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Good grief, "argument points", seriously? It was a discussion, both parties expressed their views. I wasn't trying to score "argument points" any more than anyone else in this conversation. I was just discussing my own perspective.

To elaborate: I was just commenting that the same technology is still in widespread use so it's still proving itself to be valuable in some infrastructures. From my perspective it seems odd to differentiate between audio and backup tapes since audio cassettes are really a subset of that technology (the magnetic tape was originally designed for computer data storage back in the mainframe days, albeit cassette form came quite a bit afterwards). So my point was that the technology itself is still widely used.

Personally I never liked audio cassettes, not even in the 80s. So I wasn't going to comment on why some people might be using that specific application of the technology.
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I have always wondered about Aldous Huxley's death. He asked his wife to inject him with 100ug of LSD while on his deathbed. I believe that he died some hours later.

Maybe dying this way is not pleasant, who knows, but at least sounds interesting.

Maybe both effects combine into something that is much more?
Just watched this version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0345c6zNfM), as a drummer~ it was pretty satisfying :)

ps: I just saw the 'solo' version, even more satisfying.
Coastline is no easier to police and allows transit at any point. Cornwall practically counts pre-20th-c smuggling as a traditional heritage industry.

Although I think in practice most drugs come by air like in the rest of the world.
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"Having this device in your ear -- maybe connected with something visual, who knows? -- can enable people without any formal training to do things they couldn't do before. Someone untrained could be shown how to build a house, for example, and it will protect them when they are doing it."

There's no reason that stuff couldn't be done with your Android/iPhone and bluetooth headphones. I think this project is cool, and I hope they ship something good, but honestly if the future is all kinds of speech interfaces the tech to make that possible is already available.
And this is why, kids, you don't destabilize third-world government to fight the Communists. Or third world governments to fight for democracy. Or hell third world governments, don't destabilize them! It's a bad idea, sort of like humpty dumpty.
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Are you going to release smartphone app on iOS or on Android?
Yeah i need one for Japan - i know that we don't have everything available here.
In my opinion, Nvidia took over the market because they picked up the pieces from SGI when the company failed. SGI had all of the engineering talent to make a world class 3D chip for PC gaming but SGI management was too busy clinging to the dying unix workstation market.
I get that it's important to be objective, to look soberly at costs and benefits. But 'only' 26,000 direct deaths? Oh, that's fine then.
I am sorry, but the leap from "Randian utopia" to Russia is quite hard to follow. Could you explain what do both have in common? Russia is, likely, the most regulated economy in the world (e.g. from the recent news http://www.topnews.ru/news_id_83651.html , the government banned a supermarket chain from selling loose candy, tea, nuts etc. where else something like this could possibly happen?) with giant welfare programs and a big chunk of the population employed in the government. I only read digests of Rand's books but they left an impression that a "Randian utopia" would not have any of these things.
Another possibility would be to add massive storage to the grid. Maybe it's pumped hydro or this kind of thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8646787. Or perhaps more realistically, if someday soon there are millions of electric vehicles connected to the grid at any given time, especially during current off-peak hours, that storage could be leveraged for load shaping.
The bottom line is that a scripture which states that homosexuals shall be killed and you are allowed to beat your slaves to death, is a bad moral compass. Of course many groups have found ways to interpret this scripture in more benign ways, but the scripture itself is pretty hateful.

Sure you can always cherry pick the things you like and discard the rest, but then you are using another moral compass to direct the picking. E.g if you discard the OT then you also discard the ten commandments. But people tend to think it is still wrong to murder and steal, so then end up picking some of the rules in the OT but ignoring others. "Love your neighbor" is from the OT also, btw.
That was extremely interesting, thank you.
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Any idea why the uranium enrichment process is not mentioned in the article? It's quite expensive and even generates more CO2 than a modern coal based power plant in its lifetime.
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Is there an incentive for them to continue operating physical locations once their competitors are out of business?
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That seems like a distinction without a difference to me. As I read your posts there's no way for a shareholder to voice dissent; you can either agree or abstain. Maybe this is some legal term I am not understanding, but I don't see how that's unanimous under the layman's definition of the word.
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I question the explanation that it primarily was USA's military dominance that kept Europeans from further local military conflicts after WW2. Other factors that can explain why Europeans haven't started wars against each other are: democratization of the region, increased standard of living and the growth of the middle class, war fatigue and strong anti-war sentiment after having lived through WW2, increased trade, the forming of the United Nations, and regionally perhaps more impactfull the European union, and involuntarily being at the centre of the cold war.

