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by neolefty 8y ago
I can't imagine XCode could run in the RAM available on an iPad — maybe rework it to do the heavy lifting in the cloud?
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by neolefty 8y ago
More interesting question: Why would bleepingcomputer.com be upvoted more than cloudblogs.microsoft.com? I have to say that the latter says to me: "Go to sleep," but the first says "Hey this is interesting". Plus, the ar
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by neolefty 8y ago
Are there other sandboxed security scanners?
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by neolefty 8y ago
That's a fundamental debate that is worth having! On the other side of the argument: US economic growth has decoupled from CO2 output in the last few years — industrial output & productivity has risen steadily while CO2 emissions h
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by neolefty 8y ago
Reading the article: It's not carbon-neutral — just better than gasoline: > Because the plant currently uses some natural gas, by the time the fuel it produces has been burned it has released a half-tonne of carbon dioxide for every
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by neolefty 8y ago
Maybe he was already working on something email-y, and they noticed?
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by neolefty 8y ago
It sounds like a "moderation" issue — you need some possibility of inequality to have a healthy level of motivation, but too much inequality leads to poverty and limits human potential!
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by neolefty 8y ago
And moral framework. Don't forget the moral framework. One of my favorites is "Voting is sacred, and it is sacrilegious to try to influence anyone else's vote in any way."
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by neolefty 8y ago
Yes, that seems to be the pattern! I'd love to see us institutionalize a reasonable level of equality, rather than depend on disasters to provide it. We certainly have plenty of wealth and productivity for everyone to a have a pretty g
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by neolefty 8y ago
> Feedback loop > money influences politics ... converting higher economic inequality into greater political inequality. Political inequality, in its turn, gives rise to more economic inequality ... The article is well-written and cog
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by neolefty 8y ago
Red herring. That's not in any way the meat of the article. Here's the first paragraph: > Americans are used to thinking that their nation is special. In many ways, it is: the U.S. has by far the most Nobel Prize winners, the l
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by neolefty 8y ago
That sounds smart, as a first step towards making room for competition. "Which Android experience do you want? Google, Tencent, Baidu, Microsoft, or EFF?"
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by neolefty 8y ago
1. I agree. 2. What technical solutions would be better at fending off these kinds of propaganda attacks? I am trying to figure out, for example, whether Reddit is more or less susceptible. As far as I can tell, individual subreddits do bet
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by neolefty 8y ago
I welcome it because I came to the HN discussion primarily to discuss the broader topics. Note the parent comment's lack of "It's okay because ..." It's not okay. And it's not whataboutism.
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by neolefty 8y ago
Looks like it's the other way around — Course 6 will become part of the Schwartzman College of Computing. Does that make it an organizational peer with the Sloan School of Management?
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by neolefty 8y ago
Oh wow, that article explains it's a much bigger change than the headline says — all of Course 6, plus CSAIL and several others will move into the College. But it's also not a "College for Artificial Intelligence" — it&#
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by neolefty 8y ago
But what number will it get? 6.4? 23? (Also, 13 and 19 are unused.) Or will it go the way of STS? http://web.mit.edu/facts/academic.html
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by neolefty 8y ago
This is a classic debate — but I think it's mixing two very different ethical questions. * Should any two people be able to reproduce using their own genes? Should a homosexual couple, or an individual with a gamete disorder have that
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by neolefty 8y ago
> ... Microsoft still pulls a lot of bad shit. Specific examples?
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by neolefty 8y ago
It's not black and white. Apple knows it's increasing the reward of fraud — and therefore its own loss to fraud — by not selling parts. But Apple accepts that cost and chooses only to take enforcement actions, not market actions.
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by neolefty 8y ago
Does it perform an important function for YC?
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by neolefty 8y ago
It comes from mathematical writing — the greek letter delta ∆ is often a variable used for the difference between two values. So maybe you could translate it as "quantified difference".
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by neolefty 8y ago
For that matter, what did AltaVista and Yahoo's index have to do with Google? And how does DDG relate now? It's a good discussion. Google contribution is algorithmic ranking, in my opinion, which amounts to an ongoing war / i
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by neolefty 8y ago
I still like Google. I never worked there, but "cataloging the world's information and making it available for free" is still great. It's complicated yes, but Google — more than any other tech company — has empowered me
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by neolefty 8y ago
It depends on how permissive Fuchsia becomes, and whether Google wants to play nice or not — at this point it could go either way. The sticking points (I think) will be security policy and market positioning. What will be in Google's i
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by neolefty 8y ago
"abuse its power" — that sounds more like a talking point than constructive comment.
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by neolefty 8y ago
I agree — malicious would be to hide the Google cookies that are associated with your browser-level Google login. As it is, I think it's quite transparent. You get new cookies. It shows you their age. They're new. You're stil
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by neolefty 8y ago
Technically, it does remove the cookies. And then instantly you get new ones, from being logged in to your G account at the browser level.
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by neolefty 8y ago
Addressability — 512GBytes is 2^39 bytes aka 2^36 8-byte chunks. So each memory address needs 39 bits, and each internal memory address bus needs either at least 36 or 39 wires, depending on the context — too much for 32-bit addresses. In o
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by neolefty 8y ago
Soft power is the best kind of power. Oh no we've been conquered by excellent cuisine! Someday, we'll just call it "food".

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