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by snoshy 6y ago
Reading TFA, that was exactly the sense I got: a wistful announcement that a cherished part of the Internet was maintained for years beyond most of its users even noticed, and is being closed down. It seems readily apparent from their acti
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by snoshy 6y ago
But isn't broad ignorance and complacency of the injustices committed the real issue here? I feel GP is right to question what drives this, because the few that tangentially "take up the cause" are likely lacking a more usefu
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by snoshy 6y ago
I think this is exactly right. However, the question still stands: how does a large tech-focused corporation encourage engineers to pay attention to such requests? Expecting enough of them to just volunteer their time doesn't appear t
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by snoshy 6y ago
No, as far as the CEBR knows. It's not a Chinese forecast, it's a UK forecast.
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by snoshy 6y ago
No, but selling said book could be construed that way by authorities. I don't think you reject the label "American novelist" when you see it, and I doubt the relevant authorities do either.
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by snoshy 6y ago
This entire saga is both typical and odd in that it has elements of truth that have been exaggerated by all sides involved. It's typical in that high level leaders in China that don't follow the party line just-quite-closely-enoug
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by snoshy 6y ago
Deported for conducting business without a visa. Lots of people do this. But selling it as a lifestyle comes with repercussions, no matter how unfairly they may be chosen. I'm all for LGBTQ+ rights, but this fight ain't it.
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by snoshy 6y ago
Net neutrality has never been about freedom of speech in the misleading manner the article presents. Net neutrality has always been about removing financial motivations for ISPs and other significant parties to prevent you from accessing
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by snoshy 6y ago
All of the examples you gave are of non-terroristic means of attempting to achieve the goals of a cause, where the groups involved generally lack violent extremists. GP's point was about how they believe federal law enforcement has rea
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by snoshy 6y ago
On the one hand, at least they made it more than a minute into the test. A lot of the harmonics and stresses on rocket engines are at some of their most extremes just after ignition (within tens or hundreds of milliseconds). That they got
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by snoshy 6y ago
I don't quite agree that this is a meaningless or trivial violation of Illinois law, but let's set that aside. The fact that end users actually get anything more than a few dollars is what's actually shocking to me. Usually
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by snoshy 6y ago
It's more just that they have a 16:1 ratio of volunteers to blind/low-vision people. Many others on this thread have reported the same. It's a great problem to have as a free service.
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by snoshy 6y ago
> You think we don’t have enough traditional options to level London on a Tuesday afternoon? I actually don't think there are any that are feasible. Leveling a city the size of London is no small feat, and amassing the troops and w
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by snoshy 6y ago
I'm glad there's at least one other person vocal about doing this. I use a several-year-old Android phone, and when anyone new sees me use it, the first thing they ask is what phone it is and if I just bought it. Those animations
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by snoshy 6y ago
As someone who believes that Tesla will come to strongly dominate this industry, I'm happy that the regulators in charge have done their job, and worry that conceding to this kind of pressure would lead to lax controls on automotive pr
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by snoshy 6y ago
Why not? All you have to do is point to one particular company whose systems have not been verifiably breached after having resisted actual attempts.
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by snoshy 6y ago
First, I'd like to express appreciation for a thoughtful and nuanced comment about how this might apply to space, and the boundaries of (extraterritorial?) law. This feels like a remarkably poignant summary of the issues involved, at
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by snoshy 6y ago
But the truth is that while Google might not _like_ paying the MPEG LA for these costs, it would be a foolish business strategy to do so. Obviously Google would rather pay zero dollars for a video codec, but if it means losing out on a pro
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by snoshy 6y ago
Video codecs, like any other software, ultimately do have to compete on merits other than cost. In this case, it might not be "hard" to make a video codec, but it is hard to make a codec that is competitive with anything of the l
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by snoshy 6y ago
Agreed. It very well may be coded speak to rile up some supporters and drive them to violence, but that's hardly clear to the average observer. There are so many other instances of direct calls to incite violence, it's rather sa
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by snoshy 6y ago
Clearly the police were outnumbered to a degree that they couldn't prevent them from getting inside in the first place, so why would they have sufficient forces to search these individuals on exit?
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by snoshy 6y ago
Seems safe to assume that the Speaker of the House and her aides would have access to classified national intelligence that might not be open to the world, and would be valuable in it's own right. Things like progress and updates with
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by snoshy 6y ago
While this is certainly an interesting point, it really doesn't seem feasible for Apple to partner with any existing car manufacturer while escaping a higher level of human rights scrutiny than other firms. They've had many insta
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by snoshy 6y ago
Perhaps what it comes down to is a confidence interval, and the broad overconfidence of tech companies when their product meets the real world. There's nothing inherently wrong with saying "oh, you like X, maybe you should try Y&
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by snoshy 6y ago
Very informative, thank you.
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by snoshy 6y ago
As always, Matt Levine has a great explainer on this subject, from Nov 2019: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-27/soon-d...
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by snoshy 6y ago
By this logic, every startup should have practically zero value until it's brain dead obvious they've cornered the market. Clearly past projections about the future prove this strategy to be ill advised purely on this standard.
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by snoshy 6y ago
I think you raise a valid point, which is that thermal exchange management is a significant issue for fast charging batteries, regardless of capacity. However, Tesla already has deployed 250,000 watt chargers in real world use, so a jump t
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by snoshy 6y ago
I haven't seen your work, but this to me is generally excellent advice. I wish more people would provide and hear it. There is a level of effort required to get good at effectively conveying information to others, and it is best learn
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by snoshy 6y ago
This an extremely terse and pointed article about the present day reality of a command that users generally take for granted or avoid altogether. LWN rarely disappoints, but scp is an obvious next step for beginners upon learning about SSH

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