planck01

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by planck01 5y ago
Math nor encryption will be outlawed. They will demand that all communication platforms provide lawfull intercept facilities to the authorities. Parties that do not comply will be fined or forbidden. Don't be fooled that it won't
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by planck01 5y ago
Spying among allies has more impact than you think. There are similar levels of public outrage, but obviously you can't boycot allies without damaging relations more. So measures won't be pubically visual. But it will lead to a de
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by planck01 5y ago
That's not always an (easy) option. Especially if kids are involved.
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by planck01 5y ago
How do you mean 'was largely ignored'? It was headline news for almost a year during the snowden period. It still is discussed occasionally and both us and uk are trusted less by eu countries because of it.
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by planck01 6y ago
>cultural fit, values alignment I thought this mattered, but this mostly leads to more of yourself. When we ignored those factors these didn't seem to matter much for team quality - at least at our company. People find surprising wa
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by planck01 6y ago
In software development I always see 'talent' as correlating to a combination of three things: iq, conscientiousness (personality trait) and a formal education in computer science / mathematics or adjacent like physics.
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by planck01 6y ago
First definition I find of religion: "A set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual ob
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by planck01 6y ago
"To complicate matters, numerous studies over the past few decades have reached what seems a counterintuitive conclusion: that all psychotherapies have roughly equal effects." The article gives a number of possible explanations fo
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by planck01 6y ago
And...back to AMD?
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by planck01 6y ago
Is Hadoop still the way to go for big data solutions? My feeling based on my social bubble is that less and less solutions are built on it. The recent stackoverflow survey seems to indicate it is not very popular anymore.
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by planck01 6y ago
A defining feature of a black hole is that because of it's gravity nothing will escape it, not even light. This clearly doesn't hold for atoms. They can be bombarded by photons and electrons and split and fused.
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by planck01 6y ago
It's true. They work for free, because they really want to help you fix your problem. Until you depend on them. The you'll have to pay as much as they think you can pay.
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by planck01 7y ago
Why not try all of the above? The mess you mention is unfixable. Mars is very very far away, but worthwhile. The SETI and other research is worthwhile as well. Even if it is a null result, you learn something. R&D itself makes us learn
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by planck01 7y ago
It's not enough to reach zero on carbon emission. There is way too much in the air already that we need to get out of it and somehow bind it to the (sub)surface of our planet to keep it out. And we need to find a way to do that on scal
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by planck01 7y ago
Uptime of years? How does that work, security wise?
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by planck01 7y ago
Summary: Many round trips of small api requests can add up a lot of latency. An often used tactic is to bundle requests. Even better is to locally cache data when possible. Is this news for anybody here?
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by planck01 7y ago
I think the Otherland series by Tad Williams about VR should be definetely be on the list. And ready player one as well.
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by planck01 7y ago
I am surprised Dgraph isn't mentioned as an example. It is the most starred graph db on Github, and I think it is the best one in terms of performance and scalability.
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by planck01 7y ago
Do you know of any successfully semantic RDF graph databases, I guess with OWL support? Because I personally don't. If not, it probably is rightfully too much an academic niche to be discussed in the article.
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by planck01 7y ago
It can't be complete and all there is, because it doesn't explain everything we know exists. To simply quote wikipedia: "It does not fully explain baryon asymmetry, incorporate the full theory of gravitation as described by g
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by planck01 7y ago
Generations are basically agegroups that share for a part the same cultural experience, e.g. the same mass media, cartoons, educational trends, etc. Research shows that these overlaps in culture lead to several predictive trends in behavior
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by planck01 7y ago
We could if we really wanted to and would pay for it. But we don't and probably won't. Too much disconnect between action and eventual long term consequence. Not enough global political support.
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by planck01 7y ago
Life and existence itself are meaningful. Short as it may be. Given that you will be dead for more than a billion times a billion years at least, why would you rush to that inevitable end instead of wondering for a short while about life an
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by planck01 7y ago
You're right. We need two things. One is carbon-sinks. This can be done by permanent new trees. Or by replacing trees and use the old wood or plastics for buildings. Or make carbon based usables and permenantly bury their waste in deep
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by planck01 8y ago
If performance matters in any way than Dgraph and Neo4J are much much better. Jena is a relic of semantic web past which you need if you want to do academic stuff like ontolgies, Owl, Sparql and inference. But hardly for building 'real
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by planck01 8y ago
I think that thinking around the Fermi Paradox has the fatal flaw that we think our current technological boom can be extrapolated. We have the feeling that the Kardashev scale, even type 1, is attainable. I'm more technological pessim
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by planck01 8y ago
You can also turn co2 into trees. More lowtech, but more useful than coal that's created with energy that should be buried as nobody will do that (next to the others usages mentioned which are mostly consumables and hardly viable co2 s
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by planck01 8y ago
Couldn't we achieve negative carbon emission simply by build all houses from wood? Cut down all grown trees and replace them by young ones. The houses act as carbon sinks. The young trees capture more co2 than the old trees. Easy. Tak
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by planck01 8y ago
"suddenly that no longer serves a narrative the left wants to tell" Except that that was also reported mostly everywhere. Also, one sided 'evil-looking' harassment is news that is more interesting to most people because
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by planck01 8y ago
Oracle is not the bad guy because of being closed source. Oracle is the bad guy because they will stop at nothing to screw their customers over and extort the hell out of them. I've experience with them taking out functionality we were

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