I think the Martian was adapted well from book to movie, so I have hope for this one. That said, compressing the entire story into a theatre runtime is tricky: I think it would be a win if only half of the character and…
In the market for internet service, Starlink is a disruptor to existing ISPs. Especially for those servicing rural areas. I don't understand a reflexive reach to encumber a nascent business model with additional…
Popular with whom? Newtonian physics is 'popular' because it is easy to grasp with a high school education. Likewise, the theories of the early David Ricardo era are easy to understand, maybe popular, but not current…
I took gp's use of "opera" to describe an inclusive, wide range of genres that feature human relationships, like space operas. There's definitely mass appeal (think of Star Wars alone.)
> you do kind of root for him in the end I'm rooting for him too. He doesn't have all the qualities of a classic protagonist, yet I find myself hoping that he succeeds in his madcap endeavors. I admire his grit: I would…
I believe OAuth is working as expected. It provides valid authentication/identity for email addresses because "user@domain" and "user+wildcard@domain" are still validated as email addresses "owned" by the user. The…
I'm curious what part of ICANN's mandate is a failure. My understanding is that introducing new TLDs was part of it. > 7. The Creation of New gTLDs. The Green Paper suggested that during the period of transition to the…
Ah, yes, you are absolutely correct. The _clever form of one_ trick did not apply as often as I recalled!
In my limited math experience, I really found an appreciation of the number one. My favorite part of high school algebra was realizing that "solving for x" was often just a repeated exercise of multiplying each side of…
> It reads like someone had a bad experience with a PM who thought they were Steve Jobs. I had the opposite understanding about the article. Steve Jobs was an extraordinary leader who through immense will power created…
According to the book Breath by James Nestor, humans did not always have wisdom teeth problems: today, modern humans have small jaws because, during our youth, we spend less time chewing our food, so the muscles and…
I think ICANN would not entertain a startup taking over registry operations for .com or .net. ICANN recently defended their no-bid contract renewal for .net with Verisign: > If ICANN were to put every TLD out for bid…
> how is it so much cheaper Porkbun doesn't make money when you buy a domain name, but they may make money when you do not renew it: > At about 21 days into the Auto-Renew Grace Period, the expired domain will be…
You can quickly go offline via dev tools. In Chrome, it's very simple[0]. [0] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/network/reference...
My main takeaway from Bostrom's Superintelligence is that a super intelligent AI cannot be contained. So, the slippery slope argument, often derided as a bad form of logic, kind of holds up here.
I completely agree that's a valid argument. I just think it is rational for someone to come to a different conclusion, given identical priors.
Yeah, it's explicitly disallowed by ICANN to register a domain with this unicode character (along with numerous other characters): https://www.verisign.com/assets/icannrestricted/idn-icann-re...
Thanks for sharing - I didn't know about OpenNIC. It looks like an alternative to ICANN where the key distinguishing trait is that TLDs and domain names are awarded with a landrush model (whoever claims it first owns…
> Less jobs is not necessarily a good thing ? The rollout of the lightbulb significantly reduced the economic potential of candlemakers, but it improved the quality of life for society overall. So, whether technological…
I understand that you are being poetic, but just in case someone reads this as fact: you are describing a dedicated circuit - which is what telephones used. The internet works on packet switching, so there are numerous…
> Most waiters/waitresses are payed below minimum wage and make up the difference with tips. It's slightly more complicated: hourly wage is the greater of ($3 + tips) or (standard minimum wage). So, the effective…
> ...dns verification proves you temporarily control name resolution relative to a viewer. > Both are trivially hacked, multiple ways. I'm genuinely curious how it is trivial to "control [authoritative] name resolution…
> good chunk of the republicans are honest to god libertarians This is key: Colorado has far more libertarian-conservatives than social-conservatives. It comes from the Western ideal of "pull yourself up by your own…
> this particular instance I’m thinking of full reserve banking (deposit banks turn back into glorified vaults), print central money for mortgages (and burn that money when it’s paid back), and democratically (with…
> That’s the thing though, they could lend out and pay interest on “savings” with the understanding that the money might not be immediately available for withdrawal as it’s “in the wild”. Those are Certificates of…
I think the Martian was adapted well from book to movie, so I have hope for this one. That said, compressing the entire story into a theatre runtime is tricky: I think it would be a win if only half of the character and…
In the market for internet service, Starlink is a disruptor to existing ISPs. Especially for those servicing rural areas. I don't understand a reflexive reach to encumber a nascent business model with additional…
Popular with whom? Newtonian physics is 'popular' because it is easy to grasp with a high school education. Likewise, the theories of the early David Ricardo era are easy to understand, maybe popular, but not current…
I took gp's use of "opera" to describe an inclusive, wide range of genres that feature human relationships, like space operas. There's definitely mass appeal (think of Star Wars alone.)
