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indeed, why anyone would want to be able to buy a house when getting paid a median salary of a professional full-time employee.

Sorry, can't access, I'm from sanctioned country

PCIE is slower than DRAM, so not having DRAM is not a performance improvement, but a hardware limitation reducing the scope of usability. Though it doesn't mean bad - cheaper to produce, serving its own use cases.

Process a stream of data - yes. Machine learning on large set of data - no.

That's how they score gov contracts - the safest and quickest way to get rich. And oh boy do governments love control

Can you go into some examples?

do you have children or worked with babies? they suck anything they can fit in mouth. The reflex of sucking is wired, yes, but not the object

same is true for Chrome Browser, open dev tools and select Network to "Offline"

Could you expand on your idea for those who are not bright enough to connect all the dots?

I can hardly believe Lockheed with Boeing investing into research over life in space research.

And then die slow death from NSA interrogation, great plan.

During week days I often pay attention to signs while I am walking/driving through to keep in mind if I will be able to park there on Saturday or Sunday. With these new signs - that would be impossible.

Disconnecting will not restore corrupted firmware. Once virus is there, disconnecting just prevents data transfer.

That would become advertising of a product then...

Also, one can easily reduce/remove Blue from any monitor using hardware settings alone.

If communism was such a terrible idea, China should have not succeeded for so long...

Other than that, I fully agree with you.

I doubt the government needs an app installed to track the traffic.

> Thing is: for technical people like us it's a no-brainer, stay the hell away.

Are you implying that technical people do not use iOS? Well, you might be surprised if you dig for some statistics.

Software contractor for Airbus and Rolls-royce here.

All safety critical software (every piece of code ran on-board is safety critical the least) in aerospace needs to pass the DO-178 standard [1].

That is far more serious than standard unit tests you are used to in node.js applications. Generally speaking, to develop a piece of code under that standard it takes 20% of time to write the code, and 80% to testing, and enormous amount of documentation (that is optimistic estimation, usually worse).

Quoting speaker from DO-178 training course I attended:

   People often ask us. "How do we know the standard works?"
   We give this answer: "We do not know. But there have been zero crashes due to software issues since introduction"

If this crash confirms the cause to be a software bug, that is something much bigger than an airplane crash - a huge punch to the whole federal aviation administration.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178B

I am not defending Facebook. My comment was addressed to parent's post, which was generalizing all corporations as a purely evil-doing organizations.

On the other hand, I agree that we are going to see some awful things as a result of internet.org activities.

Did Ford harm America for wanting more money? Why assume corporation = harm? Their end goal is money, not harm. Unless you prove me that money is harm is universally true.

> But for others, it is absolutely a service issue

Absolutely? So if the price was $50 per movie, $100, or $1000?

There has to be the balance in next equation:

Affordability + ease of obtain versus feeling of guilt for pirating.

If there is no feel of guilt, little can be done, example: Russians pirating everything, and they are not as poor as you might perceive.

Ludicrous price? Oh to heck it will be pirated even by Americans.

Ease of obtain - at least we are not arguing over this (now) obvious fact.

No company was acquired for its "backend".

I would not hurry up blaming the prices.

We can have a look at USA with probably the most expensive internet / mobile plans and worst internet (excluding undeveloped countries). On the other hand, there are many emerging EU countries like Lithuania, where you can get stable 4G across a country for 5 eur/month.

There is. Worst case is 100% conversion of maximum power consumption to the heat. With 2W processor, you can safely assume overheating will not be an issue.

Other question would be whether processor is powerful enough to handle Windows 10 desktop applications (I am not talking about games, but even Skype is CPU hungry nowadays)

Network Performance: d2.xlarge - Moderate, d2.2xlarge - High, d2.4xlarge - High.

This ambiguity alone is the reason I and probably others will look elsewhere.

Alternatively, not giving the money to majority, yet producing enough food for everybody will drive prices to zero.

Reusing one's functionality is amazing, but not always the best solution.

The example you gave is exactly this: imagine if your web-browser would create new windows instead of tabs. Why? Well, it would just let OS manage the tabs, afterall that is the main functionality of the Operating System.

Hardly everyone wants their vim to create a bunch of tmux windows messing up their workflow: constantly changing IDs of tmux windows; slow navigation between vim files as user now has to open ID 15 (tmux); mixed order... Oh that sounds as bad as seeing all your open websites in Meta/Alt+Tab.

So please, do not speak for everyone with arguments "vim shouldn't have its own window functionality".

It would be nice to find and share if React infringes any of the patents.

Are the courses suitable for the professionals who want to become freelancers?

Thank you for sharing, I have signed in.

Yes, I missed the SF entry too.. Though, it will very likely be on par with NYC.

Then master yourself, you are not 81 with a terminal cancer here.

But BitCoin community is against abusing the financial block-chain for general purpose [0]. Reducing bloat is good, but why bloat it in first place?

[0] - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Alternative_chain#Objective