ObviousScience

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by ObviousScience 11y ago
> (All that said, it's possible that the military did go through an internal "human subjects" review, which might have concluded that the trials were OK, on the basis that the agents were supposed to be harmless.) I find i
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
Just for the record, 6 months of training and 1.5 years of work is the same ratio as 8 months of training and 2 years of work. So if you're okay with someone taking 8 months of training and staying with you a total of 2 years, what&#x2
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
So you're saying the total cost is lower, and borne only by the people incurring it, not every taxpayer? I... uh... were you disagreeing with the person above you?
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
You like many people seem to not realize something that the other side is saying: WE KNOW REDDIT HAS THE RIGHT TO FIRE THEIR STAFF, AND NO ONE IS COMPLAINING BECAUSE REDDIT CHOSE TO RESTAFF. Now, go back and read the all caps like five time
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
> If the FP>OOP is similar to Structured>Assembly, then for some reason, the real world has not shown that same magnitude of increased benefits. Fix that perception and the root of "arrogance" goes away. Today, we don&#x2
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
If you're referring to software license terms, you're making a legal, not a moral argument.
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
I manage security and I like to phrase it as "I take security so seriously, I analyze the risk profile just like any financial analyst would and match exposure to client tolerance." It just turns out that most people are actually
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
Prenda Law in particular has taken a beating, largely stemming from them attempting to defraud the court and refusing to comply with court orders. The conduct of the Prenda Law group was so bad, the attorney representing them in California
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
The government would have to prove that they didn't learn the identities after the trial if they were going to pursue a perjury charge.
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
As someone who hasn't really had to deal with managing large communities or being in the moderator position you're in... could you give a few examples of tools you wish they'd provide for community management or ways you wish
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
I think the charitable interpretation is that the listed websites get more yearly unique visitors from influential segments of society, regardless of the fact that their raw traffic numbers are much lower, and hence are more in the "ma
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
But what about things like /r/askscience, which most people agree provides high value content? That they're also unhappy and have the same list of complaints strongly suggests that reddit isn't doing a good job supportin
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
You're correct, I had receive wrong information and never really thought it through in regards to high end systems. Just about the only systems where it makes sense to talk about the power budget being relevant are where you're go
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
Given that most projects, the power costs are much higher than the upfront equipment costs and that the dominating factor on computational density and interconnect speeds is our thermal budget, I'd think it's really a question of
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
Bitcoin miners use ASICs, though the progression was from GPUs to FPGAs, since FPGAs are more efficient than GPUs in terms of power.
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
The water and electric grids in my city have near 100% uptake, especially in the denser parts of the city. While in most cases I would agree with the uptake analysis (eg, if we were talking about coffee shops), I'm not sure that it app
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
$80 million for 20,000 households is about $4,000 per household. Let's call it $10,000 per household like the other guy, assuming most people won't be interested. Let's estimate that about $60 million of the cost is the actua
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
Of course not. But we both know that your fanciful hypothetical is not how that tool will be used in over 99.999% of cases, because that kind of thing almost never happens, while moderator abuse often does. Just because there are cases wher
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
> it's possible to do very intesive computation on the computer running the flight controller - Andrew does a demo where he flies while compiling the linux kernel on the same computer at the same time, no glitches My point is that
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
I'd still expect that we'll see something like a real time OS microkernel written in hardened C or Ada/Spark or kin with a standard suite of drivers to control sensors, motors, etc. Most of those kind of things get written as
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
Sure. But my company has literally paid me over $1,000 in the past year to look up, awkwardly make eye contact, look around a moment, blink a few times, and look back at my screen because it draws my attention when people cross in front of
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
I'm not sure I understand your last sentence; could you elaborate?
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
California and Washington were long major suppliers in the top 5 producing states, with California first and Washington fifth. The data for that was 2006-2008 era, when I studied this more closely, however, I find it unlikely either of thos
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
My point, and perhaps I was unclear, is that people seem happy to exchange the costs of density for the benefits of density (trains and airports; lots of varied good provided; many different kinds of jobs from many different employers; etc)
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
I didn't click on the link before reading the comments... or even after, now that I'm here. Turns out that momentary pause is a killer.
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
Sept of 2001 until Oct 2002? It's just that... you know... literally no one wanted to talk about how a US military department was using capabilities traditionally described as acts of war to subvert US infrastructure and analyze the be
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
Because this usually turns in to some kind of meta debate, I hope I'm not sidetracking by too much.. but: I, for one, am glad that sometimes good things get reposted, because I've been reading a lot about neural nets lately follow
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
Just one minor quibble: the reason we have density issues in cities is not that Earth doesn't have enough space for humans to spread out -- even if we only count the nice parts. No, the answer is that we actually seem to enjoy living i
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
(I'm agreeing with the parent post, just elaborating.) Also, much like the weather, sometimes you can only make accurate predictions if you make a small prediction and correct it once you get feedback. Much like you can get insanely hi
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
I don't think it's even a question of jamming the GPS network. Once you start doing the math on "I'm going to keep 1,000+ nodes in a mesh network from operating a phased array capable of keeping a lock on the signal from

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