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by jbri 15y ago
There wouldn't even need to be any explicit throttling - when a site gets slashdotted or whatever everyone trying to access it slows to a crawl, but it's not because individual user's ISPs are throttling them. An ISP that was saturating its
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by jbri 15y ago
If the market was actually open for competition, then there would be alternatives and no-one would complain about caps, they'd just move to another provider. The fact that bitching about the caps is people's only option should tip you off
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by jbri 15y ago
I hate the term "first-world problems". It seems like every time it's used, it's in the manner of "I don't think this is an issue so I'll dismiss it by comparing it to starving children in Ethiopia". Corporations snooping on all your in
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by jbri 15y ago
The predominant claim is that the machine has already been invented , and a new input to the existing machine should not be patentable.
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by jbri 15y ago
I don't know about you, but personally I think "crack one person's password in one day" is a much better situation than "crack everyone's password in one day".
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by jbri 16y ago
People are giving away software. It's called piracy. Millions of dollars worth of software is being acquired for free. And yet Microsoft etc. don't feel the need to bully individual users into legal settlements.
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by jbri 16y ago
I think the difference there is that all of those are just storage devices - you can't just look at a DVD and see the movie, you already need a playback device in order to watch it. Given that, playing it back on the same device without hav
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by jbri 16y ago
This is an interesting standpoint, but I'm not sure I entirely agree. Ebooks have made vast strides recently, but there's just something about leafing through a book that they just can't seem to match. Perhaps it's the nostalgia talking, bu
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by jbri 16y ago
If you look at air show footage of planes flying inverted, you'll see that they fly with a pretty big angle of attack. It's similar to how a flat-wing plane can fly.
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by jbri 16y ago
As long as everyone plays by the game rules, any out-of-game interactions (such as agreeing to pool money and property) don't mean you're not playing monopoly any more.
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by jbri 16y ago
The "challenge" isn't to become a PGA golfer or anything like that. There isn't any predetermined mark of how "good" he needs to become in order to succeed. It's an open-ended experiment into how far 10,000 hours can take you. Setting one m
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by jbri 16y ago
It's interesting that the article looks at click-through rates for Google and Bing, and then concludes that Google's lower click-through rate means that people aren't finding what they're looking for. Except that for many searches, Google j
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by jbri 16y ago
Because if you want to take fuel with you, that's a lot of extra mass you have to lift. Which requires bigger engines and even more fuel.
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by jbri 16y ago
The idea is you charge a high price for other channels to show it immediately, but drop the price later on so that you can still get some revenue from channels that can't afford the initial price.
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by jbri 16y ago
Note that such "free licensing" for patents generally includes the stipulation that you waive your license if you engage in any patent suit against the patent-holding company - for example, the Red Hat promise includes the words: "Our Promi
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by jbri 16y ago
You guys know about the problem of climate change, right? You've read plenty about it, right? Because this whole "it hasn't caused an apocalypse yet" argument in favour of every-feasible-alternative-to-nuclear-power is just a tiny bit short
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by jbri 16y ago
Clean energy alternatives are not viable. And they won't be for a long time. Wind and solar power are inherently unsuitable for providing base-load coverage - you need to have sufficient generating capacity spooled-up and available to c
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by jbri 16y ago
Analog electronics have been used for simulation for a long time. Mainly for simulation of analog components. But trying to use an analog processor for discrete computation? While it could work, part of the point of digital electronics is t
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by jbri 16y ago
Breaking bonds does not release energy. Bonds are the way the are because they are (locally) the lowest-energy configuration for the atoms that are taking part. You need to put energy in to get out of a low-energy configuration. The device
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by jbri 16y ago
Earth receives about 1.3 to 1.4 kW per square meter from the sun (and that's before the atmosphere absorbs and reflects a huge chunk of that) - which is effectively an upper bound on the energy that can be produced by any solar power sour
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by jbri 16y ago
What alternatives can you offer? Solar and wind energy are not reliable enough to provide base-load coverage, hydro power is restricted to very specific terrain and has a devastating effect on local ecology, and really the only other option
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by jbri 16y ago
Perhaps the author was bored enough to go through and transcribe the whole chat log manually? I don't see any other way the double-capitalization of "WHat" would slip into a chatbot's output.
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by jbri 16y ago
You can click the "link" button next to the comment header to get a reply box regardless. Regarding this "wisdom of the crowds" crap, does the presence of a lynch mob indicate that someone was actually guilty? If masses of people swear by a
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by jbri 16y ago
I'm not sure what you're saying. Are you suggesting that because ignorant people think something is unsafe, that means that it actually is unsafe?
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by jbri 16y ago
There are serious limitations on what you can actually do on a GPU - some operations are terribly slow, and flipping back to the CPU to carry them out is also slow. They're great for embarrassingly-parallel simple operations, but once you b
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by jbri 16y ago
If you linked to the page with the button itself, and labelled the link something like "go here to sign up for the beta test of {awesomeapp}", you would probably get a massive number of people clicking it.
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by jbri 16y ago
I remember messing around with a (much simpler) 3D engine on my old TI-89. I'm honestly not surprised that high-end calculators have got the grunt to do this - it's not exactly HD video they need to render.
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by jbri 16y ago
And colour television is worse than black-and-white, too.
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by jbri 16y ago
Here's one way: The guy that tried adam@example.com, anna@example.com, berry@example.com etc., sending basically the same message to each, before trying ben@example.com is probably not a "potential client". Then you get into the spam-filter
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by jbri 16y ago
The issue, I think, is that government spending is really in a different boat to private expenditure when it comes to the effect on the economy. Trying to model it as "you spend $X in taxes to pay for that healthcare" is a drastic oversimpl

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