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811.
by maaku 12y ago
I don't buy this. As CEO you have the right to say "You know what Big Important Customer? You're a dick and I don't want to do business with you." That is a strategically stupid thing to do. You may not ever actual
812.
by maaku 12y ago
> Why dont you start working on weekends/spare time on your idea I suspect you don't have a family ;) If you have a family it is better to start moving on your idea within normal business hours, where legally possible (some cre
813.
by maaku 12y ago
Hrm that's trickier, although the specifics depends on your family situation (does your significant other work?). I have a family myself, wife and two kids. I can say from experience that what would have helped was having a large rainy
814.
by maaku 12y ago
And switch jobs or get external offers often, and use it to ratchet up your salary to the higher end of market rate. Work for big corporations (they pay better), or be employee #1 or #2 of startup (stock >= 5% or it ain't worth it).
815.
by maaku 12y ago
More likely some jerk says one made up thing about rats in his trip report and your business shrivels up in no time at all.
816.
by maaku 12y ago
It's not a cost-plus contract.
817.
by maaku 12y ago
> I think the matter is that eat what is naturally available in the environment you live and it should be ok. Because we all live on the African savannah, where humans evolved?
818.
by maaku 12y ago
I have not read 2312 yet, although it is on my list. As for most of his other works, he explores ideas of immortality and such, but only in the context of humans. He explores what happens in a society where humans live forever, without al
819.
by maaku 12y ago
You are assuming things go well and not taking into account human nature.
820.
by maaku 12y ago
Great books. Zero understanding of the singularity or transhumanist ideas though.
821.
by maaku 12y ago
Another lesson: routinely scrub your RAID arrays.
822.
by maaku 12y ago
Depends very much on the algorithm. Some are sensitive to rounding precision, others are not.
823.
by maaku 12y ago
My goodness you have a short memory. http://www.businessinsider.com/10-old-apple-products-that-to...
824.
by maaku 12y ago
I used to love reading The Economist . It was the only printed newpaper/magazine I bothered to read. I always thought they were so insightful about topics I wanted to learn about but knew very little. Then they ran two articles on top
825.
by maaku 12y ago
Yes, I read your comment before replying. I was responding to his take on Bitcoin, which isn't very accurate.
826.
by maaku 12y ago
Bitcoin is not libertarian. Libertarians obsess over bitcoin, yes, but that seems to be historical accident. There is much about bitcoin a libertarian shouldn't like (e.g. lack of privacy).
827.
by maaku 12y ago
The federalist experiment in the U.S. ended in 1865. While technically state and local powers have control over certain domains, it is nothing like what the OP argues for. My understanding of Swiss politics is that there is a similar situat
828.
by maaku 12y ago
Why the downvotes? Expanding Earth's economic sphere to all of cislunar space necessarily expands the resources and energy available to human industry. There will be returns, and the economy will expand. It's not zero-sum.
829.
by maaku 12y ago
Your mistake was assuming a zero sum model.
830.
by maaku 12y ago
News flash: every culture has barbaric ghosts in its past. It's what we do here and now that matters.
831.
by maaku 12y ago
That's not an uncommon condition. It's happened in humans before, for example.
832.
by maaku 12y ago
Hrm. I'm going to test that.
833.
by maaku 12y ago
No, absolutely not. I'm saying that a "neural net" a la McCulloch doesn't accurately model how computation is performed by the brain. You can't accurately model human thinking by recording the brain's connectio
834.
by maaku 12y ago
Or, instead of receiving the next iteration you end up with a piece of paper with "DON'T MESS WITH TIME" written in your own shaky handwriting. The space of possible stable outcomes is much larger than just the ones carrying
835.
by maaku 12y ago
Every time you read or write from a RAID volume, it does perform validation and write-back on error detection. I think your mental model of how linux software RAID works needs updating. I'm not trying to argue that mdadm is better th
836.
by maaku 12y ago
The point is more that you can't abstract neurons away into a simple "analog in, digital out" pseudo-transistor with fixed connections and expect that to describe how the brain works. The brain makes active use of all those
837.
by maaku 12y ago
A "neural net" is what a computer scientist decided to call something that he thought behaved somewhat like a now dated abstract model of what individual neurons worked like, from a period when neuroscience was really in its infan
838.
by maaku 12y ago
I didn't specify RAID-1. RAID-5 or RAID-6 can reconstruct the correct value in a silent fail. Honest question: how often to drives silently fail? Drives contain per-sector checksums these days, explicitly to prevent this problem.
839.
by maaku 12y ago
No, every default mdadm install performs a complete scrub on the first Sunday of the month. Every block of the array is read back and validated. For RAID modes with parity (e.g. RAID-5, RAID-6) it is able to detect and fix the offending dis
840.
by maaku 12y ago
No, it'd be business as usual. It is exactly how things are expected to work in industry. Industry is not academia, and crediting the originator of the idea is not a concern. Especially when it makes you look bad (why couldn't y

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