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by zxcmx 6y ago
Using current technology, we would most likely render the earth uninhabitable due to the carbon emissions required to get it there. If we had fusion & a space elevator it might be survivable. We can borrow the reasoning from: https:&
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by zxcmx 6y ago
If you assume people are more or less fungible except for some "Q" (quality measure) sure, you probably wouldn't hire someone without a degree. You would sort your applicants by "Q" and drop everyone below a cutoff.
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by zxcmx 6y ago
The original poster can give the real answer (I have a feeling you know what I'm about to write and want the _story_) but: For certain technically focused jobs it's easy for other skilled practitioners to tell that you can do it.
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Agree. Also surprised it hasn't been feudalised somehow. Some company owning all the machines and then uber-ing out the hard work of siting them and restocking them. Gamifying the process of monitoring, "your fleet", the &quo
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by zxcmx 6y ago
It's good money for something accessible to almost anyone. It doesn't require much capital, doesn't seem very regulated and needs no deeply specialised skills to get started. No franchise. No middleman or supplier lock-in. No
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Maybe you're thinking of the mean? BG shouldn't shift the median much in the situation you described unless the income distribution is really weird.
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Except there are closer to 20 working days per month for month for most people, and it's kind of a wash at that point. What you do get though is freedom from thinking about the cost of rides, which is pretty great.
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by zxcmx 6y ago
SDLCs in huge corporates tend to produce slightly crazy outcomes. There are 3 reasons I know of to implement jailbreak detection. Two "real" ones and one process related. The first is that you have implemented security controls &q
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by zxcmx 6y ago
The problem is Philips have been burned by all the stunt hacking done on their bulbs and IOT in general. They're damned if they do and damned if they don't. If they _do_ all the stupid security things they get this. If they _don&#
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Systemically, threatening letters, while practically free for the government to send - cause a lot of stress for people. Both those who owe tax and those who have to prove they don't. It's hard to know where to draw the line but y
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by zxcmx 6y ago
The transactions still have to be valid (accepted by majority) to get consensus. It's just that some subset of valid transactions are exploiting vulnerabilities in poorly written contracts. In this case, you want to make dead sure that
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by zxcmx 6y ago
I think it's hard to judge with movie stars though because they are really not representative of the general population. There are particular selection pressures deciding who gets screen time, and the standards of today are not the sta
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by zxcmx 6y ago
On reflection, I agree with you. Making art is at least a largely voluntary activity, even if most songs will never be heard and most books will never be read. From this point of view the root cause of the problem is that some people have
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Would it also be a good thing if we also limited the numbers of authors, poets and musicians in the world to the number "strictly necessary"? Why or why not? My take on it is that in the absence of omnipotent global co-ordination
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by zxcmx 6y ago
If they are being censored it is clearly not working because the story is all over the news. It is possible they are being censored in some places because they look exactly like an influence operation, and COVID-19 misinformation is a huge
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Sorry, was perhaps poorly worded. By "first principles" I meant a static analyser working using only an understanding of the language (say, Java) and the application source code, looking over the ast/cfg etc using only built-
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Not just languages - Generally if the scanner isn't aware of the specific framework you're using it's unable to find entrypoints or reliably figure out sources / sinks and filters. Many modern frameworks have one or mo
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Reposting comment from dup at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24501195 You don't have to go back far (author -> paper -> author affiliations -> sponsoring foundation ...) before you literally find Steve
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by zxcmx 6y ago
You don't have to go back far (author -> paper -> author affiliations -> sponsoring foundation ...) before you literally find Steve Bannon's face staring out of the page at you. I have no idea whether the arguments in the
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by zxcmx 6y ago
The smoke problem is at the end of a long web of causes and effects. It is not possible to put out sufficiently large fires. We need to act earlier in the causal chain. But where? And who pays?
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by zxcmx 6y ago
My mental model is that there's too much wealth sloshing around for "large incomes" to make too much difference. High income is like delta-v, it's great. But you're still near the ground, and you're competing a
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Re: contamination from use: If you look into it, you'll find the "contamination" is that with a sensitive enough test, you can tell it's there. The six figures in damages tend to be self-inflicted. The NZ government spen
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by zxcmx 6y ago
If you think about it, the net result will be a transfer from workers to executives and shareholders.
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Al = Aluminium
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by zxcmx 6y ago
From what I can tell the actual weird part of covid-19 job losses is that the bullshit economy has continued unhindered - by going remote - and it is actually propping up the rest of the economy. The white collar folks are just filing their
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by zxcmx 6y ago
With respect to deaths attributable to renewables I believe people have deep psychological reasons for preferring those deaths over nuclear deaths. Workplace accidents happen on a human scale; that is, they are within the experience of peop
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by zxcmx 6y ago
The chutzpah of "big wind" profiteers! pushing their deadly renewables, part of a shadowy cabal holding back the nuclear future. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Jaczko Seriously though, while he does
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Existence proofs remain popular however, as do establishing upper or lower bounds.
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by zxcmx 6y ago
They're a business device. Historically, if you have a genuine business need for an HSM you're likely to be spending tens of thousands upwards on compliance costs and key management. The device itself has become such a blip of a l
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by zxcmx 6y ago
Context matters. So 3d sculpting software or CAD do not deeply need automatic updates, although it can greatly reduce support requests (e.g. something in the OS changed, software is now crashing, need to install update). The state of play i

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