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soohyung | 7 years ago | on: Sprint Is Throttling Skype, Study Finds

If they throttle high-bandwidth applications they can provide less bandwidth and save money, I'm not surprised at all this is happening now that net neutrality is out the window.

soohyung | 7 years ago | on: Consider applying for grad school

It's interesting how different things are here. In Germany it's nearly expected to get a Masters degree because of the way things used to be: until not too long ago we didn't have BS/MS but only a diploma which was equivalent to a Masters degree so many companies still expect a Masters degree even nowadays. From what I've seen it also seems more difficult to get a MS in a different field than your BS here. Is it common in the US?

soohyung | 8 years ago | on: WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook

Because at least then you know who has your data. If I agree to Google having some of my data because I trust them with it to some extent that does not mean I want to give any third party access to that data. And I'm not saying there's any reason to trust Google with your data, but at least you'll know who really has access to that data.

soohyung | 9 years ago | on: How to Avoid a Post-Antibiotic World

I don't think that's a very good point. In order for people to be willing to pay the ever-rising costs for the best drugs they are going to have to work, drug companies aren't going to make much money once they've lost the trust of their customers. Perhaps the funding is problematic in one way or another but I doubt it's in drug companies' best interest to keep us sick.

soohyung | 9 years ago | on: Giant Middle East dust storm caused by a changing climate, not human conflict

From the article:

"At the time, the storm’s unusual severity was attributed to the ongoing civil war in Syria by media outlets in the Middle East, Europe and the United States. Reports blamed the conflict for changes in land use and cover—and for activities like increased military traffic over unpaved surfaces and farmers reducing irrigation or abandoning agricultural land—that created extreme amounts of dust to fuel the storm."

It wasn't really obvious at the time.

soohyung | 10 years ago | on: If you're alive in 30 years you might be in 1000 years too

No. That's not quite true. Yes we are very close to maxing out Moore's Law but so far we've still kept up. If I remember correctly there's a completely different reason for CPU speed not being higher than that (maybe the physical limit to transistors themselves?). We are still increasing the number of transistors per chip and not exactly scaling horizontally - after all we are fitting 4 CPU cores onto a chip that previously only fit a single one.

soohyung | 10 years ago | on: A hunt for the government's oldest computer

That's true except when said system needs to be repaired and there is no one left who knows how to work with any systems that old. In that case it can be painful finding someone knowledgeable enough to work with a system that old.
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