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by jgeada 7y ago
Interesting: what is being described is a computational paradigm very similar to traditional hardware description languages (Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL, etc)
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by jgeada 7y ago
The reason it isn't killing that 7nm interconnect is that those semiconductor physical implementation designers run lots of EM simulations to determine the reliability and lifetime of all traces, taking into account the trace dimension
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by jgeada 7y ago
This is a useless post: bunch of complaining about the author’s own ignorance of FPGA and computational fabrics, willful misunderstanding of the differences between FPGAs, GPUs, ASICs, and lastly, not even an attempted proposal for a way fo
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by jgeada 7y ago
The problem with software is that, for almost all software, the only specification for what it is supposed to do is discovered as the software is written. Nobody knows all the data, the data semantics, its dependencies, what output is rea
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by jgeada 8y ago
But people that work on FOSS, as owners of the IP they create, are also allowed to put whatever restrictions they want on it; if you don't like those restrictions, don't use it. Pretty simple.
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by jgeada 8y ago
It isn't particularly helpful that economics as a discipline seems to have the same predictive value as soothsayers and court jesters( ). Mostly economic theory in the western world is used as a cudgel to justify particular policies th
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by jgeada 8y ago
That is the most significant comment here. People keep going on about land when the real problem is housing. US housing density is awfully low. Our country's major population expansion took place after the car and our model of building
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by jgeada 8y ago
If alternative medicine actually worked beyond anecdotes it would just be called medicine.
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by jgeada 8y ago
Isn't that assuming that production remains as energy inefficient over time as it used to be? If production over the time period became more efficient by X% than that X% generates economic growth that is not visible in energy productio
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by jgeada 9y ago
Virtually all phones have acceleration sensors and can/could do short term inertial navigation in tunnels or areas with poor reception anytime they want. And don't forget that phones have many different ways of getting position in
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by jgeada 9y ago
Technically, isn't the real problem is one of slander? The credit reporting agency is slandering your name by stating that you committed a crime, be it theft, benefit fraud, or failed to pay your creditors or whatever, that you have no
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by jgeada 9y ago
skywhopper gets it exactly right! I think the software development community needs to do much more to explain exactly this to the other communities that interact with us, the managers, program/process managers, users, etc. We have to e
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by jgeada 9y ago
Realistically, what makes most entrepreneurs entrepreneurial is a reliable safety net provided by personal money. It is easy(ier) to take risks when your health care, housing, food and the other basis of survival do not depend on guaranteed
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by jgeada 10y ago
Also related, people need to understand what "wrong" means in the context of sciences. In many cases, wrong is merely that our model improved, but the old model was still perfectly adequate for most practical purposes. Isaac Asimo
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by jgeada 10y ago
Except if there was a method that actually provably worked in producing lower cost, more reliable software on schedule without requiring your entire staff to be composed of demigods, then it would have already been adopted by EVERYONE. Ther
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by jgeada 10y ago
I'm convinced malleability of the software isn't the issue; the issue is that the thing that the software is modeling is malleable and generally unknown to the level of detail necessary. Nobody in a business knows all the business
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by jgeada 10y ago
I think non-competes should only be legal if the controlling entity pays the affected person's full salary for the period of the non-compete. As far as I'm concerned, if you want to control what a worker does you need to pay the w
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by jgeada 10y ago
Seriously? 1- I was not the one claiming that the rest of the world is ripping off American drug companies. 2- the (obvious) point is that R&D isn't the major cost expense that was being posited in the original post. If cost of dev
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by jgeada 10y ago
Since a significant number of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies are not American ( http://blog.proclinical.com/who-are-the-top-10-pharmaceutica... ), I find this statement dubious to begin with. And since ph
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by jgeada 10y ago
All you need to know about most VCs: they have money, end of story. Doesn't automatically mean that they have any particularly insight into business, competition, technology, etc. They may have some insider information and connections,
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Why cities need to care more about who works in them, not just who lives in them(washingtonpost.com)
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by jgeada 10y ago
Well, there is the Landauer's principle (which is related to Maxwell's daemon): there is a physical lower limit to the cost of computations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle So yes, there
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by jgeada 10y ago
LMFTFY: Government/Army: We need 3 different planes for these 3 different requirements Private corporations @ public trough: you could "save" money by building a single plane meeting all those requirements, and we'd also
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by jgeada 11y ago
All really interesting & immediately commercially useful. So why aren't these research projects being funded by Boeing, Lockheed etc? Why are we using NASA as the R&D division of commercial companies? Shouldn't NASA's
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by jgeada 11y ago
"A long term drought contributed to the civil war in Syria". Maybe. However, two planned competing and mutually exclusive major oil pipelines, both routing through Syria, each sponsored by a different superpower, are likely to hav
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by jgeada 11y ago
To me, the worst part of the fantasy is that we then consider the people that actually do make it to the "money shot" as if they were management geniuses, instead of lottery winners. Mostly the success has more to do with luck, ti
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by jgeada 11y ago
Not just "won't be nearly as attractive". We assume that food of that type (burger, sandwich, etc) will be symmetrical: if it has visible lettuce etc on the side you're seeing, one assumes that the density will be equal
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by jgeada 11y ago
Because you cannot break the law if you're rich enough to afford perpetual appeals and good lawyers?
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by jgeada 11y ago
But they benefit lawyers, and since they get to dispense legal advice ...
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by jgeada 11y ago
I'd like to point out that most of US debt is held by America, not foreigners or the Chinese. http://useconomy.about.com/od/monetarypolicy/f/Who-Owns-US-N...

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