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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Why would it be better to have this job be driven by profit? Er, to avoid it being used as leverage during government infighting?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
I'd kinda assumed that any "benefits" were mostly about the opportunity to blame it on the other party and try to corner them into blinking first. (Note this works identically well regardless of which side of the aisle you re
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
What's really fun is - under "quiet" enough conditions - being able to kinda feel walls from up to maybe an inch or so away. Not sure if it's air currents or reflected body heat or sound waves or what, but there's
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> instrumentation layer itself gets neglected It needs to be treated as an integral part of whatever framework is being instrumented. And maintained by those same people.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
The claim being that it's a gap there, a thing that gets overlooked in these projects. Whereas here it's a standard line item in whoever's budget.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> “Baumol-type effects” means that everything that didn’t get more productive got more expensive anyway, but we consume more of it all the same because society as a whole got richer. It depends how you measure. The cost in goods or pur
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> But that’s not paradoxical at all. That’s basic supply and demand curve from economics 101. It’s exactly what you’d expect. The key part is the "demand more than eclipsed the cost savings" bit. The cotton gin is another w
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> A lot of software can’t operate without an internet connection Or even physical things like mattresses, according to discussions around the recent AWS issues.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> and that leadership by arbitrary decree is stupid. Great! These are age-old lessons To some extent! There are also cases where any decision is better than no decision, and all the options are good enough that it's not worth the
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
This is a prediction of the future, not an observation about the present / past like it's phrased as.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
And lead in gasoline, and probably quite a few other things where we found a way to get similar end results with fewer annoying side effects.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> promise of web 2.0 where "APIs will talk with APIs making everything super fast and automated" Wait I thought web 2.0 was DHTML / client-side scripting and XmlHttpRequest?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Well, maybe it signifies that nobody wants to go and take photos in person. That sounds slow and expensive.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> I feel historical events maybe after the Victorian age can claim to be theft, otherwise it's just empires and conquest. One criterion that might work is whether there's some greater power around that says it's theft, a
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
It doesn't save any bytes, that variable is used once .
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> *which the power company thinks is unfair" The way you worded this implies that you disagree. Are you aware of why wholesale prices aren't constant?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
I don't think people are deciding what car to buy based on how much labor market churn they'd feel responsible for.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
s/is difficult/requires ongoing expenditure of resources/
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
"chain" as in "supply chain".
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> optimal amount of fraud That sounds like the amount of fraud is the thing being optimized for.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
The "simple" (as distinct from "easy") option is that anything fast gets a dedicated route that's physically separated - maybe by elevation or such - from everything around it.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> The most interesting part of the interview arrived when Korosec brought on a thought experiment. What if self-driving vehicles like Waymo and others reduce the number of traffic fatalities in the United States, but a self-driving vehi
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
If it's wrong about something that 95+ percent of people are wrong about, that's mildly annoying but understandable. If it picks sides on something that half of people are wrong about, that's less understandable of an error.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Why only one? "Group A says this is true, group B says that is true, there does not appear to be a broad consensus, here are some examples of each."
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Additionally, as much people like to harp about "telcos focusing on connection-oriented protocols while we ran loops around them with packets", the reality is that NCP and later TCP pretty much focused on emulating serial li
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Everyone is vulnerable regardless of age. Yes, and people who are slower and more fragile and take longer to heal are more so than others.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
So that would mean that most users must not actually care that much, then?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Your browser becomes your personal privacy enforcer, and the law would require it to act on your behalf. Based on your one-time choice, it would be responsible for allowing or declining cookies from every site you visit. If a website
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Well obviously they'd be employed by the oil companies to suppress knowledge of advanced energy sources.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
I'd expect them to monitor SETI to intercept any first contacts the same amount as they monitor Miss Cleo to make sure her crystal ball isn't showing state secrets.

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