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by pitaj 6y ago
I don't know much, but isn't Audacity a thing?
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by pitaj 6y ago
Gravity obeys the inverse square law over large scales. The extra-dimensional curls only apply over very small distances. We haven't yet measured any evidence for gravity behaving differently at those scales, though.
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by pitaj 6y ago
Even if we could easily draw a line between essential and non-essential goods (pretty much impossible), you'd still have the problem that banning "price gouging" doesn't help anyone. Sure, it keeps prices down, but by ar
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by pitaj 6y ago
The price mechanism is even more important in these cases though. Preventing it from adequately responding to changes in supply and demand only causes more shortages.
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by pitaj 6y ago
They are only able to do this because the original sellers don't, usually because they are afraid of angering people at the best, or violating the law at the worst. If the original sellers raise prices in response to spikes in demand,
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by pitaj 6y ago
We did already do that. It was called spraying DDT everywhere.
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by pitaj 6y ago
I think Rust's model with smart pointers and deref could work really well with a colored pointer, short-pause GC like ZGC. Rust has the capability to do things like execute load barriers on access, so it could still work when objects h
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by pitaj 6y ago
The top layers of skin are already dead though. You're much more likely to break them down while washing your hands.
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by pitaj 6y ago
It may just be for alignment. A push may be just (having a specific case in the CPU) as fast as updating the SP.
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by pitaj 7y ago
Please don't quote with code blocks. Makes reading on mobile very difficult. The quote reformatted: > In the DDC technique, source code is compiled twice: once with a second (trusted) compiler (using the source code of the compiler’
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by pitaj 7y ago
If this article is persuasive, I recommend looking at the following: http://dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm
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by pitaj 7y ago
I wish they would do the same for Windows 10 multiple desktops
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by pitaj 7y ago
> Yes, that's a failing of the real free market we live. We don't live in a free market. Not even close. I would argue that since these laws exist, commercial suppliers are unwilling to raise prices for fear of being penalized
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by pitaj 7y ago
I think the point is that it wasn't better security. And nowadays it likely has no improvement or actually decreases security.
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by pitaj 7y ago
Depends on how you define "real engineer." In the US, you do not need a certification to call yourself an engineer.
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by pitaj 7y ago
Wells can be up to 200m deep. Aquifers are usually level, but the land above them might not be. So burying something 1k deep can leak into an aquifer that is drilled into elsewhere or even a high-table aquifer that drains into surface water
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by pitaj 7y ago
You still have to worry about it leaking into aquifers, though I believe that problem is already solved by encasing the waste in glass.
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by pitaj 7y ago
Except then you have to use Dart, or call into Dart from some other language. There are many people who dislike Dart or otherwise prefer to use other languages.
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by pitaj 7y ago
That is pretty interesting, but doesn't actually offer up a solution that provides server relief, unless I missed something. In every case they still require that HSrv be a slow hash function.
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by pitaj 7y ago
Cheats detect that and change things back just before the screenshot is executed.
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by pitaj 7y ago
Wireless links could absolutely be faster than fiber links in latency. Unlikely they'll be faster in bandwidth though that's also possible if they are able to convince regulatory agencies that their beam-forming is good enough to
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by pitaj 7y ago
That is unfortunate. Huge turn-off.
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by pitaj 7y ago
As someone who uses both, G502 has a very different form factor and feel in the hand.
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by pitaj 7y ago
As I understand it, shallow trenching was a way to try to get around incumbent lock-in. They were trying to bypass the barriers that were raised by regulatory capture.
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by pitaj 7y ago
> Is it not possible that this mechanism by which the most popular product is the most attractive one (to prospective employees and employers in our example; in another example it might be people wanting to make phone calls) -- thereby m
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by pitaj 7y ago
> Do you really want 10 different companies installing power lines, electrical wiring, etc? Yeah, that sounds amazing. Do you think there should be zero alternative firms? > Also, without a government granted monopoly, private corpora
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by pitaj 7y ago
No it is not. Regulatory capture is created with the influence of market actors, but cannot exist without state (non-market) policies and enforcement.
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by pitaj 7y ago
There is no evidence of natural monopolies ever actually arising naturally as you're describing. In every instance, government either acted pre-emptively and established a monopoly itself or the monopoly was a result of other governmen
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by pitaj 7y ago
"Privatizing" state utilities is not equivalent to bringing in the market. Usually privatization just means converting the government-managed monopoly to a heavily regulated, privately managed, government-sanctioned monopoly. Ther
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by pitaj 7y ago
High initial investment costs (for laying fiber etc) won't stop someone like Google. What stopped Google fiber was regulatory barriers set up by municipalities to help their local ISP cronies. > Sorry, but equating regulatory captur

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