Unfortunately I have no references to prove the relative impact of these alternative explanations compared to rayiner's. Still I'd suggest that using the strength of USA's military force as a sole or even primary explanation of post-WW2 peace in Europe is an oversimplification.
I don't know why everyone keep implying that Theranos is on a bad position. The company really worth its valuation... they aren't doing something exceptional on the tech world but they are just fine financially. It's a known company on a with a big market and you won't ever struggle with a business model (traditional one) on that type of tech companies.
> spending more than the next 7 armies on the list ensures that it is pointless for any other state to even try to challenge U.S. hegemony.

Hmm, I think that's exactly what Vladimir Putin is doing right now. I mean he's pretty explicit about it. Xi's being a bit subtler about it, but he's kind of doing the same thing. Also, it seems like the US kind of lost the last couple of wars it got into, the ones in Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan, even though Daesh and Libya Dawn don't have US$610B/year budgets.

More to the point, though, when the US military spends US$43 million on a gas station that would cost anyone else US$½ million, it becomes plausible that someone could have a stronger military even head-to-head than your US$610B/year military, even if their budget is, say, US$8B/year. Like, say, Singapore or Algeria. All they'd have to do is be spending their money on things that actually work instead of corruption-driven boondoggles. Wasting money doesn't win wars.

Would the US really lose if it got into a war with Algeria or, more realistically, Iran (who's currently supporting Russia's attacks against Daesh, over US protest)? Hard to say. Depends in part on how much of that US$610B is getting squandered, in part on whether Iran has a plan for shooting down GPS†, stuff like that. Aircraft carriers versus supercavitating torpedoes is going to be an interesting experiment when it happens. I'm glad I won't be on the carrier.

(Might also depend on what happens if the US nukes Singapore, which is after all a mostly-not-subterranean city-state. Would it trigger a global thermonuclear war, obliterating the US?)

> A very plausible explanation is that when the U.S. became unchalleng[e]able after World War II, it became pointless for any European country to cultivate aspirations of global power.

I can't tell whether you haven't heard of the Cold War or you don't realize that Moscow is in Europe. Either way, maybe you shouldn't be starting sentences with "nobody educated on the subject thin[k]s".

† Does this sound implausible? It shouldn't. Iran has had Scuds for 30 years, and it's been making its own for more than 20 years. Iran has been able to launch things into orbit since 2008, and if my calculations are right, you only have to go half as fast as orbital velocity to reach a GPS satellite, and then Kessler Syndrome might take care of the rest. And don't forget, launching into orbit means they can get a radioactive dust cloud or ten thousand individually-guided tungsten lawn darts to a point of their choosing within the US within a few minutes of launch.
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Possibly, but given (1) everything in the store is highly rated and (2) they're as much as asking customers to "showroom" and check for more information on Amazon.com, it seems like that would backfire pretty quickly.
I'm like you in that I try not to go down the rabbit hole too far with anyone. That said, over the years I went from using zero Apple products (first computer was a Commodore, never had an Apple), to really appreciating the things I find so polished and good about them. If I did go too far, it would be with Apple because I feel they actually work hard for my business. Most IMO, clearly do not. Everyone else is selling devices, they want us happy with our i-devices because they sell music and services that are device-locked. Google is more willing to bring their services crossplatform and that has led to a lack of TLC for Android and how sloppy it is in many ways.

You mentioned you use a Macbook. I've never owned a Macbook, but frequently wonder if I'm as wrong about them as I was about the iPhone. I ran Cyanogenmod on my Androids and honestly I would not go back from iOS.

My opinions always change with new information and experiences but right now these are my products of choice for various categories. I own or use all of these currently, other than the laptops. Currently using work-provided laptops.

