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> it isn't an absolutest point or mantra. "Safety first" literally is an absolutist mantra; no part of its wording is conditional. Of course people read into it a less absolute fig…

The decision is usually guided by practical limitations, such as grip, or the tolerance of parts. Limiting torque to improve acceleration, prevent skidding off the road, or not bur…

It's trivial to do. Here: https://js.do/code/383036

I wonder whether a more effective alternative would be to station troops in space. The Outer Space Treaty prohibits the deployment of weapons of mass destruction in space, but not …

It wouldn't need to land. Parachuting out of the vehicle is an alternative, as was done by Yuri Gagarin in the Vostok I flight.

> a mobile-platform-launched ICBM that you can climb into. The Titan II GLV was a human-rated adaption of an ICBM. Conceivably you could even put people in a truck launch ICBM.

I'm not sure what you're making that assertion on the basis of. The note has redundant electrical connectors. You could melt the bulk of the note down and still claim the Etherium …

That physical cash can become damaged is nothing new. Maybe this implementation could be easily damaged in some way, I don't think this threatens the concept of silicon cash genera…

Toll roads charge you for travelling over them. They don't charge the business you're travelling to based on how much value you have to them as a customer.

This is not the net neutrality argument. It should be a cost saving for both the CDN and ISP to connect directly, because this saves both parties needing to pay for IP transit. Tha…

As was mentioned in the article, monitoring isn't the only concern. Personal data stored on your work computer may still be problematic if your employer is involved in a lawsuit fo…

I'll try to sum it up: Kong notes are electronic devices which allow whoever has access to them to use a smart contract which after a given date can retrieve a given amount of cryp…

There's a distinction that Kong is not payable on demand, until after expiry, but I'm not sure it's a useful distinction. Unlike a conventional bond, there isn't a question of defa…

I don't see how this is any more against network neutrality than regional mirrors / CDNs. This is an optimisation which can be made by the game developer / host, where the alternat…

It may well vary depending on which C standard you're talking about. ISO C defines both a byte and a char as at least long enough to contain characters "of the basic character set …

> it looks like its memory addressing scheme still assigns addresses to bytes, and has special operations that allow you to further specify a bit offset within that memory address.…

The original usage of the term "byte" was to refer to fields of variable length consecutive bits on a bit-addressable machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#History Nowadays a…

A problem I see with this is that government has control over the economy. A winning actor can tip the balance of wealth further in their favour. Then again, this is just analogous…

Pointers, as a language concept, don't have to correspond to the addressing schemes of the hardware or ISA. On some architectures instructions may only be able to address aligned w…

Bits are addressable, just not with a normal pointer. It would have been possible to have a special fat pointer for bits, similar to how C++ sometimes has fat pointers for member f…

> a real banana and duck tape sold for $120,000, 3 times. There's also the urinal that sold for $1.7M in 1999 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)#Art_market

I don't think it's about imports / foreign production, but about the requirement of labour of high income workers generally. Domestic agriculture and manufacturing have experienced…

The technology is fundamentally simple, but not practical on a small scale. There are plenty of large, yet simple projects which nobody cares to invest in because there are better …

> Ketones being an alternative fuel for the brain My understanding is that the brain / neurons require glucose to operate, they don't directly metabolise ketones to a great degree.…

> We don't need this "drama" Speak for yourself. I don't mind when reviewers use emphasis.