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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
I wonder why we should expect practical quantum computing to be here any sooner than practical nuclear fusion?
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
You can't get rid of hierarchy. It's a natural part of human relationships and how humans organize themselves into societies. To think otherwise is absurd.
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
This is an absurd argument. Humans are social. Take two activities at random, one social and one not, and you'll probably find people feel better on average after doing the social one. (Obviously, there are counterexamples, but I'
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
How easily can a US citizen find work there?
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
That's a neat idea. Does WASM provide support for calling OS functions? Or would you have to emulate them somehow?
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
Costco is known to be a pretty good employer.
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
One positive is this may help US manufacturers. The Asian countries with strong economies (China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea) adopted similar policies in the later half of the 20th century to help develop their manufacturing industries. It
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
These are real, but they're not really get out of jail free cards. More like get out of a speeding ticket or get out of running a red light cards. Another thing that works is to be a nurse or fireman.
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
People only post his rants. Most of his replies are pretty benign.
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
That's true about any engineering artifact though. If your steel rebar isn't built to whatever standard you require your concrete skyscraper isn't going to be structurally sound. To build on top of the layers below you, you h
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
I don't think there was much incentive to make things smaller before the transistor was invented. Also, transistors are used in most analog electronics. You can't do much without them since they let you amplify signals and apply n
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
How easily can a non-ethnic Chinese person integrate into Chinese society though?
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
Is eminent domain used widely in other countries infrastructure projects? I think part of the issue might be that the US is very large, esp. compared to European countries with better transportation systems.
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
What's driving it is for whatever reason the price declined a bit, so people who were just in to speculate got worried and sold, but they had to sell to someone who was willing to buy, driving the price down, causing more people to sel
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
This is like saying a compiler bug in a safe language ends langsec. Which is obviously absurd. It means the implementation had a flaw, but that doesn't make the whole thing worthless. And when the flaw is fixed the same guarantees are
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
Actually, if bitcoin becomes 15k then you don't have to pay anything. The put option gives you the "option" to sell a bitcoin for 10k (in this example), but you're not required to do so. In practice you only sell it if y
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
The best part of the article was where Buffett said he'd buy put options on cryptocurrencies if he could, but wouldn't short them. I bet most investors in cryptocurrencies don't understand his reasoning there, and that's
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
A put allows you to sell an asset at a certain price in the future. So, say I bought a put option with a strike price of 10k USD for bitcoin 5 years from now. If in 5 years the price of BTC is less than (10k - the price I paid for the put o
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
Not OP, but I live in the US and don't pay fees on transfers between my brokerage account and checking account. They take a few days to clear though.
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
And he employs a couple of people to make those sorts of investments for him.They're quite good at at it too. I can't remember their names, but it should be easy to look them up. I think they're mentioned in all the recent an
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
Wow, I'm impressed that the average IQ of Scott's readership is so high (at least if you use SAT as a proxy for IQ).
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
I've heard security researchers make the last claim. Especially with the increasing use of fuzzing, ASLR, etc., trivially exploitable buffer overflows and other things of that nature are much less common now.
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
It's one thing to exploit something locally. It's another to exploit it remotely. And if you have local access to a machine I'm sure there are much easier ways to get root access to it.
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
We've been able to do driverless cars since the 90s. It's doing it safely while mixed in with normal cars that's the problem. I'm with the other poster that we won't see driverless cars in non-dedicated lanes for at
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
It seems like it (didn't see that there was a JS version of the exploit until after I posted), although they can only read from the address space of the process the JS code is running in. I think tabs get individual processes (in Chrom
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
There's no remote exploit though, right? So the only way an attacker could turn this into a botnet would be to somehow get Android apps to run attacker controlled code or exploit existing code that fits the pattern described in the att
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
I think there's definitely some of this, and it's more pronounced in smaller cities. I used to live in a big city and it was easy to meet people in bars. Now I live in much smaller city and I have a much harder time meeting people
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
The Power Broker is a great book about Robert Moses, a very influential city planner in NYC. The book shows how much of planning is politics. Just look at how much trouble San Francisco has and you'll see that the problem isn't la
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
Over the holidays I met my brother's GF's granddad, who is an economist. He said one of the biggest problems he sees in the social sciences is that the tools they have for data analysis (he specifically mentioned Stata, SAS, and S
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by workthrowaway27 9y ago
NYC has Big Gay Ice Cream[0]. Sort of similar to what you're describing. They seem pretty successful. I think they've expanded to a few other cities too. [0]: https://www.biggayicecream.com/

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