Phone- Apple iPhone

Console- Nintendo Wii U

Music match/service- Google Play Music (if I had Amazon Prime I'd probably move to Amazon Music but we shop more locally and are Costco members)

Browser- Mozilla Firefox

HTPC- Amazon FireTV (replaced a jailbroken AppleTV2)

Laptop- Lenovo Thinkpad

Cheap laptop- Acer Aspire One Cloudbook, 14-Inch

Desktop OS- Windows10 (gaming) & Linux Mint (dev)

Email- Google Gmail

Search- DuckDuckGo (bangs sold me on it, it's the new
Google)

Programming language implementation- PyPy4 (Python 2.7)

Media- OTA antenna, Netflix and HBO Now

As you can see, I only use 1 Apple product currently and very diversified. Hardly an Apple diehard, but I'm learning and definitely don't carry that grudge against them that many long-term Android users do.
They put Humpty Dumpty back together but they got some of the parts a bit wrong, and he looks like the Halloween version, and it scares children and adults alike.
I don't think you're the only to share sentiment.

While it certainly conjures up negative associations for me - I would actually be in favor of a process with similarities to a drive-thru for pick up of online orders.

It may be nice to go inside and browse, but the experience in entropy that is now making even a minor purchase at Apple stores has me in avoidance of them.

Besides, Amazon is a logistics company.
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It's doable, but it's not that easy. If coastline allowed transit at any point then we wouldn't rely so heavily on harbors...but I don't want to bore you with maritime stories. Put it this way, if you want to smuggle onto an island you need to do at least a bit of advance planning and figure out who you're going to have to pay, or how much risk you will tolerate if you own a boat or a plane. The same is true of smuggling by car or truck on a continent, but that's a journey you can generally undertake a lot more casually than a boat or plane trip.
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What are you talking about? No it doesn't.
Yes, but your analysis discounts vehicles striking pedestrians and cyclists.
While I've grown with people who spend their after-cinema time analyzing how realistic the film was, and do acknowledge it can be fun to some extent, it's just refitting the art into a whole another game and that's by definition completely unfair. It's like writing a car review of the new Toyota Yaris and complaining it doesn't handle well on a race track.

The art of cinema is to pull people inside in a story that is generally mostly fiction. It's like deception by definition: you only offer the viewer enough pieces of an alternate reality to help his imagination get started and do the rest. The point of that exercise is to tell a story, and pulling the viewer into the reality of the film is just a tool in presenting that story. There is no point making the film's reality more realistic other than to be able to suggest it to the majority of viewers as a plausible setting for the story.

The train scene is a typical timed action scene. It's enough to repeatedly show an increasing velocity reading, similarly to how you might show a countdown timer in a bomb-defusing scene. The point of flashing those gauges or numbers every now and then during the scene is to increase excitement and tension, which I'm sure the original author well understands. Assuming the movie is in wallclock time could turn out to be a fun exercise but in this case it did not because the timing analysis just ended up pointing out an irrelevant detail in the movie that was never even designed to be coherent. So, the discovery is not fun in itself, it doesn't add anything to the movie experience, and thus wouldn't really be worth much attention.
You can't pass a limit.

One of the ways that there's also is money exchange, like someone who want to send money to Morocco and he is outside of Morocco.

Or you can just walk into a Spanish/Moroccan city (there's 2 on, on Africa... governed by Spain but both countries claim its their own) and deposit the money to a bank or something.

It's not like they are making it impossible for you, it's just impossible to do with on the way you are comfort with...
I have to shout now: THEY DO NOT KNOW IF YOU REVIEWED THEM OR NOT! You have a time window to review; after the window closes, you can see their review (if they reviewed), and they can see yours (if you did). UNTIL THE WINDOW CLOSES, BOTH SIDES ARE BLIND.
And that's probably why they failed at first (NV1 chipset). They came with advanced Mathematics (quadratic patches) and CAD use cases which didn't align with the video game market at the time.

It's funny because 10 years earlier, TDI released the 3D software package Explore with the same idea, bringing advanced mathematical geometry (full Nurbs), again far too early for the market. They ended up swallowed by Alias|Wavefront.
It's called a breeder reactor, they are quite common in some places (but not in the US). I guess those places are "fantasy land"? Pretty cool since I can visit them.
The real problem is that to get anything resembling economical use out of a nuclear plant, you need to output 100% almost all the time. New plants are too damn expensive to just let them sit there.
china is betting big on liquid fluoride thorium reactors.
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The project began with a start-up budget of $350m and the recruitment of 140 PhD scientists at the Shanghai Institute of Nuclear and Applied Physics. It then had plans to reach 750 staff by 2015, but this already looks far too conservative.

