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by yuhong 8y ago
As a side note, I already have a draft of my essay (not published yet) that replaces the mention of storage costs with a mention of Ruth Porat. The point is why Ruth Porat was hired in the first place.
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My favorite is how they managed to get Connectix Virtual from 1989 to support the Macintosh IIci. Even https://tidbits.com/1994/07/25/transition-to-powerpc-ram-dou... mentions that "I want to thank the P
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That being said, I have been thinking about Yishan-style CEOs for a while now.
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I think they are talking about how they can control the number of cars that have free supercharging for example.
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As a happens, I noticed a scientist at Microsoft answering another similar question: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-argument-against-mass... Note however that I want to focus on general arguments, not ones specific
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What are the best arguments against using mass surveillance to collect data?(quora.com)
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What is fun is paying off debt by selling Bitcoin, and students by definition would know more about Bitcoin than the average person.
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I forgot to mention that I had an Ask HN on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17447280
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My favorite is trying to trace the problems back to Larry/Sergey, which is why I wrote the essay. Worth mentioning that one of the hardest parts of writing it was tracing the history of things like Google Analytics.
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Even now Wikipedia's audio pages don't link to the MP3s directly. You have to click through to Wikimedia Commons and find the transcodes at the bottom.
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Part of the reason why open codecs was going to win over HEVC is the multiple patent pools, which H.264 did not have. A lot more effort is being spent on open codecs than in the olden days too.
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The entire debt-based economy is based on extracting more dollars from "consumers". This is also part of the reason for DRM for example.
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I prefer to focus on the problems of the current debt-based economy, where bubbles like that are common and are fueled by debt.
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I did an Ask HN about my essay that did not catch on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17447280
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This reminds me that I like to mention that doing targeted ads that is actually good require a system specifically designed to do so.
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Telemetry is a special case I think. An example of some of the problems is Vivaldi, where information like the "screen resolution" actually can help to improve the user experience and data on the number of users can also be useful
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Which also reminds me of the home computers section of the article. The recently launched Intel NUC with discrete GPU, while probably underpowered, is a step in the right direction: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018&
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In retrospect, that idea was like introducing taxi medallions to make prices for taxis go up when almost everyone can drive a car: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_New_York_City#1930... Of course, it only got
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The US has ran a trade deficit since the 1970s when they got off the gold standard. The current economy is based on creation of an almost infinite amount of debt. This is possible because they are the reserve currency, and in turn other cou
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That is a side effect of the current debt-based economy, where every other country uses the US dollar as a reserve
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Yea, it is a good starting point as many EVs use 30-32A charging (including the short range version of the Model 3 in fact), and fits into the 200A service that most homes since the 1980s have pretty easily.
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>Here in Tokyo I ended up with a Nissan Leaf v.2 (2018 model) with the 40kw/h model with real world range of 150 km (93 miles). 150 miles is the EPA range, not 150km.
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This reminds me of personal flying machines like the BlackFly. Obviously for most of them things like this are unrealistic, but this is part of why the Schengen Area is so important for example.
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As a side note, I posted this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17447280 There seems to be little interest.
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I mentioned Sun and Jonathan Schwartz as an example in the essay. The entire debt-based economy is fundamentally flawed.
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I know about that one where the source was taken down. My favorite is Skype however where they used to use SYSENTER directly and read your BIOS using NTVDM: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=27 Not a bug in Skype, but still inte
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https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180514-00/?p=... One of the problems with running 16-bit programs directly in Win9x was the Win16Mutex, BTW.
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The OS/2 2.0 debacle is one of my favorite topics, BTW.
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I mentioned some of the history, including the DoubleClick acquisition, in the essay.
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Using the then-new and expensive 1Mbit DRAM chips. 2MB was possible using 256Kbit DRAM.

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