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The problem is greed, not money in itself. And you can't eliminate greed. You can make it harder to be greedy but greed always finds a way to corrode any constraints you build into…

For Decades, Southern States Saw People of Color as Sub-human. Therefore, who cares what southern states do. Down vote to your satisfaction.

In the formal setting of an educational institution you get to engage your mind in analytical and creative thinking in a variety of subjects and on daily basis. Such a consistent p…

Maybe the cache should be made using Silicon on Sapphire for radiation hardening? But I am not sure if multi-process silicon fabrication is viable.

They allowed corporations to vote with their money and buy candidates. Undermined our ”By the People. For the People” fantasy.

Live and learn!

What you describe is not Autonomous AI that is driven by a dynamic mission, as the military AI will be. An AI killer bot can be developed that not only tries to achieve the goal sp…

The right to bear arms was given to humans who happen to live in this so-called freedom loving country. It was never given to autonomous non-human entities. So while the military m…

With a Lamport Clock (counter, logical clock) you could end up with the following due to dependence on conflict resolution aka optimistic MVCC rather than Wall Time (copies do from…

How does FDB compare to Spanner as far as the Consistency model and trade offs?

Common sense says that since FB owns WhatsApp no one should trust it. It's no different than if China owned WhatsApp. I mean WeChat. Just common sense.

That’s what happens when you think with your brain as opposed to feel with your heart.

Sarcastically speaking, it all started with the division of labor between hunters and gatherers. If hunters had to gather too they wouldn't have had developed a specialization for …

You can have multiple tenants per low cost edge device. ARM servers are finding so many such applications. Not sure what is the hang up?

First it was the Chinese motherboard implants and now visions of a great war. What's their agenda? Does Bloomberg news represent Michael Bloomberg's agenda/views/paranoia in any wa…

Touchy subject.

I remember Flight of the Conchords was a huge hit in the Bay area in 2007-2009 amongst the hipster-ish and nerdy crowd. We used to torrent it =) along with HyperDrive (British come…

If only they supported NixOS... I would use them if/when they make the leap.

Ah. I see. TIL something about CDNs. Thanks. Good stuff.

Nope. I’m assuming they can do 10,000 tenants per server. If they did 1 tenant per 1 TinkerBoard and charged $2/mo for it flat no hourly fee that would be an interesting business m…

At 1/10,000th of a server per each tenant (assuming 10,000 tenants) you can achieve “hard” isolation and far more cpu/memory per tenant using a TinkerBoard or something like that p…

If it was your own family at a wedding? Seriously? You can tell us with honesty that you would classify the brutal murder of your own family as worthwhile because there was some re…

But GC doesn’t run continuously! Sure, device drivers and kernel modules should be built in C. Everything else is an approximation.

Appreciate your work on Nim. My statement is based on my opinion. There are certainly imperfections in Nim even bugs and things that annoy me but the mental load is far less than w…