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by ryacko 8y ago
Product design is inherently a push system. If it was needs-based pull, the world would be slightly different. If everything was evaluated by cybersecurity and UX experts first, we wouldn’t have half the problems, but people aren’t interest
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by ryacko 8y ago
Very nice, was thinking about the Next Unit of Computing before I saw this. I’ll probably opt for software rendering for everything though.
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by ryacko 8y ago
I think the issue is learning by tactile experience.
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by ryacko 8y ago
I grew up in the intermediate period between widespread desktops and finally getting a smartphone. I just wrote down Google Maps directions and the general description of places I needed to turn on a piece of paper.
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by ryacko 8y ago
Order of magnitude errors aren't that hard, it is improbable that a hospital will need to prescribe enough drugs for a small horse. Doctors seem to run too much on autopilot, they leave discretion to laboratories who give recommended r
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by ryacko 8y ago
Netflix's algorithm has gotten worse. One is better off searching for renown actors and directors to find good movies and shows instead of looking for suggestions.
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by ryacko 8y ago
Paramount Television is in the credits. It's tempting to think directing is easy until you read Orson Welles' memo on edits to Touch of Evil. It would take longer to read his memo out loud than to watch the movie.
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by ryacko 8y ago
He should only be angry at those who should know better. He often is set off by randos who only want to contribute. So 2D is still too simple. It is like a horseshoe, one can be so abusive that the project fails because of it.
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by ryacko 8y ago
Intel corporation is still larger than DARPA and DARPA is much more diffuse. The impact shouldn't be that great.
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by ryacko 8y ago
I want you to watch hundreds of hours of drone videos, and rewatch the Collateral Murder video and determine if you could decide if those were or weren't journalists.
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by ryacko 8y ago
That has always been true. The incentive to capture methane never has been particularly high, given that transporting a gas is much more difficult than a bunch of unrefined liquids.
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by ryacko 9y ago
The ability of grand juries to permit private prosecutions have since been abolished, and is crucial to recent abuses of state power.
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by ryacko 9y ago
But who will leak?
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Dirty tricks.
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All testimony carries weight on the theory that the penalty (perjury) would make it unlikely.
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toenails
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by ryacko 9y ago
Not really. Global hard drive production is more than 2^64 bytes or 18 exabytes (SI). https://www.anandtech.com/show/10098/market-views-2015-hard-...
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by ryacko 9y ago
The Secret Service did want a sarcasm detector. https://www.thedailybeast.com/secret-service-wants-a-sarcasm...
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by ryacko 9y ago
https://danluu.com/wat/ apparently this is normal: Facebook famously let all employees access everyone’s profile for a long time, and you can even find HN comments indicating that some recruiters would explicitly menti
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by ryacko 9y ago
That's not really true. Maybe fifty years when cameras were of a sufficient quality that touchups would be noticed compared to a photorealistic painting.
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by ryacko 9y ago
Yes, Google has become the next Ask.com search engine. Which was pretty bad.
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Spam is done by massive botnets that crawl the web at a rate nearly equal to Google's.
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by ryacko 9y ago
And yet everyone's knowledge of masonic signs comes from the 20,000 masons who renounced themselves and joined the anti-Masonic party? Wouldn't it be more efficient to dissolve and rebrand?
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by ryacko 9y ago
Ask if the Masons changed their signals for distress every time a lodge has their charter withdrawn.
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I know right, it's like those JFK conspiracy theorists, I mean, what do people think, there's a yearly vote by high officials to knock off a President?
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by ryacko 9y ago
Given that people probably understand the postal system as well as they do any other network, it would be the best metaphor.
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by ryacko 9y ago
Patent law doesn't work against a sovereign state. So yes, they probably violate the GPL.
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by ryacko 9y ago
But wouldn't it have to be stored as qubits? A database in qubits would be expensive.
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by ryacko 9y ago
"The standard on copper twisted pair is IEEE 802.3ab for Cat 5e UTP, or 4D-PAM5; four dimensions using PAM (pulse amplitude modulation) with five voltages, −2 V, −1 V, 0 V, +1 V, and +2 V." if you can rig the equipment to provide
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by ryacko 9y ago
Yeah, it's a latency vs power vs parallelism issue

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