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baseballmerpeakon Why Elephants Don’t Explode: How Nature Solves Bigness

This is explains a lot about the stature of elite marathoners: less volume per square area.

baseballmerpeakon Teen Boy Will Be Charged as Adult for Having Naked Pics of a Minor: Himself

He is the perpetrator and the victim in this case...apparently.

baseballmerpeakon Tech’s Enduring Great-Man Myth

He is succeeding where others are dropping like flies (looking at you, Solyndra).

baseballmerpeakon My Brother's Keeper

You just can't wrap your head around it otherwise. The logical struggle at understanding the illogical.

baseballmerpeakon Court: Feds Can't Just Grab Someone's Laptop at the Border

I agree. The government is terrible about doing first and then asking the courts for forgiveness, er, permission,

baseballmerpeakon Corn Wars

Fashion shows for the latest designer genes

baseballmerpeakon Morgan Stanley: Tesla is ready to 'dominate' the auto industry

It really sounds like MS is trying to justify their ownership/outlook on $TSLA. How many more times do they have to write this before it becomes true?

baseballmerpeakon The Toddler at Y Combinator

Whatever it takes for success. And pg is a genuinely nice fellow.

baseballmerpeakon US Patent 9085897: Space elevator

They used to. Patent models were required from 1790 to 1880.

baseballmerpeakon The Teflon Toxin

Ford Motor Company Management 101

baseballmerpeakon “Stop reverse engineering our code”

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baseballmerpeakon “Stop reverse engineering our code”

404 Error now

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baseballmerpeakon How yuppies hacked the hacker ethos

Go home, yuppies.

The last few paragraphs bring it home: hacking is being subverted as a tool of the establishment and no longer, in common use, means working against the establishment.

baseballmerpeakon The New Science of Sentencing

I thought Minority Report was just a movie...

baseballmerpeakon A conversation with Google’s in-house philosopher

Don't be too evil

baseballmerpeakon On rump kernels and the Rumprun unikernel

Yes, the rump (of the) kernel.

baseballmerpeakon On rump kernels and the Rumprun unikernel

"An anykernel can be instantiated into units which virtualize the bare minimum support functionality for kernel drivers. We call these virtualized kernel instances rump kernels since they retain only a part of the original kernel."

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baseballmerpeakon Change Data Capture: The Magic Wand We Forgot

Essentially, one database to rule them all?

baseballmerpeakon NSA tried Stuxnet cyber-attack on North Korea five years ago but failed

Exactly, it's just another card in the deck to play as needed.

baseballmerpeakon Russia Just Hacked into the Pentagon’s Email System

Russia Just Found a Neglected Weakness of the Pentagon's Nonclassified Email System

baseballmerpeakon Programming excuses

What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?

baseballmerpeakon Why Ice Delays Recovery

Yes, increased blood flow is integral to recovery. Ice slows that down. However, icing is not categorically bad. 10 minutes in an ice bath does wonders at helping to dispatch the lactic acid accumulated during a long event.

baseballmerpeakon Do Open Source Software Developers Listen to Their Users?

Unless it is directly related to functionality, no.

baseballmerpeakon Design Documentaries

I counted the ones that I had seen. Then counted the ones I hadn't.

baseballmerpeakon Hacker Turns Secure Computers into Secret-Spewing Radios

Mind-blowingly outside the box. Network isolation is not enough. Wow.

baseballmerpeakon What We Got Wrong About Self-Management: Embracing Natural Hierarchy

I think they lost sight of the fact that mentorship != management. Increased mentorship would have made their flat concept a more tenable solution.

baseballmerpeakon An Oakland shooting reveals how cops snoop on cell phones

Let unconstitutionally acquired exidence stand?

No, let's not let the abuses of a government stand, as we should also go after its agents.

baseballmerpeakon Eating Spicy Food Linked to a Longer Life

Remember, risk of death still sits at 100%.

baseballmerpeakon 3-D Printer Firms Fall Flat, as Buyers Wait for New Models

The charade is up: 3D printers are not the design panacea they were claimed to be.