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by miscPerson 6y ago
I was curious, so I did the math: It’s $5M/mo to rent 1 PB of RAM on EC2 and $21,000/mo per PB in S3. Conceivably, your dreams will be possible in a decade — they are feasible, but likely too costly now.
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by miscPerson 6y ago
Practicing what you preach demonstrates your sincerity. Why should people believe you’re genuinely arguing that the thing is worth doing, rather than acting out selfish authoritarian impulses, if you’re not actually willing to do that thing
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by miscPerson 6y ago
Authoritarians always argue that. Starting with yourself, while making a negligible impact, makes an impact that is positive (according to you) and shows your commitment to enacting that policy. Have integrity: do it first.
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by miscPerson 6y ago
I’m suspicious of your reasoning. Do you have any support that users who turn off a feature — such as Bluetooth — want it to continue to “just work”? That seems opposite of their expressed intent in turning the feature off.
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by miscPerson 6y ago
That doesn’t sound right. Can you describe a method of detecting binary patching that wouldn’t also detect a changed fork being compiled?
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by miscPerson 6y ago
Yep, and I was looking for something applied. Like most things, the concept is much simpler than making one work — and I was hoping I could find some papers on the applied side of photon delay lines. (Since OP commented it was related to hi
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by miscPerson 6y ago
This is a tangent, but could you point me towards delay line + amplifier literature? Would be much appreciated.
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by miscPerson 6y ago
Emergency powers to protect us after 9/11 are still in place — two decades later. Emergency powers to fund world wars are still in place — eight decades later. It never goes away.
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by miscPerson 7y ago
Maybe government shouldn’t exist in steady state? It’s possible that people don’t have the ability to be consistent and you have to tack between the two strategies.
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by miscPerson 7y ago
Neither of these are scientific conclusions — they’re philosophical positions built around an interpretation. The sloppy way people present the Copenhagen interpretation as a scientific conclusion is likely what’s stalling science: it’s fun
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by miscPerson 7y ago
This sounds backwards: Electric cars are fungible, social fabric is not. So we can lose Tesla and be fine with remaining electric car manufacturers or new ones. In contrast, losing a long-term social hub is a lasting negative impact.
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by miscPerson 7y ago
The PATRIOT act was special emergency powers in response to an “unprecedented” attack on our nation requiring periodic renewal. Here we are two decades later, with it renewed. Per Wiki: > Many of the act's provisions were to sunset
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by miscPerson 7y ago
How would you describe it if gangs of people from the UK went to Pakistan and raped children there? Would it be by the term “immigration”? I’m genuinely curious.
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by miscPerson 7y ago
Also, the lack of sporting events jobs are going to push many people back into homelessness, as they’re used as a transitional stage out of it.
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by miscPerson 7y ago
Many of them, no. And bars, for instance, aren’t allowed to serve their primary purpose via delivery. Or movie theaters. Or music venues. Or retail. Or.... It’s gonna be a mess, because we already know the government is going to fail to all
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by miscPerson 7y ago
I miss scripting IRC clients. I wish I could add an auto responder for “Hi” that replies “Howdy, hope you’re doing swell. How can I help?”
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by miscPerson 7y ago
Boundaries are an expression of each tribe exerting an area of influence. A boundary forms where two areas of tribal dominance collide. You can watch animals pee and poop on things to mark theirs, among other signals. I didn’t say boundarie
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by miscPerson 7y ago
> Where people weren’t arbitraged across artificial boundaries? The boundaries aren’t arbitrary; they reflect ethnic differences between groups. Homogenizing people is an abhorrent suggestion — and without that, large governments don’t r
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by miscPerson 7y ago
Authoritarian/collectivist governments have killed around 100M people in the past century; a number comparable to the predictions of climate crises over the next century. There’s a reason people insist on societies based around individ
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by miscPerson 7y ago
“If you have a trust fund, then a career in fields such as politics, academia, law, or finance is much easier.”
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by miscPerson 7y ago
You posit your position as being strictly rational, but do you have any evidence that the machines we built to emulate a component of human thought aren’t a little conscious? ...what, precisely, is the mechanism by which networks of neurons
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by miscPerson 7y ago
As they say, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. That’s always been my impression of socialism and communism: unchecked good intentions justifying repeatedly failed and destructive policies. I think that’s why they also hate Ama
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by miscPerson 7y ago
It seems to me that string theory was the right idea, wrong implementation. After all, Microsoft is building their quantum computing efforts around TQFTs, which are essentially what string theory is about — “(quasi)particles” are a tangle o
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by miscPerson 7y ago
Mathematics is modern ontology. We’re not great at predicting which parts of ontology are eventually useful in other fields — mostly physics and other hard science, but more recently computer science, economics + finance, and even things li
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by miscPerson 7y ago
That strikes me as... a strange claim, considering how fast the OMG particle whizzed by. Per Wiki: > The energy of this particle is some 40 million times that of the highest energy protons that have been produced in any terrestrial parti
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by miscPerson 7y ago
Is Signal supposed to be more secure than point to point TLS? That doesn’t sound correct to me, and makes me wonder what the complaint about email is. TLS encryption over a relay network seems like state of the art security, and something I
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by miscPerson 7y ago
The plant on the East Coast was because Boeing was busting the machinist union that runs the Seattle plants. It’s also why Boeing has been cutting their key engineering staff in Seattle — they also unionized. In fact, rumor has it that the
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by miscPerson 7y ago
It’s illegal discrimination to provide programs only for the majority sex — see rulings on only having sports programs for men. (Women have been the majority of college students since the 1980s.) There’s nothing wrong with women in STEM pro
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by miscPerson 7y ago
Respectfully, plenty of misandrists and anti-White racists do show up to those meetings and join panels to push their discriminatory agenda. Why do you think we talk about the lack of women in STEM, but not the lack of men in HR, educatio
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by miscPerson 7y ago
A shot of half-and-half in your coffee is only around 45 calories. You’ll burn that off if you take a fifteen minute walk while having your coffee. Optimizing the dairy while loading in the sugar is completely wrong from a health perspectiv

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