mikea1

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by mikea1 10mo ago
I think the Martian was adapted well from book to movie, so I have hope for this one. That said, compressing the entire story into a theatre runtime is tricky: I think it would be a win if only half of the character and relationship growth
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by mikea1 2y ago
In the market for internet service, Starlink is a disruptor to existing ISPs. Especially for those servicing rural areas. I don't understand a reflexive reach to encumber a nascent business model with additional regulations. What probl
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by mikea1 2y ago
Popular with whom? Newtonian physics is 'popular' because it is easy to grasp with a high school education. Likewise, the theories of the early David Ricardo era are easy to understand, maybe popular, but not current with academic
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by mikea1 2y ago
I took gp's use of "opera" to describe an inclusive, wide range of genres that feature human relationships, like space operas. There's definitely mass appeal (think of Star Wars alone.)
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by mikea1 2y ago
> you do kind of root for him in the end I'm rooting for him too. He doesn't have all the qualities of a classic protagonist, yet I find myself hoping that he succeeds in his madcap endeavors. I admire his grit: I would have no
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by mikea1 3y ago
I believe OAuth is working as expected. It provides valid authentication/identity for email addresses because "user@domain" and "user+wildcard@domain" are still validated as email addresses "owned" by the
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by mikea1 3y ago
I'm curious what part of ICANN's mandate is a failure. My understanding is that introducing new TLDs was part of it. > 7. The Creation of New gTLDs. The Green Paper suggested that during the period of transition to the new corp
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by mikea1 3y ago
Ah, yes, you are absolutely correct. The _clever form of one_ trick did not apply as often as I recalled!
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by mikea1 3y ago
In my limited math experience, I really found an appreciation of the number one. My favorite part of high school algebra was realizing that "solving for x" was often just a repeated exercise of multiplying each side of the equatio
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by mikea1 3y ago
> It reads like someone had a bad experience with a PM who thought they were Steve Jobs. I had the opposite understanding about the article. Steve Jobs was an extraordinary leader who through immense will power created good products; an
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by mikea1 3y ago
According to the book Breath by James Nestor, humans did not always have wisdom teeth problems: today, modern humans have small jaws because, during our youth, we spend less time chewing our food, so the muscles and bones in our skulls are
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by mikea1 3y ago
I think ICANN would not entertain a startup taking over registry operations for .com or .net. ICANN recently defended their no-bid contract renewal for .net with Verisign: > If ICANN were to put every TLD out for bid every renewal cycle
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by mikea1 3y ago
> how is it so much cheaper Porkbun doesn't make money when you buy a domain name, but they may make money when you do not renew it: > At about 21 days into the Auto-Renew Grace Period, the expired domain will be submitted to thi
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by mikea1 3y ago
You can quickly go offline via dev tools. In Chrome, it's very simple[0]. [0] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/network/reference...
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by mikea1 3y ago
My main takeaway from Bostrom's Superintelligence is that a super intelligent AI cannot be contained. So, the slippery slope argument, often derided as a bad form of logic, kind of holds up here.
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by mikea1 3y ago
I completely agree that's a valid argument. I just think it is rational for someone to come to a different conclusion, given identical priors.
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by mikea1 3y ago
Another explanation is that there are those who considered and thoughtfully weighed the ramifications, but came to a different conclusion. It is unfair to assume a decision process was agnostic to harm or plain ignorant. For example, perhap
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by mikea1 3y ago
> the pipelined nature of PRQL really maps much better to how people should think about queries I disagree. Database engines take SQL and transform it into an execution plan that takes into consideration database metadata (size, storage,
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by mikea1 3y ago
Yeah, it's explicitly disallowed by ICANN to register a domain with this unicode character (along with numerous other characters): https://www.verisign.com/assets/icannrestricted/idn-icann-re...
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by mikea1 3y ago
Thanks for sharing - I didn't know about OpenNIC. It looks like an alternative to ICANN where the key distinguishing trait is that TLDs and domain names are awarded with a landrush model (whoever claims it first owns it.) If it gains p
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by mikea1 3y ago
> Less jobs is not necessarily a good thing ? The rollout of the lightbulb significantly reduced the economic potential of candlemakers, but it improved the quality of life for society overall. So, whether technological advancement is a
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by mikea1 3y ago
I understand that you are being poetic, but just in case someone reads this as fact: you are describing a dedicated circuit - which is what telephones used. The internet works on packet switching, so there are numerous little breaks between
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by mikea1 3y ago
> Most waiters/waitresses are payed below minimum wage and make up the difference with tips. It's slightly more complicated: hourly wage is the greater of ($3 + tips) or (standard minimum wage). So, the effective minimum wage
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by mikea1 3y ago
> ...dns verification proves you temporarily control name resolution relative to a viewer. > Both are trivially hacked, multiple ways. I'm genuinely curious how it is trivial to "control [authoritative] name resolution relat
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by mikea1 3y ago
> good chunk of the republicans are honest to god libertarians This is key: Colorado has far more libertarian-conservatives than social-conservatives. It comes from the Western ideal of "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.&quot
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by mikea1 3y ago
> this particular instance I’m thinking of full reserve banking (deposit banks turn back into glorified vaults), print central money for mortgages (and burn that money when it’s paid back), and democratically (with congress, referendum,
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by mikea1 3y ago
> That’s the thing though, they could lend out and pay interest on “savings” with the understanding that the money might not be immediately available for withdrawal as it’s “in the wild”. Those are Certificates of Deposit. > they didn
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by mikea1 3y ago
> banks couldn’t lend as much money if they couldn’t create it How could a bank lend _any_ money if it must reserve 100% of deposits as cash? > they are printing money and decide who can borrow and who cannot, without democratic overs
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by mikea1 3y ago
> fractional reserve lending is fraud I don't understand how it's fraud. Banks could not lend at all if they must retain 100% of deposits. On the lending side, it would hurt everyday people and the economy if banks could not le
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by mikea1 3y ago
> this would give the business undue influence over politics? It's about power. From the article: > Communist authorities dislike the idea of anything, let alone a large private business, outshining the party. And the country’s l

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