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We had a maxed out one of those in the company lab. I seem to remember that it was on the loud side. What a tremendous waste of money.

You know, that's a good point. It would be great if people simply finished things and called them good sometimes. Hopefully they don't find a way to stick hand-written ads on the s…

I really like the looks of that, but the dates on the blog! Is it dead, Jim?

Heck, life generally is filled with that kind of inertia. It's not easy to change banks or brokerage houses. Does it make sense that someone with $1M at Vanguard gets a bunch of sp…

lol. I guess that I'm a righteous idiot then (ie. someone who might not agree with you). Mostly, the point is that people choose their battles based on bias or their own needs, not…

"Lets fix all abusers, not just ISPs. That should satisfy your argument, no?" Yes. Of course, people want to build an internet that suits them personally, so there are a million an…

Exactly. The vast majority of media websites that make their money by delivering other peoples' content have an interesting problem. They skirt the line between curating and merely…

It seems to me that I have more choice between ISPs than in auction sites, as an example. The tendency towards monopoly in networks makes all these cases similar I think.

I'm still trying to grok why ISPs are supposed to treat all customers equally while PayPal, eBay, youtube, GoDaddy, Twitter, etc. are allowed to pick and choose. I'd be more comfor…

So how could you tell an AI-generated Rothko from the real thing? If you can't tell the difference, is there a difference?...a kind of Turing test applied to art. Personally, I thi…

Hey, at least it wasn't Pixelon.

That's an interesting point. It's rather like the leapfrog to cellphones without intermediate steps. No matter what tech is used, it'll be obsolete at some point.

I can't say that an economic model built on continuous population growth makes any sense. The piper will get paid at some point. Even the current notion of driving down the average…

Sssshhh. You'll ruin the narrative. It seems to me that the easiest way for a Germany to cut on energy needs is simply by having less people live there. I expect they would have be…

Then it shouldn't be a problem at all. The power companies will simply veer towards solar if it's cheaper.

It seems simple enough to me. Over time, these hardware companies grow or die. Their products have to get cheaper, hopefully due to economy of scale. Company management never wants…

COMPASS. Odd things like 60 bit words and 6 bit characters. I remember that. "Still in all, every night we does the tell, so that we 'member who we was and where we came from..."

It also seems to me that people are quick to conflate censorship by Facebook with censorship by a state. It would be a cleaner argument if Facebook merely viewed itself as a platfo…

Absolutely. In the worlds I work in, FPGA has been standard practice for years and years. As of late, it's becoming more common to place the CPU there for cost reduction. In additi…

I'm confused. I thought that Facebook was doing the censoring.

I watched it with subtitles and I'm mystified why it would be offensive enough to censor. Anyone with the opposite POV, that mass immigration from the Third World is desirable for …

I'm surprised that I haven't run into someone using Git for EDL's.

Another corporate angle is the extent that MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) is at work. Large companies in older industries will have a large portfolio and if they get hassled by…