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by hanbura 9y ago
The effects on prices are quite bad, but the pendulum always comes back in the other direction two. Every GPU shortage leads to the second hand market getting flooded a few years later with used mining GPUs. So in effect we get short term p
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by hanbura 9y ago
All of twitter, simplz gz compressing the firehose stream, is at least 4tb/month. Likely more
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by hanbura 9y ago
>I also doubt humanity will find a way to travel fast enough to get to another solar system within a human lifespan. The next solar system is only four lightyears away. Given the will to break nuclear test ban treaties we think we could
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by hanbura 9y ago
Swatting is clearly harmful intend that goes way beyond wasting police resources.
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by hanbura 9y ago
According to German law those T&C are meaningless for just browsing the website (they neither ask you to agree nor offer the possibility of reading the terms in advance). And as long as you aren't acting as a business, those &quot
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by hanbura 9y ago
I have written a few web services in the past where this kind of isolation would have been great. Services doing file conversion of untrusted input with software that isn't hardened for that case (in my case converting PDF to png and p
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by hanbura 9y ago
>An "expensive" hash function like scrypt provides both the user and the attacker the same slowdown/cost multiplier. That's not true. Scrypt is designed to make computing it in parallel on the GPU expensive while keep
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by hanbura 9y ago
Node-RED is described as a tool for connectinh IoT devices with applications, but from a first glance it seems like a quite compelling If-This-Then-That alternative, even without IoT devices. Does anyone have experience using it?
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by hanbura 9y ago
>Self-driving, solar cars solve all problems of mass transit and are far cheaper, since they use existing roads. They don't solve the arguably most important issue: road capacity. A bus that takes the same space on the road as 2-3 c
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by hanbura 9y ago
Why should driving be a harder problem then being a universal assistant (Siri's promise)? Siri's potential problem field is huge, driving is a well defined, limited problem field.
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by hanbura 9y ago
High-density housing with shopping and offices in walking distance would be massive steps towards solving Americas transportation problem. But this goes against the current US culture, so I'm not holding my breath. Better public transi
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by hanbura 9y ago
Maybe today, but with demand (and thus potential profit) for grid-scale storage increasing we see a lot of promisimg research in that area. Li-Ion is engineered for completely different tradeoffs, so there's massive room for improvemen
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by hanbura 9y ago
You can regulate a nuclear plant between ~50% and 100% output in a matter of minutes by adjusting the control rods. That's very limited compared to most other options, but obviously much better than solar or wind.
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by hanbura 9y ago
We could provide the world's total energy needs by covering a small portion of the Sahara desert with solar. We are not running out of land anytime soon. There is also a practical limit where wind energy takes too much energy out of we
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by hanbura 9y ago
They changed a lot of pixels in a way that led a human to classify the image as not notably changed but led one AI to classify it as a different type of object. Of course the same thing is possible with human and AI reversed, there are imag
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by hanbura 9y ago
All the alternatives are perishable. Food and Water last a few days before going bad, making them unusable for trading caravans or well-off settlements (those you will likely buy from). Ammunition is better, but for something that can be s
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by hanbura 9y ago
>the Tesla big battery responded four seconds ahead of the generator contracted at that time to provide FCAS (frequency control and ancillary services), the Gladstone coal generator in Queensland. I find it curious that a coal plant woul
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by hanbura 9y ago
Alt-Coins don't have astronomic price increases, are far less accepted by merchants and have far less backing from the finance industry. In short, most altcoins are neither useful for investment nor payment. Which is a shame, because t
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by hanbura 9y ago
At most (all?) exchanges you trade with currency that's already deposited at the exchange. So you can only create a buy/sell order if you gave them the coins to fulfill the order instantly. The current situation makes arbitrage l
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by hanbura 9y ago
Why shouldn't it be valid? As a European accessing US servers I also have to comply to US anti-hacking laws. The only limit is enforceability.
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by hanbura 9y ago
The cookie law makes perfect sense: most uses of cookies don't require any notification, only "invisible" tracking cookies need that.
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by hanbura 9y ago
Your cars battery is cooled instead of being abused as a heat sink, is nearly never emptied, and uses a battery chemistry that doesn't degrade when fully charged. Smartphone battery degradation is indeed a consequence of design choices
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by hanbura 9y ago
>there should not be a crappy "back cover" which "pops" open. If you do that, you've made a fragile piece of crap with no water resistance I'm quite happy with my Samsung Galaxy S5 mini. It is fully waterpro
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by hanbura 9y ago
[citation needed] In any case, here the intended meaning was clearly "technical ability", which doesn't require morality
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by hanbura 9y ago
JSON is not javascript, and you can write valid JSON that isn't valid javascript (using unusual line seperators) No JSON standard restricts the range of numbers (except for universally prohibiting NaN and infinity, making JSON numbers
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by hanbura 9y ago
The word day is ambiguous, but calling it 24 hours is not perfect either. A 24 hour period can include leap seconds, meaning it can be one second longer or shorter than 24 * 60 * 60 seconds. (At least that's how ISO8601 defines time pe
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by hanbura 9y ago
It is exactly the length of a civil day in TAI (International Atomic Time). It also happens to match almost all civil days in UTC-derived timezones (with the exception of leap seconds, daylight savings, and timezones switching to a differ
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by hanbura 9y ago
I can't Google the name right now, but this does exist as an optimization technique. Just start with any program, create random permutations, score them for correctness and performance, keep the best ones, repeat. The problem is that t
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by hanbura 9y ago
That depends highly on the local employment laws. In Germany being fired for refusing illegal or unethical tasks screams for unlawful termination. That means a court case, which means the unethical request will become public knowledge. That
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by hanbura 9y ago
Those people wouldn't vanish from Twitter, they would just choose a slightly more subtle username.

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