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> The next question is, if an infinite universe can never end, how can human life ever be extinguished?

Heat death. If the universe grows infinitely we'll eventually run out of stars - but I'd worry far more about how we're treating Earth than such things.

Incredibly, incredibly unlikely to be a problem. Don't worry.

How widely implemented is certificate revocation?

We recently received an email about our Comp Sci labs (300+ GPU-equipped workstations) being used for bitcoin mining at night.

When learning a new and difficult topic I do this a lot. For the topics I have difficulties with it takes 20 minutes to build a workable test case, and perhaps a lot more than 20 lines of code alone.

It's not always that however. Most recently I spent 4 hours debugging socket.io disconnecting before I remembered nefarious DPI/crawling done by the house ISP https://nodpi.org/2010/08/07/talktalk-becomes-stalkstalk/

At a guess it might be so that if you turn it back on during flight it's already in airplane mode?

I'd love some examples of where to find this data?

> Bear in mind that the default setup for Apple's FileVault also sends a copy of the encryption key to Apple too (associated with your AppleID), where presumably there is access granted to the US government also (willing or unwilling).

If anyone else is curious about this see the recovery key sections on http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4790

Whose land? He probably couldn't find legal work anywhere in the world.

> (only an observation that seemed funny in my mind, don't bother debating it because it's not 100% serious)

No, no, this is a worthwhile point to make. Whether selling used cars, life-saving surgery or hiring young hackers for awful pay, information asymmetry can you give you a sizable advantage by itself.

Reading about a system like the RUC is a really good demo of this. To an outsider it might seem the strict confidentiality could be excused for preventing lobbyist influence - yet it also gives free rein to avoid media and public scrutiny in the light of day.

If some of them are in different DCs or on non-dedicated hardware, probably to stop their comms being intercepted.

What is your background and skills?

There is more radioactive material to release from a reactor than a bomb - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Chernobyl_and_oth....

Whilst a bomb will cause an area to become radioactive itself (through neutron bombardment) that is confined to the local area and I think tends to have short half-lives.

> Just last week they put out a warning to US service members stating that confirming the leaks is against the law. Now we have the guy at the top saying the stuff in the news is accurate.

The decision to declassify would come from the top.

Do you have a lot of knowledge of their team's background and what Stratasys wanted from this deal? Without a clear definition of what's valuable here that's a sweeping judgement.

> This is utterly false and unfair. Please don't lump the entire US population with a few ignorant morons who have not seen the world five miles outside their home town. A quick look at our universities is proof enough that what you are saying is incorrect. The last time I visited MIT it almost felt like I was outside the US.

If anything I've been surprised at how consistently keen Americans are for high-skill immigration.

Thanks for the reply - I think more what I was looking for was your viewpoint on why kids accidentally seeing porn is a bad thing?

My assumption is that it wouldn't be of interest to them and they'd move on, but that's pure speculation.

Does anyone know of public research into the makeup of rooms on AirBNB, specifically rooms/house and so forth?

I feel there's often a lot of AirBNB-only properties listed but I'd prefer some actual numbers. If needs be, scraped myself this weekend :-)

> The effort required to try and explain aspects of what I'm going through, usually with little success, is often far more detrimental than any benefit they could hope to provide. Being distracted from the problems, even if only for a short while, can be blissful and hugely appreciated.

> On the other hand, I'm usually happy to be treated differently by people that have had similar experiences to me. I can often communicate to them in a sentence things which would take hours of conversation with somebody who'd not been there before.

I very much agree with both parts of what you've said here. I'm curious if & how you tend to balance between the two?

Generally when I'm having a bad time just having some casual distraction works fine, especially from someone who doesn't know what's wrong.

When I'm stuck in a rut, just having a few friends who can stop me bullshitting and keep me talking works wonders.

At what age does someone gain the right to discover Porn?

Thanks, that does make sense.

Why have people downvoted this? The linked statement doesn't give any background on why he's leaving so it's not an unreasonable question.

> No offense, but my lawyer doesn't even charge me $400/hour.

Just as with developers, if you're getting $400/hour you're not an ordinary lawyer working with ordinary people. You can get that if you've experience and knowledge in a particular domain.

> What can we learn that we can apply to technology in general? I feel like "programmers" and "IT" tend to be undervalued while Data Science tends to be accurately or even overvalued.

Given that Data Scientist is just a sexier rephrasing of Analyst, my suggestion would be to retitle Programmers as Computational Engineers. Or use Lisp.

> The letter is part of a brewing debate about how MOOCs might deepen the divide between wealthy universities, which produce MOOCs, and less wealthy ones, which buy licenses to use those MOOCs from providers like edX.

Why are only top universities producing MOOCs anyway? Do San Jose lack any renowned classes, or just the will to MOOCify them?

Surprisingly convenient a commute, having done it yesterday. I'd definitely think about living there myself.

> From what I see, the solution looks correct. Cool!

On what basis do you reach that conclusion?

I've felt this myself as well. When I get to the point of being stuck on a question, it is often in such a niche that getting help on it is very difficult.

Given that much of Graphite's weakness is due to sliding sheets, I was under the impression a single sheet would be far stronger?

If we fast forward 20 years, I wonder if we could be a graphene 'sawing' diamond?