istjohn

74 ms·

961.
by istjohn 7y ago
What could someone use 10^25 W cm^-2 light intensity for? It that enough energy to trigger fission and/or fusion in an appropriate target?
962.
by istjohn 7y ago
Slave labor built this country.
963.
by istjohn 7y ago
The difference is the mugger gets your wallet one way or the other. The only difference is if you survive to tell the story. The ransomware attacker is only rewarded if the victim capitulates. Edit: On the other hand, if the counter-factual
964.
by istjohn 7y ago
I'd much rather be locked into one app than be forced into an entire ecosystem.
965.
by istjohn 7y ago
Seems a little pedantic unless there are alternative ways to do fracking.
966.
by istjohn 7y ago
That reasoning is precisely how corporations get away with these crimes and why we should hold CEOs criminally liable.
967.
by istjohn 7y ago
It seems to me the question is whether the US market fuels investment in research in other countries.
968.
by istjohn 7y ago
In addition to slavery, American businesses have been behind exploitation and despotism in Latin America and Africa. American capitalism has certainly been brutal.
969.
by istjohn 7y ago
settlement_proposal.docx 2019-05-25_bachelor-party.mov GAME_OF_THRONES_S1E06.mp4 salaries.xlsx
970.
by istjohn 7y ago
If it's buried under enough dirt, there won't be enough oxygen for it to decompose.
971.
by istjohn 7y ago
I knew I knew that name from somewhere.
972.
by istjohn 7y ago
I can't speak to European law, but in the US, work-related emails of government employees are subject to Freedom of Information Act requests. Sensitive information, like health or education data of individuals is redacted before it is
973.
by istjohn 7y ago
I wouldn't think an email would be considered to be inside a "database system."
974.
by istjohn 7y ago
I've never come across this before. Thanks for sharing!
975.
by istjohn 7y ago
If it's holding back the country, it's a national problem.
976.
by istjohn 7y ago
Well, that doesn't sound great.
977.
by istjohn 7y ago
The hypocrisy! NIMBY is precisely the name for this entire thread of self-pitying heartless belly aching.
978.
by istjohn 7y ago
This is Hacker News. This project is perfectly targeted for the audience here.
979.
by istjohn 7y ago
The local university research hospital emergency room is busiest by far on Friday and Saturday nights due to alcohol-related incidents. NIDA puts the overall US national cost of tobacco use at $300 billion and of alcohol use at $249 billion
980.
by istjohn 7y ago
But this is only possible because regulators force the local provider to allow the distant provider to use their infrastructure at a fair price.
981.
by istjohn 7y ago
This is true. It is a subtle problem with carbon offsets that is hard to understand intuitively even if it's logically straightforward. It makes being a truly "Green" consumer difficult when a "Green" producer can t
982.
by istjohn 7y ago
That's why utilities like electricity and gas are tightly regulated to protect consumers.
983.
by istjohn 7y ago
> It's almost as if the theory that monopolies inevitably grow to take over the world has serious problems. That's a straw man. No one is saying monopolies are immortal. An economy where monopoly usurps monopoly, one after the
984.
by istjohn 7y ago
My family and I saw the Starlink satellites two days ago at midnight. They were twice as bright as anything else in the sky except the moon. It was surreal to see these bright points of light move across the sky in single-file lockstep moti
985.
by istjohn 7y ago
I feel like unless you are Microsoft, Google, Apple, or similar, you should opt for whatever is most intuitive to your audience, and that will be whatever convention is predominant in the other products they use. An analysis of the most rat
986.
by istjohn 7y ago
Slightly adjacent to your question, but I've thought it would be nice to have a Google Maps-like app that optimizes for fuel use instead of drive time or distance.
987.
by istjohn 7y ago
Sure, IF you know that you should be using datetime ^D^D^D pytz ^D^D^D dateutils ^D^D^D pendulum.
988.
by istjohn 7y ago
>100 years from now, all the conceivable software is going to exist that could exist, at least for 'business processes.' If your business is selling potatoes as a farmer to distributor, the software you need to participate effi
989.
by istjohn 7y ago
I just want to point out that "Companies are inefficient, but they get away with it because the market is even more inefficient." is not at all what GP wrote.
990.
by istjohn 7y ago
I tried a vertical monitor for a day once, but I found I ended up holding my head at an uncomfortably high angle too much.

More ›