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fezzon How Secure Channels Attempted to Intimidate a Critic and Failed Spectacularly

It seemed like a good way to frame her but incompetence is a more likely reason.

fezzon Ask HN: Are 4K monitors worth it?

Very much so if the monitor is larger than 36" and not too large. 60Hz is a must have.

fezzon McLaren F1 Tech Applied to Other Industries

Seemingly a puff piece on McLaren...

fezzon Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice

It's all to easy for nice founders to turn into full blown sociopaths. Maintaining empathy, integrity, and balance takes alot of work once things grow (or fail).

fezzon Ashley Madison founder steps down

Dating sites like OkCupid, Match, and Tinder (yes, it's used for dating alot) have a decent balance.

Yoga, Tennis, Beach Volleyball all have a high percentage of women. And whole foods...

fezzon The NASA Design Program (2011)

more: http://www.grapheine.com/typographie/logo-de-la-nasa

fezzon Ask HN: Has anyone else noticed Stack Overflow clones in Google search results?

That or use the SO docset in Dash or StackStash https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/stackstash-stackoverflow-off...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7932477

fezzon Stop Universities from Hoarding Money

1225% tuition increase since 1978 CPI was 279%

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-08-18/college-tu...

fezzon Multiscale Gigapixel Camera

The quality seems to be way less than a gigapixel. It would be interesting to see a corresponding dslr gigapixel image.

The ball optic is very interesting though.

fezzon Saving 25,000 Manuals

Old manuals are also great for showing prior art agains patent trolls.

fezzon Capitalists, Arise: We Need to Deal With Income Inequality

It also created a larger market for hugely expensive cars and other luxury items. The 1970's had a 70% tax for the richest. In 1982, that dropped to 50% and coincidently was when the boom in excess really got started.

fezzon Samsung unveils 2.5-inch 16TB SSD

LTO-7 is 6.4TB uncompressed. LTO-10 is 48TB.

Hopefully we'll see LTO-7 this year but probably in 2016. That puts the diff between LTO6 and LTO7 at 4 years.

Extrapolating... LTO8 in 2020 LTO9 in 2024 LTO10 in 2028

LTO-10 would have ideally come in 2020 in keeping with LTO's earlier pace of 2 years per revision which is also more in line with storage increases

fezzon Indian immigrants are tech's new titans

This is something more common to 1st generation immigrants. Although often true for 1st gen immigrants from India...

The driving factors for taking a big risk and ditching the expected norms are similar to taking risks and rebelling. Couple that with a strong emphasis on success and business and you have something that works well in the tech industry.

fezzon When running for exercise was for weirdos

The Tarahumara indian long distance runners ran for communication and also had a tradition of running for ceremonial and competitive aspects.

fezzon Skipping breakfast might help you lose weight

Also look at a caloric intake / use over a larger moving window. The notion that our body functions on a daily unit of time is artificial. If you look at a larger window, managing a diet becomes easier.

fezzon The pressure to achieve academically is a crime against learning

Learning, understanding & doing: real value for self Testing: external value for others

The latter is useless in both the real world and for the student. Tests/grades aren't the only way to show progress.

(disclaimer: dad homeschooling a kid)

fezzon When running for exercise was for weirdos

I run barefoot all the time on the beach, at the water line when the tide is lower so it's nice and flat and you can see surface well.

I have no problems with my shins and knees since I'm running mostly mid to slightly forefoot strikes. The forefoot absorbs the shock rather than pounding the knee and hip with a direct impact. When I run with shoes on pavement, I get some knee and hip issues, especially if I don't pay attention to my foot strikes with respect to changing pavement.

fezzon When running for exercise was for weirdos

No mention of native americans, south americans, africans, etc that were all running for a long time...

fezzon Thunderbolt 3 Overview [pdf]

TB3 being tied into USB-C means more possibilities on the consumer side if they price it right.

TB1/2 were weak in many respects but pricing and adoption were the main ones.

fezzon Thunderbolt 3 Overview [pdf]

The new xeon for laptops will have TB3.

fezzon Classical music generation with recurrent neural networks

Oddly enough it has the characteristics of bad jazz, like prono music but classical.

fezzon TrueCrypt 'decrypted' by FBI to nail doc-stealing sysadmin?

Question: how likely is it that they could reverse out a segment (using a known stolen file) that matches a section in the truecrypt image by brute force?

fezzon Fry's Electronics owns and operates a rare 747SP

http://www.747sp.com

operators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boeing_747_operators

fezzon Eating Spicy Food Linked to a Longer Life

If I go too hot or if I'm making a really hot hot sauce, I'll go for citrus. The acid counters down the oils and help faster. In the sauce, it balances things. Same for pineapple.

fezzon Eating Spicy Food Linked to a Longer Life

The spicier the food, the more water you drink (maybe).

There's also the link to certain spices (like chili peppers) that are highly anti-inflammatory.

Personally, the more spicy food I eat, the more I have dessert.

fezzon Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse”

"The next best thing"

You're either someone's option right now until the next better option comes along or you yourself are doing that to someone else.

Tinder amplifies being "next best". You're never "the best" option and the best option for you becomes elusive.

It's the uncanny valley of dating.

fezzon The Hacker News New Page Scroll of Death and Some Possible Solutions

I would just fold it it without putting it into a new box. It'll be more organic that way and you'd be able to tell if it's new by upvotes anyway.

fezzon How baseball’s tech team built HBO Now

fezzon How I Gave Up Alternating Current

Agreed on the shifting the consumption down the line. However, the primary energy advantage of Uber-like car services is that it reduces the high cost of energy to produce a car by reducing the pool of cars through optimizing their use (meaning, instead of a majority of cars sitting around doing nothing, using a pool of cars working most of the time would mean fewer cars needed overall). If all cars end up being full time service vehicles (through self driving?), one car would hopefully be able to service 20 people and replace all those cars. If the carbon foot print of gas/electric consumption is 12% of a car's total (the rest going to manufacture), then moving to a full shared service model would be a huge gain (and loss of the auto industry)

fezzon How I Gave Up Alternating Current

And in the big picture, the clothes have to get washed again so he's simply shifting the energy consumption onto the next users.