harry8

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by harry8 3y ago
>You are not going to win going head to head with the entrenched competitors. Linux, (not big and professional like gnu), is not going to win but could find a niche somewhere. Hm, ok.
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by harry8 3y ago
Especially so a utilities provider such as gas.
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by harry8 3y ago
Ok this conversation can get pretty silly, let's try to avoid that. Now at 2023 we have lifted more people out of poverty and ill-health in both raw numbers and as a percentage of the population than any time in the planet's histo
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by harry8 3y ago
> I'd rather take the risk of... But not on your own network or your parents/friends whoever. You want others to have that pain, as a policy decision, right? It's reasonable but worth clarifying.
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by harry8 3y ago
>Having a software unlock for hardware you already have (but didn't pay for in the price). Fine. Ok as long as /any/ end run around that garbage made by the car's /owner/ is specifically: legal, legitimate a
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by harry8 3y ago
This is good advice imho. Away from things that can be automated and are important you have a checklist and tick things off with a pen. Add $this to the list. Atul Gawande is worth reading in general and on this topic. [1] He turned it into
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by harry8 3y ago
>assume you build a tower 120 meters I think the more popular approach is to use a deep hole, like a mine shaft. Maybe depth measured in kms. Because you're suspending from above you might be able to get a bit heavier than 60 tons.
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by harry8 3y ago
Sure and all of that is coming out in public with people's names and reputations attached to it. So we're certainly not behind on any of those issues. I say there are very real benefits too.
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by harry8 3y ago
>It's a shame that these papers were published before they were polished by the authors. Saying nothing about these specific papers, in general I disagree strongly. I find the peer review process to be extremely flawed. If you get a
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by harry8 3y ago
> He's closer to Sheldon Cooper than he is to Feynman. Ouch. I don't even know much about Scott Aaronson and yet I felt that one.
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by harry8 3y ago
>A bit like nobody wants to be subscribed to half a dozen video streaming services yet here we are. Are we? That surprises me. I sure don't. I figured nobody watches that amount of tv & movies to justify that. And at some value
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by harry8 3y ago
Swimming in Sydney Harbour is also possible. They did it for a leg of the triathalon in the olympics a couple of decades back. Wouldn't recommend though, there's a lot of bull sharks in there and they're kinda aggressive. Net
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by harry8 3y ago
Given how horrifically bad people are at interpreting pie charts, that does not bode well for treemaps. "[Pie] charts are bad and that the only thing worse than one pie chart is lots of them" -Edward Tufte https:&#x2
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by harry8 3y ago
what score change +/- should there be for bragging about having "... 55 US patents"?
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by harry8 3y ago
"I'd advise tempering the transistor-based optimism with just a skosh of fusion energy skepticism." --Pohl Longsine Nice phrase, useful many places and I might well do that. (Unless objections are raised).
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by harry8 3y ago
As soon as you consider google no longer does search but instead is a "suggestion engine" it all makes a lot more sense. Sadly.
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by harry8 3y ago
Paypal are terrible and should be closed down. I had a paypal account. They demanded copies of my govt. ID. I refused and said close the account. I only ever used it to make payment to web shops using my credit card. Paypal refused repeated
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by harry8 3y ago
No mention in your criticism above that bringing genuine e2e encryption to the masses in a way that is actually used by billions of people had not been achieved and many thought was totally impossible until Moxie went and did it. Once you a
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by harry8 3y ago
You're pretty new at HN judging by your account. It's clear to me in numbers that other people understood that post I wrote in plain english, as they have what I write for years here. You didn't? And you were pretty rude abou
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by harry8 3y ago
Interesting. Did he have anything to do with "Glass Onion" other than a Zoom cameo playing among us alongside Angela Lansbury & Stephen Sondheim? edit: imdb says no, I guess that's authoritative?
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by harry8 3y ago
It's exactly this attitude of desperately wanting to believe the police that ensures minimal accountability so it continues. I want to as well but is it really possible as soon as you start looking a bit harder at the situation? J. Edg
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by harry8 3y ago
>The Silicon Valley style of “fake it till you make it” business is dishonest. And is lapped up by all the mass media contributing to Musk building a brand to rival Mercedes while spending $0 on advertising. It's quite something, is
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by harry8 3y ago
>really comes down to being statistically literate A lot of people writing scientific papers aren't statistically literate. It also seems that what was considered first rate methodology even a decade ago is now considered deeply unr
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by harry8 3y ago
Same reaction, only I thought of Amazon not learning. Gotta be a non-zero chance this person is loving going back to the publicity well. But yeah all of it is speculation really, right? There's no facts here you'd bet large sums o
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by harry8 3y ago
Only law abiding people follow the law too, what's the point of them?
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by harry8 3y ago
No. You need pay nothing nor indeed take part in intellectual life at all. But at least your abuse made for a change from the usual "this is Markov chain authored" in response when someone rightly abuses the CIA which really seems
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by harry8 3y ago
I think it's your english that is at issue here today. Try a little harder. :)
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by harry8 3y ago
It's a huge hypothetical when you imagine the possibility of something that has zero evidence and in truth seems pretty unlikely. Snowdon not a hero. Whatever your prior, it has been updated with a lot of data none yet pointing that di
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by harry8 3y ago
I recommend you put up convincing evidence that this is all that the NYT log about visitors because I don't believe that and it sounds a bit, well, glib to be honest. I don't read the nyt fwiw. Moreover I recommend you have a slig
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by harry8 3y ago
You can always justify behavior that causes someone else cost. Like the NYT with all their spyware? Both queries are reasonable ones to make. A spies by default without proper consent, B blocks by default without consent. Is this optimal? C

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