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Re:We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @12:47PM (#18544624)
This would be more credible coming from shareholders rather than employees.
Re:Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M on Monday January 09, 2017 @11:06PM (#13362478)
Goliath Acquired David
Re:Blockchain Technology and the Law Are Allies, Not Enemies on Sunday December 11, 2016 @11:52AM (#13151865)
They are precisely incompatible because Blockchains are all about programmatic, self-enforcing arbitration. In a correctly-functioning Blockchain, there is no entry-point for non-permissioned humans to meddle with outcomes. This is not a bug but a feature.

Ethereum keeps hard-forking and has thereby undermined its legitimacy. The premise that code is law is central to Blockchains. The necessary corollary is that human-law is irrelevant within the space of outcomes on the Blockchain.

In Bitcoin, no human court can prohibit a transaction from going through, or being valid. Bitcoins cannot be confiscated by fiat. Full stop. Blockchains were designed to create a purer, more mechanical and reliable arbitration than the courts can give.

1nm carbon nanotubes... I doubt these can be produced at macroscopic scale.

Moreover the difference between 1.05 and 1.06 nm drastically affected freezing point. I don't think these can be built, en masse, to such precision.

Sorry but if Microsoft is doing it.... it's probably not going to be great.
Re:Shape-programmable magnetic soft matter on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @10:37PM (#12595021)
People don't even understand how important materials science is. All they think about is digital/hype technologies.
The country is simply too large to physically secure everything.

We'd have to become a police state to even begin to protect every potentially sensitive area. You can kill people with almost everything and it is infeasible to prevent it altogether by force of arms.

Should the state really presume to sway cultural trends? It seems strikingly arrogant and likely to be counterproductive.
Re:Python by the C side on Sunday September 25, 2016 @02:35AM (#12574271)
Cython is really fantastic. It makes you realize that there is often not a huge reason to leave Python if that's what you are comfortable with. The community has simply produced so much.
Re:House Passes Employee Stock Options Bill Aimed at Startups on Friday September 23, 2016 @09:17PM (#12568993)
Log is often used because it makes linear proportional returns. It makes the most sense when gains are considered derived from the principal, ie proportional returns from capital. See an example below.

As others have mentioned, maximizing log is equivalent to maximizing the underlying.

But when considering returns on accruing capital, a 20% loss is much worse than a 20% gain is good, and similarly a 100% gain is much less good than a 100% loss is bad. This is correctly captured by taking the log. In the case where money is simply accrued from some external source, and their is no proportional return, log isn't necessary.

I don't think that is evident at all. Clear writing will resonate with the reader far more than hackneyed, pretentious constructions.

Many of the best communicators in history successfully employed "simpler" verbal constructions than those Orwell rails against.

Re: We'll guess your brain's political ideology on Sunday July 31, 2016 @01:58AM (#12195915)
My experience also

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