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by zwkrt 8y ago
Tech crunch is up its own behind on this one. The first potential reason is "resentment" people have toward the rich and glamorous San Jose lifestyle or because technology is "like magic" to the simple lay-folk. People a
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Suskind actually has a whole lecture on Youtube devoted to addressing the paradox of falling into a black hole from the perspective of the person falling in versus an outside observer. The outside observer sees the falling observer catastro
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by zwkrt 8y ago
She wrote a short story in which a number of authors are invited to a rich white South African estate to talk about their experiences, and all are given the chance to write a piece for some Western magazine. Well as it turns out one of the
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Serious question: can someone describe to me or point me to a blog post about what 'edge' computing can do? I am having a hard time understanding what the difference is between it and 'normal' cloud infra where end-clien
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Widely considered by who? I've never heard of this consensus before
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by zwkrt 8y ago
It's living during it that is the tumultuous part. There was an article posted here recently arguing that luddites were not irrational, they were out of a job with no recourse. It might be that every few hundred years we need to totall
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by zwkrt 8y ago
yes, thank you
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by zwkrt 8y ago
It is very interesting to me how the perspective of the Chinese government seems to be that they should run their entire sovereignty like a business. Some politicians in the US claim to want to run /government/ like a business, bu
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by zwkrt 8y ago
All of your complaints were true under Jobs as well.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Pets.com was also overvalued, right? It's easy to see the winners in hindsight.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
There's a reason most really nice things are designed by one person.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
If rich people (i.e., amost anyone reading this) cannot buy fancy new houses they will have no issue raising the values of existing stock.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Daniel Dennet would phrase it as "people don't design boats, the ocean designs boats". Our technology doesn't just serve our requirements, it is also built to satisfy the inherent requirements of our physical world. Howe
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by zwkrt 8y ago
This is what happens when you leave hitting reply until the morning. Sibling comment is much nicer than mine!
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by zwkrt 8y ago
A bytecode interpreter has a much more basic execution environment than an uncompiled AST-driven interpreter. With a naive AST interpreter you create an object for each language construct, which has references to other AST objects in a big
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by zwkrt 8y ago
The entirety of video advertising utilizes this effect. A shot of carpet cleaner is less effective than that same shot juxtaposed with a happy couple enjoying dinner in a clean home. The naive advertising of Kermit the Frog (Ocean Breeze so
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Why block chain instead of a public key?
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by zwkrt 8y ago
It's relatively easier to iterate your data storage with relational tables though. Dynamite is great if you are sure a component just needs a k/v store, and you are sure you will never want to do a join.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
PBS has many very good YouTube channels. I particularly like Space Time (physics) and Infinite Series (math).
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by zwkrt 8y ago
This in no way affects existing buildings and companies that value parking are still free to provide it.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
> How much did they spend on this multi decade long campaign? I would bet they had to pay no more than 10 people full time, lets say at $20/hr. That is an order of magnitude cheaper than advertising.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Does it matter if the effect is the same?
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Also known as the Vacuum Catastrophe, "the largest discrepancy between theory and experiment in all of science". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_catastrophe
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by zwkrt 8y ago
you already can do this in 1d by just writing out the possible sequences of events. Feynman diagrams are used to help enumerate all possible particle interactions, including 'virtual' interactions, but there are no virtual interac
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by zwkrt 8y ago
As the interview was further and further analyzed by both The Company and the proletariat, an arms race developed. The Company asked esoteric questions and the proles studied. The proles learned to FizzBuzz and The Company developed FooBaz.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Well in any case iPhones got bigger and thicker in the last cycle so they must have neededa lot of extra room.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
But what about the <s>children</s> manufacturers!
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Agreed. However I would totally believe there is a disorganized campaign lead by people who seem to have run out of track in the current model.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
trying to use kg instead of moles when calculating a chemical reaction would be like trying to set up a speed dating event by taking the weights of all the men and women instead of matching them up pairwise. Sometimes it is much easier to c
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by zwkrt 8y ago
It's interesting that the area he removed was asymmetric; my intuition would be that the optimal solution would be symmetric.

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