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by Lazare 8y ago
It's Musk, so he refused to apologise, doubled down on the assertions, got threatened with a lawsuit, grumpily withdrew the allegations, saw a slightly unflattering Buzzfeed article, blew his lid, sent the journalist a rant about how a
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by Lazare 8y ago
Hey thanks, that's good info and helps me understand the bigger picture. Very useful comment!
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by Lazare 8y ago
> When Lennart Poettering started thinking about the problem, he first looked at Upstart, which was an event-based system that was still based around scripts, but he concluded that he could do a better job. I think I'd like systemd
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by Lazare 8y ago
NZ does have huts, which are much more similar. See: https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-stay/... Although there's also private ones as well.
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by Lazare 8y ago
I know right? And as a write this, the only other reply to you is basically a confused "but how else would you do it", since apparently the concept of putting in your 8 hours and going home to eat dinner with your family just does
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by Lazare 8y ago
At least around here: 1) Pizza is made on demand, quickly, from a small number of relatively non-perishable, cheap ingredients. You won't throw away a significant dollar value of raw materials. Also, pizza is popular, and your delive
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by Lazare 8y ago
As noted in the article, it could be also be argued that Ted Cruz is a well-known Canadian politician, but at some point you move from "technically right" to just "wrong", and I think that easily passes it. Ted Cruz is
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by Lazare 8y ago
Coincidentally, I just ran across someone else trying (and failing) to get Google to update a similar incorrect line in their knowledge graph. In this case, the person is fairly well known on YouTube, and their profession line should almos
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by Lazare 8y ago
Same way it's legal to do it to cars, obviously. There's nothing new here.
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by Lazare 8y ago
In theory, yes, it's possible to do this safely. But offhand I can think of several horror stories about smart locks, and no good stories. The tech just seems absurdly immature at this point. And this product, in particular, is appar
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by Lazare 8y ago
I think you're really underestimating how serious this is.
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by Lazare 8y ago
Yes. The idea is it's day trading, except you hold for a couple days, not a couple of hours, and you focus 100% on trying to figure out patterns in the stock and ignore all fundamentals. So you completely ignore like, whether the sto
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by Lazare 8y ago
1) They use bluetooth, not wifi. 2) They're actually designed to work in situations where you don't even have your phone as a primary use case. So no, of course not. That was actually a major point made early on in the article.
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by Lazare 8y ago
Interesting topic. Like a lot of things, it's easy and enjoyable to unload some quick snark on Twitter, and certainly anything even related to IoT is a worthy target of all the snark we can muster 99.9% of the time. On the other han
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by Lazare 8y ago
"A lot of people have flipped a coin 10 times and had it come up heads only 4-6 times, but I had it come up heads a full 7 times, so clearly I have an extremely proficient coin flipping technique. Sit down and listen to me discuss the
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by Lazare 8y ago
Quite right, I didn't phrase that well. Of course, even if unhealthy sun exposure + sunscreen is better than unhealthy sun exposure on its own, it doesn't mean it's better than avoiding the unhealthy sun exposure patterns at
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by Lazare 8y ago
Yes. The upshot of the article seems to be: 1. Vitamin D supplements do nothing 2. Regular safe sun exposure has many positive benefits and very few negatives (a very very small chance of getting a type of cancer that is normally deadly,
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by Lazare 8y ago
I really, really doubt you know as good a lawyer as the actual owners of that land do. That's sort of the point of the article; the unregistered parcels are owned by the elite.
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by Lazare 8y ago
> My impression of the licensing change was not that they expected to Amazon to pay fees for offering a hosted MongoDB service. It was instead to lock Amazon out, and keep MongoDB Inc. as the only "cloud provider" of a hosted
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by Lazare 8y ago
I hope like hell that horrible precedent doesn't stand; if you find yourself on Oracle's side you may want to rethink some of your priors. Regardless of the rights and wrongs of this specific issue, some solutions are worse tha
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by Lazare 8y ago
That's a very tendentious title.
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by Lazare 8y ago
The snippet I can see says: > When pharmaceutical company Depomed Inc. of the U.S. said this month it is fielding federal and state inquiries over its marketing of opioid painkillers, a stock drop was likely to follow. > But it was le
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by Lazare 8y ago
Ultimately, Cantrill put it well: > ...for those open source companies that still harbor magical beliefs, let me put this to you as directly as possible: cloud services providers are emphatically not going to license your proprietary sof
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by Lazare 8y ago
Not really. Such lawsuits aren't really a thing.
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by Lazare 8y ago
Oh, absolutely. The story was about Google, but it's at least as true (and has been true for longer) about Apple. Similar comments could be made about Tumblr, which has implemented similarly wrong headed policies in a similarly incomp
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by Lazare 8y ago
Yep. Minneapolis recently experimented with requiring all stores selling food in the city to stock some "fresh/healthy" foods. It's been a disaster; it turns out that the reason these products weren't being stocke
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by Lazare 8y ago
There is a uniquely annoying feeling you get when you see someone powerful being utterly obtuse and wrong in a way that is damaging to others, but can't readily be challenged. Everything about this story is just so fundamentally wrongh
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by Lazare 8y ago
About 1/4 are valid, important criticisms, another 1/4 are technically true but quite trivial (and are mostly caused by his very idiosyncratic coding habits), and 1/2 are just howlingly wrong, mostly in that order. A decent
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by Lazare 8y ago
I agree completely, but I'm not sure I see how this is a cultural issue, or related to some differences in culture within different parts of Google. If it turns out that the trading desk at a bank has been violating internal rules an
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by Lazare 8y ago
It's interesting, because if The Intercept is to be believed, Beaumont has basically gone rogue, carving out his own little empire, aggressively preventing other internal teams from figuring out what he's doing, and engaging in be

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