bmcusick

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by bmcusick 8y ago
Exactly right.
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by bmcusick 8y ago
And airlines are niche compared to mass market cars too, but they're still a good business! One thing I think most people don't appreciate is that the switch to self-driving cars will transform America into a mostly-transit societ
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by bmcusick 8y ago
I like the discussion at the end about the difficulties on delivering the busses long distance, and the lack of chargers big enough to recharge them. If the Tesla Semi actually launches at some point, perhaps that will change and we will ge
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by bmcusick 8y ago
What is a spy? They're not a legal immigrant, because they lied on their immigration papers, making their immigration invalid. If they're an illegal immigrant, their children would be granted citizenship. If they're a diploma
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by bmcusick 8y ago
My god. It's an actual, blatant violation of the Rule Against Perpetuities. [0] And here I thought I'd never use this knowledge outside of a Property Law exam. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_per
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by bmcusick 8y ago
The idea that humans shouldn’t expand into the cosmos for fear of displacing some xenoplanktons is nuts. I’m not anti-xenoplankton, but I’m very pro-human. We will inherit the stars.
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by bmcusick 8y ago
You know what would kill fewer people? Not bombing Yemen.
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by bmcusick 8y ago
This article has it completely backwards. As is often the case, (just as Paul Krugman gets basic tech facts wrong) tech people often don't understand economics. This has ALWAYS been the problem with "ASIC resistant" coins. &q
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by bmcusick 8y ago
There's more to safety statistics than just the mortality rate. We should be able to look at frequency and severity of non-fatal accidents too. Those happen a lot more often. For example, accidents that occur at 35 MPH or less are much
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by bmcusick 8y ago
More to the point, the EU didn't say "Google can't monetize Android". It just said that this tying arrangement between Google Search and Android is too anti-competitive. Android could find other, more transparent and com
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by bmcusick 8y ago
Yeah, that's why I'm favor of this decision. I think it's reasonable for regulators to have an anti-tying bias and make companies prove that the tying is somehow necessary. Because the alternative to tying (as you say) is a m
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by bmcusick 8y ago
That's basically what the EU is demanding. The EU has handed down what is an anti-tying decision. "You can't tie Android to Google Search, because that prevents competition in Search." Okay then, but Google Search is wha
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by bmcusick 8y ago
Everyone does. Hell, I do too. But it's not realistic to expect this music to keep playing. The ratio of workers to retirees keeps getting worse, from 10:1 in the 1950s to 3:1 today, and falling. The economy can grow over time, but on
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by bmcusick 8y ago
> In an international partnership between CSIRO, Verily and James Cook University, scientists used specialised technology to release millions of sterilised male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes This is so stupid. A population will recover from t
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by bmcusick 8y ago
Oh, I'm sure that there will be hobbyists who do this. Just like there are people who run Arch on their home PC, or automate their house with Arduinos. The joke about "The Year of the Linux Desktop" is predicting mass consume
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by bmcusick 8y ago
Looking forward to "The Year of the RISC-V Desktop" articles. That's a joke, but I think Windows vs. Linux is the right reference frame here, assuming that RISC-V proves out. Those who want to roll their own and control their
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by bmcusick 8y ago
Snakes on a Plane
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by bmcusick 8y ago
Interesting discussion, but not very forward-thinking on the biology side. As a simple critique, they claim that 32 crew would result in too much inbreeding, but what about IVF? There's no reason all the children have to be the full ch
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by bmcusick 8y ago
As opposed to what? Proof of Stake? Not even Ethereum can get that to work securely. I'm not familiar with all of those small coins, but the problem with Bitcoin Gold is that it uses the same Proof of Work that several other coins use,
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by bmcusick 8y ago
Maybe I’ll get the Model 3.11 for Workgroups.
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by bmcusick 8y ago
And if you’re smart, that’s luck too. I didn’t earn my IQ.
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by bmcusick 8y ago
I'm sure that FB will respect user privacy and won't mine your economic data for advertising purposes.
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by bmcusick 8y ago
Here's the bigger issue than efficiency, IMO: > during the first 6 hour cycle where the photoelectrode generated 0.18 μmol/cm2 of hydrogen And then... >After a further 6 hours illumination, the LaFeO3 thin film generated 0.
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by bmcusick 8y ago
> The investors are relying on the efforts of others for their profits. Are investors in gold relying on the efforts of others for their profits? After all, there are people out there making gold exchanges, developing gold mines, marketi
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by bmcusick 8y ago
Coin Center isn't an unbiased source, but they do have the advantage of actually being lawyers: https://coincenter.org/entry/no-ether-is-not-a-security Full disclosure: I am also a lawyer, and I work in markets tr
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by bmcusick 8y ago
Bingo. He's also a value investor. He understands cash flows. Bitcoin produces no cash flow. Also, Buffet is the insider's insider. Banks work for him. He has exactly a 0.00000% chance of having his accounts frozen. The US Congres
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by bmcusick 8y ago
Tesla initially had a battery-swap feature at its earliest Supercharger stations, but no one used it. For consumers, the recharge time was good enough even then. Long haul trucks will probably use it.
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by bmcusick 8y ago
/Looks at wind power 1/5th the cost of coal, and still falling /Looks at batteries 1/5th the cost of what they were 10 years ago, and still falling. Just another 1/2 reduction to being cheaper than an ICE engine Yea
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by bmcusick 8y ago
For mature learners, a prototype they might find useful would be a research assistant. The AI could work at making sure it understood queries better over time, then get better at finding answers, then get better at summarizing why its findi
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by bmcusick 8y ago
The main thing I'm thinking of is noise pollution. You think living near an airport is loud? I cannot even imagine what living near a BFR spaceport would be like. For coastal cities maybe it would be worth it to build a landing pad on

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