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871.
by waps 13y ago
Juniper routers, the most used routing equipment after cisco, runs on FreeBSD. So everything on the internet effectively uses FreeBSD. The same goes for VxWorks, and IOS (the cisco one).
872.
by waps 13y ago
First of all "keep going down" ? Good, but they're, well, not there yet. I don't think it's possible for residential solar to become actually profitable given that we already have an electricity grid, without causin
873.
by waps 13y ago
Sorry to repeat myself, but San Francisco or New York is no better.
874.
by waps 13y ago
Given that rewriting a text using AI is not that hard, I wonder. At what point does it stop being copying and start being creating ? I sort of wonder about stuff like that. If you look at what we know about the algorithm that "is"
875.
by waps 13y ago
I probably missed something obvious here. But what happens if you mistype a bitcoin address (or worse : someone intercepts your mail and gives a different address).
876.
by waps 13y ago
Obligatory http://xkcd.com/927/
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The case for an IAP off button in mobile games(gamasutra.com)
25 points by waps 13y ago|22 comments
878.
by waps 13y ago
Well, for one thing, when working for an American company, having real flaws kills your career. Alcohol abuse in the past. Getting arrested once for drug abuse. Having participated in manifestations. All of those will turn a ridiculous amou
879.
by waps 13y ago
And by libertarian logic anyone whose cost of living is higher than his/her usual pay (at least 40 million Americans) deserves to die. Can we please just admit that a weak point of exterme libertarianism is what happens to the weakest
880.
by waps 13y ago
So how does that mesh with this ? http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/08/us-germany-jobs-id...
881.
by waps 13y ago
I think we're largely making the same point : that science is largely based on a utilitarian definition of truth. A somewhat more direct way to state that is that scientific truth is simply "What works for me" And nothing mor
882.
by waps 13y ago
> Conflicting laws All modern law systems have methods to resolve conflicts between differing law interpretations. Every law falls somewhere on a priority list. At the top (in the US) is the constitution and it's amendments (with th
883.
by waps 13y ago
Well, for one thing, if congress itself or it's members are attacked, they are very likely to declare war with an unspecified enemy. Such a declaration would immediately transfer full authority of the armed forces to the president (to
884.
by waps 13y ago
How do you arrive at that conclusion ? That seems to be a pretty heavy claim ... so what is it based on ?
885.
by waps 13y ago
Let's think this through ... how much would they pay more ? Well, for most unrewarding jobs I think you'll find that labor costs dominate. So any wage rise needs to be reflected in the cost of those services ... which results in a
886.
by waps 13y ago
The problem here is what will happen if basic income means that costs for things like garbage collection start to explode. People think that company profits on a per-employee basis are something like a factor 10. In practice, for the best c
887.
by waps 13y ago
I think the concern is that if (some amount of) people are not effectively forced into shitty jobs that wealth will decline a lot for everyone.
888.
by waps 13y ago
It vastly depends on the actual science which standard of proof is accepted. For maths, with a 5-sigma result you can maybe get a mention in the "curiosa" section if it's weird enough. It is certainly not considered a valid m
889.
by waps 13y ago
Then please fix the transliteration and the ring. Isn't the whole point of transliteration is that you can "accurately" reproduce the sound ? "Sa" means 4 different numbers in order to make it work. That's not
890.
by waps 13y ago
It probably does not. It is perfectly legal to damage anyone if you do not violate any laws. Given that IBM can probably show a court order, if necessary a retroactive one from the NSA. In order to get a conviction, shareholders would have
891.
by waps 13y ago
This looks like a hoax. If you look at the decoding ring, it's more complex than the message is in the first place. There are even duplicates in their decoder ring. Sa means 4 different numbers, and 7 duplicates in their decoder ring.
892.
by waps 13y ago
I wonder how much of your business is represented by startups and really capable development teams ... and how much is making hibernate perform better (or should I say "less horrible"). Development teams that go after speed will s
893.
by waps 13y ago
That's too bad since this is one operation that incurs a very significant local drop in performance. The best optimizations I've ever done in website servers is to introduce local caching where reasonable, ignoring updates. User r
894.
by waps 13y ago
Otoh, this makes it harder for email marketers and generally other people to see if I'm reading their mail. +1
895.
by waps 13y ago
The thing that defeats viruses is evolutionary pressure, not "engineering organisms". At this point in time I'd still say that we only have the ability to reintroduce old disappeared pathogens. We do not actually have the abi
896.
by waps 13y ago
Please note the difference here between the US and the EU. In the EU, foreign treaties DO NOT require parliament approval (this is required by the EU treaty), and as such mean that effectively 1) No member of the EU has separation of powers
897.
by waps 13y ago
Those pages talk about self-segregation, which is not something you can realistically blame on any group. Every group does this. Frankly I find this pretty weak. If you want offensive pieces of known science relating to race, why not go wit
898.
by waps 13y ago
You're assuming ebay wouldn't take 14% of bitcoin sales. Hell, since they don't owe the credit card tax they could probably make it 10% and still make more per-transaction.
899.
by waps 13y ago
Really ? On systems where people are essentially identified by their email adress and/or username ? Why don't you tell me. One of these is female (and pretty accomplished in the open source community), one of these is non-white ..
900.
by waps 13y ago
For $185k you get to ask ICANN for a tld. If they accept, I believe it's an additional $185k per year. Not sure if you get your money back if they refuse.

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