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by wegs 6y ago
Nope. I don't identify myself online, and recommend the same to others. I think the most detail I can give is general class of work it engaged in. Think of MRIs, sonar, radar, ultrasound, back-scatter x-ray, LIDAR, CAT scans, etc. That
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by wegs 6y ago
It seems a dollar of government investment now is likely worth $5 of investment down the line, once we've fallen further behind. The US ought to be investing on multiple fronts to regain/maintain the lead here. Best company I work
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by wegs 6y ago
> Next to it is a picture of a CodexDNA BioXP device that is advertised as producing “custom DNA fragments of up to 7,000 base pairs”. Could this be the next distributed manufacturing revolution? This time with DNA printers making COVID
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by wegs 6y ago
I think a lot of your criticism here is valid. A two-sided approach would be better. Still, I've seen far more people hurt thinking HR was their friend than by not empathizing enough with HR. > How is that subtext not correct here?
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by wegs 6y ago
"-I like to think of HR as an abstraction layer between management and employees, whose basic function is to shield management from having to interact with the employees." This sounds cynical, but it's not nefarious at all: 1
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by wegs 6y ago
Cultures have different professional cultures. * Executive ethics focus on maximizing shareholder value, while individual incentives, on personal returns. If I can pollute a lake for an extra buck to my stock price, I'm expected to do
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by wegs 6y ago
I don't feel too bad about replacement parts being obsoleted for good reason (e.g. leaded solder or similar changes). My car/vacuum/desk/etc. might get hit by a meteor, or fall down the stairs, or otherwise be totaled. L
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by wegs 6y ago
It looks interesting, but I hate when I need a video to understand something. Can someone explain what this is using text?
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by wegs 6y ago
Most utilities weren't created by the government. My local power company came from a series of merges of companies founded in the eighteen-hundreds. The government, at some point, decided to regulate utilities. It certainly didn't
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by wegs 6y ago
It's an analogy. None are perfect. But people need livelihoods to live. It's not okay or fair to destroy a business arbitrarily and capriciously. My lesson here is that the Internet is essential infrastructure, and once companies
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by wegs 6y ago
Ummm... no. If this is like a week's worth of work, you're looking at $250k annualized income, $125k after overhead. In practice, you're not finding a bug like this every week. The bug bounty programs were originally intended
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by wegs 6y ago
Correction: Correlation is evidence for causation. It's weak evidence, and generally speaking, stronger correlation isn't more evidence. There's a gradual process to go from hypothesis to theory to fact, and to get there, you
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by wegs 6y ago
Looks like a Micro:bit, but: * Proprietary * Around 4x the price * With less community * With worse documentation. * With some learning pathway based on Dr. Who videos, which you can't preview before buying * 5x the speed, colored LEDs
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by wegs 6y ago
(1) Practical. Many people look at git repos. No one audits with crxcavator. (2) Traceability. git has secure hashes, and things can't change when you're not looking. My experience is that Google cares deeply about its own securit
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by wegs 6y ago
Two things which would help are: 1) Allow both private and public right-of-action for most laws. If the AG is busy, I should be able to sue. If I can't afford to sue, an AG should be able to take it up on my behalf. 2) Go back to circa
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by wegs 6y ago
.... in the same way that having a billion transistors in a computer isn't practical. Or a computer in every car tweaking fuel injection. It's not practical until it is. Electronics goes down in price. Algorithms improve. Insulati
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by wegs 6y ago
An airplane is an industrial system.... And in either case, the design of algorithms depends on much more on context than on whether it's "consumer" or "industrial." In this case, the context looks a lot more like i
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by wegs 6y ago
That sounds reasonable. Let's do the math your way in both directions: 1) Assuming system-level model 10,000 microphones * 8 kilosamples per second = 800 megasamples per second. NVidia Tesla does 100 teraflops. I get about 125,000 FLOP
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by wegs 6y ago
> But if you're going to draw a boundary and wrap it in a massive array of microphones... Aren't you better off just adding insulation material? :-) Well, let's do the math here. I can't find the data sheet for the we
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by wegs 6y ago
No, the missing part is not time travel. Sound comes from the skin and engines of the plane, where microphones could be located, and could potentially predict sound throughout the plane well in advance with an appropriate microphone array.
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by wegs 6y ago
This comment is technically incorrect. Noise-cancelling headphones work the way OP described, and are limited to working in a cavity which is smaller than the wavelength. There are predictive noise cancelling systems too. These are commonly
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by wegs 6y ago
There's a tendency to downplay the difficulty of many fields, science, engineering, math, and computer science. It's a white lie designed to bring in more women and minorities, but I think it does great harm. What I've seen:
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by wegs 6y ago
No. Europe has lower income inequality, and higher wealth inequality. Good numbers are hard to come by since: 1) Much of the wealth inequality in Europe does a nice job of hiding wealth. Old money doesn't talk about wealth. But there a
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by wegs 6y ago
They don't fall apart. You need to look at it as expected values. Most signals are not 100% noise, but e.g. 90% noise and 10% signal. If you have a candidate from Harvard, it's a mixture of ALDCs and really smart people with some
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by wegs 6y ago
Private right of action. If I want morbidus-rex.com, and I see a cybersquatter there, I can file a complaint. I pay $100. You also need to give appropriate tools to allow private enforcement. If I file a complaint, the cybersquatter is requ
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by wegs 6y ago
Rules: 1) First-come-first-serve for your first handful of domains. Price is nominal (e.g. $1/year). 2) Increasing price with number of domains held. If I hold myname.com, it's $1. If I hold a thousand domain, the last 500 are at
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by wegs 6y ago
If the federal government acted like a scalper, I wouldn't feel bad about it. Open auction, with price going as high as it wants, right down to zero. Special categories (e.g. multiple co-morbidities, medical workers) cut to the front,
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by wegs 6y ago
I think OP's comment is different. It's demand-side, not supply-side. If a CEO causes 1000 employees to be 1% more efficient, that creates the same value as 1000 employees each being 1% more efficient. Ergo, if I'm an investo
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by wegs 6y ago
Nikon buys sensors from Sony. It can't get ahead in any meaningful way there. Plus, sensor tech has plateaued a bit. Nikon, if it were to survive, would need to move into new markets. dSLRs are dying, but imaging is exploding. Nikon an
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by wegs 6y ago
> They have some of the finest scientists and engineers in the world, as well as a gigantic portfolio of patents. They aren't going away. Those are exactly quickly going away. Engineers and scientists need to get paid and want job s

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