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2 years ago
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on: Games don't need venture capitalism
Quite the contrary, the world you envision isn't nice to think about at all. It's impractical, inefficient, wildly haphazard, and, worse than that, would produce the exact opposite of what you're looking for. The profit motive might not be aesthetically pleasing to you but it provides the vibrant indie marketplace we see today.
bhb916
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2 years ago
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on: The Art of Electronics (2015)
I just confirmed - this book was my first purchase on Amazon. May 24th, 1999. I had just decided to go from undeclared to EECS at Cal and wanted to take a crash course in hardware. I read the book over the summer and never turned back.
bhb916
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2 years ago
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on: Chuck Feeney has died
What specifically did you find objectionable in his list of charities?
bhb916
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2 years ago
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on: New California law raises minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour
These laws are not made to be coherent or actually help people. They are made to curry favor with a particular base. It creates all these super strange situations where it's impossible to know what the rules will be. These nonsensical laws meant to target specific people and/or companies will be the norm going forward.
bhb916
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2 years ago
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on: America's advanced manufacturing problem and how to fix it
To top this all off, our ability to "put the domestic economy first" through policy is non-existent. Any attempt to fix this "problem", that you accurately described as a problem only because it's socially unacceptable, would end up harming us in some way. There is a mountain of evidence over the last century to back this up, we just refuse to listen.
bhb916
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2 years ago
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on: Ted's Notes on Pawpaws (2016)
This isn't textbook Baader–Meinhof, but after 4 decades of never consciously hearing about this fruit I've now encountered it three times in one week: [1] on the allowed low fodmap diet, [2] in the lyrics of a jungle book song, and [3] this article. My family is now on a mission to find one and taste test.
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3 years ago
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on: Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits: a PLAN for the future
That doesn't seem like a problem - that seems like a feature. Maybe "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" just stuck with me, but a just society doesn't sacrifice the prosperity of a few for the "greater good".
bhb916
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3 years ago
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on: Uber broke laws, duped police and built lobbying operation, leak reveals
Pre-uber it was common at McCarren Airport (Las Vegas) that taxis would intentially take you the wrong way to spike their fare. Those who knew would have to demand the driver to not take the tunnel, and even then they would argue with you. There is no reason not to think that this was common everywhere.
bhb916
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4 years ago
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on: FTC files new antitrust complaint against Facebook
Ugh. Sorry to hear that. IMHO the damage done to the kids here is worse than the risks they would face from the virus.
Kudos to you for doing what you can to keep your kids connected socially.
bhb916
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4 years ago
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on: FTC files new antitrust complaint against Facebook
Facebook Kids Messenger is decent (for all the reasons you mentioned), however, I am pessimistic about it being genuinely appealing to kids. It's staying alive because middle-aged parents are forcing it on their children - they are the consume and decision-maker. My experience is once kids are allowed to make their own decisions they quickly move away from it.
bhb916
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5 years ago
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on: California appeals court rules Uber, Lyft must reclassify drivers as employees
But what about the driver who doesn't want to be classified as an employee? What right do they have?
Less trite - my nephew is in his mid-twenties and appreciates the flexibility that food delivery and ride sharing allows him. Is legislation that outlaws that an improvement?
bhb916
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5 years ago
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on: Five Eyes and Japan call for Facebook backdoor to monitor crime
This reply is spot on top to bottom.
"Who knows what sort of damage it will cause in the Five Eyes countries next time a moral hysteria sweeps through the public..."
That moral hysteria is NOW and every day since mid-march.
bhb916
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5 years ago
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on: Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down stay-at-home order that closed businesses
Genuine question: how will these countries keep deaths below 10 a week while being completely out of lockdown? Doesn't that rely on a treatment or vaccine?
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6 years ago
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on: NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships
Fragile systems are generally built using single points of failure. Centrally planned solutions are generally rife with them. I will trust the robustness of a system made up of 327.7M individual plans then the command solutions you are suggesting. We will fair much better than Italy even if the disease is more widespread here.
bhb916
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6 years ago
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on: Vinod Khosla Wins Ruling Threatening Public Beach Access
"Beaches and rivers belong to all of us."
This seems like an arbitrary distinction. What makes you think this and not something like "all geographic features belong to all of us"? What makes beaches and rivers so special that rights suddenly don't apply?
bhb916
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7 years ago
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on: Introducing the Cultural Leadership Fund
This is not meant to be snarky - but how are you sure? Are we convinced that those who attend TLJ will perform better than their peers who do not?
I agree that dignified education systems matter, but I think effective education systems would be more preferred.
bhb916
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7 years ago
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on: Founder to CEO: How to build a great company from the ground up
Especially in socialist countries.
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8 years ago
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on: Bad news for AT&T and Comcast: Calif. Senate panel OKs net neutrality bill
And it's environment, with 8 of 10 most polluted cities.
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12 years ago
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on: How to Write Safe Verilog: Become a PL Troll
As someone who spends 40 hours a week (and 60 - 70 lately) coding Verilog for FPGAs I'm always excited when something domain-specific hits the front page. I have no idea what a PL Troll is, though, so I think I missed the point of the entire post. Anyone care to elaborate? Google is not helpful.
bhb916
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12 years ago
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on: How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one
That's not a dumb question at all. The answer is simple: by cramming for logic in between registers. Since you (or at least the tools) are in complete control of the routing, you can place as much logic as you would like between registers, thus accomplishing everything in one clock cycle. The trade-off, however, is that every level of logic adds delay to the path and you can't clock your registers any faster than the sum of all the delays allows (with some exceptions).
This simple diagram sort of demonstrates the concept:
http://m.eet.com/media/1176731/sync-vs-async-01.gif
