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by nick_kline 6y ago
People are pretty dependent on their cell phones. It's our maps, ways out of places. You can even do bus tickets on them. It's our way to call for help, see if someone is okay. So it's weird not to have my phone on me.
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by nick_kline 6y ago
Won't your wifi mac address be a unique identifier? Did google start doing wifi mac address randomization?
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by nick_kline 6y ago
One month is not enough statistics. How many died in the 3 or 4 months around that in 93 and 2000? It wouldn't be that surprising if there was a terrible flu in the past. But picking just one month at least makes the comparison incompl
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by nick_kline 6y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23752321#23752514 for this discussion.
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by nick_kline 6y ago
There's no perfect solution and many conflicting needs. 1. The health needs of students and professors, some part of them are vulnerable, plus the normal health considerations of covid-19 2. The learning needs of students, plenty may s
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by nick_kline 6y ago
What a mess. There will be schools that have confusing plans, ICE won't quite get that student A is in program B that followed plan C and now they switched to D so something something. Just another piece of terror for all those student
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by nick_kline 6y ago
What would be a good strategy? I think this makes sense for students and for professors, think of vulnerable people, the cost of going there and then the later canceling.
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by nick_kline 6y ago
I don't think it matters if people share. Half the value of attending at least if not more is the famous name on your resume. Everyone knows it's extremely hard to get into. It's not hard to point to famous people in tech fro
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by nick_kline 6y ago
Someone in my company found us through an 'ad' on the monthly hacker news job listing story. It must happen all the time.
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by nick_kline 6y ago
3gb/sec read and write speed, about $4,700 for 15tb for these datacenter class hardware. So in about 3 or 4 years this will be less than a $1000, probably getting smaller, closer to a consumer product. There's an old sf book about
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by nick_kline 6y ago
The article uses the term 'bitfd' which apparently means "burn it the fuck down".
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by nick_kline 6y ago
Gaia Platform ( https://www.gaiaplatform.io ) | Bellevue (Seattle) | Full-time | Onsite Strongly Preferred Gaia is creating a platform to enable autonomous machines. We are building a new architectural model that is centered aroun
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by nick_kline 6y ago
AMD is so far behind intel in market share, money, resources overall that worrying about "you don't want AMD to win (either)" is looking too far ahead.
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by nick_kline 6y ago
The great idea is you don't have to worry about paying the driver, it's all online safely with your credit card. You get a receipt that is easy to expense. There's a record of the trip. The bad things are drivers don't h
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by nick_kline 6y ago
They weren't the only gaming system. There are 2 phone ecosystems today and that's the central device in most people's lives, the phone is a bigger deal.
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by nick_kline 6y ago
I think this is the paper https://www.cs.bu.edu/~jappavoo/Resources/Papers/unikernel-h... . There's a great summary by cormacrelf below of some of the details. This kind of things comes and goes across th
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by nick_kline 6y ago
Thank you! That great summary should be the top post.
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by nick_kline 6y ago
Correct about Sweden. We can compare Sweden to Switzerland (8.5 million vs 10 mil pop in Sweden). Switz has 1870 deaths, Sweden 3460. Sweden is far worse per capita than it's small northern euro neighbors too (actually deaths per milli
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by nick_kline 6y ago
touche
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by nick_kline 6y ago
No, it's different with windows. Linux doesn't have constant forced patches from the mothership that kill your system. It can happen but it's much rarer. Windows used to be better of course (back when i worked there, even tho
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by nick_kline 6y ago
How about the government provides health insurance and other social service benefits (like employment), then it wouldn't be part of the cost those businesses try to get away from paying? There are also thousands of people every year wh
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by nick_kline 6y ago
Also consider getting your masters degree in CS. If your school offers it you will probably get super low tuition while working there (sounded like outside the us, must be even cheaper elsewhere). Then you will be very employable and also c
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by nick_kline 6y ago
I think it's true though that the places that used to make food in bulk are struggling to repackage their food for consumers to buy in smaller quantities, that can certainly lead to fewer foods available. so there is potential for wast
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by nick_kline 6y ago
Please tell us more. I imagine you said "reality contradicts your statement" in some way.
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by nick_kline 6y ago
Gaia Platform ( https://www.gaiaplatform.io ) | Bellevue (Seattle) | Full-time | Onsite Strongly Preferred Gaia is creating a platform to enable autonomous machines. We are building a new architectural model that is centered aroun
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by nick_kline 6y ago
Look at the current death rates. Requiring a tested vaccine is a reasonable response. Requiring an untested vaccination is not something I see happening. I guess we could get to "you can't do certain things like go to large gather
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by nick_kline 6y ago
It's not that trump said he likes to breath air, so everyone became fixated on that. It's that this is one of many (dozens at least) of things he has said were solutions, cures, miracles that would deal with covid-19. These went t
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by nick_kline 7y ago
"Exponential processes just don't really exist in nature". Hopefully no one (cough, politicians) says this anymore, after Covid-19.
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by nick_kline 7y ago
Their revenue should shrink by massive margins, as a start all temp rental agreements month to month are gone. Did they even have 50% long term rental? Their main hope is survive until this goes away, then wait for step 2, startups and entr
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by nick_kline 7y ago
It's very predictable that we'll have major market downturns for various reasons every 10 or 20 years because of history. If you are 25 years old you've lived through 3. I'm older and I've lived through 5 or 6, depe

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