twinkletwinkle

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by twinkletwinkle 8y ago
That's how you end up with echo chambers and parallel online universes.
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by twinkletwinkle 8y ago
That's the core of the author's argument. Protobuffers optimize for something besides usability and maintainability, because Google cares more about incremental performance than developer-friendliness. Which is a fine thing to car
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by twinkletwinkle 8y ago
Technically, there might have been N>2 parties involved in the switcheroo. Someone expecting the antenna received shirts, someone expecting X received the antenna, someone expecting shirts received X, ....
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by twinkletwinkle 8y ago
15 minutes of synchronous time waiting at the store versus 1 week of asynchronous time while you live your life though.
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by twinkletwinkle 8y ago
Tweets have the side effect of being public. Sometimes that becomes the main effect. Emails and the rest of your examples don't have that property.
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by twinkletwinkle 8y ago
Not sure about Android phones with "Ok Google" but on iOS, all of Siri's voice processing is on the device. As opposed to Amazon Alexa which sends the data to the cloud for processing.
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by twinkletwinkle 8y ago
> You can't stop market forces. Surely you can, we do it all the time. That's why we have subsidies on American sugar and tariffs on Chinese steel and higher taxes on cigarettes than on milk and... We have entire government age
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by twinkletwinkle 8y ago
The EmDrive claimed to violate conservation of momentum. To extend your analogy, instead of shining the light out the back of your spacecraft, you shined it inside the spacecraft at the back wall. It bounced around and came out as net posit
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by twinkletwinkle 8y ago
The BLS calculator ( https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm ) says $400 in 2013 is ~ $430 today. Seems unlikely to account for that much of the change.
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by twinkletwinkle 8y ago
No robot, no robot. You're the robot!
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by twinkletwinkle 8y ago
You're probably being sarcastic but I think the parent meant Curriculum Vitae. Making technical decisions based on what will look good on your resume instead of what's the best way to solve the problem at hand.
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by twinkletwinkle 8y ago
Who is setting back self-driving tech? Law enforcement who are trying to keep real people safe? Or Uber by being their cavalier selves about safety standards?
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by twinkletwinkle 8y ago
The market should correct that though. Those companies will (should) quickly run out of money to invest. While those who pick the ones with the right 10 year plan will (should) have the returns to continue investing.
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by twinkletwinkle 8y ago
At the absolute bare minimum, hit the brakes and reduce the impact. An attentive human driver would have at least started to hit the brakes. The software should have had plenty of time (I'm estimating a full second) to do something pro
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
I believe it's the first "third-party" death.
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All of Oculus’s Rift headsets have stopped working due to an expired certificate(techcrunch.com)
901 points by twinkletwinkle 9y ago|376 comments
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
At what point is it no longer a gift though? What if I write a contract with Boeing where I "gift" them $X million dollars and they "gift" me a brand new jumbo jet? Do you think the IRS would be interested in the specifi
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
They could also call out the flip side though, right? Dropbox could negotiate deals with the ISPs to "box out" smaller competitors. Maybe it costs them upfront but it also solidifies them in the market.
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
I agree. Zero out the stockholders and send some executives to prison for negligence and fraud. The corporate death penalty is the only way we'll see companies take infosec seriously. If I were CEO at Transunion right now, looking at w
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
That has been Matt Levine's thesis for a while, "Private markets are the new public markets". The public markets used to be the biggest source of capital, subject to stringent rules and regulations. Now you can get just as mu
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
Would it be possible to do a 1-time verification, and then throw away the data? Twitter needs to see a driver's license or passport once, not keep a scan of it.
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
> and if it isn't a fraud it will stay right where it is I'm not actually qualified to give investing advice. But this part isn't strictly true. In a functioning market, the price could be depressed by the regulatory uncer
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
If 100 million of them were stolen you could also imagine that decreasing demand.
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
Oh, like LIBOR! That's always worked perfectly, hasn't it?
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
Now is better than never. Although never is often better than right now.
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
Isn't that true of any city? Let's permanently shut down the subway in NYC. The rest of the country will benefit from the flood of educated people looking for jobs elsewhere.
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
Every time you talk about building more housing in a desirable place, there's always someone who brings up the argument "But if you build more housing then even MORE people will want to move here". Nothing wrong with some emp
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
Formal verification all the way down. I'm a complete layman in this field, but mustn't it bump against the Incompleteness Theorem at some point? There's no way to prove your definitions.
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
I don't think so. In terms of room and resources we could just as well colonize Antarctica.
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
That's not correct. The bankers' fee is 7% of the money raised in the IPO, not of their total valuation. Matt Levine addressed that one too: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-19/memory-

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