maccam94

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by maccam94 9y ago
Citizens, based upon the social contract.
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by maccam94 9y ago
I think you're not catching what fallous is saying, because s/he's using libertarian vernacular. Libertarians view taxation as force, because if you don't pay the tax the police can forcefully take your property/val
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by maccam94 9y ago
By my rudimentary estimation (based on numbers from https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/grl... Figure 3) I believe the annual ice melt in the Arctic each year is approximately 10,000 km^
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by maccam94 9y ago
I think we'll see smaller capacity VTOL aircraft for shorter flights before we get batteries with enough energy density for long-range flights. You'd just need to have a fast charging rate or potentially swappable batteries at lan
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by maccam94 9y ago
The worst kind of space debris sits in orbits outside of the atmosphere where there is negligible drag. Since these satellites will be in very low orbits that require propulsion to stay aloft, any potential debris from collisions or inopera
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by maccam94 9y ago
The MBTA has suffered from funding issues, and it was saddled with billions in debt from the Big Dig. Many of the trains and track infrastructure are old and in need of replacement, but without the funds the MBTA has been forced to repair o
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by maccam94 9y ago
yeah, from what I've read they will have enough fuel to stay aloft for ~5 years. They won't be a source of permanent space debris.
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by maccam94 9y ago
Yeah, I wouldn't say this is common knowledge. It's not terribly hard though, on debian-based systems you can just use checkrestart.
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by maccam94 9y ago
Yeah, the whole time I was reading that section I was thinking the article was just going to be based on quackery that could easily be explained by sleep paralysis and stimulating brain regions responsible for proprioception. The sudden tur
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by maccam94 9y ago
Beware, many of those "flushable" wipes aren't actually: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/putrid-130-ton-mass-...
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by maccam94 9y ago
Wasn't "research attention" the problem before though? Lots of hacked in support for fancy new features, not enough serious maintenance.
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by maccam94 9y ago
Blockchains do nothing to make the source of information trustworthy, they can only prove the information was created before a particular point in time. You could doctor a photo/video and put it on the blockchain just as easily as a re
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by maccam94 9y ago
Try opening about:performance from the address bar to see if a particular site is slowing it down
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by maccam94 9y ago
GMail has a ton of Javascript. The basic HTML interface uses closer to 10MB (a bit tricky for me to measure in Firefox, since it doesn't use one process per tab)
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by maccam94 9y ago
I wonder if it'll get bad enough to spur consumer hardware to switch to ECC. I can't believe the price difference is very significant, especially if it starts being produced in even higher volumes.
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by maccam94 9y ago
On the Android side, it's not terribly difficult to send a copy of the app to a computer and decompile it. Then you can simply search for any code that invokes the Android function for mic access.
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by maccam94 9y ago
I've heard that the comparative false negative rates among different racial groups was higher than the rate for white applicants. I don't have any sources to back that up though, I'd be interested to see any (regardless of wh
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by maccam94 9y ago
I don't think there's much public info about the compute infrastructure, but here's a blog post about the object storage system: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/05/inside-the-magic-pock...
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by maccam94 9y ago
Moving data out of AWS and using EC2 for baseline load are both more expensive than using physical servers co-located with the storage servers.
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by maccam94 9y ago
I've actually been posting about this a bit recently on various threads. I think a permanent rotating space station with 1G artificial gravity in low earth orbit could be the next stepping stone to opening access into outer space. Faci
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by maccam94 9y ago
Are you mounting your virtualenv into the container somehow? How does your editor see the code/docs for your pip dependencies?
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by maccam94 9y ago
Except local production is often less efficient/more expensive. UBI would create a floor for job quality, and allow people to pursue riskier or less capitalistic ventures.
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by maccam94 9y ago
Oddly enough there's a Chrome extension that supports this, but it's restricted to Google Apps for Education users. https://support.google.com/edu/castforedu/?hl=en
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by maccam94 9y ago
conex does use the new API now, but it's built on Firefox Containers, so the groups have their own cookie sandboxes.
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by maccam94 9y ago
I want the same login sessions across my groups (I use them for organization, not isolation).
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by maccam94 9y ago
Yes: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-removal
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by maccam94 9y ago
It's different because not only does it deny inbound connections, it breaks the end-to-end principle[1] of the internet. You can have the security boundary without NAT by using a firewall, so if that's all you want, don't use
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by maccam94 9y ago
> I think it still belongs between the internet and most networks made entirely of desktop, IoT & personal devices. I think your belief has been shaped by the fact that adoption of P2P protocols was hampered by NAT for over a decade,
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by maccam94 9y ago
This sort of sounds like Tab Groups, but tabs only get offloaded if you close and reopen your browser with that feature. The end result is if you accumulate a lot of tabs, they don't affect performance unless you've looked at them
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by maccam94 9y ago
Yeah, unfortunately there were a ton of compromises as NASA had to get funding support from other agencies, which resulted in a design that didn't meet their original goals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shut

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