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Paradoxically, though, given thorium’s history, it is the difficulty of weaponising thorium which many see (as it were) as its killer app in civil power stations. One or two 233U bombs were tested in the Nevada desert during the 1950s and, perhaps ominously, another was detonated by India in the late 1990s. But if the American experience is anything to go by, such bombs are temperamental and susceptible to premature detonation because the intense gamma radiation 233U produces fries the triggering circuitry and makes handling the weapons hazardous. The American effort was abandoned after the Nevada tests.
Reminds me of Google's 411 service back in the day. People thought "cool, Google is offering a free service". But Google was just collecting voice samples to train its voice recognition algorithms.
Some have an infatuation with constantly trying out distributions that I don't understand. They are the ones who compile your software, so you need to trust them. On my personal PCs I've run Debian since almost 20 years (has it really been that long..?). It needs to work, all the time.

For parents and other relatives I've installed Ubuntu, though. Mostly because it's seen an incomparable amount of third party support. Spotify, Chrome, and some other tools publish Ubuntu repositories, so those things Just Work.

You can then set up them with whatever desktop you find useful, but the farther you stray from vanilla default the more you risk things to break on upgrading, and you're the one doing the support. How do you know something called "Elementary" can even be upgraded? That it'll be around in five years? I briefly look at Mint, as it was essentially Ubuntu, but they don't support upgrades at all.

So I'd say install Ubuntu or Fedora, and go with what you know and what has the most users. Do all the upgrades yourself when you have time for it. They're usually straightforward, but might inform the user of things or ask questions a casual user is not prepared to understand.
This has got to be valuable data. Not only do they have data on volume of purchases, but now have data on interested buyers that were price sensitive.
Yesterday, there was speculation it was due to China [1], increased legitimacy [1], or a ponzi scheme [2].

A few comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10497141

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-02/bitcoin-is...

[2] http://www.dailytradingprofits.com/5063/is-bitcoin-being-pum...
it's either a pr action or a new tax lowering/avoiding scheme.
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> I genuinely don't recall having a disagreement with you...

I did not say that we had a disagreement. :) I said that you made technical assertions, I asked for details about those assertions, and you either deflect by -effectively- asking why anyone would ever ask for technical details, or dismiss my technical concerns as being motivated by fear.

To jog your memory, here are two recent threads that contain conversations that we've had:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10485966

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10485911
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I definitely agree with you; the externalities of nuclear power are very often understated.
"The company made the promise (we signed papers) that if the company ever sold, we'd get a (small) cut of it - which is the only reason i stayed so long."

Was this agreement only good for the time you were an employee? Was the company ever sold?
The problem is that there is little proof that they are doing fine financially because they are not public therefore not obligated to share information.
If you have some proof they are doing fine financially then please share it.
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Wow, this is wrong at so many levels...
Swarm & compose are pretty low level and not sufficient for production deployments in my experience. In production, you usually need things like logging/monitoring, versioning/rollbacks, scaling, configuration/user management, load balancing, etc. which you either have to setup yourself or get through a PaaS. I personally recommend Deis because it's Docker/CoreOS based (lightweight) and its developers are very active and responsive. I have to admit though I haven't evaluated all alternatives. https://github.com/deis/deis
I fail to see how our primate ancestors ability to socialize outside of church somehow disproves that removing a large social component in modern American life could lead to less social support.
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80M dollars a year and you get to control the future of the internet. It seems like it would be worth paying this if you were a large corporate or goverment, especially Google with its need to control the default search engine. Especially considering they were paying 300M a year for Mozilla to have google as the default.
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If you're technically inclined, you might find both my reply to his comment and the links found within illuminating.
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> once a person hits the windshield, the primary safety mechanisms (seatbelts, airbags, and structural integrity of the car) have already failed, so whatever happens at the windshield will make little difference.

There used to be an issue where people's head would go through a window but the glass wouldn't entirely shatter, so the rest of the body wouldn't go through. A deadly broken window collar

Source: took the same tech class 2 years in a row, and watched some documentary on car safety _4 times_ each year. Yay for American middle school