kristjansson

There’s something to be said for joint car/pedestrian spaces as a permanent situation. Pike St outside of Pike Place market and Hanover St in the North End of Boston come to mind. Both are nomi…

You may have already tried it, but I find Software Engineering Radio[0] relatively technical and informative. Each episode features an interview with a single guest on a single topic for about an hou…

You’re suggesting a subgroup will increase tenfold in two generations, assuming that the majority population stays roughly constant. That implies a birthrate of something like 9 children per woman, m…

Just on the lock screen for me.

This is the interpretation that makes sense to me - his rhetorical choices are intended to communicate the gravity of the content of whatever he’s saying to a large group, not just to the person he’s …

I don't know that I've seen one of these blockchain ideas that doesn't boil down to "wouldn't it be great if <complicated industry> all used the same database/proto…

You can still see the full URL by focusing the address bar with either a click or ⌘-L. I think it makes sense for the default display to show the most security-relevant information (TLD, SLD, and pres…

The issue is that, in a smoothly deflating currency, all but the most essential consumption will be postponed indefinitely, as will investment of that currency in anything that expects to return less …

Exactly: own some. Not spend some, hence the problem with using it as a currency.

You can saw whatever you want. What you can pay to have broadcast on television is another matter entirely.

Not the person you replied to, but I think the issue they took was with the phrasing ‘accidentally fired’, which could be (mis)read to imply user error instead of malfunction. I know I read your post…

Very, very good. One of those meals I can remember years later. Sit by the burners and sweat for the full experience.

I found a link to a SaaS product that provided full-document search across a variety of cloud app platforms, chiefly Google and Atlassian. I spent nearly an afternoon searching for it a few months la…

As long as we like clean water flowing in and shit flowing out, we’re going to need some public servants.

The hard problem with voting systems isn’t counting the votes, but insuring that each eligible person casts at most one vote. Blockchain based voting systems might help prevent the rare case of multip…

Do you know if slides/video will be available?

I’ve had reservations at upscale places in LA ask for a credit card up front and threaten a fee if I were to no-show, and some places have minimums for premium tables (e.g. 71Above window tables). A …

Digg also (IIRC) wasn't an moral outrage against the company, but an reaction to the product itself.

Shouldn’t self driving cars be designed to be as safe as possible in the world they’re actually going to drive in, rather than one where everyone else adjusts their behavior?

It was a 35 mph zone.

That’s a pretty uncharitable analysis of the situation. The point of the attack are Intel’s future intentions as implied by the patches, and the degree which those intentions are at odds with Intel’s …

Point of fact: `regular people ‘ use trains too.

CarPlay is also probably a limiting factor. There are a few options for wireless CarPlay, but it seems the vast majority of implementations still rely on the cable. I doubt Apple would be willing to…

> here is Qatar giving a $1M birthday "gift" to Bill Clinton: It's worth noting that they gave the money to the Clinton Foundation[1], not to some nefarious personal account. [1]: h…

Tangential: for anyone reading the PDF, pdfcrop --verbose --margins "20 30 20 30" --bbox "110 180 440 740" casi.pdf trims the over-large margins without clipping any conten…

Not only that; to insure that all of the other anonymous votes correspond to other real, eligible voters!

... Then what, in that world, do you call the artifice by which humans cooperate to sell other humans the the services the non-existent state isn't providing?

However, using humans as power source would increase the amount of food consumed, and co2 exhaled, so this analysis would need to take at least that incremental co2 into account.

> internal private block chains What are the possible use cases for something like this?