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by parenthephobia 11y ago
You're conflating needs with wants. Whilst I certainly want things that my iron-age ancestors wouldn't even have known they could want, my actual physical needs are not greatly different from theirs. Part of the "challenge&qu
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by parenthephobia 11y ago
Well, I don't think that's true. Eventually, the plate will be higher density than the material available at the point of its construction, so it will need to take material from outside the plate's current area to fill it. As
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by parenthephobia 11y ago
The resources required to replace the firmware on a non-crippled Android device is access to the Internet from that device. This is not a big ask. Most people who own an iPhone have a data plan and/or access to WiFi. Sure, only a small
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by parenthephobia 11y ago
The precedent you reference doesn't really apply because, as you say, the FBI isn't actually asking for the signing keys. The big difference between what's being asked and the signing keys is that Apple already have the signi
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by parenthephobia 11y ago
Open doesn't mean it's an unlocked door. Open means that the owner of the device can replace the firmware. There's nothing not-open about requiring that the owner authenticate first. It's only not open if the vendor, rat
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by parenthephobia 11y ago
It might not be the most constructive way of doing things, but people tend to downvote comments they disagree with. As to why they disagree: HN's audience is not representative of the general citizenry. We're better informed about
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by parenthephobia 11y ago
Strictly, it is not the cryptography being broken in this case. The FBI want to guess a (possibly) six-digit pin. The iPhone might have been configured to erase its data on 10 failed PIN attempts, so the current odds are not good. To this
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by parenthephobia 11y ago
Any watch can be breached by water, given enough time and pressure. Most watches would not survive very long at the bottom of the Marianas Trench. Similarly, most watches would not survive a few centuries in a shallow pool, even if rated fo
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by parenthephobia 11y ago
The reason not everyone has the best watches, air conditioning, knives, or whiskey is that, for physical products, quality tends to cost more. There is no reasonable argument to be made that people shouldn't have higher quality product
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by parenthephobia 11y ago
The conclusion of the diabetes-related study you linked to is not that diet soda causes insulin resistance, but that diet soda consumption is positively associated with metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. The nature of the link is not
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by parenthephobia 11y ago
If I don't want to use voice calls or SMS messaging, these permissions are excessive. I also can't distinguish between giving Ring permission to access all my contacts' details and send them to some third party, and giving Ri
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by parenthephobia 11y ago
You can tell the difference between people who look at your page for 10 seconds after opening it 10 minutes ago, and people who actually look at your page for 10 minutes. If you aren't fooled into thinking that particular people like y
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by parenthephobia 11y ago
Ah yes. There's a lower point on the cable where you're already in an elliptical orbit with the perigee at the altitude you want. For a target orbit of 400km, that happens at about 23.8Mm, 57% of the way up the cable. At that poin
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by parenthephobia 11y ago
It doesn't drop vertically back down the elevator cable! It performs a Hohmann transfer from GSO to LEO. The delta-v to transfer from GSO to an LEO at 400km is 4km/s, whilst to go from ground level is about 7km/s. That's
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by parenthephobia 11y ago
That's caused by the Coriolis force. Rising elevator cars would leach the Earth's angular momentum, whilst lowering cars would replenish it.
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by parenthephobia 11y ago
> Which features from 0.8 aren't there? For me, the lack of HISTOGRAM and DIFFERENCE have actually stopped me doing things I wanted to do. Obviously, JOIN isn't there either, although that hasn't been an issue for me. :)
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by parenthephobia 11y ago
I'm confused. Your tone suggests you're disagreeing with me, but the words mean the opposite. Do you think I said that "only criticism of Go is argued against"? Because I didn't.
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> I think everyone who uses Go for anything is pretty clear about why they like it, and one of the major reasons is simplicity. Nope. I like Go because: * Interfaces * A sane, fast, build system * Concise syntax, mostly * Garbage collect
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by parenthephobia 11y ago
I think JSON is a pretty terrible markup language.
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by parenthephobia 11y ago
It is possible to like things but not think they are perfect. Every time Go has ever gotten better was because somebody who liked it thought it could be improved.
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by parenthephobia 11y ago
Counterpoint: Javascript is pretty bad. There is a brilliant language that looks like Javascript that is the language you might be thinking of when you say "Javascript is pretty good". Unfortunately, that language only exists in p
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tl;dr 2.0: 1) MongoDB Inc have made a "foreign data wrapper" for PostgreSQL which enables MongoDB databases to be accessed from within PostgreSQL. 2) This makes data in MongoDB databases accessible to existing analytics software f
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by parenthephobia 15y ago
In the case of TCP/IP, everyone calls the checksum a checksum, and nobody calls it a hash.