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And it's a shame that postulating genetic group selection is so attractive, since ISTM that this is a very plausible case of group selection of memes about male and female tasks.

There's a huge difference between molecule-scale quantum chemical phenomena (as in photosynthesis) and quantum computation. Finding the former in the brain would be very cool, but …

It's simple semantics with confusing behavior.

The inconsistency is because, in the generator-expression case, the calls to f() are being interleaved with the iterations of the generator (so the closed-over variable has the 'co…

I've done this using select.

Er, RDS is (a) SQL (b) backed by EBS.

`lsof' is a nice front-end to this particular usage of /proc, and also works on other Unixes (/proc is, I think, a Linux innovation, and absent at least on OS X).

It requires neither.

> That the US's implementation of this law is heavily lopsided in favor of the patent trolls doesn't change the fact that patents incentivize innovation. (Whether they're effective…

You can't sever a word from its connotations just by pointing out exceptions.

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Many instance types have 2 or 4 virtual disks (presumably on different physical disks).

> calculate its Total Cost of Downtime (which probably isn't very complex for many companies) Not complex even factoring in reputational damage?

Not sure what you had in mind by "large", but instance storage goes up to 1.7TB: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/

I think which physical data center "us-east-1a" etc. corresponds to differs from user to user, to load-balance given that people will probably be more likely to use 1a than the oth…

> Why are people's identities so tied to spinning metal vs flash storage? In this case, probably because the original article was needlessly confrontational.

Were both in the same availability zone?

For a data set in the mere tens to hundreds of GB (in MongoDB, if anyone's curious), is there any reason I shouldn't conclude from this that I should use instance storage only (wit…

Well, they can assign reported history of drug use correctly. Do they do anything similar to correct for lying, or just label their data as "self-reports of drug use"?

It seems obvious that both motivations are often present.

> But you can ignore all of that if you put them all in a big bucket called "meta-contrarianism" and write their views off. I don't see the article doing this, though it could cert…

Integer factorization is also in BQP due to Shor, no?

Selective (private/charter/magnet) high schools. Otherwise, yeah.

> D) This is trivially, factually incorrect. A 3GHz P4 is cheaper today (in absolute or relative terms) than it was when it was brand new. A Core 2 Duo will give you better perform…

> While processing power has grown exponentially the cost of fabricating that technology has continued to increase faster than world GDP. Note that "Singularity" doesn't always ref…