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by xoa 4y ago
Not to pile on but as an addition to what others have said: > as they can reuse launch vehicles Falcon 9 is not fully reusable, "only" the first stage is. That was still an incredible accomplishment, and still saves a great de
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by xoa 4y ago
They'd planned to IPO, but the market for that right now is very, very bad. They only have one chance to get maximum value for their IPO and it's understandable they'd want to wait. Not like being private for another few year
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by xoa 4y ago
Your constant dismissiveness of criticism wrt Signal remains pretty darkly amusing. > They make decisions that are certain to upset orangey-types like us (phone numbers, no federation, tethering to phones, and so on) because HN people ar
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by xoa 4y ago
> Most domain registrars don't care at all, and won't help. Don't leave us hanging like that! Which are the registrars that do care, and will help then? Even if they cost more.
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by xoa 4y ago
> The lesson I've learned from his Twitter acquisition[...]and (2) he is sometimes willing to use that influence in ways that cause harm to his customers and the business (even to his own wealth), even in cases where his actions vio
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by xoa 4y ago
Without evaluating the specifics of those exact cases but more whether they do indeed deserve more scrutiny at least, I think the basic issue comes down to the increasing need to consider things from a systems point of view. > I don&#x27
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by xoa 4y ago
> surrounding them with US-friendly states who then get military support As is the standard playbook of dictator/authoritarian apologism, you completely reverse causality here and deny non-authoritarian countries self-determination
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Publishers Lobbied to Axe the Reading Tax on Ebooks, Then Paid It to Themselves(techdirt.com)
5 points by xoa 4y ago|0 comments
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by xoa 4y ago
> Is there any downside to these? Such as distracting cars or blinding other cyclists? One speculative possible downside: others have answered the human aspect, but in the context of security/privacy OP is being perhaps a little bl
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by xoa 4y ago
> It doesn't make sense whatsoever to receive one time payment and provide updates forever. Duh? This is written in English but I genuinely have trouble making sense of your words. We had this for decades without subscriptions, t
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by xoa 4y ago
Ken White, a well known former prosecutor turned defense lawyer and first amendment law expert/speaker (amongst other things), did an interesting article towards the end of last year talking about the importance of being clear about te
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by xoa 4y ago
Thanks for the reply! I don't want to be overly critical and I agree it's important. And yes trying to keep things briefer matters too and is something I often struggle with. I just don't think the tradeoffs were quite right.
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by xoa 4y ago
>find "r9" >no results >find "cri" >no results in post :/. This is definitely an important and I think unappreciated issue right now, and I'm normally all for long form investigations too. But I don
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by xoa 4y ago
I thought everything is copyrighted by default, but in the US at least if you don't register it limits your legal remedies somewhat (no mandatory minimums and such)?
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by xoa 4y ago
Yes, though "CYA" isn't necessarily entirely fair either. The legal system isn't exactly entirely deterministic, particularly if there is a jury involved, so I think the tendency towards conservatism and seeking every ed
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by xoa 4y ago
This is completely wrong. ZFS works very well via O3X [0]. I ran my home folder off of ZFS on various Mac Pros for ~11 years. ZFS works well in Linux and FreeBSD as well. ---- 0: https://openzfsonosx.org/
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Eagles Are Falling, Bears Are Going Blind(theatlantic.com)
4 points by xoa 4y ago|0 comments
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by xoa 4y ago
> What are you going to do, move to a different service? Probably yes for a few of my clients. They're only using the email and calendars, and only via applications (Mac/iOS Mail/Calendar, Outlook, or TB). Two of them sta
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by xoa 4y ago
I mean, yeah? That's actually still an interesting phenomenon that combines multiple hot button/trending things. I think in this case a more accurate headline is actually still plenty clickable. They simply didn't do a great
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SpaceX completes a hot fire test of its Super Heavy rocket(arstechnica.com)
8 points by xoa 4y ago|1 comments
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by xoa 4y ago
Yes, the Tesla Solar Roof tiles, and they did get some tiny number (thousands or something like that?) installed. I actually had ordered one and was in line to get it installed last year. But the company cancelled it, and then Tesla started
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by xoa 4y ago
> If there's some other way of justifying that opinion, I'd love to hear it. If you wanted to hear it, you could just read it as it's been stated repeatedly ITT and it's in the HN Guidelines #1: > Off-Topic: Most
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by xoa 4y ago
> Do you consider people with an acute neurosis the same way? Would you shun your sister if she had a sudden mental breakdown and believed to hear voices? This doesn't seem like an honest analogy. The legal/social concern here
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by xoa 4y ago
Ars had a piece covering this as well, and I do wonder if there is something going on somewhere else in the Samsung stack, not just the NVMe 900 series line. Pure anecdote, but two years ago I did a NAS for a client using 24x 2TB Samsung 87
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by xoa 4y ago
Neat simple little trivia thing, but fun to think about each one and any clues. I got 1969, 1968, 1971, 1906 and 1904, score of 3435. First two were war related, for 1000 and 777. First was b&w but obvious forest clearing mid Vietnam wa
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by xoa 4y ago
> If you're charging a subscription fee then it makes sense that the podcast lives in a walled DRM'ed garden No, it absolutely does not. In the same way it doesn't make any sense to have DRM on music or anything else I pa
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by xoa 4y ago
> I'm glad to see that they not only support, but require the use of multiple keys. Yes, and also that they support up to 6 of them. That's a very solid number enabling a lot of decent (if basic) backup practices. A number of
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by xoa 4y ago
Totally fair. Yeah should have specified I'm talking fairly new stuff, at least new enough it all has HTML5 consoles and mildly more polish. Not that there aren't problems, less a "bug" then a "cutting edge for newb
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by xoa 4y ago
> Does anyone know a practical application where something like this would help? It's another way to help verify super long calculations of pi are correct, and in turn I guess one basic "practical application" of calculat
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by xoa 4y ago
Yes, and as essentially a "hidden flat tax" it burns a lot more for large quantities of lower end hardware vs single bigger iron. Looking back at the records, at the time adding their iLO/M.2 comm card (needed to have a dedic

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