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we're lucky that this happens at 360 Kelvin and not at 200 Kelvin or even lower.

I do not know what your point is. But there are lots of cases where people fly cheap commercial drones around an airport, and that is completely unacceptable. It could easily resul…

Lol, indeed. Imagine that you have to explain to drone pilots that even a very small drone is completely unacceptable in an airport vicinity. Yes, your 0.5kg drone can seriously da…

> Which is rather likely, because why else would big tech companies push this if it didn't benefit them in some way? They switched to this internally a long time ago which basicall…

It's literally the opposite. You "must" have a cryptographic device (a dongle) that is only doing that one thing, authentication. Doesn't have a built in radio (unless for NFC, if …

FWIW: the gas price is about the same in Germany, which has a median yearly income of about $45k.

LPG powered SUVs are the future.

Yup. Converted to gallons and the US dollar in Switzerland you have to pay $9.35 for gas (CHF2.3 per liter). Yet there's no shortage of cars on the highways here.

Have you seen what happened in the finance world with respect to Russia recently? Feels to me like it is perfectly possible with the right Zeitgeist. Pretty much all the on/off ram…

This. I don't understand how more people are not catching up to this simple fact that central bank "digital currencies" are nothing more than a by-pass of distributed private banki…

And, so what?

Half-joking, but yeah. "Managing the board of directors" of course means keeping the board happy, which is done by what ansible wrote. Not just directly trying to talk them out of …

The main job of the CEO is to manage the board of directors (i.e. the shareholders). And the main job of the board of directors is to decide when to fire the CEO.

This is exactly what YouTube does already. In fact I see no reason why Twitter couldn't spill ad money to the content (tweet) creators within the next year or two, creating a simil…

Because arithmetic is completely solved and boring, duh. There was a time when it was at least a little bit interesting, and many mathematicians were actually quite good at it.

> I'm talking about having a compiler which could produce more optimal code in any given case, or most given cases Funny coincidence, that's exactly what the vast majority of compi…

Yeah you could optimize GCC to work really well for those problems, there's a great ROI for the "write something trivial really quickly into /dev/null" class of problems. Let us kn…

You can create an operating system that just displays a static image within milliseconds yourself (shouldn't take you more than a few weeks), it would work even when compiled at -O…

This is a very specific problem that lends itself to some fantastically cpu-friendly optimizations. Doing a single hash-map lookup here on the hot path would kill performance, and …

And the distance between the two, specifically formula - x/(x+y+1): https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot++-x+%2F%28x+%2B+y...

This is cool. But what I usually do is replace x/y with x/(y+5), and hope for the best :). The 5 can be replaced by 3 or 50, depending on what I'm dealing with. (in less important …

Indeed. People do not realize just how advanced the reliability infrastructure of those services is. Things like diesel power generators have been baked into cloud datacenters for …

Yeah, that's what I don't get: if you're going to invest effort and energy into reversing the oxidation of some element, why not choose carbon and decompose CO2? It will require no…

FYI, normal TIPS have the fixed rate well below zero (which makes the total yield add up to close to where the fixed rates bonds trade at, around 1-2%). These retail instruments ar…