agoodthrowaway

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by agoodthrowaway 6y ago
That thing is horrific. It looks so dangerous and how would one ever remove it when it’s locked in someone’s body and can’t be unlocked?
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by agoodthrowaway 6y ago
I think if there’s a positive to be taken from COVID-19 it’s that we have time now for reflection. I think many of us have neglected human connection in our lives and COVID is exposing just how lonely we are. I am sure it’s difficult be
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by agoodthrowaway 6y ago
Not raced cars but raced motorcycles and the very real difference is the vast sensory overload when you’re approaching corners, while in traffic, late braking trying to overtake, trying to stay in the power, being in the right gear, while p
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
He downloaded schematics and pcba designs, documents, etc, onto a thumb drive and transferred those contents outside of Google. Call it whatever you want. It’s called theft. * The files that Levandowski is alleged to have stolen contain d
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
Seriously? What exactly is brilliant about stealing designs? If he was so brilliant, he’d know what to do better or differently. He’d have been able to work around Google’s IP. That’s true brilliance. Not only is he a thief, by his ow
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
Meh. What commercial product has the guy ever released? I’ve been involved in many and I can tell you that with each one of them I knew exactly what I would do differently the next time. I didn’t need an old design because I knew what w
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
China’s handling of this is the reason we are all in this situation. They had a chance to contain it and they chose to shut down information that would have stopped the spread. Now the Chinese government are some kind of heroes?
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
I race motorcycless and so have some experience with high horsepower small engines. My first thought is I wonder how high the compression is to get this HP with only 3 cylinders? With high compression, everything wears much faster and com
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
It would be good but not sure that radiologists are the dominant cost. Radiological equipment is heavily regulated because it can cause significant harm to people if the equipment malfunctions.
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
Sorry but the assumption is on on your part. I’m sorry you can’t see that.
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
I think you’ve missed the point now twice. It’s the lack of trust that is the issue here that leads to that assumption. The lack of trust is the fault of the moderator not of the GP.
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
I think the GP is suggesting that as soon as you are moderating speech, a powerful moderating authority can quickly lose trust by deleting discussions. Or it could be that the moderating authority already is untrusted so deletions legitima
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
China is back online. It was just a bump in the road.
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
So crazy that so many things came out of particle physics experiments: Ethernet, WWW, ... kind of crazy
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
Particulate pollution has a big impact on human health and children in particular.
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
I used to live about 4 blocks from CA-17 (a 6 lane freeway) and when we’d leave the windows open a layer of black soot would form on the window sill after a few hours. I always thought that this soot was a combination of rubber from tires
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
True but usually it’s difficult to actually achieve that speed on the bus. Isn’t the NIC a bottleneck? Usually they aren’t capable of wirespeed due to shallow buffers.
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
How is that possible? Raw Bw of PCIE is around 200Gb/s.
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
In California we have a declaration of emergency. This declaration makes price gouging illegal for essential needs.
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
I am not sure I would call him a brilliant engineer if he had to steal designs from Google.
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
Sure those failures were during NASA’s faster, better, cheaper era . I would argue that these failures led to cultural change at NASA that has led to their tremendous success during the last 20 years. NASA has had many more missions overal
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
Gaming is hard. It’s hard to disrupt when we have PlayStation, XBox, and Nintendo. Xbox was able to break in because they had Halo. Nintendo has tons of games people love. PlayStation has a great ecosystem. You need more than just a Go
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
I don’t really understand comments like this. US has lots of problems but we do have the semblance of rule of law. We do have the notion of transparency and you do not get sent to a labor camp if you have political views antithetical to t
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
One thing that I wonder is whether we could ever identify an alien communication signal as an alien signal is likely to be much more advanced. In that scenario, the alien civilization is likely to be able to send their signal at the Shanno
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
Being principled and high minded is wonderful when you are financially independent. Given Google’s amazing financial success, I’d imagine the author is or should be financially independent and can choose to do whatever he wants. Some of t
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
Not new. This existed a long time ago. It was called Nextel. Was hugely popular with contractors and in construction trades.
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
Actually I am wrong. NSA divested their fab a while ago. Instead they use the Trusted Foundry Program. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Foundry_Program
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
Really not that easy to release a PDK and get the industry familiar with it particularly for anything that is high speed analog.
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
Absolutely. NSA has its own fab to guarantee security and ensure secrecy. No reason why we can’t have a corporation that pushes semiconductor tech forward.
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by agoodthrowaway 7y ago
Intel does not support a fabless semiconductor business model. Lots of other chips are necessary besides CPUs.

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