mee_too

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by mee_too 9y ago
Sorry, I wasn't aware there's triple secret NDA on the fact that Google's main business is advertising...
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by mee_too 9y ago
They can't be louder and prouder about it, because they know at one point they'll have to compromise it so that Google own apps can track the user.
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by mee_too 9y ago
http://mtcb.pwop.com/
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by mee_too 9y ago
A couple solutions: one man offices, working from home.
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by mee_too 9y ago
I do have two houses. They are in cheap places and the total mortgage payments are what I make in 3 - 4 days.
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by mee_too 9y ago
Simply not true. As en extreme example the human body is assembled by bio machinery, how do you disassemble it without breaking it?
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by mee_too 9y ago
Yeah, those are good. Many cheaper laptops still have replaceable RAM, WiFi, cell modem, SSD, optical drive, battery. A few models still come with socketed, upgradable CPUs. These days the 14nm desktop CPUs are efficient enough for laptop u
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by mee_too 9y ago
Close the libraries down, same as public baths. I don't want my taxes being wasted on those people.
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by mee_too 9y ago
They can make you (or your customers) solve a captcha before each API call.
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by mee_too 9y ago
Don't think so, it's too small.
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by mee_too 9y ago
The schedule thing sounds like a fair deal, if you allow human input the people with "people skills" will benefit at the expense of those that are socially awkward.
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by mee_too 9y ago
Travel can be extremely cheap nowadays, e.g. budget airlines on weekdays, last minute deals from the big tour operators. Working one 10 hour day a week will allow for way more travel than 4x the money on a 4 or 5 days work week. Last year I
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by mee_too 9y ago
Assume without thinking that conspiracy theory equals false -> you watch too much TV.
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by mee_too 9y ago
What types of programs are impacted by the lack of low overhead synchronous IPC?
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by mee_too 9y ago
This person switches threads :) But in practice, I guess this legacy architecture adds a nanosecond or two to a thread switch. Is that a big deal? How many switches does a desktop PC do in a second? How about an AWS/Azure/GCP serv
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by mee_too 9y ago
Or bribe the phone company and get direct access to the mail box.
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by mee_too 9y ago
I was planning to switch to data-only SIM anyway, don't need no phone number or voice mail.
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by mee_too 9y ago
But if CRISPR cuts off a single DNA sequence, surely the repair mechanisms won't damage a random gene far away. My very limited understanding is this paper is reporting widely spread damage on the genome. The original bacteria CRISPR c
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by mee_too 9y ago
Don't think so. Originally the CRISPR mechanism was discovered in bacteria, which only have one cell. It doesn't make sense for bacteria's anti-virus system to kill it's only cell.
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by mee_too 9y ago
I'm wondering if we'll ever be able to replace horses with cars. The thing is I'm often looking at the horses and they are looking at me :)
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by mee_too 9y ago
New tech companies will make media noises in two cases: 1. Need investment 2. Have a product to sell Currently carbon nanotubes firms/departments fill neither case. They have enough money, because of all the hype and they don't ha
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by mee_too 9y ago
Apprentice in system programming? Never seen one. As most other things it comes to passion. If you literally write C in your dreams and spend every waking hour hacking OS kernels you'll get to be very good.
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by mee_too 9y ago
Who supported Russia after the war?
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by mee_too 9y ago
100k more, not 100k total.
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by mee_too 9y ago
They tried to improve Symbian - I've got their latest and greatest Symbian device, the 808 and it's a joke. Even if they could do Maemo, there would've been no apps - Microsoft failed to attract enough devs, given that there
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by mee_too 9y ago
Nokia's cap was 300G at one time, it was bigger than Apple when the iPhone came out and it was the leader on the booming smartphone market. They lost a lot of value, fired a lot of people, lost their biggest market - which is not &quot
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by mee_too 9y ago
Choosing Android would not have saved them. Google didn't like Nokia and would've given new OS versions to other companies first. Nokia had to buy most of the components from Android phone manufacturers - Samsung, LG, Sony. They s
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by mee_too 9y ago
Nokia couldn't do what Samsung did. They lacked factories for NANDs, CPUs, RAM, screens, camera sensors.
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by mee_too 9y ago
Actually Nokia market cap is 30G, while Apple's 750G, 90% of which is "the handset business".
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by mee_too 9y ago
Complete nonsense. I've worked for the Pentagon since the middle 80's, it was and still is by far the biggest consumer of AI. The brightest minds of the 80's just couldn't deliver a working AI system, despite the governm

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