kosmic_k

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by kosmic_k 10y ago
I don't believe that humans can really sense it on their own. But there was/is a group of "body hackers" who would implant a small shard of a magnet into their finger tip to allow them to feel electromagnetic fields.
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
Of course Chinese entrepreneurs can innovate. That being said, the CCP has been making it more difficult. As of this month every single mobile game needs government approval at cost to the developer.
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
Yes the statistics suggest that older, less educated voted more for Leave. But aren't those also the ones who have been hit hardest by Globalization? Isn't that the big divide we're seeing here: the fact that high skilled and
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
That's unfair, it wasn't 2% but 52% of the voting population.
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
It is still an issue on a practical level. Last year of the 160K asylum seekers in Sweden less than 500 found a job. That's of a country which has a population of less than 10M. How is Sweden's benefit system supposed to cope?
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
How? The UK didn't leave NATO. It didn't go back on any ideas of collective defense.
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
I haven't read too much into the topic until a week or two ago but I've seen those exact arguments coming up time and time again. Given how close it was I think remain shot themselves in the foot by not articulating their points.
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
Right, but let's imagine there is a vote to abolish congress and it goes through. Wouldn't it be logical for many people who understand congress and how it works try to figure out all of the nuances of the decision? I think the Wa
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
There has been a mood that the EU has benefited many of those who were more educated and better off while many blue color working class members of British society were left very much behind. Sure there's the immediate market shock of a
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
Passive, maybe, but active? I'm skeptical that there's any submarine in the world which can avoid active sonar. Further more the difference between a nuclear and diesel electric submarine's noise level would likely quickly be
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
They may say that, but I cannot fathom building a fully functioning carrier to be cheap by any measure. Chinese planners cannot possible expect for their artificial islands to last long in a conflict. They would be very vulnerable targets f
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
The problem is that the same massive range of area denial weapons and cruise missiles also puts fixed assets such as airstrips and bases as far as Guam in jeopardy of attack. Thus there is the problem of how do you get platforms capable of
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
Airfields are the quintessential sitting ducks: high value targets with have a fixed position that could have coordinates recorded long in advance of any action. An carrier on the other hand is a thousand foot runway that can move at 56 km&
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
Were carriers truly obsolete then why is china rapidly building it's own? It already has been building forward operating bases in the South China sea. Why invest in building a new class of ship which they have only recently operated if
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
4 out of 6 complaints here all help reduce the size of an electronics product. In fact some of those decisions led me to chose an Apple product over a non apple one. Locked down software ended up being a business decision for Apple's A
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
But I think it's very important to note that Elon surrounds himself with the very best domain experts he can find. He also has a reputation of deeply engrossing himself in a topic to learn as much as he can. While he may not be a domai
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
If you could manage a ratio of 5 big losses for one massive hit you'd be quite a successful investor indeed :) Microfludics itself was still a young science at the time Holmes founded Theranos. It still is. I'm not sure if she cou
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
I am not familiar with the actual laws involved in this kind of case. If it were proven that a Theranos tests harmed a patient and that Theranos willingly obscured the accuracy data to regulars could Holmes be held criminally liable?
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
I don't see an issue at hand of not investing in big ideas. In fact it has become clear that what has been invested in was ideas alone with insufficient substance. But for healthcare there is a simple golden rule: Primum non nocere - F
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
As long as HIPAA rules are followed I don't see an issue. Further more I would argue that the doctors in this case have a moral imperative to inform the public just how harmful these faulty test results have been. It is becoming clear
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
Thanks for the explanation! I haven't been following fab process news for some time so I've been very much out of the loop.
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
Does anyone know why video cards have stayed on a 28nm process for so long? It's appears that a significant factor in this incredible leap of performance is the process change, but I'm puzzled as to why 22nm was skipped.
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
That is astoundingly horrifying, especially the Class 1's which were distributed for over five years.
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
I never realized just how lucky I was to have been born when I was. I can't imagine building embed devices which aren't running a very simply super loop or an ARM RTOS.
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
I originally thought the bioweapon mode was a gimmick. Now that I think about China, India, and the air quality common there I feel that Tesla really is onto something very clever here.
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
Monsanto is doing what would traditionally take farming communities hundreds of years in the span of decades. There is value in incentivizing research and product development in that. Furthermore the patents expire in a timeframe of two dec
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
Facebook's stance on vulnerability research is incredibly admirable. I can only home more companies hold themselves to the same high standard.
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
Is that really a realistic solution for maximizing profits for a PMC? Constant conflict? In the first place the suggestion that human conflict will somehow extinguish and contractors would need to generate demand seems to fly right in the f
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by kosmic_k 10y ago
Why? Its not like PMC's have ever done anything that is exceptionally more cruel than any state armed force. It's not like they're going to be much worse at preventing civilian casualties. When the United States left Iraq it
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by kosmic_k 11y ago
Derek Smart has had a long standing and documented vendetta against Chris Roberts. He's most certainly not a neutral party and his actions have been malicious at the least.

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