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by javert 11y ago
This is quite helpful, but it does not answer the question of why they don't switch to larger blocks now if most of the devs are in favor of it. You also have to get the users to switch, in particular miners and exchanges, so therein m
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by javert 11y ago
> I think the more likely near-term result of a really smart car is that they do a single-core RMA for the mission critical systems and include a failsafe for when the non-hard-real-time AI system fails. I agree with this. The question
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by javert 11y ago
> It is not an OO language That seems really outlandish and obviously flat-out wrong. I assume, then, that you have good reasons to have this contrarian position, and I am really curious to hear what they are :). When I think of C++ I th
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by javert 11y ago
Yes. The research and technology certainly exists in academia, though I don't think it has really been commercialized. Whether it's actually going to be better in practice is going to depend on your workload and hardware, but RMA
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by javert 11y ago
This appears to be from 2003. For people who are interested in this, there is still a lot of very interesting research being done in real-time systems. I don't think in garbage collection in particular, though. Rather, the interesting
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by javert 11y ago
Problem is, the only decent quality machines I've ever had have been ThinkPads. I'm afraid of paying big money for a high-end machine from some other brand and having it turn out to be somewhat of a lemon. Of course there is alway
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by javert 11y ago
If I were a Lenovo shareholder I would be glad to see that the company is trying to maximize earnings.
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by javert 11y ago
Wow. This is a big deal I hadn't heard of. Coming after Superfish, this is totally unacceptable. Leonovo is working REALLY REALLY hard to lose loyal technical customers. Imagine doing a clean install and still finding crapware installe
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by javert 11y ago
> in the public domain ... and for everything else, there's the library. :)
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by javert 11y ago
But they are similar in that they are both totally based on fiction. They are made up laws that serve no purpose. (Except to employ enforcers---but that isn't why they exist. They exist because people believe the fiction.) I should hav
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by javert 11y ago
> Indeed, a slap on the wrist applied very rarely to those white collar criminals unfortunately politically unconnected to face punitive actions and another government initiative that also rarely applies any sort of punishment to the ri
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by javert 11y ago
You are absolutely right. "Insider trading" is like the war on drugs.
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by javert 11y ago
You are attacking a straw man.
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by javert 11y ago
This story is a victim of poor reporting and translation. There is a reddit comment that clears it up and is extremely fascinating in its own right: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3fztzt/tokyo_
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by javert 11y ago
This comment is abusive. It's also patently untrue. I will not respond further.
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by javert 11y ago
I was complaining that it is "yet another time scale," which is not something we need. That it's arbitrary is also true, but not the thrust of the criticism. I realize it may not have been obvious that that was the thurst of
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by javert 11y ago
There is no need for a new time reference at all. That's the point. If someone actually needs to say "before nuclear testing," which is very rare, they should say "before nuclear testing."
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by javert 11y ago
No alternative needs to be suggested. There is a common time scale we all already agree on and use every day.
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by javert 11y ago
Rather than responding to my point intellectually, you instead accuse me of being abused as a child and state that perhaps the death of one of my loved ones would "fix" me. There is nothing in my posting history that would even re
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by javert 11y ago
I'm aware of that. > "present" is actually a standard date: January 1, 1950 which is an abuse of the English langauge, since "present" actually means "now." Scientists should not overload pre-existing E
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by javert 11y ago
People enjoy the games, they pay for them, those payments accure to employees of the company and eventually investors who make it all possible. So the whole goal of the business is literally creating happiness. The investors, having produce
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by javert 11y ago
Too bad he is still wrong about a lot.
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by javert 11y ago
Of course it's the right way around. Wikipedia has, basically, what it needs. I don't see how throwing more money at Wikipedia is going to accomplish anything.
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by javert 11y ago
If you're looking for something extremely low risk, you're only going to make a few percent. (I'd be thrilled to learn that I'm wrong on this.) So, may not be worth it if you have other costs or people you have to share
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by javert 11y ago
I've never looked into treasury notes. Am I right in interpreting this graph as showing how much you would make holding treasury notes over a one year period? So roughly between . 05 and .4 percent? Point being that it's not neces
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by javert 11y ago
If I were a VC and my money were being used to repay kickstarter backers instead of me, I would be pretty pissed. I wonder if there is more to the story. Maybe the company is pivoting.
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by javert 11y ago
I'm pretty sure I could make money if I had $470K to hold on to for 11 months. Of course, I could just get a job, that would be easier.
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by javert 11y ago
His point is that it was an attempted bait and switch. The fact that they failed and refunded the money doesn't change that. They purportedly promised one product and worked on a different one.
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by javert 11y ago
The only thing you can't do is aggress against other people. Google has the right to spread whatever it wants as long as it is not aggressing against other people in doing it.
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by javert 11y ago
France's attempt to censor Google is an act of aggression against Google and all of its users. So, you are wrong. The cynical thing is for France to aggress against the entire free world.

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