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by nwiswell 4y ago
As a rule of thumb, if the ballot measure is incomprehensible, you're safe in voting against it (which, obnoxiously enough, can sometimes mean voting yes) There is never a good reason for using language this obtuse, but there's lo
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Right. An attempt to do a full rewrite just doesn't pass the most basic cost/benefit analysis. Redoing it in [sexy language / framework / paradigm / design pattern] will feel aesthetic, but even if it goes perfect
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Playing with our food again. We're alone in an empty universe, aren't we?
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by nwiswell 4y ago
You're entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts; proof of stake is not 12 years old (Sunny King and Scott Nadal, 2012), and certainly there have been a lot of other hard problems solved since then. There's a lot of othe
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by nwiswell 4y ago
I would guess that a 60% reduction in ocean freight volume could only be the result of the worst global depression since the industrial revolution. I got curious: Year | Billions of tons 2020 | 10.65 2019 | 11.07 2018 | 11.02 ~~~ 2010 | 8.4
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Bubble is over? Price keeps falling? When I first discovered Bitcoin it was trading in the double digits. Every time I see a number like $19k it absolutely blows my hair back. There are a million legitimate criticisms to level against crypt
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Do you think this was a constructive comment?
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Have you ever heard the expression "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence?" Don't show me a free energy device. That's skipping a whole bunch of steps. Start by showing me proof of even the tiniest violati
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by nwiswell 4y ago
And you would benefit from a search for "first law of thermodynamics"
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It seems like the language of the XO could simply specify "six months, or the soonest time which would be allowed without penalty by the relevant contracts, but in no case longer than three years."
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Well, if nothing else, it produces profits... and profits pay for lobbyists. At least in the Washington understanding, an "industry" is any profit-seeking entity or association which has lobbyists representing its interests. (What
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Just because Pakistan is ham-handedly Streisanding Khan doesn't mean other countries (like China) don't have this down to a science.
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> A real American manufacturing renaissance would be German, with high skilled trained professionals designing, building, and operating advanced machines to create complex products. So like Applied Materials, Lam Research, and KLA Tencor
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by nwiswell 4y ago
That isn't the same thing. Nullification is when the ENTIRE jury votes not guilty, producing an acquittal and double jeopardy protection for the accused.
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by nwiswell 4y ago
You picked this book to present as evidence to support your (honestly outlandish) claims regarding living standards in ancient India. No one else even suggested it. All I did was read it (well, skim it, really) since I was surprised to
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Very good. Page 68: > In ancient times, distinction was made between several different categories of farmers. There were those who cultivated their own land, those who had it cultivated by wage-earning laborers, and those who leased the
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by nwiswell 4y ago
This is a gross misrepresentation analogous to saying the whole world runs on Rolls-Royce's tech, not Boeing's.
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Good questions. At the foundry level, roadmap and research is always ongoing many nodes into the future. The degree of resources provided to a node is of course proportional to how close to becoming a source of revenue it is. Typically diff
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Just so everyone is aware, terms like "2 nm" are industry jargon used primarily for marketing and roadmap comparisons of process nodes. It doesn't really have any physical bearing on the sizes of the devices involved anymore.
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> This was what Andy Grove wanted - more investment in chip manufacturing. He was also the former CEO of Intel, so you know, not exactly impartial on the subject.
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Okay. Let me know when literacy rates stop rising, access to information starts becoming less prevalent, the number of technical degrees granted every year begins to fall, or the number of libraries begins to decrease.
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by nwiswell 4y ago
> how do we keep the knowledge alive? ... books? Scientific journals? Have you visited a library lately? Particularly one of the thousands of technical libraries on university campuses? They're still around. In fact it is an endurin
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Carl Icahn is actually three pythons in a trenchcoat
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I didn't know pythons were predatory capitalists. I thought they ate small mammals.
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Broadly I agree with the argument that crypto is taking an awful long time to come up with the killer app, but this is not a fair analysis. Let's be clear: when Google exploded, that was the growth of the Internet in the driver'
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by nwiswell 4y ago
High-value zero days like what you're describing would not get wasted on stealing bank information from random working schlubs like us. I think it is a reasonable approach to personal information security to focus on ensuring that you
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Do they have payroll taxes? I struggle to see how you could run a pension system at those tax rates. The 26% figure above does include the FICA payroll tax.
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Honestly, it really is true that upper middle class and wealthy Americans pay less tax than their European counterparts. VAT is broadly much higher than sales tax, property taxes are not exactly unknown in Europe, and if you are an employed
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by nwiswell 4y ago
I didn't know I wanted this service until now. $2/mo? Hell yeah. The sticking point, for me, is that I have to merge the call every time. Ugh. I want it to prompt me whether I want to blackhole a call like the Pixel Google Assista
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by nwiswell 4y ago
> Invisible to people around you Not based on the PR photo. It would be very obvious to anyone who makes eye contact with you.

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