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by oconnore 12y ago
> I'm likely to keep working in my job to have this You are assuming that humans will remain better at developing towards the remaining non-automated desires of humans. That is unlikely. When a robot is able to reconfigure your hous
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by oconnore 12y ago
You're right that no one is going to come up to you with a big red button that you can press. The actual changes that would help are probably more subtle than that (assuming that your workplace is somewhat reasonable -- aka not the sce
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by oconnore 12y ago
You are missing anything that I said or linked to. 6% includes ALL losses for the entire distribution infrastructure. I am explicitly not missing that. You also have not cited any evidence supporting your claim, so I don't know why I b
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by oconnore 12y ago
25-35% more efficient for single axis tracking panels vs. non tracking. Distribution losses are ~6%. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_tracker#Basic_concept http://energyinformative.org/solar-panel-tra
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by oconnore 12y ago
I'm ignoring it because it's mostly irrelevant (6% total, ~1% for transmission). If it weren't, we would not have an electric grid. http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=105&t=3 https:/
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by oconnore 12y ago
I was with you until you said that distributed energy is more efficient than large scale energy. A large scale hydroelectric, battery, or wind plant will be far more efficient than distributed energy in the home. Solar may benefit from capi
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by oconnore 12y ago
If a federal/state/local government declares something illegal, they can shut it down within their jurisdiction. There is no "I'm on the internet so you can't enforce laws" get out of jail free card.
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by oconnore 12y ago
You can't run a boycott campaign if you have no bit of data to tell you whether or not it worked.
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by oconnore 12y ago
None of those things actually thwarts NSA surveillance, because most of the NSA collection methods occur inside the datacenter. Based on one slide, inside Google's data centers. All the client side TLS improvements in the world don&#x2
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by oconnore 12y ago
How do they do Wi-Fi? Bluetooth?
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by oconnore 12y ago
The difference is that most devices are now running strictly proprietary software. The crypto war and the "war on general purpose computing" mean that privacy is being attacked from two fronts, not just one. In the '90s, you
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by oconnore 12y ago
Yes, lots of people don't use gmail for this reason. GA does a lot that webmasters couldn't normally do -- specifically: to cross reference those requests with requests to almost every other website, and use that data to build a f
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by oconnore 12y ago
You ought to be supporting publishers that are important to you with your dollars, not with HTTP requests to Google Analytics.
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by oconnore 12y ago
They don't get the privilege of having their data analyzed and used to market products back to them. Some of the marketing people on here will probably find that to be horrendous. Where is my relevant promoted content?!
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by oconnore 12y ago
The article comes off as overinflated shit, but Wieseltier's beehive-kicking is sure working here. Perhaps his boot isn't entirely without substance.
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by oconnore 12y ago
If you were raised with no privacy, you may not be aware that it could get better, but you would still suffer from the power dynamic that the total lack of privacy creates. Information is power, and even if that power is distributed evenly
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by oconnore 12y ago
You are selecting facts that are convenient for you. You are correct that small groups were often tightly knit. But you are ignoring the persistence of modern surveillance: Your neighbor or clan-mate never followed you everywhere . Since t
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by oconnore 12y ago
A more realistic way to fight this is to make Lava layer programs less harmful by keeping documentation and testing efforts consistent throughout the project (and back filling when previous developers didn't). The constant narrative in
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by oconnore 12y ago
Yeah, it would be quite a feat for an http server to force another http server to inject content into it's TCP stream :P (aka, cross origin)
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by oconnore 12y ago
With HTTP/2 server push, there is no difference between acquiring the html and the critical resources. They all get sent without a round trip. Then there is no latency benefit from requesting in parallel, because there is no round trip
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by oconnore 12y ago
If you mail a single disk (nevermind a box full of discs) to your friend, and it arrives in 3 days, you have achieved about 31.6 Gbps. If you mail a USPS flat rate box with 100 discs, you have achieved 3160 Gbps. You cannot buy a three thou
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by oconnore 12y ago
Especially if you're not even using real JSON. An actual JSON compliant expression spec would be somewhat interesting, to capitalize on existing parsers and tooling. It would be even more interesting if it had a 1-1 mapping to scheme o
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by oconnore 12y ago
This feels like a startup is doing marketing research to justify their product. "Do you think there is something missing from the internet?" [Maybe like our site?] "What recurring sites do you visit?" [Who is our competi
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by oconnore 12y ago
...because you have nothing to hide? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=privacy+nothing+to+hide You are asking your question from a position of luck (that you, in particular, can afford to be an open book) and mostly at the wrong le
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by oconnore 12y ago
The difference between data privacy now, and data privacy 10 or 20 years ago has little to do with how many people have access to it, or how secure it is. It mostly has to do with who can analyze it. An example: where you walk in public is
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by oconnore 12y ago
You can generalize this: Tips to outmaneuver any bureaucracy: know/bribe people on the inside to help you.
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by oconnore 12y ago
It always seems ridiculous to me that people are coming up with ways to cope with universal CAs (Tack, Convergence, CRLSets, etc.), but can't imagine how to apply those same ideas with a hierarchical system. CAs are a problem that DNSS
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by oconnore 12y ago
I run a beaglebone black, which draws about $4.82 dollars of electricity a year once I've plugged in all the externals (at $0.11c/kwh).
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by oconnore 12y ago
I wrote something similar (trie based routing) in native js, using ES6 Map and WeakMap: https://github.com/oconnore/tree-router
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by oconnore 12y ago
You can probably beat this efficiency with algae. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algal_fuel#Algae_cultivation

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