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by mrkstu 6y ago
At this point “The Three-Body Problem” wouldn’t be able to get published in China if it was just released.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Yep- there is a reason there are so many Mormon sci-fi authors and why Mormons are one of the few religions where engagement increases with education. Growing up LDS there was never any existential angst as I became more educated and ther
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by mrkstu 6y ago
That is still better for society than not having the economic activity. What exactly is the benefit of wholly depriving the putative worker of a job vs. making up the difference with something like food stamps and Medicaid?
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by mrkstu 6y ago
According to this astronomy.com article, it's well outside the danger zone [0]. This [1] article discusses a closer one that may have been responsible for a mass extinction. [0] https://astronomy.com/news/2020&#x2F
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by mrkstu 6y ago
We make tradeoffs, just like different all different nations, even amongst those in Europe do. Check out the relative prosperity of the US States individually vs the world: https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/us-gdp-per-capi
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Mitt Romney was the first Senator, of any party, to cross party lines to vote for an impeachment of a President of their own party. Many Republican legislators immediately and publicly renounced Trump's comments[0] regarding delaying t
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by mrkstu 6y ago
iPad Pros for non-business use may be luxury devices, but the 'regular' iPad is down to $329 now, solidly low end- especially now that iPad OS has mouse support built in and Safari supports requesting desktop mode pages.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
The problem, of course, is survivorship bias. Its similar to Monarchy vs Democracy. A great monarch can get a lot more done than a leader in a democracy. They can also do a lot more harm. If you want to maximize the potential of a company,
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by mrkstu 6y ago
If you drop the 3 vacations abroad and the 'new' appellation to the car, then 1/2 of the people in the US can reasonably aspire to the rest of that with hard work and self discipline.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
The main problem is most of the livable land is concentrated in the ‘wasatch front’ mountain range, and the valleys running north south along it. This keeps the available developable land within drivable distance permanently constrained.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Just had a sales call w/them the other day and expressed concern about sending domain authority over to them- this doesn't give me the warm and fuzzies.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
You're pointing to instances where snaps aren't involved- kinda missing the point. Just because there are other ways to get the desired result, the optimal path used by most people is seriously impaired for no benefit.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
I just picked my iPhone up off the desk (where I keep it charging when using a computer) pulled down the shortcut screen and opened the pinned calculator app. Was roughly 2 seconds from thought to screen. Windows calculator just took me abo
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by mrkstu 6y ago
My main problem is guiding hyperfocus to the thing that needs to get done right now . I have a weird anxiety avoidance that makes me willing to do almost anything, including very hard things, if it isn't the thing that is necessary. I
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by mrkstu 6y ago
I used to work for a service provider, that solved the MPLS administration problem by hijacking 7.0.0.0 DoD space that wasn't publicly routed. By using 7.x IP assigned loopback interfaces in customer MPLS space, we could export just th
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Yes, the recoil of the combination event forced the new, larger black hole to zoom through the accretion disk, generating a large amount of energetic interaction with the gas, with a large flare of resultant light, with the flare ending as
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by mrkstu 6y ago
There is a high likelyhood that ARM Macs will be a 'superset' of iPads going forward. That means at least some models will have touch screens/support apple pencil/be convertible form factor. Like now, two ecosystems in o
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Well, yes, in the sense that technically it's 'their' government. It's 'worse' when those who supposedly should protect you, instead abuse you, similar to how the BLM protests grew out of outrage about police b
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by mrkstu 6y ago
It definitely exists. Living in an Austin suburb now with most all of those features. It was even more so as a kid in Utah, but it was much more intertwined with the locally dominant religious group, so would be harder to replicate more gen
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Only if you ignore the network effect of developers knowing your platform vs others...
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by mrkstu 6y ago
They've specifically called out that OS level virtualization isn't available in Rosetta 2. So if there is an x86 dependency QEMU becomes necessary.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
They haven’t clarified if Docker is ARM all the way down or if they are using QEMU to emulate x86 somewhere on the stack.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
My brain skipped over that part apparently. It is interesting that they are calling out virtualization improvements separately though.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Rosetta 2 - the interesting bit was that it was going to pre-translate binaries instead of at runtime. The implications for actual VM emulation is that Rosetta won't work for run time environments like OS emulation. They touched on it
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by mrkstu 6y ago
Interesting news as it pertains to the ARM Macs. Implies the graphics capabilities may be substantially better than most of us were anticipating- much better than the already very good iPad graphics.
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by mrkstu 6y ago
The problem being, of course, that you can then potentially be blackmailed by the foreign intelligence agencies...
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by mrkstu 6y ago
I think the modern version is Islamic- you see many Sunni nations more willing to work with Israel than Shia Iran. Christianity is not an explicit part of any modern state outside of the Vatican that I'm aware of (with a small technica
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by mrkstu 6y ago
The idea of it was what a portable Mac should be. In the end it could very well be the perfect demonstration of why a move to ARM would be worth it. The main issue/downfall of the Macbook was the slowness and the heat. Those are also
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by mrkstu 6y ago
I would assume part of that is the improvement in virtualization. Those with adequate RAM can run Windows apps in a VM performantly. You really only need Bootcamp for gaming, and with Nvidia support waning on the Mac, you're going to h
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by mrkstu 6y ago
First of all, thank you for the detailed response. I will say that from my own experience (by definition anecdotal) on HN that there seems to be a quick, reflexive downvote for anything mildly critical of the Chinese Communist Party, that t

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