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by yholio 5y ago
Cynical people don't found unicorn startups, don't win marathons and seldom the Nobel prize. On the other hand, not being cynical increases your chance to achieve such goals by 0.00001%, while your chance to end up a broke hobo,
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by yholio 5y ago
Solar is already cheap, in locations closer to the equator it's typically the cheapest source of energy. What needs to happen is cheap storage, even if you have free solar energy during the day it's still too expensive to provide
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by yholio 5y ago
When Anna Weiner moved from a New York publisher to a Silicon Valley start-up, she was stunned by the way people spoke. The technology firm she worked for hired ‘a man who spoke in inscrutable jargon and maintained a robust fleet of social
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Playing the Bullshit Game: How Empty Communication Takes over Organizations(journals.sagepub.com)
3 points by yholio 5y ago|2 comments
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3 cubic meters per second is really nothing when operating at full 4GWh power. A single percent of the discharge of the Mississippi could supply 50 such plants, a third of all power consumption of the USA. When the reactor is SCRAM-ed in an
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by yholio 5y ago
That seems to completely vindicate the notion that "Apple is lobbying against a bill aimed at stopping forced labor in China". It doesn't imply the proposed law is well written, or even likely to achieve its stated goals. Jus
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by yholio 5y ago
There is nothing intrinsic about the nuclear cycle that demands large quantities of water. Nuclear plants, like all thermal generators, require a cool sink where the turbines can dump the waste heat. This is usually and most economically a
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by yholio 5y ago
It's an euro invested today in climate protection that supplies zero energy for the next 10 years, while the same euro invested in solar/wind + batteries will also generate energy in the short run, helping retire carbon emitters n
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by yholio 5y ago
I am not convinced by this trichotomy. The "Engagement" effect is just a restatement of the classic network effect, while the "Acquisition" and "Economic" effects are simple consequences of it. He states that n
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by yholio 5y ago
it's prety much a 90%-10% issue: Mysql is quite good at the 10% of things regular users need to do 90% of the time. A website that performs simple selects and inserts, for a few hundred clients a second, only cares about speed and cons
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by yholio 5y ago
But were they morally and culturally equipped to recognize those issues as failures, or were they simply average people of their time, that spent time debating what was to them a fringe, extremist idea that made little sense? If the latter,
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by yholio 5y ago
Long lived public keys work well for PGP, the trouble with that is the manual handling of keys and huge learning curve. With automated identities handled by the email client and countersigned by the provider, you can easily establish a key
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by yholio 5y ago
Well, you could use opportunistic encryption: once the first (plain text) email is sent, it establishes an identity for the sender and from that point forward the exchange is encrypted. It's, of course, not authenticated, and anyone ca
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by yholio 5y ago
Social media are not primarily communication tools, they are content consumption and aggregation platforms. So if a new platform offers good content (say, pretty pictures - Instagram or funny videos -TikTok), they can build a critical mass
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by yholio 5y ago
This is a low effort proposal and the author seems blissfully unaware of the long and varied history of proposed alternatives to email. Alternate proposals have failed and will always fail due to the ingrained nature of email. Nobody is goi
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by yholio 5y ago
I disagree. You can have security bugs in non-connected devices, for example crafted file formats or metadata that can carry executable payload, worms that force their way in though some insecure Bluetooth receiver, or even by infecting the
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by yholio 5y ago
To second this advice, I have a 4 year old 75" Sony Bravia that I did not connect to the internet in any way, despite being an Android device. I have updated the firmware using the instructions on the Sony website, downloaded a package
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by yholio 5y ago
While the discussion about consensus algorithms is interesting and each side has good points, it should not be confused with the much more pertinent decision about simbolic currency (conceptually similar to fiat) versus proof of burned reso
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by yholio 5y ago
I think any software engineer with some industry experience will absolutely NOT install a device in his home that receives automatic updates over the internet and is critical for performing some task or using some basic functionality of the
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Facebook's Dangerous Experiment on Teen Girls(theatlantic.com)
4 points by yholio 5y ago|1 comments
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Most of your requirements seem to be driven by local customs, culture and existing materials, not actual local conditions. The expectation that a non-ventilated underside will lead to mold and air quality problems is strictly a wood frame i
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by yholio 5y ago
A very detailed write-up of this topic, with extensive research and citations: https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/wood-construction... Conclusions: -> Overall, it seems like wood construction does somewhat i
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by yholio 5y ago
You are drastically underestimating the level of danger a criminal presents. First of all, they are ready to damage your property to the point where it puts your life in imminent danger. A car without the converter might still drive, maybe
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by yholio 5y ago
{return 1;} is clearly a faulty implementation, it's entirely possible that the computer is already turned off by the time the function is executed using power stored in the decoupling capacitors of the CPU.
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by yholio 5y ago
> I want a world where “I did a study, but I can’t show you the data” should be taken as seriously as “I determined P = NP, but I can’t show you the proof.” The fact that this is not standard practice highlights some societal bias in f
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by yholio 5y ago
In a world where insecure high density exists, secure low density is at odds with cloud computing: the cloud makes sense only if you can efficiently utilize you computing power round the clock and make it cheaper than shipping mostly idle t
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by yholio 5y ago
Somewhat on topic, the impossible flying camera in Soy Cuba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjuLkJ4m-mc
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by yholio 5y ago
> Your consumer phone could be launched fine as is. Most satellites are not different, this is a known problem with a know solution. Communication sat buses have critical mechanical components: solar panel assemblies, gyros, reaction whe
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I believe the parent is right, you couldn't hide it. Even if you succeed in building them completely stealthy, it's just a matter of time until the enemy finds out the locations using espionage or signals intelligence, and after t
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Yes, my argument was that, because the second stage would be mechanically so hard to build, driving the cost of the whole installation up, it's unlikely they can offer launch services at a price point low enough to make satellite custo

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