kobeya

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by kobeya 9y ago
This service has no monthly bill attached.
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by kobeya 9y ago
They are not launching a satellite. They are claiming to be leasing bandwidth from commercial sats that have been up there for more than a decade.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Knowing P!=NP is immensely practical however.
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by kobeya 9y ago
> Nobody's really interested in a proof that P != NP. This is not the case. In my day job I need to worry about what happens if ECDSA is broken. One way that can happen is quantum computation -- but that has a relatively transparent
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by kobeya 9y ago
"And follow your computer's guidance" is the key part. Hard to be sure you'll do that when N2 drunk ;)
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by kobeya 9y ago
What real estate? The railway companies got land grants because nobody (well, except the Native Americans...) owned the land they built on. The Boring Company is going to be drilling under already owned land no matter where it goes...
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by kobeya 9y ago
You are confusing nitrogen narcosis with the bends.
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by kobeya 9y ago
That's ignoring nitrogen narcosis and other very dangerous concerns...
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by kobeya 9y ago
Not really? Only in very rare exceptions. At least if you're talking about chain reaction fission.
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by kobeya 9y ago
The spectral signature would be quite different.
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by kobeya 9y ago
It is extremely unlikely that superluminal travel exists. It would fundamentally violate so many physical laws (including causality) that our prior for that should be low indeed.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Stock is also how you align incentives with the company's interests. That is important for top talent and new grads.
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by kobeya 9y ago
There is plenty of thinking about that. Search some of the bitcoin forums and you'll find tons of examples of people solving that problem in a variety of ways.
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by kobeya 9y ago
> keep their views to them-self So we want to ban open discussion now? "Have a complaint? Tell HR! But be careful cause if it's the wrong type of complaint we'll very publicly fire and shame you!"
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by kobeya 9y ago
Some people are. Others are offended that he was silenced for that content.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Yes it is critically important what he said. He got fired, very publicly, from Google for what he said, or at least an interpretation of what he said. This probably killed his career in tech, if not generally, assuming he doesn't win a
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by kobeya 9y ago
Or to encapsulate a nil in a Maybe monad, so that you only have to deal with it in contexts where you explicity denote acceptance of nils. Then the type system won't let you get away with ignoring the possibility of a nil.
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by kobeya 9y ago
He specifically said 'decreasing the false negative rate', not 'increasing the false positive rate.' That is explicitly worded (he could have been more succinct) to imply that all people hired by Google are good enough t
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by kobeya 9y ago
Nah, it's just a precursor skirmish for spaces-vs-tabs.
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by kobeya 9y ago
> That's a bit different to what the Wikipedia page describes it as. It describes it as being to important to understand the reasons for X before trying to change X. It doesn't say anything about needing to show that you unders
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by kobeya 9y ago
And also the wealth of venture capital that existed in the 1980's to fund AI dried up and from ~90 to ten years ago it was nearly impossible to get significant startup funding for an AI play, despite the epic influx of capital in the 9
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by kobeya 9y ago
Whataboutism. We shouldn't be held back to the lowest-common-denominator.
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by kobeya 9y ago
If true, the the whole claim that nonlinear histories break git-bisect is bunk.
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by kobeya 9y ago
How is it rewarding? No one ever sees the history, honestly. Writing good code results in working code the people build off of. Maintaining clean, linear git histories does.. what exactly?
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by kobeya 9y ago
> 1. Projects like the Linux kernel which use frequently use 'git bisect' to perform a binary search on the history of project (to find when a bug was introduced), or where the patch series tell a story to code reviewers. This
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by kobeya 9y ago
I take offense at the notion that because I disagree I must be ignorant and/or stupid. The other possibility is that I have heard all the arguments and found them lacking. For the record I did not vote for Trump and referencing the pre
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by kobeya 9y ago
Oh I'm a slaver. That's real mature. Never mind then.
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by kobeya 9y ago
It is neither sarcastic nor ignorant. Open your mind to the possibility of differing viewpoints.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Thank you for writing this.
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by kobeya 9y ago
You don't get to compare reality against some imagined utopia where these mine jobs don't exist and everyone is fed and happy children are attending air conditioned schools with loving parents at home. You only get to compare agai

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