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utopian3··on The internet needs our love
Ironic. This page has an embedded YouTube link where YouTube slapped me with a captcha response.Ironic given the content.
utopian3··on The Grand Design (2010)
> principles of science and logic as far as we're "aware" apply "outside" of the "human experience"

On the contrary if you take a critical thinking course, you'll see that your logic does apply to the human experience

utopian3··on Unusual Maps
I've seen this map several times, but never really looked at it closely. What a devastating march!
utopian3··on Autonomous Rust Unikernels in Google Cloud
What does autonomous mean in this context?
utopian3··on Paging Dr. Google: How the Tech Giant Is Laying Claim to Health Data
Article is paywalled. If someone can see it: is the premise that Google is harvesting patient data for their own AI/ML healthcare projects' benefit? Or is this just cloud storage (Cerner putting objects in a bucket)? Or both...
utopian3··on Boeing employees mocked FAA in internal messages before 737 Max disasters
I mean, I have already flown on them dozens of times prior to the catastrophic events, so I’m not really opposed to boarding them again after recertification.

Then again, it’s not clear to me what else they “covered up” or issues that this new article is focused on. I’d be happy for the FAA to delay them further and get to the bottom of this.

utopian3··on Tasmania is burning (2019)
> Today Tasmania is burning. Its fires are so large that a firefighting team was reportedly called out in New Zealand to investigate a heavy smoke haze that turned out to have drifted across 2,500km of ocean from the Tasmanian fires. Firefighters are confronted with 1,629km of fire front, with fires having consumed 190,000 hectares, or 3% of Tasmania’s land, with authorities warning there is no sign of the fires abating for several weeks, and the potential for catastrophic consequences still a distinct possibility.

Geez. Tasmania is beautiful, and that sole island contains many of Australia's national parks. EDIT: Hmm, this article is from Feb 2019

utopian3··on Things that I think will be important in the next decade
> It also needs to be actually decentralized, the way the web and Internet are.

The more you look at the web/Internet, you’ll notice it’s not as decentralized as most people believe

utopian3··on Show HN: Ilograph – interactive architecture diagrams as code
Hi veuxdo, this is a really cool project! Do you have an open source project for the code? Curious what you built this with and whether I can contribute to the code..
utopian3··on Using the hunger I experienced as a kid to teach mine about generosity (2019)
Sounds like you can also seek out that manager and properly thank him over a meal! I'm glad your wife got to safety
utopian3··on Google files opening Supreme Court brief in Oracle v. Google copyright lawsuit
Why would ZFS' license be related to the outcome of this court case?
utopian3··on Airbus A320 Family Non-Normal Notes [pdf]
I’ve experienced that while on the ground (also an Embraer I think). Was your experience in the air? I think I’d hold my breath if that happened while mid flight.
utopian3··on Ouster's new digital Lidar – 128 beams, ultra-wide view
> The OS0 lidar sensor: an ultra-wide field of view sensor with 128 lines of resolution

> The OS2 lidar sensor: a long-range sensor with up to 128 lines of resolution

> Two new 32 channel sensors: both an OS0 and OS2 version

> Price: Starts at $16,000 with volume discounts available

I would LOVE to get my hands on this tech. Maybe in 5-10 years when the price comes down to commodity level for hackers to play around with. :-)

Since LIDARs impact airflow over the top of a car, is there a way to make LIDARs less spherical and more triangular or elliptical? How would that impact the scans and can that impact be corrected/recalibrated mathematically?

utopian3··on Renowned Entomologist Says ‘Get Rid of Your Lawn’
We get a lot of rabbits.. How do you keep them out of your produce?
utopian3··on SoftBank has walked away from startups, months after submitting term sheets
What are the negatives that the six-month term sheet implies that I'm missing (I'm not familiar with them)?
utopian3··on Bill Gates calls for income tax in Washington state
> CA has income tax and the sales tax is just as high.

CA also has a property tax and capital gains tax.

Oh yes, and a business income tax, and a franchise tax... honestly curious if there is a tax that California doesn't have...

utopian3··on Another Fired Google Employee Claims They Were Targeted for Labor Organizing
Agreed. Imagine if everyone was allowed to abuse their positions. After years of working in enterprises, I know many that would create popups about the silliest things. The Security VP quoted in the article stated that she abused a security tool, and I agree.
utopian3··on NHS gets £40M to cut login times on its IT systems
> It's still a joke that all systems don't hang off their AD/LDAP/jumpcloud/whatever though.

What do you mean? That some other NHS systems have their own directory of users, or there is a master user/pass shared by everyone?

utopian3··on Bruce Perens quits Open Source Initiative amid row over new crypto license
> MIT/BSD do have some legal drawbacks for certain use cases

Sure I think the OP you're replying to isn't implying that MIT/BSD is insufficient. He/she is saying that the three "AGPLv3, the LGPLv3, and Apache v2" are insufficient but these five "AGPLv3 + LGPLv3 + Apache2 + MIT + BSD" would be more sufficient.

utopian3··on When good ideas make bad business
Nope, I must not be searching for the right keyword or acronym.
utopian3··on Hyundai Motor to invest $87 bn in future mobility tech by 2025
You're right .. this is an insane amount of money. Their total cash on hand at the end of 2018 looks like it was 26,800,814,000 [1]. And yet they spent a record $10 billion on a piece of land (3x the appraisal value) ~5 years ago. [2]

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HYMTF/balance-sheet/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kepco-realestate-hyundai-...

utopian3··on U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software
> It was just a tool to use against people they suspected being involved espionage. Just another reason to put you in a cell. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_algorithm

The wiki link you provided does not have the words "export" or "espionage". Are you trying to imply that R,S, and A were suspected of espionage? You'll need a real source for that..

utopian3··on One Medical S-1
Same. I have a GP who takes 40-60 minutes per patient, and gets into detail of what’s going on. I felt he truly cared. Compare that to the ~5-10 minutes of my previous GP
utopian3··on When good ideas make bad business
Fair point. I just searched for a bit, but can't seem to find a good "average revenue per user" for ad-based SaaS products. Anyone know?
utopian3··on When good ideas make bad business
Ya, I'm surprised it's not just a static landing page for consumers with ads. At .50 cents per user, that's only 80k users required to break even (ignoring the time variable there)
utopian3··on When good ideas make bad business
> I do product at MEGACORP and love product strategy.

Where should one go/read/listen/watch to learn more about product strategy?

utopian3··on EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V
Is there a book (or long blog post) on the underground history of anti-cheat software & DRM? I would love to read that..
utopian3··on EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V
In my experience, it generally turned out those "really good" players were taking advantage of a glitch, and were kicked for that.. not for being really good. (server rules generally have a "no glitching" rule). Again, this is all anecdotal experience
utopian3··on Chrome OS has stalled out
I've seen some models in the $200-400 USD range, occasionally they have a sale, but their specs are pretty awful, even by smartphone standards. I don't think I've seen a pixelbook priced at 1999 €, I wonder if that's higher due to cost of tax/tariff/import?
utopian3··on 100 years ago, prohibition went into effect
> Ken Burns’ fantastic documentary series on prohibition.

I love Ken Burn's work, but haven't heard of this one. Looks like it is PBS. Do you know if it is available to stream anywhere (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Disney, Vudu, etc?)

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