njharman

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by njharman 10y ago
Sure, me too except zero windows. but Microsoft has realized going after 30person offices is not lucrative compared to 30,000person companies and government depts.
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by njharman 10y ago
The average Tesla buyer does not pay for ludicris mode, or probably even the 'D' submodel.
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by njharman 10y ago
I think the biggest problem Model S has as a track car is that it is a luxury four door sedan. The WHOLE point is this ton of bricks luxury four door can accelerate like no bodies business, faster than most track cars. Not that the Model S
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by njharman 10y ago
"subsidize someone else's future purchase" Not what it says at all. And you'd have to be pretty oblivious to how companies, esp growing ones, operate (which I'll give you the average American probably is) to take it
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by njharman 10y ago
The roadster wasn't, Each model has funded devel/production of the following model. I think parent meant S&X are funding "mass productions (model 3)"
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by njharman 10y ago
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/tsla/financials?ltr=1
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by njharman 10y ago
There's a reason new languages, compilers are made rather than everyone just porting their code to the Assembler of new CPU. Same reason applies here.
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by njharman 10y ago
World wide consensus of scientists vs random dudes feeling about his local weather this year. Whom to add salt to. Yes tough question indeed
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by njharman 10y ago
Nobody is forcing me to use node. If I use it, is that also an error of the developer?
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by njharman 10y ago
Um, computers do better than humans in the vast majority of applications to which they are programmed for. By which I mean, the news is not that computer > human, but that medical industry/profession/jobs are taking first baby
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by njharman 10y ago
What we keep missing is that golang is not nearly as widely adopted as the blog traffic level would lead one to believe.
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by njharman 10y ago
> reasonably priced When a cartel has monopoly on distribution (which is $$ thing copyright provides and DRM attempts to shore up) and thus sets prices and even when/how/if you get to buy/rent content, how can you claim to
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by njharman 10y ago
DRM is a symptom. The disease is ridiculously expansive and one-sided copyright law. This is still good fight. Although I'm not optimistic. If DMCA wasn't laughed out of the courts when it made Sharpie(tm) markers illegal "ci
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by njharman 10y ago
As a species we are inseparable from our technology. They go hand in hand. One does not improve without the other.
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by njharman 10y ago
Like a cellphone and the internet? Or better yet, something with heads-up display like Google Glass. Or Siri/Alexis with throat mike and headphones. Augmenting my memory since reading about the Remembrance Agent and getting into weara
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by njharman 10y ago
There's difference between funding science and funding a study that shows "whatever thing you want people to believe to sell your product". The latter is typically what gets regurgitated by news as "science" and wha
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by njharman 10y ago
Read history, philosophy, psychology, travel and talk to people (not "important" people, just people). That will learn you everything about the how and why human world is today. Read science. Actual science not studies paid for b
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by njharman 10y ago
Looking at a math equation or a bit of software code and being able to identify it as elegant and beautiful is having and expressing taste. Given that you can look at two implementations that are functionally equivalent. But see that one is
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by njharman 10y ago
Maybe you just lack "taste", an aesthetic sense.
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by njharman 10y ago
P is Perl PHP Python. The other letters have various incarnations. Point being horizontal scale is known, and not difficult solution for many, many domains. Starting a long time ago.
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by njharman 10y ago
TCP is not simple. TCP is a spec, it could have design bugs. There are many implementations of that spec. New ones created, existing ones modified. It should not be surprising that they have bugs.
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by njharman 10y ago
Games should be like this. The point of (social) sci-fi is to explore and consider situations. To learn pitfalls before we actually confront these situations. Of course, must of us don't pay any attention to these lessons.
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by njharman 10y ago
Is it really that hard? Tons of companies do it. LAMP stack has been scalable for couple decades or so. There are platforms and services that you can rent/buy if you don't wanna role your own. I can get a free databricks account
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by njharman 10y ago
For any given software thing you can 1) pay for the cathedral 2) use the bazaar, possibly needing to seed it 3) do without Since 1) is typically very expensive and lacks guarantees of suitability to purpose and continued existence, the ROI
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by njharman 10y ago
Everybody (in industrialized nations) should have 3 day work week.
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by njharman 10y ago
Thinking that pursuit of knowledge is only activity for immortal is naively idealistic. Elimination of of all life not like me. Or simply eliminate life that might singularity and become a threat. Even if, who's to say one aliens pursu
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by njharman 10y ago
Even before the superblock idea, that first picture of existing Barcelona blocks looks so massively better than anything I've seen in USA. I looked hard, twice, before reading article cause I was sure it was is was artist rendering rat
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by njharman 10y ago
The differences between businesses and public are not at all clear. contractor - business?, employee acting on behalf of business, employee at work but not work related, self-employed person in unrelated field, person how use of hashtag get
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by njharman 10y ago
In the last 10mi of course. Don't dig cable, don't push tv, have members buy and deploy the mesh network. Also don't pay lobbyists, don't pay for advertising, installers Cust support, CEO salaries, etc. Cable companies m
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by njharman 10y ago
Anthropomorphism is anthropomorphic. We are animals, mammals. Whales are also mammal animals. To attribute our behaviours as something solely human is ridiculous hubris and a vestige of hundreds of years of scientific ignorance.

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