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by ryacko 7y ago
I'm of the opinion they should add FPGAs to everything. Every chip now has an insane amount of die area dedicated to the northbridge or the L3 cache. Anything else turns the junk we buy into garbage the moment everyone switches to a ne
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by ryacko 7y ago
Hopefully with more advanced stone-cutting technology, I could have a house with Inca-style stone walls. No reason for bricks to be rectangular.
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by ryacko 7y ago
It is immature to attribute financial cost to everything. What you say is social trust and cohesion is what accountants call goodwill, the value above the net worth of a corporation or something operating that is uncountable. Prioritizing s
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by ryacko 7y ago
It might be worth mentioning that Wikipedia spent several million on creating a more trustworthy search engine without anything to show for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Engine_(Wikimedia_Fo... https:&#x
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by ryacko 7y ago
https://thefederalist.com/2018/11/07/incoming-democrat-chair... Overheard on Amtrak in some cases (strange since Amtrak does offer roomettes).
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by ryacko 7y ago
I'm sure there would be some outrage if Spain got a player banned over "Free elections in Catalonia". Fortunately many dictatorships are foreign and don't understand the subtleties of Western society. (ironic since the C
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by ryacko 7y ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=us+citizen+detained+ice Cases such as you allege occur on a semi-frequent basis. People fall through the cracks, and the mechanisms by which the news ultimately reports on the truth is rather unfam
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by ryacko 7y ago
But in the West it is expected that token political statements are to be allowed and protected. "Free HK" isn't a particularly complex political statement, and it is over a topic which Westerners think is unfairly suppressed.
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by ryacko 7y ago
>HALDEMAN: It's a limited hang out. >DEAN: It's a limited hang out. >EHRLICHMAN: It's a modified limited hang out. >NIXON: Well, it's only the questions of the thing hanging out publicly or privately. https:
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An exposition on why Quake 'failed'(esreality.com)
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by ryacko 7y ago
How do Taiwanese companies do business in China? "Hello, I am the CEO of a company located in a fully autonomous province that does not pay taxes to the PRC?"
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by ryacko 7y ago
Yes, people have incredibly short memories, they will forget all about Blizzard and never return.
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by ryacko 7y ago
The Dualit toaster in my household was recommended by an appliance repairman. It is reliable so far, but it wasn't until the past year that the medium setting on the timer actually resulted in medium toasting.
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by ryacko 7y ago
Rather unexpectedly, the President of South Korea was removed from office after evidence came forward that she was the puppet of a cult. No one knows what the aims of the cult was, or how many people said nothing about it. It is almost as i
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by ryacko 7y ago
The major browser currently hides "www" and " https:// " by default. Now it has to hide port numbers and IPV4 space will suddenly be multiplied by less than 2^16.
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by ryacko 7y ago
A somewhat related HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1744214
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by ryacko 7y ago
There's innovation as seen by the top down, where it is "add [new solution] to [old solution] to [madlib] the [industry]" and invention as seen by the bottom up, where it is "add [feature] to [old tool] to make better [t
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by ryacko 7y ago
Sounds like you have serious backing, that is a fairly professional outline. Reminds me of some Goldman Sachs reports I've read.
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by ryacko 7y ago
I believe that those patents are only meant for mutually assured destruction. I doubt Google would really use them.
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by ryacko 7y ago
PR departments are amazing creatures, fine crafting a narrative to convince others that "it is we who have made it out ahead" while the average attention span is depressingly...
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by ryacko 7y ago
That already exists, housing will cost less near airports, which in turn reduces property taxes or rents for people living near the airport.
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by ryacko 7y ago
You can spoof device fingerprints, but you can't spoof the top 100 common devices easily.
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by ryacko 7y ago
Eat slowly until you feel satisfied. No single person has the same metabolism, and only processed food has exact measures of nutrition that can be measured.
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by ryacko 7y ago
If goodwill could be valued as an asset, it would far outnumber actual exchangeable assets.
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by ryacko 7y ago
Unix-compatibility has yielded more income to other companies than to the company that designed it.
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by ryacko 7y ago
Endowments are funds that are restricted from being spent, however interest from the investment is used to fund other activities.
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by ryacko 7y ago
I don't think AT&T made much from Bell Labs.
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by ryacko 7y ago
Reminds me of something about a true crime case on TV. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-hours-drawn-to-murder/2/ >But the plan went still further: at one point, police duped a newspaper reporter into writin
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by ryacko 7y ago
The real trick is to search for brands advertised in a magazine meant for a different demographic as you. Beyond that, IP addresses are the primary identifier on the internet, and all other tracking is meant to differentiate between differe
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by ryacko 7y ago
Archimedes solved figuring out for density, there are also other non-destructive tests.

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