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by mikeash 7y ago
All photos are of the past.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Space is a negligible amount of energy. Absolutely tiny. I’d wager that GPS alone has made space a net energy positive by saving energy with better routing.
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by mikeash 7y ago
It’s pretty common to see arguments that the net lifecycle impact of a hybrid outweighs that of a traditional car, because it has more impact in manufacturing. It’s not true (there is more impact in manufacturing, but the breakeven point is
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by mikeash 7y ago
I don’t think that’s analogous. I suspect there are numerous examples of landfills they don’t hurt the environment, and lots of well studied best practices for how to achieve that in others. The equivalent in software is a sort of spherical
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by mikeash 7y ago
Seems to me that your two points oppose each other. If the cost of repair is too high because of labor costs, that indicates that it would create jobs, not destroy them.
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by mikeash 7y ago
I don’t understand. Your link is talking about the difficulty of using these functions. But here, the functions are already being used. What’s missing is implementations of them. They chose to implement these functions without the security
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by mikeash 7y ago
Right, but why not take thirty seconds to do the appropriate checks in the wrappers?
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by mikeash 7y ago
How were they going to get their data back in the event of a fire, flood, power surge, or just some destructive malware?
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by mikeash 7y ago
It’s a basic requirement for me to move somewhere. I don’t much care if that’s fair or not.
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by mikeash 7y ago
DC here. Any time I’m distressed about the cost of living, I just look at the Bay Area. As far as I can tell, housing is at least 3-4x more expensive. Even on a senior engineer’s pay, your choices come down to something tiny or something th
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by mikeash 7y ago
There’s a conspicuous lack of anything like “we ask permission to save data at setup time and don’t store anything unless the user clicks Yes.”
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by mikeash 7y ago
I don’t have a source, but they do traffic analysis to detect VPNs based on usage, not just protocol. For example, ssh is not blocked. However, use ssh -D to proxy web traffic through your connection, and the whole connection will hang in s
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by mikeash 7y ago
Have you looked at the Mueller Report? There’s no doubt Russia interfered. If there was no conspiracy with the Trump campaign, it’s only because the campaign was too incompetent to make it happen.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Republican stronghold believes Republican propaganda, no surprise there. This can’t be extrapolated to the rest of the world. The vast majority of the rest of the world didn’t believe it at the time and nothing ever happened to change their
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by mikeash 7y ago
That’s only because the US isn’t under the total control of a single party. If, say, the Democratic Party took over complete control such that it became almost synonymous with the nation, I’d expect “Democrat base” to become fairly common t
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by mikeash 7y ago
The idea behind taxes is that society needs government and government needs money, that’s it. Some taxes are connected to the use of specific public resources, but many are not. What do my income taxes pay for? The answer is basically “ever
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by mikeash 7y ago
This is a wonderfully condescending response but it answers nothing. The question was, why can’t google do it differently? This doesn’t answer the question. We can plainly see this from the fact that other companies, operating under the sam
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by mikeash 7y ago
Note that seats are installed by the airline and can vary substantially even within the same model of plane.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Or just an opt, where you have to make a choice during setup.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Right! All the companies doing it differently are also trying to satisfy their shareholders.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Ah yes. The difference in arrival time was many nanoseconds but it needed to be measured to within a fraction of a nanosecond to accurately localize the source.
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by mikeash 7y ago
For anyone missing the joke, when the Dropbox announcement was posted to HN, that was exactly the reaction it got.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Is it feasibility, or just laziness? My car has a little blurb that explains that they collect data to use for training and gives me the choice to participate or not. Opting out doesn’t affect any functionality. Why can’t Google do the same
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by mikeash 7y ago
Did this happen in other countries too? There are varying degrees, but cars are king the world over. I’m suspicious of the idea that it was due to laws or government.
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by mikeash 7y ago
I don’t think that’s quite right. Light travels about one foot in a nanosecond. Unless the signal was directly overhead, the distance differential would surely be at least several feet, and thus the time differential comfortably more than a
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by mikeash 7y ago
Those would be reasons a union can represent all workers in a field, not reasons it has to . This seems particularly pertinent when discussing the possibility of starting a new union in a field that traditionally hasn't had any: you
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by mikeash 7y ago
Your previous comment referred to losses in a single country. It makes no sense to talk about total profit/loss including overhead in that context. How do you allocate your shared overhead between the two countries such that you can sa
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by mikeash 7y ago
The specific example was selling at a loss in poor countries because you need more people using your software to bolster the network effect. This makes no sense: each copy sold in a poor country at a low price is still making you money , i
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by mikeash 7y ago
Does it actually work from China? Their VPN blocking has gotten really good lately.
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by mikeash 7y ago
This adds noise to the signal. That makes it harder to recover the original signal, but not impossible. You can overcome it by taking more samples.

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