stephengillie

> Every resident and employee will have what amounts to an Ethereum address, which they will use to vote on local measures and store their personal data.

Maybe repurpose the pods to hold ETH mining gear?

But you've caught me. I obviously don't know what I'm talking about. Congratulations, CyberDildonics, you've won HN today!

They could have combined their similar goals and pooled their money.

Similar article, 190+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18352506

Subtitle tells the whole story:

> A man spent millions on an enormous plot of land near Reno. Now he wants to build a community based on the blockchain technology introduced by Bitcoin.

He could have joined up with the Bitcoin mining group in Wenatchee WA, where they spent millions building custom "mining pods" to house the ASICs.

> After all, if someone knows (or thinks) that they’re getting a great big helping of medicine, they might act in various ways—whether consciously or unconsciously—that have the effect of generating positive health outcomes but which have nothing to do with the intervention itself.

That sounds strangely like the Hawthorne Effect[∆].

[∆]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect

Collecting the rounding leftovers into another bank account was the plot of Office Space.

Bit of a typo in the title. Original: Advantages of Using R Notebooks For Data Analysis Instead of Jupyter Notebooks

NFL and other leagues have streaming on their own sites now. NFL is $75/year for all games on-demand.

> Astronomers call it Sagittarius A* (pronounced “A-star”).

Why do astronomers call the black hole "A Star" when they know better than anyone else that it's not a star, but a black hole?

Why don't we call it "Sagittarius A-black hole"?

If web browsers could interpret another language, would you make the same argument against it?

Last year, I wrote a small single-page app engine that takes a JSON representation of HTML, and writes it to the DOM to build the page in the browser. The entire app is described in one JSON document, so it's quick to download and needs no network to change pages. I'm slowly starting to develop it again. The demo site is still up (with a SPA builder) at https://sparational.com and you're welcome to suggest any improvements.

We need an internet of firewalls. I dislike tech legislation, but sometimes I think all networked devices should be required to have an internal firewall.

Sorry

I haven't worked with arrays for years. Sorry for the mistakes.

Musk missed, and his car is headed for the asteroid belt instead of Mars.

If we send a Voyager-sized probe to Alpha/Beta Centauri, could we use a similar gravity assist to slingshot around one of the stars?

How good is our aim across 4.4 light years?

I get RAID 01 and 10 mixed up all the time. These names are too similar. Please understand that I meant the better of the 2.

Multiple "0" drives can be added for further redundancy.

Do other manufacturers produce this size of drive? It's difficult to source from 3 vendors if there's only one making the product.

Powershell has Compare-Object, which will diff .NET objects. It has the convenient alias "diff". JSON can be converted to .NET objects by ConvertFrom-JSON.

So you can import 2 JSON files and diff them in Powershell.

This is one reason why RAID 0+1 is a best practice, and RAID 5 & 6 are no longer recommended. It takes too long to rebuild the array, leading to a multi-failed disk situation.

Diffing JSON as text must be painful. Diffing JSON as data should be somewhat simple.

You're thinking of the 35th Rule of Acquisition - Peace is good for business.

I recently got a Jupyter Notebook, and found it's a large JSON document, with some sections in markdown and some in Python. A browser could omit the Python, and an interpreter could omit the markdown.

Would this work for other languages? Maybe JavaScript or Powershell instead of Python?

Is the USGS too small to require firewalls that block obviously NSFW websites? At my workplace, going to such sites bring up a page saying the request was blocked before it left the corporate network.

War is good for business - 34th Rule of Acquisition (Ferengi, Star Trek)

Most countries are already below the replacement rate. America fell below 2 children per couple in the 1970s, and it's only through immigration that our population bubble continues to inflate.

At one point, there were hundreds of thousands (millions?) of horses in the world, owned as transportation vehicles. Then the horseless carriage was invented, and now horses are somewhat rare.

The same could happen to humanity, if AI and general purpose robots become viably robust.

Just like astronauts.

How did the quantum mechanic fix the car so fast? It's like her wrench was in 2 places at once!