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by SolarNet 8y ago
Sure, but if what the author is saying is true, then it implies that there is nothing special about markets, and a system involving an equal number of humans and computers following some other optimization algorithm could achieve similar re
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by SolarNet 8y ago
mastodon.social is like gmail.com ; Mastodon is like Postfix.
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The hashmap the author wrote is .95, it's the google ones with a 0.5 load factor.
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by SolarNet 8y ago
The quote is taken out of context I think (this is a tabloid) the doctor probably posted the information to the court docket under seal at the request of the judge or at least probably in accordance with the law.
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by SolarNet 8y ago
It's basically like email. As it evolves, people will deal with those issues in different ways. The point is that unlike twitter people have options to choose different instances that are unlikely to censor them.
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by SolarNet 8y ago
Then these articles should use a range of people who have actual problems rather than a single person (whose name is in the title! can't get more personal than that) who is being an idiot. You aren't wrong, but this article is wor
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by SolarNet 8y ago
No, that's why it's a fact and not an opinion poll that was cited. If people were thinking that, maybe they wouldn't be talking about shooting illegal immigrants [0]. [0] http://www.newsweek.com/ann-coulter-sh
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by SolarNet 8y ago
If I remember correctly the authors stated it was based off of the theoretical limits of efficiency for a reaction mass drive (e.g. if we could turn mass into acceleration with very little waste energy). Which is a really great conceit in m
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by SolarNet 8y ago
The distances are literally astronomical. Mars isn't just next door. It isn't like the moon where we can talk almost in real time. Consider it like running. How far can you run in 1 second. That's the Moon. How far can you ru
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by SolarNet 8y ago
If I describe an API and the algorithm used to implement it (a patent) that doesn't necessarily mean the source code I used isn't still useful (a copyright). They were paying for the Navy's implementation of the technology
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by SolarNet 8y ago
I think it's just the scientific reporting equivalent of FUD, this is news, but it doesn't fit the long term narrative they will need to keep selling scientific reporting. Hence some editor probably stuffed those last bits in th
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by SolarNet 8y ago
Upside more jobs in tech... all these companies are going to want active offense teams if this passes.
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by SolarNet 8y ago
Sure, but right now it's >20 and can't be encoded in a blog post. I know plenty of people who will take a 5 step alternative to facebook, and then get their friends/family on board with the amortized single step (e.g. sand
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by SolarNet 8y ago
A scoring system of the resulting work is fine. A scoring system that effectively encodes how they did the work is problematic because it means they company is now dictating how work be done, which is an employee relationship. E.g. It&#x2
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by SolarNet 8y ago
Not sure if facetious, but it failed because shifting that work caused it to be slow and not backwards compatible.
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by SolarNet 8y ago
Not going to happen. There is a need here, people want some sort of social media. The best we can do is offer a better alternative. A federated protocol (e.g. like email) would solve a lot of problems. The problem is that unlike email, not
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by SolarNet 8y ago
Also a good question, but this post focused only on why it's a stupid idea technically on purpose.
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Because Rust and C++ have similar domains.
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by SolarNet 8y ago
The comparison I like to make is that Rust is the safer/modern version of C++'s memory model. It's in a different class from most languages, but trying to apply all the latest lessons and techniques.
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by SolarNet 8y ago
Except raising the minimum wage is often met with cries that it will stifle business and prevent competition. The problem is fundamentally that labor markets can't be free markets, and the minimum wage is not a viable way to control th
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by SolarNet 8y ago
I think the problem is that the left and right (and center) voters agree we shouldn't be bombing people, but don't care that much about the issue (as this article made as a central thesis). I think the left and right politicians
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by SolarNet 8y ago
The movie War Machine on netflix also discusses this.
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by SolarNet 8y ago
He recognized the difference between government used for domination and government used for liberty. A distinction that today is rarely understood, and hence why he appears as an "anti-statist" when he was advocating for more gove
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It's also extremely soft (for a metal). Fossils survive in part because they are reactive and become harder in certain specific conditions.
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by SolarNet 8y ago
> and a bunch of stuff that basically every high level language has these days Macros are not something "basically every high level language has", in fact only lisp languages seem to have them, to a point I would call it a key
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by SolarNet 8y ago
> GPL runs counter to everything capitalism stands for. That's the point (or at least one of them). Though I personally don't care if it is GPL or not, as someone interested in perhaps using this OS for commercial purposes at
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by SolarNet 8y ago
Also plenty of optimizations happen at different layers than those effected by compilation flags. Constant folding, smarter register spilling, improved implementation strategies (e.g. virtual function tables). These are all techniques that
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by SolarNet 8y ago
It might be a reference to increased privacy and internet regulations shutting out American tech companies. Which is probably a good thing.
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Net neutrality governs providers making decisions based on who you are talking to and what you are talking about. It does not govern providers making decisions based on how you are talking (so long as how doesn't mean who or what). As
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For a moment I thought "How to design slides" also on the front page was referencing this.

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