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by pacala 7y ago
Cloud and Energy have similar economics. No economic entity I know of operates their own power plant and power distribution network in their backyard. No economic entity should be expected to operate their own datacenters and data networks.
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by pacala 7y ago
These days, your public life is under continuous corporate surveillance. You may have not noticed, but entire cities are under 24/7 video surveillance. https://ring.com You may have not noticed, but the ubiquitous mobile ph
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by pacala 7y ago
Angular: Learn about property binding, event binding, pipes, templates, views, metadata, attribute directives, structural directives, services, modules, components, injectors. React: Write a function that generates a piece of HTML. Use stan
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by pacala 7y ago
Because of interplanetary transportation costs, due to physically unavoidable planetary gravity wells, the existence of other inhabited planets has essentially zero effect on the prosperity of the average Earth inhabitant. There is physical
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by pacala 7y ago
Major countries are led by popular demands. Minor countries as well. Vast overuse of energy resources is a pattern intertwined with modern life, from housing to transportation to food to recreation. The people demand having a vehicle with m
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by pacala 7y ago
I seem to remember a turtleneck guy that got felled by cancer. He was running a fruit company, perhaps there isn't that much money in fruits afterall.
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by pacala 7y ago
That's a good point. I forgot how highly politicized this topic is, which means there is a high likelihood for a flamewar, which means people would rather avoid touching it, which creates a conversation vacuum easily mistaken for a tab
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by pacala 7y ago
The rainfall over very long periods of time is not constant. From boring relative position to the nearby star, to the activity of said star, to more exotic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst and God knows wh
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by pacala 7y ago
Meaningless. There are people claiming with a straight face that targeted ads make user experience better. Wholesale collection and aggregation of personal user data will continue unabated.
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... in NewYork.
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by pacala 7y ago
What happens if the process dies while processing a job? Is said job going to remain locked and unserviced until the end of times?
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by pacala 7y ago
Whatever brands that are merely corporate spyware and not downright botnet malware. How far we have fallen.
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by pacala 7y ago
Funny enough, 5G is not much better than 4G other than 1000x device density. There is no 1000x increase in population on the horizon, but IoThieves is around the corner.
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by pacala 7y ago
Managers control the purse strings. ICs don't. There will never be equal status, and it starts with other ICs that won't lift a finger unless it pleases someone with a fat purse. You can leverage IC star power a little, but it won
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by pacala 7y ago
TVs have become cheap because they are spyware that sells a recording of your living room to the highest bidder.
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by pacala 7y ago
Source? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow... > Projections for after 2050 have usually assumed that fertility rates will have declined by then and the population will be stable or will dec
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by pacala 7y ago
Python: bank.move(100, from=checkingAccount, to=savingsAccount)
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by pacala 7y ago
Turns out Marissa made a false promise. Who would have thought it? We live in sad times when we are upset by moves necessary for financial solvency, instead of holding to account bulls__t peddlers that promise "free" stuff while d
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by pacala 7y ago
Our biology is what survived billions of years of culling out beings with insufficient skill or will to live.
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OTOH, Google and Facebook, with annual incomes larger than the GDP of a medium European country, can log everyone’s every breath, on the internet and, more recently, in real life, with impunity. I just can’t wrap my head how the municipal p
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by pacala 7y ago
The past 200 years is the era of energy-intensive technological innovation. What is the evidence that the technology innovation pattern we've experienced so far can shift into ultra-low energy mode at scale? In inhospitable environment
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by pacala 7y ago
Most of the "empty" space on the map world is an inhospitable desert. Sahara, Australian Outback, Namib, the Arctic, North American West, Tibet, Kazakhstan, Antarctica, Patagonia. Granted, a few pockets of wild forests left, Amazo
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by pacala 7y ago
Minimum wage laws are part of the larger system, not an isolated black/white switch. What if people out of employment also get some financial support to retrain / kick out their addictions / cure a sickness. A minimum wage la
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by pacala 7y ago
I hope you enjoy washing clothes by hand.
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Emissions = number of capitas * per capita emissions. Most people aspire to a western lifestyle. Multiply global population with western lifestyle emissions. This is wildly unsustainable. Minor western lifestyle tweaks are not making a dent
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by pacala 7y ago
Yet another Western centric litany of small palliative course corrections. They might have worked in 1950s, but are simply insignificant today. The world is rapidly changing. * Global population is exploding. We passed 2B as recently as 192
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I can easily learn to distinguish between a Norwich terrier and a Norfolk terrier. 1. Google "difference between norfolk and norwich terrier". 2. Click first link: https://www.terrificpets.com/articles/1029016
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Thanks for clearly articulating why the actor model is poorly suited to model data and control flow. In practice, the complexity of the control flow also amplifies the challenge of managing schema and control flow evolution. Particularly ch
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hash, equals, toString.
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For the rights to the proprietary language around which they built their flagship mobile platform.

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