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by mmmBacon 10y ago
Germany has the lowest birthrate in the world. It seems like the German government should create policies that encourage men and women to have more children like free/heavily subsidized daycare, tax incentives, and maybe even payments
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by mmmBacon 10y ago
Long time street-skater here (30+ years). Not sure that stuff would help as it's pretty different rolling around in a gym vs. getting thrown off your board at 20mph. It also might actually make you ride over your head because you thi
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
Agreed. There are some important other steps as well. It's a bad idea to sell unreliable junk. So having a sense of what kind of reliability testing you need is key. Reliability testing should start as soon as possible. This test
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
This is a legitimate concern I think. The US government has designated secure foundries in the US to ensure the security of government silicon. See[pdf]: http://www.ndia.org/Divisions/Divisions/SystemsEngineering
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
Ummm. No. This has been done before in PAM-4 using VCSELs. http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/180262/...
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
Unfortunately you can't just increase the power into the fiber. It's complicated but I'll try to clarify (pun not intended) why you are OSNR challenged here. First, fiber and just about any optical material have a nonlinear
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
A better metric is bits/Hz/km. 64-QAM does not go very far and requires very low linewidth lasers. The OSNR requirements for 64-QAM at 32GBaud means that you basically have no reach (distance). So makes a nice announcement but
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
>>If you consider technology to be like evolution, which it surely is, then infrequent advances in short periods is only natural. What you are describing is basically Thomas Kuhn's notion of the nature of scientific revolutions.
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
Challenge accepted. Been building carrier grade equipment with significantly lower failure rates than that for >15 years. Gear I designed in my first year out of grad school is still in field use today.
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
1 or 2 failures out of 30 is a really high failure rate for HW.
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
I've heard their layer 1 network is a mess and they have a small army of PhDs troubleshooting basic problems at layer 1. Sounds like misery to me.
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
The DPRK are a real threat. They have long range conventional artillery aimed at Seoul that could cause large loss of life there. We are talking WW2 type loss of life.
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
I also think code used to produce results should be published as well.
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
Well actually it "supports" JSON as NVARCHAR. There is no JSON type and no JSONB type that supports indexing like in Postgres.
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
In the lab it's difficult to generate 400Gb/s traffic. From my perspective it seems like this attack is pretty sophisticated and has access to some pretty fat pipes. It's hard to imagine that this scale of attack could come
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
I played D&D a lot from about 1982-1989 with the neighborhood kids. None of us fit the stereotype for D&D kids. The parents didn't think anything of it at first until all this media stuff. Some parents stopped allowing thei
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
Yeah it's just not that easy with the advent of coherent optical communications in subsea networks. You need to be able to do some very complex DSP in real-time at 50Gb/s. You also need to know the exact FEC encoding scheme, gr
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
With over 1B people you can bet China has drug problems too. You just don't hear about it because there's no free press there. See: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/world/despite-a-crackdo.
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
Former Apple employee here. My impression is that Tim and other high level management are really committed to user privacy in a very Jobsian way. It isn't something that's being driven by some marketing person (although they ar
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
Considering that the body regulates its temperature by controlling blood flow to the extremities, maybe it's not surprising that venus blood in particular is not homogeneous. As the body cools blood flow to the hands is reduced. Venu
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
Most gag orders can be challenged and have to serve a benefit of some kind and be of limited duration (like to guarantee a fair trail). A NSL gag order can be challenged. In December 2008, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that som
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
The UK lacks a formal Constitution with something like the 1st Amendment. Instead it has something called the Human Rights Act which includes all kinds of exceptions to free speech. The US 1st Amendment is not absolute but it's the c
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
Triaging by data is just the first step. Once you decide it's an actual problem you have to be able to reproduce it. To confirm this is happening, you have to get production phones, then do an out-of-process rework, then do this for
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
> Yes I do think that they would attempt to discourage unauthorized repairs in such a way for less-than-noble reasons. Repairs are not really a revenue stream. Apple Care is a revenue stream but the incentive is to not repair. Since ev
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
Same thing happens here along the Northern California coast. With El Nino this year, the waves are bigger and more powerful than a typical winter and catch people unaware. There are occasional "sneaker" waves that break on the b
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
Nothing worse than a website that's a cluttered mess. I'm no designer but I think a minimalist design with negative (empty) space gives things a more modern, neat and clean look and makes the content easier to read/see (that
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
In the abstract the author writes: Is it worth running as fast as possible to get less wet? So the author is only trying to answer the question of whether you will get less wet if you run in the rain. He is not making any claims about co
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
I used to work for a CTO who had his prior company bought in one of the largest acquisitions in SV history. His opinion is that there is a large untapped talent pool of older (40+) smart, college-educated women who had been maybe been stay
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
Actually it's quite unlike car parts breaking. Car parts have infant/random failures and wear-out failures. These kinds of failures are usually a very small percentage of the total number of devices shipped. Fitbit's HR moni
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
As a note on how computing power has improved since 1989, we can now remove impairments and decode optical nPSK at 32Gbd/s ~155k Symbols (2-4 bits per symbol in 2 polarizations) in about 8s using offline processing (data captured fro

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