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by magila 10y ago
320 kph is the maximum cruising speed. Average speed for a trip is typically much less than that because the trains can only hit 320 kph on certain stretches of track. Even 320 kph is about 30 kph short of what the California trains are pla
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by magila 10y ago
310kph is probably the maximum cursing speed. I can't find precise distance information for AVE between Zaragoza and Barcelona, but it's somewhere around 320-330 km. The minimum travel time I see listed is about 1.5 hours. So cons
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by magila 10y ago
That theory doesn't really work for LA because it's so spread out that you are very likely going to need to take a car to your final destination regardless of which mode of transportation you use to get into the city.
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by magila 10y ago
> since those who want to go direct between SF and LA will always have a direct flight as an option Therein lies the problem. The cost of the line can't be justified unless it provides a viable alternative to flying between SF and L
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by magila 10y ago
The key word there is "trying". ARM servers have had a tough time gaining traction in no small part because the hoped for power efficiency gains have not been realized.
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by magila 10y ago
It's not just about clock speed. While Intel Core CPUs don't scale down to power budgets as low as ARM cores, they are impressively efficient on a perf/watt basis. Smart phones achieve high battery life mostly by being very a
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by magila 10y ago
It is actually quite difficult to beat Intel on power efficiency once you start talking about laptop class CPUs. The combination of Intel's advanced fabrication tech and their highly efficient core family of microarchitectures gives th
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by magila 10y ago
Which raises the question: How long until browsers start ignoring the immutable header to work around broken pages?
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by magila 10y ago
The latest variation on this I've seen is sites which repeatedly force Chrome to switch to full-screen view, thus preventing you from navigating away from them. Apparently they've found a way to override Chrome's anti-abuse m
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by magila 10y ago
I wouldn't go so far as to predict a long term upward trend, but prices are not going to continue their historic exponential drop. Like I said, cost reduction achieved by shrinking the node size (i.e. Moore's Law) was the main ena
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by magila 10y ago
If you think this is the same you haven't been paying attention to what's happening in the industry. Moore's Law as we know it is dead, shrinking the node size isn't cutting costs like it used to. A lot of people are sti
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by magila 10y ago
> there's every reason to expect the PPU of SSD's to continue trending downward Not really. The big driver for cost reduction in SSDs was process shrinks, but the latest processes are actually more expensive per-transistor than
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by magila 10y ago
It would take a lot more than $1B to make mass transit viable for a significant percentage of those who currently drive on the 405. Just putting in a light rail line here or there wouldn't do shit because few people's destinations
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by magila 10y ago
I'm not so sure the next generation is going to be significantly more computer literate. With the trend towards curated devices (read: smart phones and tablets) general purpose computer skills are being pushed back into the niche they
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by magila 10y ago
Per IP rate limiting with IPv6 is a futile gesture against any attacker more sophisticated than a kid in his parent's basement. It doesn't take much effort to get a /48 while most ISPs are handing out /64s to their custo
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by magila 10y ago
I don't think you'll find too many people who oppose investigating and prosecuting fraudulent product labeling. This is not the sort of thing that's usually being debated when one talks about the cost/benefit of regulati
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by magila 10y ago
The console business has razor-thin margins, there's not enough money being made there to sustain a company the size of AMD. Where that business might save them is if say Microsoft decided to buy them out to secure their supply of chip
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by magila 10y ago
Right now AMD is fighting for its life, it's in no position to take on Intel and Nvidia in the HPC space. If their consumer Zen processors flop then AMD will likely be heading for a buyout and/or bankruptcy. Only if both Zen and
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by magila 10y ago
The crypto would stop you from actually impersonating the target, but you could easily DOS someone by flooding the DHT with bogus data for their id. Edit: You could also get the IPs of all the people trying to contact the target.
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by magila 10y ago
Although it's not really intended for this sort of thing, I wonder if you could shoehorn Let's Encrypt into Patreon. If you're just trying to diversify your revenue it seems like Patreon would provide a more predictable cashf
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by magila 10y ago
Ensure is not indicated for tube feeding so hospitals should not use it for that. I have first hand experience with this after having been hospitalized for Crohn's and put on a liquid diet. For sole-source nutrition in a hospital setti
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by magila 10y ago
Ensure is not intended to be used as a complete nutrition source, so it's not surprising that subsisting on it for long periods would cause problems. For long term use a nutritionally complete formula should be used such as Jevity or T
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by magila 10y ago
While Comcast does offer higher speeds, it's prohibitively expensive. In a typical market where Comcast has an effective monopoly the 2Gb service is $300/month and even just 250Mb is $150. Their upload speeds are also pathetic, th
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by magila 10y ago
As a rule all consumer services are on a "best effort" basis. Service with guaranteed performance exists, but is marketed exclusively to businesses and is much more expensive. It turns out that providing guaranteed service costs a
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by magila 10y ago
The problem is that model doesn't work very well for probably the most common computationally intensive task consumers do: games. It also doesn't work well with tasks involving non-trivial datasets. If you've got say 20GB of
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by magila 10y ago
I'm not sure you could come up with language plain or simple enough, if for no other reason than because most people will not read it regardless.
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by magila 10y ago
Obviously sympathy for residential ISPs is in short supply, but I do not envy their situation when it comes to pricing models. The pricing model which most closely matches their cost structure, peak hour usage billing, would get them evisce
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by magila 10y ago
That could be, although in the time I've been here I've seen people out on those balconies maybe twice, and one of those was when they were installing a microwave antenna. I get the impression they are there mostly as a place to s
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by magila 10y ago
I work across the street from this building. One thing I noticed is that in early 2015 they boarded up the balcony on the 6th floor. Presumably it was to stop someone from gaining access to this room by climbing up the side of the building
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by magila 10y ago
I don't think the outsized mindshare of the Apollo missions has anything to do with the amount of data they collected. In fact one of the major criticisms of the Apollo program is that it produced relatively little scientific knowledge

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