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by ocschwar 9y ago
Kazakhstan already did it. All they have to do is force browsers to accept a CA that then MITMs everything.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
The fact is Apple, Facebook and Google have not been able to do that already, despite all three companies and their employees showing interest in doing precisely that. Turns out our democratic processes have not yet been entirely subverted,
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Re-read the comment. There's a lot of truth to it: raise their wages, and in a heartbeat, those workers will see their rents rise.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Mohammad al Khwarizmi's treatise on Algebra (the word comes from the title of the treatise) was written in plain Arabic prose. No notation at all. It takes a good amount of intelligence to read it, and it took an amazing genius to writ
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Is that why my 4 year old keeps saying "nevermore"?
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Diamonds. Is there anything they won''t do? They can prop up Stalinism regimes. They can prop up apartheid. They can prop up the likes of Mobutu Sese Seko. So lovely.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Any percentage above 0 makes it true.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
> Our next big rail project, ST3, will install 62 miles of rail over 20+ years at a cost of over $50 billion. Good basis for comparison. Because you see, for a typical freeway, a billion per mile is the cost. And that's just install
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by ocschwar 9y ago
> Then you should know why it's not practical to run rails to every grocery store and dry cleaner in every town in the US. Then I know that track costs less to install and maintain than roads. If it isn't practical to run trac
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Dude, I'm American.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Those of us who like matplotlib like it because we got into those minutia with Matlab many years before. If you've not had to endure that hazing ritual, then yes, there are better options.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
> Unlike roads, fixed rail is virtually guaranteed not to be where you are, or to go where you want to go. For no reason except the political. Go to any country in Europe, and you'll find that even the shopping malls have railway si
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by ocschwar 9y ago
That really infuriates me. In the fields where I worked, I've had to read dozens of papers by teams from Turkey, China, the Slavic countries, and other places. People whose command of their field was far ahead of their command of Engli
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Track costs far less (in money and energy) to build and maintain than freeway.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
The US military also has floating nuclear power plants capable of powering entire cities in an emergency. They used one in Banda Aceh after the tsunami. Other combatants prefer not to mess with the lights.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
When a major storm hits, and linemen swarm a region, the lack of remote-control and monitoring on distribution substations and unmanned windfarms makes things much worse. And storms hit far more often.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
I'm close enough to the industry that I can see the root cause. There's a huge cultural difference between Telecom and Power. When AT&T started out, they hired telegraph boys to operate the switches, and then after getting tir
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by ocschwar 9y ago
It would be a tort.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-reaches-400k-settlement-proposa... It's a thing.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
See the reasons listed in the other responses. Another one, which used to be much more significant, is the dark side of the west coast culture's radical acceptance ethic. Port cities were all about radical acceptance once upon a time,
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by ocschwar 9y ago
MIT's faculty and students are MIT faculty and MIT students/ MIT's admins are just admins. Same mentality you find in all the rest of academia, and they're actively hostile to everything that distinguishes MIT.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
MIT just sold off half of its class A subnet. MIT was always going to be the last place on earth to go total IPv6
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by ocschwar 9y ago
And elsewhere on the front page, a dotcom is hiring and is in the business of facilitating yet more borrowing by poor people.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Read up if you can afford to lose sleep tonight: https://theamericanscholar.org/our-nuclear-future/# GIven that "cyber attacks," that is remotely tampering with telecom equipment, are as old as the Arab Israe
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Cyber weapons mean that during a crisis, nuclear militaries have to consider whether their chain of command has been compromised. WHich means they are, in fact, as dangerous as nukes.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
And then using its monopoly power to demand their suppliers take action against Amazon's monopoly power. We really are slipping into the 1870s.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
And your friendly neighborhood electrical engineer will insist on having that discussion before finalizing a design for a fridge controller. Yes, it's important o keep a fridge in certain temperature bands. But there;s a lot of timing
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by ocschwar 9y ago
In particular, when the dishwasher's in the drying phase. Do you really care if the heating element turns off here and there at that time? Probably not.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
> Running a clothes dryer unattended is not safe. Those appliances are among the more common causes of house fires. A smart-ified clothes dryer is more attended to than a conventional one. >And as a practical matter, busy parents wit
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Refigerators commonly have a compressor to cool the freezer, and then a heat exchanger to equalize between the freezer and the fridge. So the freezer can store energy by working extra hard bringing things down from -5C to -20C whenever it&#

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