MBlume

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by MBlume 11y ago
I don't think anyone in this thread is claiming that the government should force Strange Loop to allow Yarvin to speak.
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by MBlume 11y ago
> Whatever you choose, if trusting a proprietary operating system not to be malicious doesn’t fit your threat model, maybe it’s time to switch to Linux.
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by MBlume 11y ago
She.
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by MBlume 11y ago
Some parts of the original Patriot Act were written to expire. It's easier to get rid of those parts than it is to get rid of the rest because it's easier to prevent something from happening in congress than to cause something to
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by MBlume 11y ago
Question from a new-comer: after the first bubble burst, was it difficult for a solid developer to find work in the valley? How much did salaries drop?
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by MBlume 11y ago
So when is David Campos up for reelection? How quickly can we mobilize to eliminate him? ETA: Next year, 2016, so we have about a year and a half.
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by MBlume 11y ago
I'm curious -- since the custom emitter is tied to the RPython JIT and not to the Python interpreter, could one easily plug in the existing Ruby or PHP interpreters written in RPython and get similar performance?
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by MBlume 11y ago
Question: if I'm prototyping a webapp on my machine -- one that will ultimately run behind apache or nginx or an amazon load balancer or something -- can I still prototype it in my browser with new features enabled without getting a va
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by MBlume 11y ago
Or "my life would be better if owning a car and driving it everywhere weren't the least-bad option available to me"
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by MBlume 12y ago
> Some critics will say Coca-Cola made a marketing mistake. Some cynics will say we planned the whole thing. The truth is we are not that dumb and we are not that smart. I'm never sure how to interpret this statement. What is the mi
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by MBlume 12y ago
Look at the name. I think their goal is that most of the time when you're out and about, you're connected to Wi-Fi. I think the cellular partners are a crutch to get them there. If they manage that, you'll wind up paying a lo
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by MBlume 12y ago
People think they don't want to pay by the megabyte, so they're calling it something else. Also the plan provides a cap so that you know you're not going to pay more than $X per month without going to some app and adjusting s
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by MBlume 12y ago
Or better yet, some sort of dynamic pricing when, say, you're on a crowded subway platform. You'd really want solid software integration for that, though, so the user isn't unpleasantly surprised by it.
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by MBlume 12y ago
Also, notice that they're not charging extra for tethering, or care how many devices you tether to. As far as they're concerned, data is data because you're paying for it .
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by MBlume 12y ago
"We refund the data you don't use" is basically a way of saying "you pay by the megabyte for the data you do use" -- which is actually really great, I've been frustrated that everyone's settled on "al
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by MBlume 12y ago
"Know your data is safe Your data is secured through encryption when we connect you to open Wi-Fi hotspots. It's like your data has a private tunnel to drive through." So that's a yes ETA: Of course this does mean Googl
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by MBlume 12y ago
I suspect you'd need to call their bluff and then try to get whatever the K9 find thrown out (assuming they had to delay you to let them arrive)
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by MBlume 12y ago
They're...people who want to point guns at you and steal your money? Why would anyone want to cooperate with people like that?
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by MBlume 12y ago
Wait, how is that a useful way to think about this at all? Right now we are talking about six fish. In what way are they not at issue?
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by MBlume 12y ago
California exports a lot of alfalfa to support beef production elsewhere, but even so, if you buy, say, grass-fed beef from New Zealand (I assume New Zealand's not suffering a draught?) you're fine
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by MBlume 12y ago
I know the author's entire argument doesn't stand or fall with the simile, but it still needs to be said: blueprints are more necessary for physical construction than they are for software because things made of wood and concrete
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by MBlume 12y ago
Sure, but if you drive your vehicle down the highway, you're taking up cheap real estate; if you drive your vehicle into Manhattan, you're using really freaking expensive real estate, and you should pay more for it.
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by MBlume 12y ago
Yes, NY is one of the only places in the US where you're likely to consistently pay for the space your car takes up when it's at rest, which is awesome, and which other cities should emulate. Unfortunately, you still don't ha
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by MBlume 12y ago
Is that a bad thing? In the US, cars take up enormous amounts of space which their users don't pay anything for.
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by MBlume 12y ago
Do we know if Adium/pidgin are likely to update to use that API, or is it too early to say?
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by MBlume 12y ago
"When you see free you don't mean free. Free means [this thing I just decided it means, which is quite obviously not the meaning you're using]. If [the definition I just introduced doesn't obtain] it isn't free by d
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by MBlume 12y ago
If you think you've discovered a serious info-hazard and your first action is to post it publicly, you are not someone I want frequenting the same online spaces I frequent. Whether that particular info-hazard is, upon examination, re
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by MBlume 12y ago
Different things seem cool to different people. In particular , different things seem cool depending on your social class, especially depending on which social class you want to signal membership in/which social classes you think you
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by MBlume 12y ago
Why have a requirement? If the people want garages, let them demand garages, let the market price garages so that they're an efficient use of space and construction resources on the margin.
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by MBlume 12y ago
Wait, what? How? Can't you just build things before you merge them into master?

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