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by j1vms 8y ago
Another interesting one is Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France), fully contained within the eastern maritime borders of Canada. (edit: It is within Canadian exclusive economic zone which are international waters, not sovereign territory). [0
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Never too late for them to make a go for it, even today. But, to avoid alienating their huge existing developer community, they would first do well to get behind Mono [0] and maybe even, make it official (edit: Mono is "Sponsored by Mi
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China’s Plan to Sideline Bitcoin(bloomberg.com)
3 points by j1vms 8y ago|1 comments
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True, though MSFT is at their all-time peak.
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> I'm not sure Nvidia is in trouble. Investors who overestimated their future performance. The problem is that management did not do enough (as far as investors were concerned) to temper market expectations. It may have been they
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by j1vms 8y ago
Well, guess Intel's thinking "there's always Microsoft (Azure)." I don't think it's settled which of Azure or AWS captures the most market share in the next decade. AWS has a lot going for it but MS is coming
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by j1vms 8y ago
> New Jersey is not New England. In case anyone else is wondering, New England is (geographically) Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Every state north/east of New York state.
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The Dawn of Photonic Crystals: An Avenue for Optical Computing (2018)(intechopen.com)
1 points by j1vms 8y ago|0 comments
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by j1vms 8y ago
> why we even needed the Avogadro constant / mole as a fundamental constant(...?) It serves as a link between human-scale and atomic-scale observations, classically needed for chemistry performed on Earth by humans. This link must
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by j1vms 8y ago
Thought for a moment I read IBM Enterprise Linux 8 Beta, anyone else?
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by j1vms 8y ago
> ... be a large enough company that your internal operations make it too confusing to work out who to prosecute But as illustrated in Breaking Bad season 5 (the Madrigal situation for those who have watched it), things don't necess
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by j1vms 8y ago
In case anyone is interested, Carver Mead's 1990 seminal paper on the subject [0]. It's a fairly accessible read, and covers the power/computational efficiency trade-offs on the spectrum from natural, biological systems to m
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by j1vms 8y ago
Except that eventually a growing number of participants will start to barter where they can, and then someone will come up with the idea of a issuing some liquid token to facilitate things when bartering is not possible.
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by j1vms 8y ago
Lest we forget the warning that was Cloudbleed [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbleed
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by j1vms 8y ago
> They are selling for $0.1 an account. The important part is why it's 10 cents an account. Most of the accounts are worthless to them. They are looking for the 1 in 10000 that is worth much more. Security, security, security...
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by j1vms 8y ago
Think you'll get a kick out of this scene from Halt and Catch Fire: https://youtu.be/XOR8mk0tLpc?t=54 [0] [0] Sales call scene with Joe and Gordon in Halt and Catch Fire: Season 1 Episode 1 [1] https://en.wi
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by j1vms 8y ago
One word: SCO. It's amazing if you consider how differently this sort of acquisition would have been viewed, way back during the SCO v. IBM [0] era. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group,_Inc._v._Internatio
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by j1vms 8y ago
Thanks. Great result, surprising for 1877.
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by j1vms 8y ago
> there are only three objects satisfying this criteria: the real numbers themselves, the complex numbers, and the quaternions. Does a proof exist that these are the only three of such objects?
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by j1vms 8y ago
Possibly of interest to others, Jacquard Loom also inspired a song by Boards of Canada: https://bocpages.org/wiki/Jacquard_Causeway
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by j1vms 8y ago
> though it still leaves the door open for non-local hidden variables, such as De Broglie–Bohm theory Though non-local hidden variable theories need to be reconciled with special relativity lest it be possible to transmit information fas
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by j1vms 8y ago
Are you suggesting that either wave collapse does not occur, or that instead of wave collapse, that there is a wave "narrowing" which is imperceptible to the observer (who observes it as a particle)?
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by j1vms 8y ago
> what is a mainframe and why would I want one? Very roughly speaking, a mainframe is to a CPU what a supercomputer is to a GPU.
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by j1vms 8y ago
Don't tell anyone that thinks A/C comes at a high environmental cost, anything about what would be needed to make Mars viable for even a single person to stay there. They might blow a gasket. Forget about if we get to building
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by j1vms 8y ago
> I think it's hard being at the top and maintaining global order. You get blamed for everything and you get credit for nothing. Being at the top (say, a superpower in today's world) means you enjoy at least an order of magnitu
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by j1vms 8y ago
> The US currency is backed by the US economy, due to it being legal tender (i.e., form of payment) for all debts governed by US laws. This is true. The demand for US currency is driven by demand to access good and services (or even to
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by j1vms 8y ago
Which is not all that surprising in light of Canada having hosted some sites for the Manhattan Project [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project#Canadian_sit...
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by j1vms 8y ago
> without knowing about the hardware guts or theory. And so it should be (for the vast majority of the HW's users). The better the work done by the people below, the more hermetically with which the abstraction can be interacted fr
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by j1vms 8y ago
AFAIK, p-adic quantum mechanics has shown some promise in treating aspects of the "physics of infinity". It is the application of p-adic analysis to quantum mechanics. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-adic_
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by j1vms 8y ago
Not related to the geological aspects, but Spinal Tap's account of what happened at Stonehenge is the most plausible. https://youtu.be/qAXzzHM8zLw

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