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jlrbuellv | 7 years ago | on: Is Python the Future of Programming?

I think he means AWS lambda functions, which are super easy in python

jlrbuellv | 8 years ago | on: HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the Distributed Web (2015)

Yeah, I saw that, but it's two years later and it still doesn't work? Not to be snarky, but my limited understanding is that IPNS is really the only novel part of IPFS anyway; if I just want to share a file peer-to-peer based on the hash of the content, bittorrent has existed for ages.

It just seems silly to talk about how HTTP is unreliable because your severs might go down, when the alternative "serverless" architecture you're hyping doesn't work either. I'm totally on board with the aims of IPFS and hope they accomplish all the things they're trying to do, but to say HTTP is obsolete when HTTP works and IPFS doesn't (yet) is just a little too much...

jlrbuellv | 8 years ago | on: HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the Distributed Web (2015)

It's kind of funny that the example link to a "permanent" object still returns a 404 ("ipfs resolve -r /ipns/QmTodvhq9CUS9hH8rirt4YmihxJKZ5tYez8PtDmpWrVMKP: Could not resolve name.") I totally want the web to magically be distributed too, but clearly not even the author is bothering to host their IPFS content anymore...

jlrbuellv | 8 years ago | on: Hackers send silent commands to speech recognition systems with ultrasound

"OK Google" on my Pixel is keyed to my voice and can be used to unlock the phone (though I turned that feature off), but I'm not sure if it validates my voice when the phone is already unlocked, or if other google devices like the Home allow this.

jlrbuellv | 8 years ago | on: How about an “urban wealth fund”?

I'm sure someone will show up with a counterexample, but DC doesn't have any that I've ever seen. I feel like they'd make a killing if they just stepped up their vending machine game to be more like Japan, though eating and drinking on the metro is supposed to be banned in DC, so I guess that would send mixed messages.

jlrbuellv | 8 years ago | on: Petoskey stone

The even cooler part of these stones is that they often look totally plain when dried out, because the white coral pattern blends into the light gray of the stone. If you're walking the beach looking for them, you might have to pick up likely looking candidates and dip them in the water to darken the gray parts of the stone; every time is like a little lottery that you might win.

jlrbuellv | 8 years ago | on: The Liver: A ‘Blob’ That Runs the Body

Not OP, but I received a bone marrow transplant 6 months ago, and the amount billed to my insurance so far has exceed 2 million USD. So I assume no transplant team could survive without someone agreeing (in advance) to pay the bill for the transplant and post transplant related care. If I had walked in with a big enough wad of cash, it's possible I could have got on the list too, but my case has pretty much gone as smoothly as possible, with complication I could see the bill approaching a much bigger number,

jlrbuellv | 12 years ago | on: 95% of climate models agree: the observations must be wrong

I think you're missing the point. Climate change policy is an optimization problem: how much money do we spend (either active on counter-measures or passively by capping energy usage) to reduce temperature change by some amount. If we can only affect it half as much as we thought we could, would we still spend the same amount? Maybe, but it's not exactly a no-brainer.