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by mokus 7y ago
Unfortunately it probably means the opposite. Make it harder to track users and these companies will innovate in the area of user tracking.
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by mokus 7y ago
I don’t know anything about rules ghat might control blocking of accounts but, in general, US export regulations do say that conveying technology to a foreign citizen even face to face in the US is an “export”. The term for this concept is
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by mokus 7y ago
That’s not relevant to the point you’re responding to - the point is, if the purchasing power of your dollars went up (and assuming it’s your native currency), you don’t get taxed on it because the number of dollars you hold did not chang
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by mokus 7y ago
You are literally factually wrong here. “Autoplay” in Netflix’s settings (and help page you linked) refers to playing the next episode when one ends. The “autoplay” that people are angry about is when you are hovering over a show in the bro
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by mokus 7y ago
Yep - the ONLY feature I want in a streaming service, beyond decent content, is for it to not play things I didn’t ask it to play. Netflix used to be that, but it no longer is.
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by mokus 7y ago
Autoplay enRages me, to the point I re-evaluated my long-standing aversion to Hulu and switched. I went to Netflix years ago for the simple reason that it only played what I asked it to play. Ads are only one of the annoyances I was avoidin
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by mokus 7y ago
The final nail in their UX coffin, for me, was autoplaying previews in the browsing interface and playing trailers (AKA ads) for Netflix-produced shows. I finally got fed up with that recently, re-evaluated Hulu, and decided I was now a H
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by mokus 7y ago
That would not work in the same way as a typical gauge theory though - typically the symmetry of a gauge is for shifts of the entire system along the gauge - changes along the gauge locally do have physical meaning. For example, in an elect
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by mokus 7y ago
Not all 5g spectrum is shorter wavelength. Opening up the >6GHz range is part of 5G, but it also includes improvements to utilization and additional bands in the existing sub-6GHz range.
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by mokus 7y ago
Do we know that quantum effects will actually scale large enough to realize those speed ups for arbitrarily-large problems though?
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by mokus 7y ago
That doesn’t hold even without the equivocation on the meaning of “flat”. The universe may have a flat average curvature but in the neighborhood of a black hole it is very much not flat (both usages if “flat” to be taken in the differential
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by mokus 7y ago
“who was acquitted or had their case dismissed”
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by mokus 7y ago
If anything, the fact that removing “uh” changes the interpretation is solid proof that it is not semantically empty.
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by mokus 7y ago
For traditional floating point workloads, the RTX 6000 will probably not be 3x faster. For workloads that can use the tensor ops (integer matrix multiply, basically), the RTX 6000 may be as much as 10-100x faster.
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by mokus 7y ago
US federal reserve notes don’t meet your definition - they can be legally refused for purchases, it’s only debts where you can’t refuse them. In a purchase scenario, where there is no pre-existing debt, a dollar is no more legally privilege
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by mokus 7y ago
Agree/disagree is not the only factor involved in voting - another one that I suspect is in play here is “interesting/uninteresting in the context of the present discussion”.
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by mokus 7y ago
It would be interesting to try to do it with the minimum possible power consumption. Would a small power-optimized ARM microcontroller such as an STM32L4 with some bulk storage be sufficient, for example? Could a device pulling < 100 mW
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by mokus 7y ago
> Scrum story points are supposed to reflect end user benefits. That’s not my understanding at all. In our org, that’s the role of backlog priorities. Story points are the cost to get there, and are explicitly a tool to estimate relative
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by mokus 7y ago
If you explicitly have immunity for all things you reveal in the course of the questioning (and that immunity applies to the crimes revealed, not just that particular testimony), then I don’t see why you wouldn’t reveal everything you can,
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by mokus 7y ago
I would pay quite a lot for google-class services with a binding contract that limits their options for spying on me and is 100% ad free. Instead, I spend an inordinate amount of time configuring my computers to avoid accidentally using the
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by mokus 7y ago
I remember a time when folks sighed wistfully at the idea of being able to afford wasting cycles and memory on C in embedded...
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by mokus 7y ago
Rust gpu programming is very possible already, but as of my most recent foray into the area it was still very much a black art getting your build environment set up for it. It’s probably just a matter of time before it becomes an easy thin
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by mokus 7y ago
If you factor in that your MBP could probably comfortably emulate 100 6502s in real time, 1000x isn’t quite as severe an overestimate. Get the GPU in the game and, even with terrible warp utilization and cache efficiency, you still might b
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by mokus 8y ago
Not sure know how far you may be into your career but as one who’s had a couple decades, it’s definitely possible to have both. I have been able to learn two very different languages (C and Haskell) to that level of comfort and am feeling n
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by mokus 8y ago
What makes the Kessler scenario worse is that every collision creates dozens or hundreds more cars, increasing the probability of a subsequent collision. Through positive feedback, large classes of orbits become unusable for meaningful miss
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by mokus 8y ago
Or at least follow the spirit of the DMCA process and allow users to say “no, that’s an invalid claim and I am willing to risk being sued”
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by mokus 8y ago
I didn’t see anything in the article that changes the amount of momentum that would be transferred - as far as I could tell it’s all about the distribution of that force being modulated to make the object being accelerated tend to stay in t
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by mokus 8y ago
Are you referring to cash transactions or something else? I’m curious what you may have in mind for remote payments, especially internationally
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by mokus 8y ago
In what way does the quote you are rejecting wholeheartedly differ from the claim that there is no such technology?
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by mokus 8y ago
It would help if you could give an example. Is there even one technology that is an unequivocal good with no possible downsides?

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