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by kpil 9y ago
It seems to be a bad deal to get a few thousand jobs at the cost of severe damage to the environment and public health, while all the money is shifted out of the country.
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by kpil 9y ago
While dead brains might be cheaper than electronic, I doubt that growing neurons in a lattice and doing what you want will ever be. There is some research going on in using spintronics for neural network, and I think that both density and p
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by kpil 10y ago
Maybe Amazon will own 90% of the farms because the have the cheapest robots and best algorithms and statistics.
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by kpil 10y ago
I would argue that lawful interception is a feature, not a problem. In those cases it is a problem with government insight, the actual problem is the government itself, and there are more pressing problems to deal with, rather than worryi
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by kpil 10y ago
Ah! I was going to write water pump reservoirs or at some price point electrolysis + fuel cells, but making cheap water in the daytime is also good.
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by kpil 10y ago
Exactly, while Sahara is obviously sunny and the land is cheap, it might not be the best place to place solar plants, due to the logistics. I think that roof top solar is just as viable in more or less the whole Europe - even in the Nordics
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by kpil 10y ago
Let's hope they won't use anything else than a 12-gauge with birdshot. A guy in my school was hit in the head while driving. He died instantly. It was a bit of a mystery until they found out he was hit by a stray bullet that went
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by kpil 10y ago
Most places where you already have a trusted 3rd party in place, or you do not need to trust anyone but yourself? Especially if you have a limited time to clear transactions.
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by kpil 10y ago
I think you mean; They will do anything to make money. Selling assorted junk from China and some books with a minimum of friction for the customer is just aligned with that goal.
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by kpil 10y ago
It's mostly old farts and occationally some retro-hipster that obsess over this. Looking at most young people they are content with streaming unknown quality streams through their brightly coloured headphones of questionable quality. O
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by kpil 10y ago
No, that would be stupid - but you can't use a Date for that either.
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by kpil 10y ago
Or just use a long...
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by kpil 10y ago
How could that be? I stopped buying from Amazon after reading about how they treat their warehouse employees. To me, Amazon just represents monopolistic corporate greed, with no aspiration of caring even just a little bit about anything els
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by kpil 10y ago
Ah, the strange impenetrable language of corporate America.
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by kpil 10y ago
I choose electrical engineering for some weird reason - I don't think it occurred to me that software engineering was a way of making a living even if I had been a hobby programmer since I was 12. Luckily the introductory course was ba
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by kpil 10y ago
Guidelines are the opposite of a rule-based system, as you are free to use your judgement and use them for comparison only. Guidelines are not a black box that spits out a number of month in prison.
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by kpil 10y ago
This is nice. But I think my number one feature would be first-class relationships in object oriented languages.
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by kpil 10y ago
But the point is that it's fake predictability, as you can't make arbitrarily complex rules and hope to have built the Totally Fair System. (Provably not, actually.) The best thing we can do is to admit it's not going to be p
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by kpil 10y ago
Doesn't it depend a little on the what sort of sexual offence? It seems to me that there is a big range of acts that are classified as sexual offences, starting with a grey area bordering to 'being a dickhead' to some serious
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by kpil 10y ago
I think you could leak a little 20 years ago too, or use unnecessary amounts of memory - in most cases. It's just a few applications and parts of applications that really are resource constrained and critical enough to really matter...
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by kpil 10y ago
That sucks - it also happens to be the protected amount that the EU guarantees and is committed to reimburse the account holders with when a bank fails and go bankrupt. So in one way the customers outcome did not really change from a real b
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by kpil 10y ago
That's it. I will patent the process of picking up rocks in order to throw them at things. I think it's a great achievement to discover the CRISPER/Cas9 system, but just as a rock - it was just laying there. It's absurd
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by kpil 10y ago
I must say that I'm fascinated by the fact that each bit is around 1 cm long while in transit, at near the speed of light (in vacuum.) Single channel 100 GB would mean 2-3 mm long bits. Imagine that :-)
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by kpil 10y ago
I don't think you can 'translate' animal languages. There is nothing to translate, basically. We can get a good grip of the meaning of their sounds though, if we spend some time listening, but there is no deeper meaning hidde
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by kpil 10y ago
Rehabilitation is perhaps possible for certain criminals - why not give everyone the benefit of a doubt, but not an unlimited number of times. I personally think that if a person has been convicted for battery or something worse more than o
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by kpil 10y ago
To be fair, rewriting huge mission critical systems is hard, no matter of what kind of system it is and what you are changing to.
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by kpil 10y ago
There are actual risks with handling really dirty waste and turn it into really dirty fuel - you can't just hand-wave away that as "environmental activism." It's much more risky than just leaving the waste in a pond cool
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by kpil 10y ago
Because COBOL is the PHP of the 60s, and mainframes are slow and expensive. Also, too many of the talents are stuck in a blocked I/O mindset somehow. Some are wizards though, writing assembly and making raspberry pi sized systems blazi
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by kpil 10y ago
If the deep learning system was trained properly, we would just see a guy painting backwards...
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by kpil 10y ago
I specifically mean such a simple thing that they have used the .jar file extension both for executable jars and plain archives of files. If they had defined and promoted using .jxe as the file name extension for executable jars, there

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