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by lsc 8y ago
for that matter, it might be more useful to s/try to solve it/solve it/ - I mean, clearly, different solutions work in different situations. I'm not trying to say they are all the same thing; just that the only way I
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by lsc 8y ago
> Think of data centers as huge mainframes and we will soon come close. I... kinda doubt it. All of the really big players have access to markets that are willing to pay huge margins. there are a lot of smaller players that would be ha
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by lsc 8y ago
But a communicator is primarily a voice communication device. If I were to say a cellphone is like a star trek device, I'd say it's more like an undersized PADD (and yeah, I maybe agree that the Apple engineers may have a lot of
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by lsc 8y ago
Burnout is what we call this thing when we try to solve it by taking a break depression is what we call this thing when we try to solve it via medical intervention of some sort. Lazyness is what we call this thing when we try to solve it th
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by lsc 8y ago
Survivor type is incredible. One of those Stephen King stories that sounds great even in outline; but the story, as one would expect from that author, is just beautiful. "I laughed at him. If this place isn't hell, what is? An
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by lsc 8y ago
>the purpose of advertising products is to inform public about existence of products. Really? It's not like any of us don't know of the existence of Coca-Cola; I think that the vast majority of advertising we encounter on a d
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by lsc 8y ago
This is why it is so much cheaper to live in a roadgoing vehicle than to live in a similarly sized rental room in spite of the hugely lopsided maintenance cost difference between the two options.
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by lsc 8y ago
I agree... but I also want to point out that it's totally possible that writing software to make self-driving cars work acceptably well might be easier if the software has better sensors than a human does, so it might actually be the b
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by lsc 8y ago
where I live, a car, even a large one, is like $200/yr to register. If you want a bedroom the size of a car? you'd pay more than $1000/month. so while they are licensed, they are certainly not paying market rates for the us
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by lsc 8y ago
Thank you so much! I remember reading this book during my childhood, but the title and author have been lost to me for like two and a half decades. I actively look for these books I remember little snatches of... I thought this one was a
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by lsc 8y ago
leave juice out in an area with yeast (so... almost anywhere) and the juice will ferment. You'll get more alcohol faster if you dump in some yeast (even the stuff for making bread would work, if we are trying to do this without anyth
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by lsc 8y ago
"The other important thing to do is to help adults identify why they want to go back to school. If you can identify what it is that's motivating you, then that can be your rallying cry when you're starting to feel discouraged
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by lsc 8y ago
Yup, I turn that on. It doesn't seem to help much at all, which seems weird; I mean, most network-level mitigations only help if the error is on the immediate link, so it's unsurprising that it doesn't help when my home rou
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by lsc 8y ago
>The result is that we have over 50 operators competing on services and add-ons while having approximately the same base network quality. what kind of services or add ons would you possibly want with a cellphone? most of the "featur
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by lsc 8y ago
>If I could go back in time I would gladly borrow an extra $20k to go to a university from the beginning. Over the time scale of a lifetime, or even just a decade, that's not a lot of money. The problem for me is that (like many peo
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by lsc 8y ago
>You'd have to pay me a lot of money to have me work in a place with separate offices or with people that think that "accidental eye contact is just not okay". I guarantee that you work with someone who doesn't want t
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by lsc 8y ago
but that's pretty true of all tech offices I've been to in the last few years. Even FAANG companies where they're paying their engineers a lot. Over time, it seems like I'm getting less and less noise dampening... my l
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by lsc 8y ago
>Uber doesn't buy and own the car, which means it requires much less capital. This small change has many implications, and the tech helps solves many of the problems that come up. that can go both ways: If I have to buy a fleet of c
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by lsc 8y ago
too small a market? The US still has a staggering share of world GDP, and the per-capita GDP (remember, PPP doesn't matter from Apple's perspective) is much higher in the USA. I mean, the per-captita GDP in China is under $10K&#
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by lsc 8y ago
People have been talking about LEO internet for as long as I've been working; It didn't work in the '90s, mostly due to launch costs (you see, for decent network performance, the satellites need to be low - that means yo
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by lsc 8y ago
>So how else can they differentiate? Making a small phone won't really fly - while I'd love an SE-sized XS, the Chinese market they need to win back wants its phones big. Do you remember, back in the day, when the smallest IBM
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by lsc 8y ago
>- Improve cellular reception. We are now heavily reliant on our cell phones, yet half the time our cell phones don't work because we are inside a building or not close to a tower and so on. This needs to be fixed ASAP. Everyone wan
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by lsc 8y ago
ah, yes, that is completely true; some products are better produced in some areas than in other areas. My argument is generalizing this to "if you fix things or otherwise provide services, you are better off fixing things or otherwise
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by lsc 8y ago
>There are always outliers who buck the mold, but on the whole incomes are not rising even for those with education. And why would they? It does not follow from any realistic economic model that incomes should increase. My model is that
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by lsc 8y ago
Hey, so first, I might be reading your post wrong, but... it seems like you might want to check out intentional communities; like I think visiting one might be what you are looking for in that sustainable agricultural lifestyle you want? I
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by lsc 8y ago
>Anyway, everything else doesn't follow, because culture isn't a thing that can be just transported from one place to another. Nobody's got a reliable recipe for growing a specific culture. I think culture is instead a res
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by lsc 8y ago
One of the reasons why I love the bay area so much is that not only is it not hostile, it's actively supportive. Like people talk about their favorite tech companies the way people talk about football teams in other parts of the count
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by lsc 8y ago
The Green Acres phenomenon is that a lot of city folk think that if they get the capital, they could go buy some land, equipment, and have a reasonable chance of becoming successful farmers without a long period of education or apprenticesh
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by lsc 8y ago
>As long as one doesn’t own land and has to rely on hired labour, there is no point in farming near a city. As a hobby, yes. Otherwise, no. so, my understanding is that most of the farming that happens outside of CA, cereal crops and the
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by lsc 8y ago
I grew up in a rural area near Sacramento. Culture is your big problem; when I was there, reading in public was "gay" and grounds for a (light) beating/physical humiliation. Of course, I was in high school at the time, and

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