Alternatively, you could put your computer in a tank of mineral oil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V06LLTNxc4
Millennials still watch sports and it's still pretty hard to watch sports without having your parent's cable service logins..
Have you tried https://play.pocketcasts.com/ ?
I've been frustrated with many free podcast apps so I paid for Pocket Casts and I've been happy since. I think it's a smart move by NPR et al. What they want is the usage data like where they pause, where they skip,…
I don't like using fingerprints because my fingerprint is literally left on the reader. Anybody with a scotch tape can get a copy of my fingerprint left on the reader or the screen. That's like writing down your…
I think what killed AIM, MSN, etc. was SMS. You had to meet your friends in person at school or be home in front of a computer to talk to your friends. With SMS you can talk to them anytime, anywhere. Then smartphones…
Here's a 2014 study of top 39 US CS programs on what language they user for their intro courses. More than half use Python, followed by Java. https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/176450-python-is-now-th...
I'm using unit cost here so it's easier to see how I personally feel about it. Just multiply the number by however many employees you want to imagine.
I'm just using the per user cost here. $6.67/user/mo is the standard plan price if you pay annually.
If Slack was down for 5 minutes in a month that will break the 99.99% SLA. If you pay $6.67/mo for Slack, 6.67 * (0.01%) * 100 = 0.07 Yea I'll rather have Slack for that 5 minutes than save my company 7 cents.
I'm not suggesting any theories. I'm just pointing out that Apple isn't really in a terrible position because of this news.
This might be a good scenario for Apple. Apple doesn't have to build a backdoor, which is good for PR, and the Feds got what they want to they'll stop bothering Apple. Which is the position Android/Google was in all…
One thought I had was that species evolved to maximize the survival of the species, not the individual organism. Once an organism is too old to reproduce or contribute to the survival of the species, it's probably…
Just anecdotal but all of my friends who majored in chemical engineering are somehow software engineers now..
How does one go about telling the DMV that your car is no longer in use because you sent it up to space on a rocket?
Who are the "wilfully accepting" people you speak of? I think most people aren't accepting nor rejecting anything. Someone is hungry and now they have food delivered. Someone doesn't have a job and now they have a…
I think the point of undergrad is to have as much exposure to relevant material in the field, so later in their professional life if something relevant comes up they'll at least remember that they learned about it and…
I've been wondering why Korean and English is so different and one obvious reason is geographical. If humans originated from Africa and spread East and West, Korea is pretty much at the Eastern end of the spectrum and…
This isn't something new. Scoop is already doing this and Lyft had carpool for a while before they shut it down.
Finding the origin of contents are already a challenge these days. A random idea I have is creating a blockchain where content creators can register their creations to prove their origin. Also, camera manufacturers can…
I agree with the gold comparison. Gold is priced far higher than it's industrial usefulness because it's seen as an value holding asset. The properties that make gold a good value holding asset is: 1. It's rare and…
Whatever inherent value gold has is far below it's current price though. If gold wasn't seen as an asset and was purely valued based on it's utility like iron and copper, it'll be priced far below the current price.
I don't think $1B is the transaction amount. In the last 24 hours, trade volume on GDAX(Coinbase's exchange) for Bitcoin alone was $247 million.[1] Their trade fees are around 0.25%[2] so in the last 24hr they made over…
Anything can have "value" if someone is willing to pay for it. The US dollar is just a piece of paper if nobody is willing to exchange anything for it. Cryptocurrency has value because some speculator is willing to pay…
There's a high demand in S.Korea (mostly FOMO) and it's a bit hard to transfer a large amount of money out of S.Korea for some legal reasons, which makes arbitraging hard.
Alternatively, you could put your computer in a tank of mineral oil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V06LLTNxc4
Millennials still watch sports and it's still pretty hard to watch sports without having your parent's cable service logins..
Have you tried https://play.pocketcasts.com/ ?
I've been frustrated with many free podcast apps so I paid for Pocket Casts and I've been happy since. I think it's a smart move by NPR et al. What they want is the usage data like where they pause, where they skip,…
I don't like using fingerprints because my fingerprint is literally left on the reader. Anybody with a scotch tape can get a copy of my fingerprint left on the reader or the screen. That's like writing down your…
I think what killed AIM, MSN, etc. was SMS. You had to meet your friends in person at school or be home in front of a computer to talk to your friends. With SMS you can talk to them anytime, anywhere. Then smartphones…
Here's a 2014 study of top 39 US CS programs on what language they user for their intro courses. More than half use Python, followed by Java. https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/176450-python-is-now-th...
I'm using unit cost here so it's easier to see how I personally feel about it. Just multiply the number by however many employees you want to imagine.
I'm just using the per user cost here. $6.67/user/mo is the standard plan price if you pay annually.
If Slack was down for 5 minutes in a month that will break the 99.99% SLA. If you pay $6.67/mo for Slack, 6.67 * (0.01%) * 100 = 0.07 Yea I'll rather have Slack for that 5 minutes than save my company 7 cents.
I'm not suggesting any theories. I'm just pointing out that Apple isn't really in a terrible position because of this news.
This might be a good scenario for Apple. Apple doesn't have to build a backdoor, which is good for PR, and the Feds got what they want to they'll stop bothering Apple. Which is the position Android/Google was in all…
One thought I had was that species evolved to maximize the survival of the species, not the individual organism. Once an organism is too old to reproduce or contribute to the survival of the species, it's probably…
Just anecdotal but all of my friends who majored in chemical engineering are somehow software engineers now..
How does one go about telling the DMV that your car is no longer in use because you sent it up to space on a rocket?
Who are the "wilfully accepting" people you speak of? I think most people aren't accepting nor rejecting anything. Someone is hungry and now they have food delivered. Someone doesn't have a job and now they have a…
I think the point of undergrad is to have as much exposure to relevant material in the field, so later in their professional life if something relevant comes up they'll at least remember that they learned about it and…
I've been wondering why Korean and English is so different and one obvious reason is geographical. If humans originated from Africa and spread East and West, Korea is pretty much at the Eastern end of the spectrum and…
This isn't something new. Scoop is already doing this and Lyft had carpool for a while before they shut it down.
Finding the origin of contents are already a challenge these days. A random idea I have is creating a blockchain where content creators can register their creations to prove their origin. Also, camera manufacturers can…
I agree with the gold comparison. Gold is priced far higher than it's industrial usefulness because it's seen as an value holding asset. The properties that make gold a good value holding asset is: 1. It's rare and…
Whatever inherent value gold has is far below it's current price though. If gold wasn't seen as an asset and was purely valued based on it's utility like iron and copper, it'll be priced far below the current price.
I don't think $1B is the transaction amount. In the last 24 hours, trade volume on GDAX(Coinbase's exchange) for Bitcoin alone was $247 million.[1] Their trade fees are around 0.25%[2] so in the last 24hr they made over…
Anything can have "value" if someone is willing to pay for it. The US dollar is just a piece of paper if nobody is willing to exchange anything for it. Cryptocurrency has value because some speculator is willing to pay…
There's a high demand in S.Korea (mostly FOMO) and it's a bit hard to transfer a large amount of money out of S.Korea for some legal reasons, which makes arbitraging hard.