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by larkeith 8y ago
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17350645 Direct link: https://idiallo.com/blog/when-a-machine-fired-me
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by larkeith 8y ago
You can view all the PeerTube-hosted videos in your browser at https://video.blender.org The only difference is you don't go through YouTube.
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by larkeith 8y ago
Direct link to blog post: https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blende...
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by larkeith 8y ago
YouTube takes a cut of advertising profits, but gets no direct revenue from ad-free videos, I believe.
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by larkeith 8y ago
While there are certainly benefits, I can't agree that YouTube loses nothing here. PeerTube is a potential competitor in an ecosystem that's currently functionally monopolistic, and even in a vacuum, having a nontrivial community
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by larkeith 8y ago
Or for a minimum starting point, the accusers should be obligated to compensate the victims for lost profits, as well as time cost. The current system of penalty-free reckless false assertions is insane.
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by larkeith 8y ago
See other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17338445
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by larkeith 8y ago
See other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17338445
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by larkeith 8y ago
Personally, it's Lands' End's all weather mocs [1]. It should be noted I'm absolutely hopeless when it comes to fashion, I can only vouch for their functionality and comfort. Another commentor also mentioned Adidas Samba
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by larkeith 8y ago
I've been using the same type of all-purpose shoes for a good twelve years now, and while they're neither the cheapest nor the most durable, this is the reason I'll likely continue for the next ten; Having to buy a new pair e
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by larkeith 8y ago
Setting such a precedent would make an utter mockery of the 4th amendment.
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by larkeith 8y ago
Not to mention the whole no radiation shielding thing.
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by larkeith 8y ago
I stand corrected! Previous articles I had seen had only discussed the prototype and one kilowatt design, but both this and the Wikipedia article show heavier designs for Mars missions.
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by larkeith 8y ago
Also cool: uses passive heat pipes rather than coolant, further reducing the number of moving parts (making it that much more reliable).
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by larkeith 8y ago
As awesome as the Kilopower reactor is, this really isn't its intended use-case - it's supposed to provide low-output, very longterm power in spacecraft and rovers, where mass is limited, shielding unnecessary, and maintenance imp
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by larkeith 8y ago
I wonder if the ice might help protect against extreme low temperatures? Fur on animals traps air, acting as an insulator, so it might be similar here. As the fungus (presumably) provides negligible heat output, it would probably only prote
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by larkeith 8y ago
I can absolutely see that view. Knowing there's nothing but miles of air between me and solid ground is disconcerting, to say the least, but I don't think I would be able to divorce myself from that thought in a windowless plane -
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by larkeith 8y ago
According to another comment [1], it's because their cargo mass is not as large as their volume, relatively to other planes. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17266194
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by larkeith 8y ago
A counterexample to the majority view in this thread: The idea is cool, but I could never take a flight in a windowless plane. While I am generally only mildly claustrophobic, "artificial windows" have always induced an uncanny va
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by larkeith 8y ago
That's not really a counterargument when the original claim was "never" and parent provided examples of times it did occur.
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by larkeith 8y ago
The key here, I believe, is that CLIs are still vastly more productive for purposes on which you're familiar with the pertinent commands; GUIs are generally better for discovery of new functionality and one-off tasks. Chatbots and NL
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by larkeith 8y ago
Thermal pollution can cause significant ecological impact [1] when left unchecked; however, thermal discharge is regulated under the Clean Water Act [2], hence the usage of cooling ponds [3] and towers [4]. [1] https://en.m.wikip
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by larkeith 8y ago
One thing to note is that heat diffuses much slower through the ocean than the atmosphere - even if the impact on the average temperature of the ocean is negligible, local thermal pollution could still cause major issues. I don't know
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by larkeith 8y ago
They've been doing this for a while now; at least requesting the desktop site will still redirect you back to the actual image. Still enough for me to dislike any imgur link, however.
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by larkeith 8y ago
Previous discussion re:acquisition talks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17208293
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by larkeith 8y ago
Unfortunately, the NSA also happens to be the single largest, best-funded collection of cryptographers in the world (probably - who knows how big 3PLA/4PLA are), and do have a history of mostly-beneficial relationships with the crypto
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by larkeith 8y ago
Could you please address and refute his reasoning (probided in the prior paragraph), so as to encourage discussion?
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by larkeith 8y ago
Out of curiosity, were Speck to be known as vulnerable to key recovery attacks, would you still endorse it as better than no encryption? Personally, I agree with his point - for applications where AES is unsuitable and no encryption is cu
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by larkeith 8y ago
I'm going to keep blatantly promoting the Librem 5 [1], which is designed specifically to address these concerns (not affiliated with them, just a fan). [1] https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
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by larkeith 8y ago
This is a false equivalence; There is a slight difference between owning a smartphone with privacy and data collection management options and actively bringing into your home a device designed and acknowledged to constantly record and tran

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