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Don't forget device drivers back in the day before all the chips got thrown directly into the motherboard. You might buy a nice soundcard, but the software that came with it (drive…

Because scent-languages would presumably be composed of several dozen (if not several thousand) scent components. Detection by artificial means is a hard problem, even in limited a…

It's a two-faced ethos, praising decentralization and thumbing its nose at banks while simultaneously entrusting the bulk of its assets to entities that are strictly worse than ban…

Sometimes the brutal truth is the best anecdote. Does it hurt? Yes, but so do needles and countless other medical procedures. Pain != harm.

If by "we" you mean Americans with in-demand technical skills and 6-figure salaries, then yes, we'll be okay. North America has a great setup for internal good security. However, t…

A notable historical example was NASA's "all-up" decision to launch all stages of the Saturn V on the first test: https://appel.nasa.gov/2010/02/25/ao_1-7_f_snapshot-html/ “In retr…

The window is bifurcating. The political left and right have moved so far apart that "middle ground" ideas appeal to very few and the extremes have more viability.

Just to extend this, there are a large number of plausibly legitimate reasons people might hate Musk. Maybe you're stuck in Tesla service hell, or maybe you retired to Boca Chica a…

For context, suppose Vogtle 3 & 4 generates 2200 MW during 16 hours of winter darkness. That's 35.2 GWh. If you had to replace that with Tesla Powerwalls you'd need 2.6 million of …

Signal has clear UI cues and redundant messaging telling you what actions are insecure.

> IPv6 is going to be de facto replaced with SNI routing Maybe server side, but client side addition is up to 40% now. IoT is only going to drive it higher.

Rhetoric is an essential component of nuclear deterrence. You need to convince the enemy that you have the resolve and capability to retaliate, even if you don't/won't.

They have a romantic element to be sure. I think that's what keeps pulling entrepreneurial talent and private equity into these projects. There's an old essay I can no longer find …

Wrong metric: you're assuming the safety of a violent assailant matters. And it does, just not near as much as an innocent. You must weight by justice.

> Increasing knowledge is the only legitimate goal of science. Should we build a super collider in Texas or a space telescope at the sun-earth L2 point? There are many factors when…

There's also the AI adage that you don't get to the moon by building successively larger ladders... all this deep learning stuff is great and will unlock amazing value (esp if we f…

You have four candidates who are all the same on paper--have the same qualifications, experience, etc--and will be serving as a critical liaison between your customers and the tech…

Terrifying... if you can brick a nation's tractors at the right moment you could put a large dent in their agricultural productivity.

The person who claims they have no such beliefs is lying. When you remove the human element (including intuition, tacit knowledge, reading of social-behavioral cues, and subjective…

We're running out of something though, or some combination of things. Otherwise you wouldn't have such accelerating inequality and popular unrest.

So less boring, if nothing else.

Thank you... It's a good reminder that censorship always has collateral damage.

> There is no material difference between the two other than the size of the institution doing the censoring. Norms mean "we don't want to listen to you say that". Censorship means…