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by richardw 5y ago
Look at Y2K, climate. Government won’t do anything until it’s closer to real. When it’s nearer you can bet they’ll get focused minds, fast. Non-zero chance they drive in and take over. As a government who insists on holding the final power
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by richardw 5y ago
Same here. Probably 80’s. Kids those days too. I was the fastest reader so the first to prance around.
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by richardw 5y ago
A non-zero percentage of the world GDP originates from work done on MacBooks, to differentiate it from most “toys”. I don’t have one so I’m not talking my (mac)book here.
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by richardw 5y ago
VC’s don’t want you distracted from their one shot at your next 18 months. They’d rather you go for broke and flame out rather than building a 5-year runway that allows you to slowly tune your ideas. Neither is better than the other, but on
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by richardw 5y ago
As a pentester you’d likely get an OK from the client on which methods were acceptable. Can you phish, etc. An exec would hire you to test their company and you still wouldn’t have carte blanche on methods. I assume you didn’t just YOLO ran
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by richardw 5y ago
I used to read non-stop. My kindle is now filled with hundreds of books I haven’t read. I don’t generally do New Years resolutions but fixing that seems an excellent candidate. Edit: I’ve just deleted all my standard newsy favourites and mo
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by richardw 5y ago
Not peer reviewed. Could mean it’s faster to spread but gives you time to build resistance before severely impacting your lungs.
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Omicron spreads 70x faster in bronchus but slower in lungs(med.hku.hk)
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by richardw 5y ago
People can self publish and now we have a total shitshow of misinformation. It’s not guaranteed that decentralised finance and web solves world peace. There is always a tradeoff. Maybe it’s awesome. Maybe it’s the web version of string theo
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by richardw 5y ago
You could highlight all the research being conducted in future so more stakeholders can weigh in on the risks. You can raise the requirements for conducting such research, or in extreme cases prevent it from being done. The assumption that
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by richardw 5y ago
What looks bad is having millions of people die and not learning how to prevent it in future. This should be a blameless post-mortem. Shit went wrong, this is how we fix it. Truth and reconciliation, not hide-behind-feels. The people who wa
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by richardw 5y ago
You rent the batteries as a service. https://insideevs.com/news/537644/nio-4-million-battery-swap...
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by richardw 5y ago
They seem innocent to me. They’re very likely not aware of the pain they cause. They don’t weigh up moral dilemmas and discuss them. They also have no ability to choose. They can’t code for a living, can’t play piano and be vegan. They just
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by richardw 5y ago
Knowing what we need to win an Oscar for. Used like “we don’t need to win an Oscar for that”. An area where extra effort doesn’t target the outcome you need. Put extra time into the area where you need to win the Oscar. What gets us into th
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by richardw 5y ago
Notepad, alt-tab, F5. Perl that produced JS that posted back to the Perl app. Java applets. C++ ISAPI filters on MS side and a single Sun server for ~3000 client sites. Duke Nukem or Quake until 10pm after work. What a special time.
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by richardw 5y ago
Two thoughts: Africa can’t afford in-person teachers. The ones in my country are not great on average. I couldn’t learn maths in class. Too distracted, too annoyed with stupid questions. But I increased 3 symbols in 3 school terms with a sl
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by richardw 5y ago
I think almost all users would like easily swappable iPhone batteries. All users would have liked Fords with multiple colours rather than black. Many users would have asked for text messages over 160 characters in 1990 or Facebook with thei
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by richardw 5y ago
Non animal food. Will transform land use. Remote education. Available to any kid or adult anywhere.
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by richardw 5y ago
And the bird has to carry the tracker around. Put a tracker on me for 9000 miles and you’ll get some complaints.
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by richardw 5y ago
At least in my country, inflation is higher than what I get in interest. I lose money every month. I prefer to, over the long term, earn more than inflation. The only way to do that it to add risk. Over the long term, the risk reduces and I
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by richardw 5y ago
Our internal monitoring alerts for performance anomalies. Quite possible to scale and warn you.
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by richardw 5y ago
Externalities are not baked into the current price of eg coal power. The fully loaded price should be compared.
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by richardw 5y ago
I like seeing my child. We often open the study door because it’s not fair for her to almost be with us but have a separation. When we need to work then the other will make sure there is separation but I want her to know that she’s our top
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by richardw 5y ago
Anyone who isn’t aware of the value will be taken advantage of. “Here have 50 bucks, just look into my orb”
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by richardw 5y ago
And was written by HN mini-deity patio11. He’s been quiet for a while but has added enormous value in the past. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11
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by richardw 5y ago
This looks like a better source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-021-00926-1
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by richardw 5y ago
2025: “But the chassis is the battery! Absolutely needs to be disposable”
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by richardw 5y ago
A few Chinese companies are doing it. Eg: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/chinas...
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by richardw 5y ago
In really important environments, just the last part is good enough to be useful to an adversary. Someone now knows you know something and all they need is the leverage. Go with “no idea” The only upside to anything more than that is to imp
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by richardw 5y ago
Anecdote-not-data warning: I gave an Android tablet to a 90-something year old. She got on ok but there were a few frustrations. Stuff would close when it shouldn’t, button here just hard to reason about or get to etc. She asked if it was a

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