jlgreco

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by jlgreco 13y ago
No, he is comparing an ancient system (ethiopian multiplication) with an even more ancient one (just fucking counting) and calling it stupid. As far as I can tell, he's got a point.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Would careful accounting actually help in practice ? I don't imagine they would be all to impressed with your careful bookkeeping.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
On the topic of tax evasion... what if they arrest somebody and find many thousands of bitcoins in their possession, but that somebody claims that they mined them themselves (and the block-chain confirms they weren't transferred)? Wha
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Ah... that would be interesting to see play out, to say the least. I imagine Monsanto would compete on price and convenience though, not with guns.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Ehh, I mean, they already know there is a fire and that fire getting bigger is something they anticipate one way or the other, but an explosion could take them by surprise. I suspect that more people are killed by big flames than explosio
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Virgin Galatic is probably closer to getting that done. IIRC, Space Ship Three is suppose to be for exactly that.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
"highway speed" is a fairly common term for the general 55-70mph range. For example, apparently the instructions to have the emissions testing system on my car become "ready" after a battery disconnect involve "at
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by jlgreco 13y ago
There have absolutely been genocides that can be compared to the Holocaust. I probably mis-emphasized my above post. What I mean is that statements comparing incidents to the Holocaust lack utility if the situation has escalated to the
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Hmm, I wonder if a "scrape along something very hard" type of accident could cause the failure of enough cells to cross the firewalls into the other cells...
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I'm not convinced of that. If you are worried about the tank going "pop", then a mostly empty gas tank would indeed be more dangerous. However I think the more typical concern is the tank being punctured, leaking, then th
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> yet prescription stimulants are just as addicting and have the same withdrawal effects. In fact, in many ways, addiction triggered by prescription painkillers and stimulants can be more difficult to deal with. We have gotten fairly
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by jlgreco 13y ago
It is important to realize that all useful comparisons to the Holocaust will be made against situations that are not as dire as the Holocaust. If there is a situation as dire as the Holocaust, then rhetoric about things being as bad as th
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> the cartels would be cleared out in a month. I fear they could coast on their cash reserves longer than that (and would desire to, instead of merely dissolve, to protect their remaining cash and avoid arrest), but otherwise I think y
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> But how many of those users would need to use NVIDIA's drivers? That's a good point; I cannot say. Perhaps they think they are dealing with people who think 3D performance is necessary, or dealing with people (IT organizat
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Certainly, many would. Would as many though?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I don't know that it really is subtext here, but I suspect that Tor has many people communicating electronically where they would otherwise refuse to do so at all. In other words, "Normally I would refuse to talk about this on t
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> It is actually rather surprising that Tor gives them this much trouble. I am not really convinced that what we have seen demonstrates conclusively that it does. There is the possibility that we are looking at parallel construction,
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Aaaah... so this probably is not about Linux vs. Windows, but rather actually about 'GeForce GTX 560 Ti' vs. Quadro. They aren't worried about driving people away from Windows, they are worried about cannibalizing Quadro s
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> "and everything around them becoming 10x worse as a result ?" (Note my emphasis) You are begging the question here. Consider the alternative hypothesis, that things went to shit and they switched to a cheaper form of coc
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by jlgreco 13y ago
How is this a limitation with Windows even? I'm sure Windows can have more than 3 displays, so why does Nvidia have this restriction on either platform?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Do people really do much heavy lifting with OpenCL/CUDA using cards that they are also using to actually drive browsers? Seems to me like if you are doing serious work with that sort of thing, you probably have dedicated cards for tha
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Furthermore, while Al Capone could have found other crimes to orchestrate to make himself rich, he wouldn't have been able to perform those crimes as well as liquor smuggling, limiting his supply of cash (lets face it, he was probabl
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by jlgreco 13y ago
It encourages me to be disappointed when I actually read the article, which is not exactly the best state to put me in if you want me to appreciate your article.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
That is what killing your business is for.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
He should have used "wingdings".
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Several of these have unspecified gender, or are males: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22tau... One sentence; how'd I do?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
His point is that it only becomes feasible when you are living with roommates. My point is that San Francisco is unique in that regard.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
San Fransisco perhaps isn't going to work well for somebody who wants to live on their own and save money, but they are the outlier there. It is trivial in Seattle, and not hard in NYC if you don't insist on Manhattan. I know pe
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I'd love to see the same chart for, say, classic rock.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
"Boy Hackers of America" I hope (joke not my own).

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