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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
I'm all for funding FOSS, but how would the money have made any difference here? It just would have made Jian a bit richer, right?
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
I've always thought it would be better to produce something like methanol. The chemistry is similar, but methanol is not gaseous (at typical temperatures). That makes it much easier to handle.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
The number is pretty hard to calculate because it should include any obligation, not just official debts. If the government promised to, say, cover certain expenses in retirement like health care, the true debt should include a realistic es
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Some people will cleverly glue a leaf over 50, 60 or even 80% of the number. How did it get there? I don't know. Must be nature's fault. I'm so sorry officer.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
It should also include the households where the people worked in union shops that went out of business. Tesla, a non-union shop, makes the best selling car now. The union places in Detroit can't sell electric vehicles period. Or consid
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
This isn't a new trend. Rich people have always purchased news media, often to help their other businesses. It's been going on for the longest time. Indeed, in the US many of the newspapers were started by political parties who us
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Yup. That was how Cameron Crowe ended up writing the book -- and then launching a movie career.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
I wouldn't be so sure. A number of my friends tried living without a car and they quickly bought one when they could afford it. There are so many places that the car unlocks. For instance, taking a bus to Golden Gate park from downtown
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
I think they want the revenues more than they want to change behavior. They want it to be low enough to keep the cars and the tolls flowing, but high enough to generate revenue.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Because I don't live in SF. So ask the companies when they'll deploy elsewhere.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
No smart phones are visible. How did they share memes? How did their mother reach them to make sure they're safe? I can't even....
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
A friend of mine uses a self-driving taxi service in SF all of the time.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
What they meant was that the R&D was fully deductible, not amortized over a number of years. It's like saying that a business's electricity bill is "tax-free" because they can deduct it from their revenues immediatel
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
I think everyone has a list of inventions that are so great that a patent is a fair way for society to reward the inventor. Alas, the personal lists are often much shorter than the patent offices' lists. For me, the Polio vaccine is a
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Exactly. This is the same as saying a carpenter has a monopoly on their work. They can sell it to an employer up front by the hour or afterwards as a good. But no one else can come along and take it without paying.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
This is especially tricky and maybe entirely impossible these days. For instance, in England now it's considered poor form to simply display nice landscapes. Why? They evoke "dark nationalistic feelings." If simply looking at
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
This may be fading, at least a bit. One administrator of a top CS department told me that a number of the tenured professors were coming back from their time in industry rather than give up their tenure. So it would be easy this fall to sta
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
And do they encrypt any of those details aside from while the data is in transit? My impression is that they don't.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Why does Google need long-term forward secrecy? They may encrypt my sessions with keys, but most of their data is the huge index of the public web which is, by definition, public. I suppose they dabble in things like health records, but it
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Who came to this consensus? I'm not aware that the quantum machines have been able to do much beyond, say, factoring 21.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
There are two parts to the quote and everyone always leaves off the second part: "Information wants to be free; information wants to be expensive."
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Why is this new? My local restaurant has "half priced burger night" on Tuesdays. Happy hour is a favorite solution for getting people into the place early.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
And if the past is any indication, they'll be deployed without any ammunition. To avoid people bringing some spare bullets, they also remove the bolts from the rifles. It's a good safety precaution, but I wonder what will happen i
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
The reality is that there don't seem to be many applications that can't be solved with a regular computer. Yes, there are some applications like crypto algorithms, but they were designed to be especially hard to compute. So far, q
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Several of my friends had their blogs delisted. Like the number of indexed pages went straight to zero. I believe there was some claim that the https wasn't provisioned correctly.
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
While I don't know if this is really true, but there was a time when chips like the 8080 ran at a speed that was close to AM frequencies. Programmers figured out that certain patterns produced sounds on their radio. So they would inser
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Your estimates are fine, but you're only talking about the basic salary which in the US is only part of the equation. You've got to include benefits including health insurance which is easily $10-20k/year in the US for a fam
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Most of the energy cost is pushing the air out of the way. This is just as true for a train as a plane. I suppose the plane also has to spend some energy as lift, but my impression is that this sort of comes along as part of the cost of pus
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
This topic is so politicized that the transit lovers don't feel free publicly acknowledging all of the costs. For instance, one manager of the local bus company said that while new city buses cost $800k+++, they're a good deal whe
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by xhkkffbf 3y ago
Pretty nice and straight-forward. It doesn't say much but it does indicate that they understand that people found the deliberate lack of accuracy a real problem.

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