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by arise 4y ago
Don't forget device drivers back in the day before all the chips got thrown directly into the motherboard. You might buy a nice soundcard, but the software that came with it (drivers and utilities both) were quite a mess. I think a big
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by arise 4y ago
Because scent-languages would presumably be composed of several dozen (if not several thousand) scent components. Detection by artificial means is a hard problem, even in limited and highly lucrative domains (truffles, explosives, etc), whi
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by arise 4y ago
It's a two-faced ethos, praising decentralization and thumbing its nose at banks while simultaneously entrusting the bulk of its assets to entities that are strictly worse than banks.
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by arise 4y ago
Sometimes the brutal truth is the best anecdote. Does it hurt? Yes, but so do needles and countless other medical procedures. Pain != harm.
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by arise 4y ago
If by "we" you mean Americans with in-demand technical skills and 6-figure salaries, then yes, we'll be okay. North America has a great setup for internal good security. However, the rest of the world has to deal with losing
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by arise 4y ago
A notable historical example was NASA's "all-up" decision to launch all stages of the Saturn V on the first test: https://appel.nasa.gov/2010/02/25/ao_1-7_f_snapshot-html/ “In retrospect i
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by arise 4y ago
The window is bifurcating. The political left and right have moved so far apart that "middle ground" ideas appeal to very few and the extremes have more viability.
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by arise 4y ago
Just to extend this, there are a large number of plausibly legitimate reasons people might hate Musk. Maybe you're stuck in Tesla service hell, or maybe you retired to Boca Chica and now have to deal with rocket noise and road closures
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by arise 4y ago
For context, suppose Vogtle 3 & 4 generates 2200 MW during 16 hours of winter darkness. That's 35.2 GWh. If you had to replace that with Tesla Powerwalls you'd need 2.6 million of them or 22 copies of Moss Landing Energy Stora
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by arise 4y ago
Signal has clear UI cues and redundant messaging telling you what actions are insecure.
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by arise 4y ago
> IPv6 is going to be de facto replaced with SNI routing Maybe server side, but client side addition is up to 40% now. IoT is only going to drive it higher.
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by arise 4y ago
Rhetoric is an essential component of nuclear deterrence. You need to convince the enemy that you have the resolve and capability to retaliate, even if you don't/won't.
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by arise 4y ago
They have a romantic element to be sure. I think that's what keeps pulling entrepreneurial talent and private equity into these projects. There's an old essay I can no longer find showing that airships are way too costly for their
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by arise 4y ago
Wrong metric: you're assuming the safety of a violent assailant matters. And it does, just not near as much as an innocent. You must weight by justice.
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by arise 4y ago
> Increasing knowledge is the only legitimate goal of science. Should we build a super collider in Texas or a space telescope at the sun-earth L2 point? There are many factors when considering what science to fund, but if society is foot
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by arise 4y ago
There's also the AI adage that you don't get to the moon by building successively larger ladders... all this deep learning stuff is great and will unlock amazing value (esp if we fund open data+models), but we run the risk of exha
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by arise 4y ago
You have four candidates who are all the same on paper--have the same qualifications, experience, etc--and will be serving as a critical liaison between your customers and the technical team. Which one do you hire? (1) The candidate with a
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by arise 4y ago
Terrifying... if you can brick a nation's tractors at the right moment you could put a large dent in their agricultural productivity.
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by arise 4y ago
The person who claims they have no such beliefs is lying. When you remove the human element (including intuition, tacit knowledge, reading of social-behavioral cues, and subjective assessments of temperament and character), you're goin
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by arise 4y ago
We're running out of something though, or some combination of things. Otherwise you wouldn't have such accelerating inequality and popular unrest.
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by arise 4y ago
So less boring, if nothing else.
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by arise 4y ago
Thank you... It's a good reminder that censorship always has collateral damage.
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by arise 4y ago
> There is no material difference between the two other than the size of the institution doing the censoring. Norms mean "we don't want to listen to you say that". Censorship means "we don't want anyone to hear y
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by arise 4y ago
I want free speech. And I want social norms. They're not incompatible. Recognizing your innate right to voice your ideas, no matter how offensive (or cough blithely disingenuous), doesn't mean that private organizations can&#x27
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by arise 4y ago
It also plays into Bruce Sterling's Distraction, albeit as a minor element. Same generation of cyberpunk author.
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by arise 4y ago
With all due respect, this is an extremely theological version of the Emperor's New Clothes: conveniently non-falsifiable and if anyone points it out, they're a bad person.
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by arise 4y ago
Farmers use GPS and other technologies to plant crops with inch-level accuracy while maximizing land utilization and minimizing fuel/fertilizer. Take that away and somebody's going to starve (or start a war to keep from starving).
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by arise 9y ago
As a free software activist, do you think our effectual software freedoms would have advanced as far as they have without OSI's emphasize on the practical aspects of libre software? Do you think Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens could have
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by arise 9y ago
Fun facts not mentioned in the article: * The lunar module was off course because the astronauts failed to completely vent the tunnel between Eagle and Columbia and the resulting puff of air altered their trajectory. * Apollo 10 was short-f
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by arise 9y ago
It's my computer, my web browser, my time, and my mind. (Nice article and all, but the implicit question posed by the headline is a no-brainer.)

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