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by roca 5y ago
> The Harvard Business Review article I linked above goes into some detail about how this happens. It doesn't make the argument you have just elucidated, which is an interesting one. I'll think about it. > Because you judge
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by roca 5y ago
Every time a Musk tweet swings the value of BTC by 20% --- in either direction --- Bitcoin loses credibility as a store of value. "Price greater than zero" is not enough to make something a good store of value. BTC as a means of p
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by roca 5y ago
> Now it's ubiquitous. But that ubiquity will make it all the more easier for merchants to adopt crypto. The point is that no-one needs to adopt crypto for payments because the existing payment platforms work fine, better than cry
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by roca 5y ago
It is simply not true that if governments removed all fossil-fuel subsidies today then electricity production would become 100% carbon-free overnight. There are massive issues around supplying base load (requiring cheap energy storage tech
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by roca 5y ago
> If proof of stake works out, there’s no doubt the next Google will be a crypto company that gives revenue back to the user base to incentive good contribution. Any company could do this with fiat currency today. "Crypto" has
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by roca 5y ago
How about exonerating the lab before the facts were in, was that OK or not?
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by roca 5y ago
AFAIK we have found that SARS-CoV-2 can infect certain animals but no-one has found it in any animals that are plausible candidates for the original zoonotic transfer. (If such candidates have been found, I'd like to learn about it!) F
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by roca 5y ago
If you don't think the CCP handling of the case is suspect, why has Huang Yanling disappeared? If we knew SARS-CoV-2 was leaked from a lab, that would add a lot of weight to the calls for tighter restrictions on lab security and gain-o
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by roca 5y ago
We haven't found an animal host for SARS-CoV-2 yet, after more than 12 months. It took six months to find an animal host for SARS and less than a year for MERS. The incentive for the Chinese government to find a SARS-CoV-2 animal host
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by roca 5y ago
I'm open to the lab leak hypothesis, but the intel around those scientists being hospitalized is pretty weak.
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by roca 5y ago
I disliked the new tabs at first but after a few weeks I'm totally used to them.
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by roca 5y ago
Your first link is a good resource, thanks; it points out many valid issues where Firefox needs to catch up. It is definitely slanted though; for example Firefox's Rust usage is compared to Chromium talking about maybe using Rust somed
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by roca 5y ago
OK. I assume there are questions that aren't answered explicitly by existing pages, where wrong answers don't get people killed. If there are no such questions, that's not my problem.
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by roca 5y ago
"What is the difference between ebike model ABC and ebike model XYZ?"
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by roca 5y ago
Where are you getting that data? I'm genuinely interested. FWIW I think it is probable that the IPC APIs into and out of the sandbox have been more thoroughly fuzzed and otherwise tested in Chrome than in Firefox. I don't know how
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by roca 5y ago
Not at all. I'm suggesting that when writing up a PR blog post, choose examples where applying your technology is a sensible and safe thing to do.
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by roca 5y ago
Their hiking question is an odd example. Technology like this is probably perfectly fine for asking questions with low downside for wrong answers. But if someone asks "I've hiked Mt Pirongia and now I want to hike Mt Taranaki; how
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by roca 5y ago
Great work!
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by roca 5y ago
When things get bad, check about:memory and check out which process is using all the memory, and for what. It may just be some Web application you use that has a leak of its own.
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by roca 5y ago
What do you think makes Chrome's sandbox "far superior" on Linux? AFAIK they're very similar.
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by roca 5y ago
That may have been true at some point, but I don't think it's true now. E.g. Project Zero finds Firefox sandbox escapes noteworthy.
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by roca 5y ago
I've had it on for many months and haven't had any issues I could attribute to it. I don't really use Firefox extensions though.
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by roca 5y ago
Not as good as Chrome's, but constantly improving and good enough that Firefox sandbox escapes are Quite A Big Deal, not trivial.
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by roca 5y ago
The problem is, the landing page says it's "similar to Java" right in the first sentence and in the second sentence "same portability benefits as high-level languages like Go and Rust", and later on "excellent
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by roca 5y ago
There is no reason to believe the former. Car companies have to comply while also selling cars.
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by roca 5y ago
I don't think anyone denies Musk is a marketing genius.
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by roca 5y ago
SpaceX is excellent. EVs would have happened without Tesla. The "kick in the ass" is the same thing that has driven all other emissions improvements: government regulation.
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by roca 5y ago
Unfortunately the doctor's report amounts to "we asked them if the virus escaped from their lab and they said no".
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by roca 5y ago
This paper doesn't seem to have anything to do with the experiment I suggested.
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by roca 5y ago
If that's true, then there's a straightforward experiment that would boost confidence in the natural-origin theory: culture the earliest available SARS-CoV-2 virus, and see what it's good at infecting other than humans. Surel

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