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You might want to focus on jet fuel, since we don't know how to make batteries with sufficient energy density for long range flights and don't know if such energy density will ever…

If you can do validation from a perspective where your ISP can send you a full BGP table, you should be able to keep track of how recently the most specific route to that destinati…

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, and Ubuntu Core HEADLINE: traceroute DESCRIPTION: Installing some version of traceroute by default may be desirable, because sometimes when y…

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server HEADLINE: vmbuilder defaults DESCRIPTION: Several places where the default behavior of vmbuilder could possibly be improved, relative to what seems to happen …

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, and Ubuntu Core HEADLINE: open-vm-tools auto installation DESCRIPTION: It would be nice if the installer would automatically determine whethe…

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, and Ubuntu Core HEADLINE: AS112 inspired mirror system DESCRIPTION: https://www.as112.net/ describes a largely uncoordinated system for provi…

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server HEADLINE: cacti package that works DESCRIPTION: 16.04 LTS shipped with a cacti package of a version written for PHP 5, but shipped PHP 7, and Ubuntu's effort …

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server HEADLINE: DANE for TLS in Firefox, wget, curl, etc DESCRIPTION: Support TLS server verification using TLSA DNS records protected by DNSSEC …

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, and Ubuntu Core HEADLINE: bounds checking gcc DESCRIPTION: https://gcc.gnu.org/extensions.html mentions bounds checking patches for gcc. Get …

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server HEADLINE: bind package with support for DNS cookies DESCRIPTION: https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01387/0/DNS-Cookies-in-BIND-9.... describes DNS cookies; last I…

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server HEADLINE: Static IP address option in installer DESCRIPTION: When I install a new server that should have a static IP address on a network that has a DHCP ser…

IIRC, Matt Yglesias and Paul Krugman have both been arguing that an inflation target of 4% to 5% instead of the current 2% or so, and perhaps also another round of Congress passing…

Which of efficiency or price/watt matters more depends on the application. For example, I believe something like 4 m^2, 40% efficient, 8 hours of charging is enough to get electric…

If those are 1,5000 professional tax preparers who each perpare taxes for many taxpayers, it might make sense. Going after only high income citizens might also create a reasonable …

If the production server is running as a VM to begin with, how hard is it to take a snapshot of the whole VM and replicate that? (It does sort of break down if you have a database …

Does the New York Times really want this sort of policy? Are they offering that anytime they write a story about someone, and that person doesn't like what the New York Times wrote…

Doesn't 802.11n theoretically support 300 mbits/sec on a single 40mhz channel, too?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5731734 has an example of something where I realized something sometime after I first saw a (somewhat) relevant story on HN.

On the other hand, if Tesla continues to raise funds every six months in a manner similar to the recent secondary offering, buying and holding the stock for a long time will probab…

The dealers claim they are protecting consumers from the automakers. I keep wondering where I can find an example of a person who clearly is not an owner/employee/etc of a dealer w…

Tesla strikes me as having a lot more growth potential than any other publicly traded company I'm aware of, if things go well for Tesla. I certainly think its value is based upon f…

My understanding was that the Model X is planned to be built on the same line as the Model S is currently being built on, they are currently building cars at a rate that works out …

The legacy automakers all seem to think 100 miles on a charge is good enough; of them, only Nissan seems to be trying to do much more than build the minimum number to comply with C…

Elon commented, I think in the Foundations 20 video on Youtube, that the raw metals that go into a battery pack cost about $80/kwh. That means that putting the battery pack from an…

I think having multiple buttons for making positive votes about a comment might be useful. Something like insightful, agree, useful correction. These could then be weighted differe…