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If I understand correctly, neither heat dissipation nor existing manufacturing techniques are amenable to this approach. Also modern CPUs do have more than a dozen layers IIRC.

I don't really understand the argument here. Google once provided more OSS with Android, so they are obligated to do so forever? That's not really how OSS works. If you decide you …

Uh, how does that follow? In what other domain do you get a pass for doing a little unnecessary harm because you could have done much more?

Integrity and privacy for all streams.

Well, there's that too, but people complaining about Google's decision r.e. Reader don't like being reminded that there are dozens of alternatives.

The saving grace, such as it is, is that these firearms are single-shot, and the rounds themselves are still metal and explosive-residue-detectable. While 3D printing has changed m…

All major cloud platforms have occasional unplanned downtime. AWS had an outage last year that took many sites offline for hours. A single instance of Google having such unplanned …

Google+ only existed in the first place because of the thing that was killing the medium and its one hundred and forty character-limited cousin.

You've got the causality reversed here. The medium was dying, so the Reader product was killed.

I'm of two minds about this. Like most everyone, of course, I have this fear. I ponder the ways it is not adaptive. I find it lessens over time as I consider this.

BA tops the list at 1B revenue NYC to Heathrow. Virgin runs 80% as many flights on this same route, so they should be making in the ballpark of 800M revenue on that route. This is …

How much did this affect performance?

They can't make it, but there is some historical evidence that they (or, more broadly, the USG) can ruin it.

I've been confused by this in the past too, so let me clarify for you. Confidence intervals are for predictions of a given value. They are not for probabilities. It doesn't make se…

Given that Clinton won the popular vote, and by a substantial margin, it is probable that more people were disappointed.

If I remember correctly, there is some legal principle in the United States that no law can require anyone to do something that is impossible for them to do.

I'm afraid to ask, but . . . which civilizations do you think have fallen primarily because of government regulation of private enterprise?

No, it does not. Generally speaking, Google "converges" a layer up (BigTable, Spanner, Colossus). There is no layer like LevelDB that is common to all of these.

Oh weird. My guess is they miss their estimates again. They have been missing for months running, so it seems most likely that they will miss again. Doesn't mean they won't catch t…

Well . . . some kids find other reasons to do the work. Competitiveness, simple affinity, or the reasonable observation that there's no reason to not do well in school.

> Best of all, google won’t know I watched it at all Why do you think that? It would be very easy for Google to observe who is viewing PeerTube videos and to link that back to thos…

Even if the assets were acquired, I wonder why you can't sue the remaining shell and get a cut of the money that was exchanged for the assets. I guess the real issue is that smyte'…

That is a very privileged point of view. You want to think the grass is at least more interesting on the other side, but I've done a stint in fast food. It is hard, smelly, nasty, …

I am not commenting on the well-being of people working in fast food. Just on the availability of work. Whether such individuals can afford housing is totally beside the point of m…

Anyone with a pulse can have a job flipping burgers TODAY if they want it. Same with various other categories of work (farm labor, etc.). The folks living in tent cities who are no…