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by kobalsky 2y ago
You may be right but even if so, timing the market is ridiculously hard, specially when shorting. I don't recall who said it, but if you put the same unexperienced investor in two paralell universes, one where they short and one where
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by kobalsky 2y ago
Netflix wants a hardware attestation API to prevent abuse, GrapheneOS can provide that API abstracted through the integrity API, but Google won't authorize it.
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by kobalsky 2y ago
The problem is that you are only focusing on making the computers work and not the system. "we don't know yet" is a valid response and gives the rest something to work, and it shouldn't annoy you that it's being ask
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by kobalsky 2y ago
those are all valid questions though.
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by kobalsky 2y ago
Only around 11% of it is Rust according to https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/ , which by the way is no small feat given how huge the code base is.
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by kobalsky 2y ago
doesn't long-distance power transmission solve that problem? just put the solar panels somewhere else?
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by kobalsky 2y ago
The only way to watch the Star Wars: Episode IV's theatrical release version is through some dedicated fans and pirates [1]. You can't buy it. Same goes for series that have been altered to avoid music royalties [2]. Pirated versi
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by kobalsky 2y ago
Does this qualify as some sort of variation of Godwin's law? Keeping war crimes classified until everyone responsible is dead is not the same as keeping plans secret during a war. Hard to mix those two up to the point I'd say it w
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by kobalsky 2y ago
No need to tackle the law in this case, Tesla saw it coming and solved it themselves. If you don't like how anti-scalping provisions affect you, make sure the car fits in your garage.
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by kobalsky 2y ago
then some would sell at the same price they bought plus their profit under the table.
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by kobalsky 2y ago
I've been programming with python for decades and the problem they are describing says more about the disastrous state of python's package management and the insane backwards compatibility stance python devs have. Half of the prob
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by kobalsky 2y ago
saw that and wondered how do they go from there to reusable. is the shileding ablative and replaced on every flight?
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by kobalsky 2y ago
I still don't understand how some brands could put it on peanut butter. A few tablespoons can kill a small dog. It's commonly known that chocolate and onions are bad for dogs but this stuff is on another league.
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by kobalsky 2y ago
didn’t they just leak the schema? we know they may be tracking that information but we don’t know how it affects the model
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by kobalsky 2y ago
They contacted her to use her voice. I mean, the Sky voice doesn't sound like Scarlet Johansson. > Why reference the film Her? Because they developed an AI some people is bonding with. Which is the bigger deal? The voice or the AI,
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by kobalsky 2y ago
Epic is fighting for a part of Google's cake that is protected by anti-competitive means. In this case, even if they were a morally bankrupt organization, they are doing something that in the end will benefit users. We should be able t
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by kobalsky 2y ago
I don't live in the US but when the insurance wanted my car "lo-jacked" I just changed to a different insurance company, it's still a choice.
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by kobalsky 2y ago
for comparison, engine translates to motor in spanish, so both words are the same. engineer is translated as ingeniero, which originates from ingenious and not engine.
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by kobalsky 2y ago
I agree with you, but there is a plus for deleting old data. If you are not required to keep the information for more than X years, and you still keep it, then you have to provide it when it's requested. If you didn't keep it, the
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by kobalsky 2y ago
if a civilization needs so much power they build a dyson sphere they probably have terraforming nailed. that kind of technology probably takes hundred of thousands of years of technological development and we have had electricity for how lo
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by kobalsky 2y ago
> True, but they can trivially obtain them given they control everything in the browser. Open source clients that you can self-host are available. I mean of course you still have to trust the code if you can't audit it. But hijackin
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by kobalsky 2y ago
the article doesn't mention how heat is stored, it just says "the system extracts heat from the air and stores it above ground for reuse". do you know how they do it?
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by kobalsky 2y ago
on demand gpu provisioning misses the part that you can sell your gpu time, doesn’t it?
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by kobalsky 2y ago
> it's idiotic to put them in the same lottery as a $50K/yr "IT consultant" from Infosys. well yes, but selective immigration is eugenics with extra steps.
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by kobalsky 2y ago
Could you explain how you arrive to that conclusion from seeing some proyect offering an alternative autoscaling engine? The only issue I have with the default HorizontalPodAutoscaler is that I cannot scale down to 0 when some processing qu
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by kobalsky 2y ago
IIRC you could build your own kit with a software defined radio device. you just needed a recycled satellite dish and some other off the shelf components.
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by kobalsky 2y ago
this is hilarous, I mean, there's a literal satellite constellation beaming the blockchain and the argument is "nuh-uh!" I guess that until a satellite shoots a wad of bills through your window some people won't give it
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by kobalsky 2y ago
> and so this would save lives lives of people who can buy a kidney. this is a transfer of longevity from poor people to rich people. and since because everything balances, in the future it will take selling a kidney to get to the averag
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by kobalsky 3y ago
Maybe I'm not understanding the blog post so bear with me. Isn't what he is described what a time domain reflectometer does? [1]. I mean that's what it's used to detect breaks or kinks in fiber optics cables. The same te
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by kobalsky 3y ago
maybe it’s because if you ship enough to some countries, they will come knocking asking for money if they producing at capacity it may not be worth the hassle yet

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