vadimberman

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by vadimberman 9y ago
> I feel like these days, IBM is closer to Oracle than AWS That's a compliment. IBM is by far more dysfunctional. It changed in early 2000s, I believe.
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by vadimberman 9y ago
Nobody needs a conventional war anymore, unless the takeover of the enemy territory and resources is an objective. Blockades and sanctions are far less efficient than in the past when it was possible to completely cut off a vital supply of
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by vadimberman 9y ago
Jokes aside, it's a great way of getting free money from the government without too much reporting to do. It's fairly unusual for the US, but similar structures exist in countries trying to nurture their startup ecosystem.
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by vadimberman 9y ago
100% sure. Like your source says, it's a partnership between the CIA and the private sector. "Close" does not mean part of the organisation. The founder Norman R. Augustine isn't even a CIA person. It is somewhat similar
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by vadimberman 9y ago
Sci-fi wise, Amazon is the closest to Wall-E's Buy n Large. (Even though Buy n Large started as a frozen yogurt company.)
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by vadimberman 9y ago
> Larry and Sergey weren't well connected when they started, either, afaik, as most PhD students aren't. That was 20 years ago. As much history as Larry Ellison's story in 1970s. Things have changed a lot, and the Silicon
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by vadimberman 9y ago
In-Q-Tel is NOT CIA nor its "venture arm" contrary to the popular misconception, and it's actually one of the more open VCs.
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by vadimberman 9y ago
Legal paper using the expression "gray zone": https://scholar.smu.edu/jalc/vol81/iss3/3/
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by vadimberman 9y ago
> How safe is Singapore public transportation and walking? Extremely safe. Even the whiniest people in Singapore (and that's a high bar to clear) will never say that Singapore is unsafe. Once in a while I see videos of cars not stop
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by vadimberman 9y ago
It's true that they should not be adopted en masse, but in some cases, it is very useful: * transportation across mountainous terrain - it will actually increase safety * a few tightly controlled shuttles in gridlocked megalopolise
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by vadimberman 9y ago
> Instead, a brief visit to Singapore, for example, will convince anyone what the future of transportation looks like. A public transport system, enabling a lifestyle that makes cars redundant. Living in Singapore, I agree with what you
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by vadimberman 9y ago
> at least here in Greece, everyone sings the praises of Uber, in comparison to the terrible service normal taxis provide There. It's not only in Greece, it's pretty much all over the world except a few places. I know, the taxi
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by vadimberman 9y ago
One thing I could not find anywhere in the net - maybe someone here knows. Does the Chinese government offer incentives for hybrids, EVs, and cleaner public transit? While it may not have a significant short-term effect, it should work in t
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by vadimberman 9y ago
Not necessarily a bad thing, but... "National security"? They told him that Singapore is different from Hong Kong and has nothing to do with China, did they? Because if it's about a small(er) country where China has economic
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by vadimberman 9y ago
If the physical media are indeed floppies and CDs, these guys will need to take into consideration high share of corrupted data. I know, I know, this is not what the project is about, but without it, the outcome will be more theoretical tha
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by vadimberman 9y ago
Does it make sense to stop a $1 bullet with a $3,000 kevlar vest?
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by vadimberman 9y ago
True, but in the good subreddits the downvotes are brutal enough to deter or drop the offending post to the bottom.
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by vadimberman 9y ago
Are you another eager downvoter without reading? The context is about the vertical extent of the national borders , not the edge of space. Who says the vertical border ends with the edge of space? Once again, the vertical extent is not d
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by vadimberman 9y ago
Would you comment on this please: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airspace#Vertical_boundary ?
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by vadimberman 9y ago
Naturally. Do you know where it exists though? Because the Kármán line is not the border.
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by vadimberman 9y ago
> 62 miles (100 km) altitude is where the border lies. This is incorrect on several levels (which, of course, did not prevent you from downvoting my post): * The Outer Space Treaty does not have a definition of the boundary. Here it is,
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by vadimberman 9y ago
> The only instances that I know of where a country did anything about an overhead satellite was China Then it's not a categorical "not". And what happens when the satellite is not "behaving itself", as you put i
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by vadimberman 9y ago
Another issue: vertical boundaries of the national borders. If something flies 400 miles above the US, is it still in the US?
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by vadimberman 9y ago
Wow, so they were telling the truth! I wonder if the perpetrators googled the recipe...
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by vadimberman 9y ago
About 10 years ago, I had to deal with a vivid bunch of folks from Belgium. Some of them were related to the diamond industry in Antwerp. One just came back from Congo where he got screwed by a local hi-tech crook that managed to fake a dia
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by vadimberman 9y ago
I am more used to Google which I use on the desktop, but when on the phone, I use both interchangeably. When it comes to the US and global content, there is virtually no difference in the results. Google is much better in the local content
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by vadimberman 9y ago
Yes. Especially if the cable companies lose share drastically, and they should. They are like all-you-can-eat buffets, only for a few people with big appetite. I also don't like their click-and-bait tactics (you sign up for $80, you en
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by vadimberman 9y ago
> Facebook works directly with six data brokers, all of which allow you to opt out from their sharing of your personal data, everything from your email to your purchase history. And that sort of explains everything. I kept wondering how
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by vadimberman 9y ago
I see, that makes sense now - thank you. It's mind-boggling for me that a hundred-plus year old house costs that much, frankly.
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by vadimberman 9y ago
> San Francisco’s median two-bedroom rent of $3,040 Is it? It's hearsay, of course, but I was told it's closer to $4K.

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