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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.

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

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2년 전discuss

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.

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2년 전discuss

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

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2년 전discuss

Can you go into some examples?

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2년 전discuss

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

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2년 전discuss

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

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10년 전discuss

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.

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11년 전discuss

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

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11년 전discuss

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.

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11년 전discuss

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

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11년 전discuss

That would become advertising of a product then...

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

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11년 전discuss

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

Other than that, I fully agree with you.

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11년 전discuss

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

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11년 전discuss

> 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.

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11년 전discuss

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

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11년 전discuss

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.

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11년 전discuss

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.

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11년 전discuss

> 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.

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No company was acquired for its "backend".

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