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by oconnore 11y ago
Why do media companies block entire countries? Selling an apple to someone in Ireland is the same profit as selling to an American, yes?
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by oconnore 11y ago
If his 10, uh, "preparations" hurt less than the 2 actual crashes, he might have a good thing going.
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by oconnore 11y ago
> blessed way to build apps This is the whole point. You still go through approval uncertainty, 30% tax, the threat of revocation, etc.
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by oconnore 11y ago
Ah yes, the old "web app so cool that Tim Cook decides to flush money down the toilet" strategy.
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by oconnore 11y ago
It's hilarious that people keep trying to solve this as a technical problem. Apple has a business model based on disallowing compilers/JITs/interpreters on the app store. Does anyone here think that seamless offline mobile we
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by oconnore 11y ago
Just what middle-America needs, notification that the russkies are coming for their baby pictures.
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by oconnore 11y ago
PDF: http://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/Combi...
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A wind/water/solar grid is stable without batteries(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by oconnore 11y ago|1 comments
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by oconnore 11y ago
The whole notion of the powerwall is based on the assumption that either utilities or consumers are irrational. If buying a powerwall was at all economical, utilities would buy them in bulk, charge them on wholesale power, alter their prici
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by oconnore 11y ago
Well then, I'll have to adjust my assumptions. Thanks.
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by oconnore 11y ago
So far, informally, every person I've seen write something like this works in marketing, works for a company that makes revenue from advertising, or is somehow monetarily incentivized to have a web where "users" widely agree
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by oconnore 11y ago
They've already launched direct attacks on our allies, and more recently inspired attacks on US soil. They are holding territory, are self funded (generously), and are recruiting around the globe. Arguably they are more dangerous than
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by oconnore 11y ago
Yeah, pumped water doesn't work everywhere. I think the water tower wouldn't be economical. The article I linked provides an existing alternative that doesn't require special geography.
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by oconnore 11y ago
There seems to be plenty of research, but making them economical seems quite complicated, and they don't have the density for mobile applications. The baseline for grid scale storage is pumping water up a hill. That's pretty tough
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Pumped Heat Energy Storage (2014)(economist.com)
8 points by oconnore 11y ago|1 comments
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by oconnore 11y ago
It's going to be tough to beat pumped water and thermal storage: http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2014/03/electricity-s... 80% efficiency and they scale with the size of your water tank or gra
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by oconnore 11y ago
They also don't need to be critical. Being critical is necessarily editorializing, which we have no shortage of. The shortage is of hard journalism.
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by oconnore 11y ago
Perhaps the premise that the school's actions successfully (does the policy work?), appropriately (is the policy ethical?), and accurately (does the policy have negative side effects?) counters that ideology.
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by oconnore 11y ago
Especially suspicious when accounting for the sorts of technological developments that have taken off since then -- lots of sending packets to screens of various sizes, not very much human exploration. /s
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by oconnore 11y ago
What if you just accept algorithmic trading, and allow companies to upload an "agent" that handles trades for them? Each agent, running on a standardized VM, can be given the same amount of CPU cycles, the same standardized data f
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by oconnore 11y ago
If your browser directly negotiates with the site, there would be no third party aggregating data. If federated, you could choose the payment processor (perhaps bitcoin?), and only companies (or distributed protocols) you implicitly or expl
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by oconnore 11y ago
This sounds like a job for Erlang, not JWZ staring at C code until he's convinced it won't segfault. A small monitor process could do something reasonable when the big GUI codebase fails, and then everyone wins.
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by oconnore 11y ago
Who is endlessly confused? Who suspects that the author of a neat lisp editor plugin has never written a non-trivial line of Common Lisp, Clojure, or Scheme? What are the chances that people in either category are also curious and excited t
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by oconnore 11y ago
NYU Ada/ED -- the free teaching compiler that went on to become GNAT -- was released in 1983, 4 years before the first release of GCC, the same year Stallman first published his Free Software Manifesto, and two years before the FSF was
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by oconnore 11y ago
Engineers repulsion from Ada -- for being an icky DoD invention -- has probably held the art back several decades. We're only now getting measurable adoption of languages like Rust, Scala, Clojure, or Haskell that attempt to assist pro
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by oconnore 11y ago
> all this for a part which, in the normal lifetime of most well-built laptops (aka Macs), will never ever need to be replaced. My laptops last 4-5 years. This battery failure was at 1.5 years. I just replaced mine after 2 years.
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by oconnore 11y ago
All decent smart phones from the last 3-4 years run Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Email, SMS, and a web browser just fine. The Lumia 920 was released in 2012 , and has an 8.7 megapixel camera with an f/2.0 Carl Zeiss lens, and supports
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by oconnore 11y ago
Thanks, so depending on how you count unincorporated, self employed workers, you get between 3.5% [1] and 9% [2] of the labor force underemployed (not looking at salary). I suspect there are more Uber drivers than successful independent co
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by oconnore 11y ago
But the "in the labor force" category includes people who are forced to work part time so they don't collect benefits, get bumped from job to job, have unreliable hours, make less than the cost of living, etc. The graph shoul
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by oconnore 11y ago
> I'm going to talk about some stuff which struck me while learning Haskell. This post is meant for people who write code in languages that are not Haskell, but would like to learn more about the experience of learning it. Like many

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