Evbn

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by Evbn 14y ago
How is Paxos hard? Inventing Paxos is hard. Implementing it is implementing a well-specified state machine.
782.
by Evbn 14y ago
It is because grad school "classes" are a charade to keep up the pretense that an apprenticeship is a classroom education that merits tuition.
783.
by Evbn 14y ago
I love the Rasmusesque PHP zen. "Hi. I am dumb. I don't write good programs, I write programs that work." Reminds me of Colombo.
784.
by Evbn 14y ago
Find better doctors. My doctors never argue from authority, and are willing to challenge some "research"
785.
by Evbn 14y ago
Google will make a free version. 10% less accuracy isn't tragic if it is phenomenonally better than what we have today.
786.
by Evbn 14y ago
Not of Watson is missing an audit trail of its fuzzy calculations.
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by Evbn 14y ago
But is the potential worse than existing systems?
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by Evbn 14y ago
So, we don't know what it is, how it works, or if the ad is fake, but this is worthy of the NPR banner? It's like they use the label "blog" to mean "BS link bait crap". We expect better from NPR.
789.
by Evbn 14y ago
Headline directly contradicts safety advice in the article. Bad NPR.
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by Evbn 14y ago
The precautionary principle has kept us alive for millions of years.
791.
by Evbn 14y ago
Like what? Mostly air, water, carbohydrate/fat/protein/vitamins, and toxins.
792.
by Evbn 14y ago
F is better than F-
793.
by Evbn 14y ago
This is super brilliant, but why do so much of these things use Star Wars for context? Anything else would be just as cute as less creepily cultic worshipful of one movie series.
794.
by Evbn 14y ago
India uses strict exam-based entrance exams. US doesn't. Admission criteria can be lotteries above minimum standards, or designed to choose the students who responded most to the level of investment they got (a bit harder to measure)
795.
by Evbn 14y ago
If this distribution were considered problematic, controlling for family immigration history could correct it -- a sort of perfect anti-aristocracy.
796.
by Evbn 14y ago
Was HW notably smarter? W wasn't an academic, but that is diffferent from dumb.
797.
by Evbn 14y ago
What definition of progressive are you using? They aren't super linear relative to income.
798.
by Evbn 14y ago
Parent didn't say different.
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by Evbn 14y ago
If working at a big company gives a low level employee an upper middle class lifestyle, who needs advancement? That is extremely advanced (95%) compared to the developed world as a whole.
800.
by Evbn 14y ago
That is a huge amount to sell in one year. Wonder why he is unloading so fast. Why not a 5 year plan?
801.
by Evbn 14y ago
The TC article says their voting power is already only 25% combined (8% each)
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by Evbn 14y ago
Turk laborers are Eastern.
803.
by Evbn 14y ago
Seems this whole sport exists almost entirely for the generation of people who were exactly 8 years old when Tetris came out. And the sport will die when we run out of functioning NES consoles and CRTs.
804.
by Evbn 14y ago
Gameboy always felt cleaner to play, too.
805.
by Evbn 14y ago
Your trolling will work better under a less telegraphic username. You can give away what you obtain, regardless of who produced it.
806.
by Evbn 14y ago
Hourly fulfillment employees do work at marginal cost (linear relationship between revenue and labor) that doesn't have the multiplier effect that corporate office work has. Thus there is a hard ceiling on sustainable wage level. For a lawy
807.
by Evbn 14y ago
Has this been getting better or worse over the past couple of years?
808.
by Evbn 14y ago
Why the girl-boy split? Oh, not counting married couples as combined units. Weird.
809.
by Evbn 14y ago
Why did the mods remove the relevant context from the title?
810.
by Evbn 14y ago
Wait, the quoted text is considered advice? Ugh.

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