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  1. Re:Oddly bit coins fall is partly why it's safer n on Wall Street Banks Are Reportedly Backing Away From Cryptocurrency (siliconangle.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing he implied the banks own the federal reserve.

  2. Re:What is x32? on Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping x32 Support (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought of those at first, but in such case, the issue is memory space and not memory access time which would be improved. Found these benchmarks(end of post)

    Seems x32 would reduce the memory footprint up to 25%, might be to somebody doing a tight design.

  3. Re:What is x32? on Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping x32 Support (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't think of a system that needs no more than 4GB, but needs the extra performance of 32bit addressing space.

  4. Re:Soooo how else do you get into med school on 'What Straight-A Students Get Wrong' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    In Argentina, med school is free (even for foreigners after paying an administrative fee), there are no minimum entry grades, Inscription consists either of entry exams or 1 year introductory course ( to pass an exam you need to score 4/10, which is (usually) somewhere between 75% and 70% of an exam well done).

  5. Re:So much for that on Linus Torvalds On Linux's Code of Conduct (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Could you point of people advocating Nazism, shaming homosexuals or throwing Jew as a slur on the linux mailing list?

  6. Re:Legacy systems are out of control on Software Developers Are Now More Valuable To Companies Than Money, Says Survey (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Newer file browsers no longer let you edit the file path, you have to click on everything to get somewhere

    Ctrl+L, no, you don't need to thank me.

  7. Re:Hopefully OSM can get it correct? on Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Are Contributing To OpenStreetMap (theodi.org) · · Score: 1

    Or just paint a big ass sign at the entrance of the path... Either one explaining the situation or one that says "private prop, trespassers will be shot"

  8. Re:Competition is good on Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Are Contributing To OpenStreetMap (theodi.org) · · Score: 1

    osm uses vector graphs. Is there enough infrastructure to provide a free open street view?

  9. Re:Gee, can't imagine why... on Fewer Than Half of Young Americans Are Positive About Capitalism (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There is high mobility, even at the top of the pyramid, 1% owns half the wealth, but the members of that 1% arent's permanent. 1 generation of hard working and smart life choices are enough to get out of poverty. 2 generations are enough to climb the pyramid.
    And, the people at the bottom of the capitalist pyramid are better off than people at the bottom on any other system. Poverty is our natural state, not the deviation caused by society.

  10. Re:Is it really capitalism then? on Fewer Than Half of Young Americans Are Positive About Capitalism (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Open market and less regulations would lower the prices. You can't have it both ways as regulations exclude new players.

  11. "peer", is science, insn't every random Joe, but another member of academia versed enough on your field to understand your paper. You could easily have a credit system, where users earn reputation for publishing and reviewing works but loss reputation for passing works with glaring errors. Once a work is published it can still be criticized by the public community with arguments on issues with the paper right next to the article (a'la wikipedia talk).

  12. Re: Rolling blackouts can fix it. on Hacked Water Heaters Could Trigger Mass Blackouts Someday (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    A lot of non renewable, expensive, power capacity is installed to tolerate consumption peaks. One 'smart' strategy to deal with is Demand Response, which basically translates to allow utilities to control your appliances to redistribute those consumption peaks in time. It's debatable how dumb is it to give up control of your devices in exchange of cheaper energy.

  13. Re:Enjoying too much freedom again? on Reddit Blocked In China (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Without modern technology they couldn't keep the people subjugated but modern technology makes it so much easier to squish the common man.

    20 years is not even a generation in the life of an empire, All that technology to squish the common man is there trying restrict the information flow that wouldn't otherwise be available without the technology on the first place. Censorship, so far, has always been a step behind.

  14. Re:Enjoying too much freedom again? on Reddit Blocked In China (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Will centralized authoritarian communistic-capitalism spread to nations

    We still don't know if it's sustainable. You can never conform people, they always want more. Eventually, the living standards of the average Chinese should be so high that they will start claiming ether more money or more freedom that the system can provide.

  15. Re:Legal documents on Malicious Faxes Leave Firms 'Open' To Cyber-Attack (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If only there was a technology that could validate the authenticity of a digital document. You know, like a signature at the bottom of paper document. We could call it digital signature.

  16. FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) would be enough for that.

  17. I don't get it. on Dropbox Is Dropping Support For All Linux File Systems Except Unencrypted Ext4 (dropboxforum.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Isn't dropbox sync a userland application? Why does it care about the underlying FS?

  18. Re:Um... you do know the USSR on Venezuelan President Survives Drone Assassination Attempt (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The historic facts make it clear that the race could have been much more close, however.

    Care to expand on that? The version I got is that URSS economy couldn't feed the country AND support the military machine that kept it together. How is that close to west success?

  19. Re:Design by committee on NASA's Space-Suit Drama Could Delay Our Trip To the Moon (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 0

    Yet you keep being friends with Israel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  20. Re:Go fork yourself! on Is Python the Future of Programming? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Python is capable of running multiple threads, and is still awesome for gluing together things.

  21. Re:It's great.... on Is Python the Future of Programming? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Python is getting traction on machine learning because of TensorFlow, which is bound to but not written in python. Data analytics where there is no strict time constraint can be done in python. Run, wait, some minutes, get the result.
    Heavy data crunching with strict time constraints, automation, HFT, weather forecasting, and big numeric simulations are done with low level languages.

  22. Re: Nah, 'diving' did that a long time ago. on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It isn't, formations are defined by player skills, and defensive formations need to adapt to the offensive strategy. Football is not as fast as Basketball, unlimited changes would result on "American Football" swapping between offensive and defensive teams, turning it into a completely different sport.
    Also stamina management is an important part of the strategy.

  23. I'm concerned with the privacy of this. Given that the ID is your phone number, an that's resolved to either a local/default nickname by the phone, such feature may have the consequence of spreading the phone number of the original sender without intention.

  24. Re:oh yeah, i always celebreate when... on Linux Foundation Celebrates Microsoft's GitHub Acquisition (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So they want to control Open Source.

    Please explain exactly how do you control open source when, by definition, opening a software means giving up the control over it.

  25. Re: oh yeah, i always celebreate when... on Linux Foundation Celebrates Microsoft's GitHub Acquisition (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What's the other risk? Open source software is open, you're just using github for hosting (and public reputation). The only thing the open source community should care about is that.
    If you're a private small software development company. It seems cheaper and more secure to outsource your repositories than managing the backups yourself.
    I don't see why you'd trust GitHub more than Atlassian but less than Microsoft, for mishandling your private code. I can't remember any scandal of Microsoft screwing with either, their cloud services or their corporate services.