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These tend to be swampy wetlands, and people have drained and developed swamps all the time for hundreds of years.

Good for them, the little buggers. Here's to another half a billion years. I have no doubt they'll outlast humans.

Cloud skepticism was never on the level of blockchain skepticism. Cloud solves a real problem of scalable and efficient resource allocation and provisioning for distributed applica…

If I woke up and found that my securities had been instantly and irreversibly transferred to China overnight, I would not be happy, at all.

Yet it is a giant leap backwards for security and irreversible transactions are a deal-breaking bug in the real world of finance. Mistakes and frauds have to be unwound. "Finders k…

> I'm super curious since a lot of smart people seem to be into it. Because trendy buzz.

As opposed to bitcoin, where nobody has ever lost money ever.

> You will if you try to trade bonds in the conventional way, which is a huge pain in the ass. And that's a bunch of horsecrap. Do you buy stocks in your name too? No. Ordinary inv…

That's only part of the "os" if you mean part of the installed libc, as opposed to part of the kernel. Managing heap is done in userspace.

For anyone for whom it's not obvious. The point is not that he spiked her chances to get hired for rejecting his advances, or that she wasn't treated fairly by in the remainder of …

this is actually 100% bullshit. HNW individuals do have opportunities in private equity and hedge funds not available to the general public but the risk/return curve is not really …

tip to the uninitiated, this is called "closet indexing", and it's bad. If you want an index fund (and you should), buy a no-load, low-cost index fund.

Not really, there is a net gain for deferring taxes on gains beyond $3K. But irrelevant for tax-advantaged retirement funds.

The main problem is that TLH is irrelevant in tax-free/deferred retirement funds, which is where you should be sticking your savings if you haven't maxed them out, which is the sit…

You must live in a funny-mirror version of my world. I'm in the pothole belt and there is never enough in the budget to fix all our roads. Yes, for various reasons, sometimes a str…

@vitalysh > At the same time, I don't get, why would you encrypt your "Linux ISO's"? Let the AWS dedup do its job, don't abuse it, and everyone is happy. Because if you are a self-…

Yup. And there is technology to spot naive decoys (e.g. IR signature), and technology to make decoys more sophisticated. The ABMs have to hit the MIRV before the warheads deploy or…

There's no way to get a true-size, true-perspective sense of this kind of speed. We're not built for it. You look at it and it's gone. That's some good vintage video. There's a mix…

If it was testing it wasn't just this test. The exposure appears to be minimal.

yup. bang and then silence, and then maybe after a stunned pause the wails/groans of any surviving wounded.

Pure liquid mercury is not especially toxic so you're probably fine. That said it is damn stupid for kids to play around with it. Lead is probably worse. I did a lot of soldering a…

Puffing a cigar is little different from puffing a pipe. If you're inhaling into your lungs, you are doing it wrong. In either case, you are pulling tobacco smoke into your mouth a…

Oh come on. And what's the kernel for GuixSD? Linux. We all know RMS is bitter that he can't take credit for a functional kernel, but it's still there.

Wow. I live within the USA snowbelt, but studded tires are pretty uncommon outside remote undeveloped areas and mountainous areas. Studless (or unstudded, studdable) winter tires a…