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by labawi 6y ago
> One container ship sailing from China to Vancouver spews more carbon than I've produced in my whole life It also carries more goods than you will buy/use in your life - I don't think it's an apt comparison. I do agr
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by labawi 6y ago
AFAIU, neither wages nor investments count as profits - those are paid to owners / shareholders. As far as returning the earnings to workers and local economy via taxes - yes there are expenses, you can't take 100% of income as pr
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by labawi 6y ago
> they had to buy the local supermarkets in the first place When foreign owners extract profits to recover their investment or pay whomever, wealth is in fact leaving the country - because they still own the capital (stores) yet get mone
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by labawi 6y ago
You probably (or at least most people) don't need higher throughput modes in wireless radios. You need good connectivity, which can usually be achieved with a larger number of simpler APs, instead of 8x8 MU-MIMO 3-band 2666Mbit, that
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by labawi 6y ago
> the fact that the world is an illusion. I may not be disagreeing with what you mean, but one should be careful to differentiate between concepts, that are knowable, and things they refer to, which are not¹. Lots of confusion stems from
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by labawi 6y ago
Note that page tables are the per-process virtual memory mapping data structure for the CPU. AFAICT, Linux has separate accounting of the memory, which is smaller, but also per-thread structures, which are likely not included in RSS either.
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by labawi 6y ago
While possible, sprinkling code with madvise syscalls to release memory doesn't seems like a very realistic proposition. Information on how much stack is actually mapped is not readily (or cheaply) available. The article says: > The
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by labawi 6y ago
Directly. Not if you take it the long way - near escape to reduce orbital speed, a little push to cancel the rest, and you will fall directly into the Sun (with a high velocity).
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by labawi 6y ago
Asides from significant memory use from uncounted overhead for native threads, fun starts when your threads start actually using more than a single page of stack, calling into who-knows-what, instead of just sleeping. Typical programs will
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by labawi 6y ago
There was a related post about a month ago[1]. I believe the article fails to account for, among other things, the virtual memory overhead that comes with sparse allocations for large maximum stack sizes, that would about double the numbers
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by labawi 6y ago
I think you are describing very hypothetical situations. If you know how to get a company fined, could you please share, so I can report and have action taken against companies that violate and misuse personal data?
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by labawi 6y ago
Is that a sarcastic comment? Because GDPR allows for liquidating fines, even for Google. I believe it has a cap of 2% annual global turnover, per infraction, or something similar. Problem is, GDPR is not enforced. I haven't heard of sm
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by labawi 6y ago
> digital signature is harder to forge than previous physical securities Yet there are countries running 3072-bit RSA on Infineon chips, because their 3K keys are least broken. Discovery also entailed country-wide certificate revocation,
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by labawi 6y ago
Second paragraph is false, first one is partially true. There are many legitimate reasons for storing and processing data, and you should not ask for consent needlessly - among other reasons, because consent can be withdrawn, at any time, a
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by labawi 6y ago
I think they indeed should run at a (low) real-time priority, but only if they are limited to a fraction of total available CPU power, with say cgroups or similar. Otherwise they can easily lock up the system, and that should not be the def
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by labawi 6y ago
I think I've had this discussion with you. "they" are TLDs I can use tor (.onion), namecoin (.bit), dn42 test net (.dn42) or others. They work and people use them, so not fake, just not registered with ICANN. Most of them wor
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by labawi 6y ago
On the contrary, .corp is a widespread totally established internal use domain. Just like .dev was. No, it is not globally resolvable, but it is in the same namespace (no way to add a different namespace while retaining compatibility), is
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by labawi 6y ago
I still don't understand how would it be cheaper if you're paying rent with money that was already taxed - deductions would only make sure it's not taxed again. Maybe you could avoid paying VAT? Another situation would be if
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by labawi 6y ago
> the practical constraint that some TLDs are "poisoned" by decades of misuse (e.g. .corp) I would call it poisoned by decades of "misuse". From my POV, squatters rights should apply and ICANN has no business delegati
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by labawi 6y ago
Yes, but none of them are development of a browser, and many people are misled otherwise when donating.
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by labawi 6y ago
Do you realize that 0 donations go to Firefox development? Firefox development is done by Mozilla Corporation (that doesn't accept any donations, AFAIK). A part of their earnings are given to their owner, Mozilla Foundation, that you a
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by labawi 6y ago
At this point, I dream of a competitor arriving. One that that would be supported by the community and actually care about competent users, like Firefox once was. AFAICT, Firefox (Mozilla Corporation) wants dumb users, an expanding platform
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by labawi 6y ago
To generate electricity, they need to absorb light (hence dark) not reflect it (white), and there are inefficiencies, which end up as heat. Technically no, we could produce solar cells that release no more heat than sand, but it would eithe
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by labawi 6y ago
It might have bad effects, but I guess it would still be better than out current climate-change trajectory.
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by labawi 6y ago
What you're describing is mostly a failure of US commingled recycling system. Meanwhile most of EU countries successfully recycle about 90% of collected glass, collected in glass-only containers. Making new glass can be an issue, as it
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by labawi 6y ago
I've personally seen how PLA degrades in good compost in about three weeks (can go for less if you're more active). True, it is important to go through a stage of 60+℃ for a day or so, to soften up so bacteria get in, otherwise it
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by labawi 6y ago
Most of the plastic can not be practically recovered from the ocean. It's more of a publicity stunt and cleaning hotspots. We need to catch the plastics before they go into the environment, disintegrate, release their plasticizers and
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by labawi 6y ago
The important combination is easy fast regulation as you say, but also cheap to build and operate. Many are built to operate < 10% of capacity, so simple single stage instead of more efficient CCGT, because it's insanely cheap peak
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by labawi 6y ago
I think UK is more capable and doing more surveillance than most EU counties, but people in UK don't have ID cards, so they can't be required for most services.
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by labawi 6y ago
Funny thing is, once people started blanketing with roundup, it didn't take long for roundup-resistant weeds to develop. > Growing reliance on the broad-spectrum herbicide glyphosate has triggered the spread of tolerant and resistan

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