldn't hear the neighbors, except I could still hear the people upstairs walking around in what sounded like tap shoes at 2am on Saturday nights. Some p
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by greesil 5y ago
unique_ptr is a conspiracy, man. You see, the people who make money off of mallocs (those corrupt DRAM manufacturers) want it to stay that way. Just follow the money.
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by greesil 5y ago
Yes but what is your profiler is a piece of crap, and the innovation is to modify it to suit your needs better? And, you take that engineer out to lunch who knows the most about it and pick their brains and come up with ideas.
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by greesil 5y ago
Lunchtime with colleagues is always the best for making silly ideas workable. If anything, the open office plan discourages conversation because shhhh some people are actually trying to get work done.
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by greesil 5y ago
Yeah but you can put a radar and nice camera on the 5' one.
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by greesil 5y ago
Sorry, I meant in general in HN, not anything specific to Texas.
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by greesil 5y ago
Consider the meaning of necessary vs. sufficient conditions. You're confusing the two.
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by greesil 5y ago
You're forgetting coordinating at scale, and giant piles of money for parallelization of the building the manufacturing infrastructure. You think regulation was holding us back? How about the infrastructure to make the vaccines?
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by greesil 5y ago
Operation Warp Speed had a pretty good ROI for the USA, no?
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by greesil 5y ago
It has become more political in the past year I've noticed. Oh well. And the same arguments over and over and over and over.
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by greesil 5y ago
Qui conturbat turbatores accingi
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by greesil 5y ago
I would voluntarily pay higher taxes for more services. How else would you purpose large infrastructure projects to be handled? It's precisely scale that's needed to get good ROI. Look up the word monopsony. Also consider the wor
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by greesil 5y ago
I mean, it was war. Conventions are nice, but my read on both world wars nobody actually cared, they just practiced tit for tat. The comment I was responding to made what I interpreted as a false equivalence.
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by greesil 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_weapons_in_World_Wa... The French used tear gas first, the Germans were the first to use chlorine. There's a big difference between these gasses.
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by greesil 5y ago
Yes, but less so.
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by greesil 5y ago
Are you a doctor?
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by greesil 5y ago
From your source: "The total government and private expenditures on education" It's not just public school. And the data includes preschool, which is notoriously expensive.
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by greesil 5y ago
E-commerce
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by greesil 5y ago
You only get that multiple if you're publicly listed. Usually for M&A the price is discounted from that, but this also varies widely by industry. Never do a hardware startup, for instance :)
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by greesil 5y ago
Hello id.4?
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by greesil 5y ago
Does it matter which organization actually carried out the orders?
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by greesil 5y ago
Probabalistic failure analysis is certainly something engineers do for determining system risk, else how do you determine how many redundant components to include? I seems like having a higher safety factor just means having a lower probabi

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