> you do kind of root for him in the end I'm rooting for him too. He doesn't have all the qualities of a classic protagonist, yet I find myself hoping that he succeeds in his madcap endeavors. I admire his grit: I would…
I believe OAuth is working as expected. It provides valid authentication/identity for email addresses because "user@domain" and "user+wildcard@domain" are still validated as email addresses "owned" by the user. The…
I'm curious what part of ICANN's mandate is a failure. My understanding is that introducing new TLDs was part of it. > 7. The Creation of New gTLDs. The Green Paper suggested that during the period of transition to the…
Ah, yes, you are absolutely correct. The _clever form of one_ trick did not apply as often as I recalled!
In my limited math experience, I really found an appreciation of the number one. My favorite part of high school algebra was realizing that "solving for x" was often just a repeated exercise of multiplying each side of…
> It reads like someone had a bad experience with a PM who thought they were Steve Jobs. I had the opposite understanding about the article. Steve Jobs was an extraordinary leader who through immense will power created…
According to the book Breath by James Nestor, humans did not always have wisdom teeth problems: today, modern humans have small jaws because, during our youth, we spend less time chewing our food, so the muscles and…
I think ICANN would not entertain a startup taking over registry operations for .com or .net. ICANN recently defended their no-bid contract renewal for .net with Verisign: > If ICANN were to put every TLD out for bid…
> how is it so much cheaper Porkbun doesn't make money when you buy a domain name, but they may make money when you do not renew it: > At about 21 days into the Auto-Renew Grace Period, the expired domain will be…
You can quickly go offline via dev tools. In Chrome, it's very simple[0]. [0] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/network/reference...
My main takeaway from Bostrom's Superintelligence is that a super intelligent AI cannot be contained. So, the slippery slope argument, often derided as a bad form of logic, kind of holds up here.
I completely agree that's a valid argument. I just think it is rational for someone to come to a different conclusion, given identical priors.
Yeah, it's explicitly disallowed by ICANN to register a domain with this unicode character (along with numerous other characters): https://www.verisign.com/assets/icannrestricted/idn-icann-re...
Thanks for sharing - I didn't know about OpenNIC. It looks like an alternative to ICANN where the key distinguishing trait is that TLDs and domain names are awarded with a landrush model (whoever claims it first owns…
> Less jobs is not necessarily a good thing ? The rollout of the lightbulb significantly reduced the economic potential of candlemakers, but it improved the quality of life for society overall. So, whether technological…
I understand that you are being poetic, but just in case someone reads this as fact: you are describing a dedicated circuit - which is what telephones used. The internet works on packet switching, so there are numerous…
> Most waiters/waitresses are payed below minimum wage and make up the difference with tips. It's slightly more complicated: hourly wage is the greater of ($3 + tips) or (standard minimum wage). So, the effective…
> ...dns verification proves you temporarily control name resolution relative to a viewer. > Both are trivially hacked, multiple ways. I'm genuinely curious how it is trivial to "control [authoritative] name resolution…
> good chunk of the republicans are honest to god libertarians This is key: Colorado has far more libertarian-conservatives than social-conservatives. It comes from the Western ideal of "pull yourself up by your own…
> this particular instance I’m thinking of full reserve banking (deposit banks turn back into glorified vaults), print central money for mortgages (and burn that money when it’s paid back), and democratically (with…
> That’s the thing though, they could lend out and pay interest on “savings” with the understanding that the money might not be immediately available for withdrawal as it’s “in the wild”. Those are Certificates of…