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   by lrem 4y ago

   I love this article. It nicely answers the question I posed ( https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=lrem#32263287 ) in the discussion of the original announcement: is today's db good enough to be a breakthrough for s
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   by lrem 4y ago

   I'm pretty sure it's not the same. There must be a reason for all those merchants around me who will accept VPay or Maestro, but not Visa nor Mastercard.
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   by lrem 4y ago

   I'm a Google engineer way too far organisationally to ever have any say in this. I wonder if that will ever be worth the hardware cost. Back when I did some coursework on information retrieval, it seemed that you get superlinear savi
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   by lrem 4y ago

   Won't Earth be engulfed in the first phase? If that's the case, Solar gasses will also drag down our orbital velocity and Earth will fall towards the core. So it won't be around for the second phase.
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   by lrem 4y ago

   You got me at "Entschuldigung, dieses Passwort ist bereits in Verwendung." :D
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   by lrem 4y ago

   > This is why "democracy all the things" is kind of a shitty system. Primaries push the adults out of the room and give extremists too much say, which then requires toxic behavior to salvage an overall victory. I'd say thi
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   by lrem 4y ago

   From the linked article: > unauthorized access to private users' names, emails, addresses, occupations, genders and ages. Dislaimer: I work in Google, but don't know anything about the breach that isn't in the linked artic
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   by lrem 4y ago

   I work in a different part of Google... But getting the same result when refreshing page sounds like getting served from a cache, which doesn't sound that weird. Isn't there a button to show something else?
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   by lrem 4y ago

   I was actually thinking about the thing you mentioned. While the flight properties of modern planes kept changing, we were using computers to emulate flying like a half a century old much smaller plane. Now that emulation would be gone.
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    by lrem 4y ago

    Maybe, but you're talking about "a generation, or more" kind of lead time. For a good start you have roughly no pilots able to safely fly your computer-free planes and no instructors either. So once you've managed to des
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    by lrem 4y ago

    I recognize your superior knowledge in the topic and assume you're right. But you also ignore where we're at in the standard cycle: https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive_print.php?comicid=1174 ;)
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    by lrem 4y ago

    Disclaimer: I work in Google, organizationally far away from Deep Mind and my PhD is in something very unrelated. They can't possibly know that. What they know is that their guesses are very significantly better than the previous best
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    by lrem 4y ago

    That's not a convincing argument. Jupiter is regularly hit by stuff that's been avoiding it for billions of years. (But "this trajectory doesn't ever cross Earth's orbit" is what we want here.)
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    by lrem 4y ago

    I work in the G and it doesn't seem to be like that. First point, the average tenure in my team is somewhere between 6 and 8 years.
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    by lrem 4y ago

    This site makes Chrome (Android, current) stop responding.
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    by lrem 4y ago

    Much of eastern Europe, so not particularly rich or well run countries, went from zero (due to cheap Russian gas in Warsaw pact) to ~everything insulated (because trying to cut dependency on a mortal enemy) in less than two decades.
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    by lrem 4y ago

    That seems inconsistent with my experience, unless they manage to do it completely without disturbing traffic.
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    by lrem 4y ago

    Yes please. Unless that means burning more coal/gas/oil...
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    by lrem 4y ago

    And tunnel them over https for security! ;)
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    by lrem 4y ago

    Sorry to break it to you, but coal is still the largest electricity source with 36.7%. Over the last 20 years its output went from 5.8PW to 10PW (yes, that's petawatts). So, nowhere near "has died out". Source: https:/&
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    by lrem 4y ago

    Bury the wood is one idea. I've recently heard that salt water is also good for this. This is why mangrove forests are 4 or 5 times better carbon sinks than rainforests.
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    by lrem 4y ago

    Are they finally done with the pro film bodies?
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    by lrem 4y ago

    The problem with this thinking: and what if in 20 years you get a government that does abuse the powers?
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    by lrem 4y ago

    https://mashable.com/article/youtube-human-content-moderatio...
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    by lrem 4y ago

    Dryer places don't starve. But they don't export almonds.
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    by lrem 4y ago

    You seem to say that every democracy with districts is broken. E.g. what fraction of US senators is a given citizen electing?
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    by lrem 4y ago

    https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj#how-it-works I imagine you'd want some kind of fuzzer with security-oriented tracing on top. I've never heard of such a tool, but I'd bet it exists somewhere.
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    by lrem 4y ago

    Or four, as suggested by the top comment: Linkedin pro and correlating "who viewed all of my reported accounts recently?"
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    by lrem 4y ago

    The problem isn't inherently hard. A bunch of European cities is piloting charging via lamp posts. With enough demand, solutions will be found very quickly.
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    by lrem 4y ago

    What electricity price did you calculate with? I used the $0.2/kWh from my invoice, but quite a few EU countries are soaring towards $0.4 right now.