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Caprinicus··on Show HN: Pytrader – trade cryoptocurrencies automatically with machine learning
Think about it this way though. If it was profitable to pay amazon to do it even with them taking their cut, it would be much more profitable for them to do it themselves. If it was more profitable than renting out the performance to other people, it would be the lowest hanging fruit by default.

This isn't hypothetical, the CPU mined coins aren't close to profitable with web services. And the people making profitable ASICs are using them rather than selling them because it's intrinsically more profitable.

Caprinicus··on Show HN: Pytrader – trade cryoptocurrencies automatically with machine learning
If it was profitable to mine with AWS, why wouldn't amazon be doing it themselves?
Caprinicus··on Launching the Electronic Frontier Alliance
The people in that subreddit didn't understand how things like encryption and TOR worked last time I was there.
Caprinicus··on Dear Apple, there’s nothing ‘really sad’ about using a 5-year-old PC
Unless he's on AMD and the processor upgrade was very minor, he almost certainly did.

It's odd when people say "my computer is a decade old and I've only had to replace every single part multiple times over look at how green I'm being". It's the exact same thing as buying a new computer a couple times, just in smaller increments and with parts that are less likely to be recycled on their own.

Caprinicus··on iPhone SE
The reason the 6 breaks so easily is because it can really easily fall directly on the glass. There is a little thin hard rim around the glass on every other iphone, whereas the 6 glass wraps around the side.
Caprinicus··on Spike Lee Shares His NYU Teaching List of Essential Films
You don't have to change your lists because people complain. People complain about everything.
Caprinicus··on PlayStation VR Will Arrive in October for $399
They're aiming for rendering at 60hz from what I can tell. Graphics will still have to take a hit to meet that, but not quite as badly.
Caprinicus··on PlayStation VR Will Arrive in October for $399
So you're saying we can't tie physics to the framrate?
Caprinicus··on ​Apple gets smacked by $450M e-book price-fixing fine
If you have a higher than market price, then other players can come in and disrupt your monopoly. If you are selling stuff at a loss to drive other players out of the market, then it is impossible for a new player to get off the ground. The definition has more to do with what is in the long term detrimental to the market's diversity.
Caprinicus··on Answers to your questions about Apple and security
> There's the other "but with this, we'll have to do a bunch of phones" argument... is there a term for being overburdened with writs from the court?

Yes, it is called "burdensome". It very well may be ruled too burdensome for them to unlock one specific phone, let alone all the others that have piled up. That is where the case was as of a couple days ago, with apple being asked by the court whether the request would be too unreasonably burdensome for them to comply.

Caprinicus··on Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
Right, but I think it's still important to note because the user experience has gotten worse even if it is still the best.
Caprinicus··on Project Natick: Microsoft's Underwater Data Center
It's probably more of an exercise than anything else

I imagine it would be better for maintenance to use the seawater to cool the coolant itself, that way they aren't pumping salt into their datacenter.

Caprinicus··on CIA planned rendition operation to kidnap Edward Snowden
They could do it, it would absolutely destroy our geopolitical relations with important countries in the process, which is hopefully why they didn't try.
Caprinicus··on Italian neurosurgeon appeals to billionaires to fund first human head transplant
This probably won't be either. If we knew how to do that, we would have tried it on an animal successfully first.
Caprinicus··on World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days
A better example would be ( vs ), checking neighboring pixels to weight that pixel correctly.
Caprinicus··on Apple May Be Using Congo Cobalt Mined by Children, Amnesty Says
>It does work, for example foxconn has accelerated its move towards replacing employees by robots under public pressure.

I'm sure the nearby villages, where there is very little otherwise accessible employment, are glad that they were replaced by robots.

Caprinicus··on How Police Officers Seize Cash from Innocent Americans
How about if you are shot or beaten up by a black man (or any color person), you can shoot back, fight back, or get them charged with a crime?
Caprinicus··on Tesla Model S can now park itself
Nobody seems to have considered the possibility of actually driverless cars. Would not be remotely legal, but interesting to consider them just aimlessly driving city streets or looking for parking that it will never find.
Caprinicus··on Economic Inequality
It's flawed logic because people only look at the reward end of the risk reward equation, even if the reward is potentially still higher nobody would bother instead of just taking a regular low risk job.
Caprinicus··on Over 50, Female and Jobless
If the 50 year old has the same amount of experience that the 25 year old has, they have been doing something seriously wrong. That is reality, if people want to keep working at a given position they need to constantly develop and improve to remain competitive, all else should not be equal when the older candidate has been working for 25 extra years.
Caprinicus··on Spotify Hit with $150M Class Action Over Unpaid Royalties
Then he must sue himself
Caprinicus··on Steam: Seeing other people's accounts when logged in
That's great jay but what we're really looking for is people who can design hats
Caprinicus··on TSA can now force you to go through body scanners [pdf]
Even bringing a literal gun onto a plane wouldn't help someone hijack it now. The only reason 9/11 worked was because the threat of it happening was unheard of, now everyone would swarm them before they had a chance of getting anywhere near the locked cockpit
Caprinicus··on Soundproofing for New York Noise
You only ever hear about people who run away from cops badly. Motorcycles are usually long gone before the police have a chance to call a helicopter, which they would be able to outrun anyways if they were on a straight road.

To be clear though I don't think that's the reason loudness isn't enforced. I imagine it more has to do with the fact that they aren't watching for it since they don't have any way to easily test it like speed.

Caprinicus··on Big IPO, Tiny Payout for Many Startup Workers
I write in a language hackertyper.com
Caprinicus··on Scientists may have solved a mystery about sea-level rise
Probably "I don't need a vaccine"
Caprinicus··on Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, laser-cut Stainless Steel
Seems like they have much smaller limits on part size compared to big blue saw. Seems like they are mostly targetting hobbyist/art stuff. 300mmx300mm is too large a limitation for bulk work.
Caprinicus··on This Is Not a Day Care. It’s a University
There is a difference between the legal right and the principle.
Caprinicus··on When is a ‘travel hack’ unethical?
Since when is trying to get the best deal immoral? Airlines try to get as much money as they can from their customers, and their customers are rightfully going to do the same to them.
Caprinicus··on AMD Open Source Driver Supports Latest GPUS
Nothing inherent to gameworks, rather when devs implement gameworks nvidia is prone to asking them to turn up features that will hurt AMD and older nvidia cards without any increase in performance. With the fallout 4 example the ray lighting, in other games it's unnecessary tessellation. Nvidia has even asked devs to disable features that don't negatively impact nvidia, but positively impact AMD like async compute.

It's easy for nvidia users to see these practices as okay because they are only hurting other people, but given a new generation of cards these measures will be leveled against them too until they upgrade. Nvidia has no qualms about fucking over their own customers so long as it fucks over amd customers more.

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