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by jfoutz 9y ago
Just lead every review with “in spite of Disney’s well documented animosity toward th la times, we were ultimately permitted to view a pre release version of the film. We have done our best to provide an objective review. We hope that you,
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by jfoutz 9y ago
That's fine, but all other things remaining equal, there's not as much revenue coming in. So, you need to raise capital gains tax and income tax in some proportion to retain the balance. Does that still seem easier? Alternatively,
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by jfoutz 9y ago
how do you cope with something like gossip in consul when you have a host <-> nat <-> internet <-> nat <-> host setup? the last time i tried, gossip would send a udp packet from something other than port 83
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Debugging nat. it's, well, unpleasant. ipv6 has a whole lot more address space than ipv4. it obviates the need for nat. i think the standard deal is a /64 for your router. you can roll addresses every half hour forever, if you wan
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by jfoutz 9y ago
> I support things that go against that common grain, such as ipv6nat. > ipv6nat Die in a fire while stung to death by scorpions and your eyes are eaten by spiders. No. that is too much. You are my fellow human, i don't wish that
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I have an unpopular view, that physics is probably the easiest science. Chemistry is harder, biology is even harder. Heading up the chain into social sciences is just unbelievably hard to get good answers. With physics, you can build a mach
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Not really a joke is it? Only got the syntax because of the sun deal, I thought.
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i'm an idiot. by distance you mean something more like a pure scalar value. if you double all the secret constants in the universe, we can't tell the difference.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
so the earth is twice as big, but the same mass? seems like there are some detectable changes there. but maybe you're increasing mass in a really tricky way. it'll need to be more than double to have the same effect. at a given di
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I can't imagine how difficult it would be to be that sensitive to aluminum. I handle so many aluminum objects every day, it seems impossible i wouldn't consume some tiny amount daily, accidentally. Not to mention baking powder and
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by jfoutz 9y ago
> Just as a universe where all distances are multiplied by two is indistinguishable from the current universe. Uh, wouldn't you have a speed of light problem? I think most of the fundamental forces are all inverse square laws, which
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I don't know for sure, but i do know rad hardened electronics are a lot more expensive. Older gear with bigger gates, slower clocks, all that stuff is more tolerant of a stray cosmic ray. which you'll get all the time in space.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Not intended as a slight against nouveau. I’ll spare you a political rant.
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Nvidia can play the game however they want. But they were not pushed into that situation. Their choice, they get to own it. I think it’s a fair comparison.
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I find it amusing your argument is YC doesn’t scale.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Some classes were crazy powerful, and others weren’t. It was easy to get into a situation where one player would dominate the game. And not really on purpose. Now the classes are much more even. Everyone gets a chance to shine.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I'm probably misremembering the specifics, but i think you could have up to 24 open sockets. That was pretty special.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
For model rockets at least, if the center of pressure is lower than the center of gravity, lift from the fins will straighten up the rocket. it can be confusing because the lift is pushing sideways (aligned with the fin) rather than up. Pro
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Ev Williams was a big part of blogger, right? I vaguely recall Elon Musk being part PayPal as well.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
My vague understanding is hermeneutics is interpretation + context. so, for a programmer 1 + 1 could be 2, or it could be 10, depending on what layer you're working at, and how you're choosing to represent things. and that's
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Two conditions. Each widget is customized in a unique way, and 10000 exceeds the capacity for customization.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
You're right. Newshour is notorious for heavily biased poorly researched 'news'. What little i've seen of the BBC is pretty shameful as well. We're fortunate in the western world to have a free press that delivers s
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by jfoutz 9y ago
> we're still reeling from thalidomide Wasn't that one of the FDA's big victories? Perhaps you mean the FDA is far to powerful because of that win. I can see some argument for abandoning the efficacy requirement, and only
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Probably 1960 or so. Never moved on, but certainly was a force for change back in his heyday.
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Yeah, my initial thought was some sort of automated weaving that would shape panels with more threads for the different parts of my body. With a nice amount of thought put into bias and joints. Some techwear companies are doing things kind
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by jfoutz 9y ago
VC's respond to marketing. Founders use advertising language. Engineers annoyed. Words mean things, but words also have a context. execute means something different to a programmer than it does to a death row inmate. It's nice to
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Sounds like regexes. Now you have two problems.
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Sounds like hiring a javascript ui developer to write real time embedded assembly. I mean, smart people can accomplish a lot, but why would you do that?
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by jfoutz 9y ago
What new ideas are there though? Social networking I guess. Have you seen the mother of all demos? Engelbart's team invented, like, everything. On the programming side, dependent types maybe. Everything else is from ml or lisp. Neural
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Toys vs tools. I want paying my electric bill to by trivial. If I'm doing real work, I want all the power software can give me. I can forgive my retired grandmother for not getting copy and paste. A professional however, should constan

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