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by jl6 15y ago
Asking what specifically caused the crisis is like asking which hamburger caused your obesity. This is a problem that has been building over decades, and it will take decades to solve.
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by jl6 15y ago
No, there is a very simple, well-defined and difficulty-independent metric of Bitcoin mining performance: hashes per second.
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by jl6 15y ago
Bitcoin now is like the internet was in 1985. There is a huge stack of infrastructure yet to be built in order to deliver on the early pre-hyped promises. I don't think anybody understands this domain well enough to predict the outcome; it'
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by jl6 15y ago
Large corporations run lots of browser-based applications. To upgrade these applications, or even to regression test them - even in virtual environments - costs money. Any money they spend on IT comes out of their profits, or is added onto
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by jl6 15y ago
Brazil is on fire. Flush with oil money, 90% of electricity from renewable sources, a bottomless pit of energy and enthusiasm being held back only by corruption.
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by jl6 15y ago
Brazil has a 60% import tax. Not sure if this applies to everything but it does to individuals and small businesses.
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by jl6 15y ago
No. I just don't go back to websites with annoying ads. I have yet to come across a website with utterly compelling content and also utterly intolerable ads.
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by jl6 15y ago
Windows 7 is version 6.1. Welcome to the world of model versioning, where nothing means anything!
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by jl6 15y ago
Not sure what it means for a particular technology to "die". A lot of "dead" technologies are "alive" and kicking in the Enterprise world. Perhaps "undead" is the word you're looking for...
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by jl6 15y ago
That's totally the standard way that all mathematicians think about n-dimensional spaces. I've never heard a mathematician claim math is the universal solution to all problems... sounds like you had a bad high school experience. Do you need
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by jl6 15y ago
Do you have an example of mathematics that could be made more accessible but hasn't been?
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by jl6 15y ago
Before 2011, I'd never been athletic and I don't naturally have a runner's build, but this year I started entering road races - first a 10K, then a half-marathon, and now a marathon. By committing to running the race, I am incentivized to
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by jl6 15y ago
Nobody understands economics well enough to predict what Bitcoin will become. For a start, both of those pieces hinge on the dangers of a deflationary spiral. But it is far from clear or agreed how such a spiral would work, or whether it wo
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by jl6 15y ago
To be fair, understanding regular currency isn't exactly trivial. Most people seem to get by without understanding the finer points of banking, quantitative easing, M1, M2, etc.. And one might consider the ability of governments to manipula
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by jl6 15y ago
"very proprietary" does not usually imply "very strong".
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by jl6 15y ago
I would think IT departments would be more concerned with the cost of regression testing applications with a new piece of infrastructure. Same as with IE6. I've not come across an IT organization that wouldn't love to upgrade to the latest
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by jl6 15y ago
For those of you worried about losing your life to another simulation game, I present: How Dwarf Fortress cured me of my Dwarf Fortress addiction once and for all - even though I've never played it: http://james.lab6.com/2010/05/25/withdra
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Efficient logging using Django and Apache(james.lab6.com)
8 points by jl6 16y ago|2 comments
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by jl6 16y ago
> The problem, says our source, is in relation to the "flimsy" hardware keyboard mechanism, which fell short of operator standards. It surprises me that operators would have such strict standards, given the junk I've seen them try to se
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by jl6 16y ago
Why does Google no longer offer the option to permanently remove a specific domain from your search results? My personal search quality would be dramatically improved if I could specify even a short blacklist. In fact, dear lazyweb: is ther
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by jl6 16y ago
There is one important network effect they seem to be neglecting - the "big ball of mud" network effect of having hundreds of Excel spreadsheets all linked into each other, forming critical parts of the finance infrastructure of megacorps.
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by jl6 16y ago
SF is a writing style, not a set of technologies. Hence why Neal Stephenon's Baroque Cycle is SF despite including no SFnal technologies (except maybe an allusion to just one), and why The Time Traveller's Wife is mainstream, despite being
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by jl6 16y ago
I've been going 10 years so far at something similar, and while I've taken a lot more than one photo a day on average, I'm still working on a mechanism to extract the interesting ones from the documentary chaff. I am trying to attack the pr