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by nixos 10y ago
> tamper-evident seals. Doesn't help when the tamperer isn't hiding
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by nixos 10y ago
> It'd be stupid to give that up and risk a triple-digit-billion-business (iPhone) for what's bound to be a small fraction of that (ads in the App Store). You don't have to outrun the bear, just your friend.
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by nixos 10y ago
Common mistake. If the service is free, you could be the product (on not, like Linux), but you could be the product even if you paid. Many physical newspapers cost money and had ads (even the reputable newspapers such as the NYT), and l
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by nixos 10y ago
Blackberry Bold (classic) was barely able to run the OS and hold more than 5 (small, simple) apps. Even without apps, it would run out of RAM, CPU, etc. For a company which makes both the device and OS, there's no excuse for that kind
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by nixos 10y ago
Um, there was no root on Blackberry
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by nixos 10y ago
So you're asking for a smartphone without apps. Try locking your playstore.
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by nixos 10y ago
I don't think they're allowed to put Android on a BB classic form factor - the screen dimensions don't scale relative to regular phones, and as far as I know, Google demands certain layouts to simplify app development.
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by nixos 10y ago
The Outer Space treaty doesn't prevent one from owning property in space. But that's not the main issue. The main issue is that until another company opens up shop on Mars, you literally have nowhere to go, and the colony will be
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by nixos 10y ago
Eradicating poverty is orders of magnitude harder than landing a colony on Mars. Hypothetically, if the US were to put 20% of their budget into (truly) getting people on Mars, they'll do it. If they put 20% of their budget into eradi
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by nixos 10y ago
The same reason Apple bothers me. Today, I don't care. His clients know what they're getting involved with, and if they don't care, I don't either. My concern is when he does go to Mars, he'll have hundreds of peo
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by nixos 10y ago
> OldSpace has not devloped a new rocket or rocket engine or rocket in a while. OldSpace has almost completely been pushed out of the international launch market. OldSpace launches cost at least 2x more, and for a number of missions more
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by nixos 10y ago
I don't know, probably it's the blender videos pushing the wider internet audience into it (so it's not all his fault). While he's going good, and is launching rockets, but right now he's behind OldSpace in doing wh
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by nixos 10y ago
It's human nature to attacks a reality-distortion field. If he would have said "You know guys. We're going to Mars. But right now, we're working on making rockets that go up, on time, in one piece. When we finish with th
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by nixos 10y ago
He doesn't. But that doesn't mean that I'm comfortable with potential dictatorships like that.
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by nixos 10y ago
Did he talk about the future land ownership/governmentship of his colony? Will it be a personal dictatorship of Elon? Unlike Earth, once you're there, there's nowhere to go without his blessing. You can't just "move
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by nixos 10y ago
But then the US government would be able to tell the NYT, CNN and NBC what to print and what not to print (No, you may not print that news which embarrasses the President, It's against Regulation 5v). > Only the people that comprise
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by nixos 10y ago
As far as I remember, it was around when Google+ came out. Google started as a technology company for nerds. Remember when Google broke all "rules" when their website was a simple image, input, and two buttons? Then they were into
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by nixos 10y ago
Because he's going to buy it for $20,000. The conglomerate can sell it for $15,000. Who's going to buy it from him. It's a commodity market (so little "customizing" benefit), crazy IP with feedback loop (Google and
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by nixos 10y ago
> If the barriers to entry are low because you can buy self-driving software off-the-shelf for $20,000 then profits will be low In the beginning. Then due to economy of scale (and government regulations), it will be controlled by two hu
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by nixos 10y ago
> Don't see how it could happen in Iran, much less how post-communist Iran would be worse these days than jihadist nuclear Iran you now have. Not necessarily. The Soviet Union sponsored plenty "nationalist" movements which
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by nixos 10y ago
What about between North Korea (US lost) and South Korea (USSR lost)? You can't compare different cultures like that
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by nixos 10y ago
>They didn’t murder hundreds of millions of natives When we compare morality, we compare morality among contemporaries.
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by nixos 10y ago
Still, the difference is that most countries play realpolitik 100% of the time, while America plays it (say) 50%. That's quite good.
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by nixos 10y ago
"Least Bad" is often quite good. When comparing governments, one can't use a vacuum. It's not A vs. hypothetical B. For example, fighting WW2 "completely ethically" (such as waiting for absolute precision bombi
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by nixos 10y ago
>we would have written critical pieces of the stack in a high-assurance Ada profile, and put microkernel design capability kernels into production You're writing on a computer magnitudes faster than the fastest computers of the 70s,
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by nixos 10y ago
So they shut down a node, the node operator notices and restarts it. The problem is that people actually make money from malware. It's not bored college kids showing off skills. It's pros. So think like a pro. You use a zero day t
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by nixos 10y ago
But then you'd become fingerprintable by staying out of the crowd
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by nixos 10y ago
> Over what time-horizon? We've achieved a great deal in the last 100 years that would have received less than a coin-toss probability if one were to be having this same argument in the early 1900s. The Haber Process [0] is a great
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by nixos 10y ago
It wasn't a coin-toss away. The Hiroshima bomb was almost guaranteed to work. The question if Nagasaki would work, which is why they did Trinity. The theory was there when the Manhattan project started - it was an engineering hurdle, n
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by nixos 10y ago
Which is _much_ (orders of magnitude) easier than curing Cancer

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