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by MCRed 12y ago
The constitution was not instituted democratically, really, it is, effectively a coup on the previous form of government. The bill of rights were part of what was added to it to clarify that rights pre-existed the constitution and that the
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by MCRed 12y ago
The situation is more nuanced than the surface outrage I've been seeing. Do you support freedom of expression? Do you think bigots should be allowed to say stupid things? Well, freedom of association is also a right- its the right th
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by MCRed 12y ago
This is elixir, but can be called from erlang: https://github.com/nirvana/flaky/ It gives a unique value from any node in a cluster of nodes running this-- without any coordination-- such that you can guarantee th
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by MCRed 12y ago
I looked into this, the problem was, there were no marina slots available for a 30 foot boat. Not that I could find, and the waiting lists at that point in time were on the order of years, not months.
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by MCRed 12y ago
Many keyboards support varying pressure on a key to vary the sound, this is a common input. The rest of the article is just as bad and nonsensical, as is obvious to anyone who understands the technology of synthesis or knows musical perfor
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by MCRed 12y ago
I'm completely in favor of individuals being able to invest in startups, especially since you can go to vegas and blow $30k in a weekend, to not be able to put $30k into a startup is a crime. But this is going to make a bubble. IT will
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by MCRed 12y ago
Nothing against react or reactive, but it's yet another reaction to going down the wrong path originally -- it seems. I really don't understand why so many people jump to event driven systems when genuinely parallel computing is s
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by MCRed 12y ago
I have no idea how this bet will come out but I was not pursuaded by Sam's argument because he did not address the root cause of the bubble. Put another way, he's sitting on the surface of a bubble and pointing out that there&#x
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by MCRed 12y ago
That's the nature of bubbles. This is a bet about whether there's a bubble or not. IF there is a bubble, of course it's going to look like Sam has a slam dunk win here-- until the bubble pops and then it looks obvious that
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by MCRed 12y ago
80s Tercel got 40MPG 2014 Rav4 gets 20MPG Same gasoline, both 4 cylinder. The RAV4 is much more advanced. It's emissions that have killed gas milage.
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by MCRed 12y ago
From a performance perspective you're right, but it will be quite awhile before Tesla's making cars that are cost-competitive with the currently manufactured Diesels.
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by MCRed 12y ago
Or simply create another grade of Diesel- similar to what's sold in Europe and the UK. Then let the market decide. The cars can be sold specifically to use this type of Diesel (that they already use in Europe) If it makes sense the
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by MCRed 12y ago
Car makers like Toyota, Mazda and the like all make diesel versions of the same cars-- they sell them in the UK and Australia. They cannot import them to the USA because of the "anti-smog" rules. IT's not chicken and egg--
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by MCRed 12y ago
I purchased a new car in 2014. Having a familiarity with Diesel engines, I wanted to buy a Diesel. Even better- one of the cars I was keen about was available in Diesel form.... but in the UK only. The american version seemed to get abo
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by MCRed 12y ago
I spent 6 years outside the USA from 2008-2013. I highly recommend everyone do this. Spend several years in Europe or South America (the places I went.) You will quickly come to see-- I expect-- just how much of the media inside the USA is
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by MCRed 12y ago
I agree with you, but I don't for a second think unions will change that. Unions won't eliminate the problem of non-technical people running engineering departments and deciding salaries-- they will simply put a non-technical unio
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by MCRed 12y ago
Consider for a second that maybe they aren't voting against their own interests. My interest is not in having some jackhole thug whose primary skill is breaking kneecaps going around and negotiating my salary, thank you very much. With
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by MCRed 12y ago
Unions do not negotiate the best deal for the employees, they negotiate the best deal for the union. One of the terms unions love to have is a requirement that all employees be members of the union. When you have to pay the union in order t
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by MCRed 12y ago
You can look at Apple's SEC filings-- which are audited and come out quarterly-- which have the numbers for total iPhone sales on a regular basis. From this you can determine how many iPhones have been made. There is no similar stat f
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by MCRed 12y ago
You would only be in violation of that patent if you use the specific process claimed in that payment in what you're doing. Patents don't cover broad concepts like "transmitting images over the internet". A patent title
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by MCRed 12y ago
This blog is from when the language was first announced, yet most people commenting seem to think it is current, and thus imply that SWIFT is in worse shape than it is. Flagged.
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by MCRed 12y ago
Basically, everyone working on it has done more than Stallman. All stallman does is post rants and demand adoration. He hasn't actually done anything. Well, he has opposed a lot of tools that would help protect against the surveillan
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by MCRed 12y ago
Have you ever heard of George Orwell? It's like you guys go to some sort of indoctrination camp and become members of a cult.
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by MCRed 12y ago
> Open Source movement did not happen in vacuum. It was a direct followup to 'Free Software' movement. I was there, buddy. The Open Source movement existed before GNU. The homebrew computer club and magazines and BBSes of the
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by MCRed 12y ago
Except that we knew all this 20 years ago. He's not really extremist at all. I guess he is just good at finding audiences that aren't up to speed.
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by MCRed 12y ago
Can you give an example? For instance, I was aware of Stallman in the 1980s, read his writings back then, didn't think they were correct, and the future he predicted has not come to be. Yes there are some of us who are that old. Sp
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Tim Cook offered Steve Jobs his liver(cultofmac.com)
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by MCRed 12y ago
Chile is a wonderful country, generally very well run since Pinochet was deposed. They are developing world but they are really developing. The government runs a financial surplus and despite being really huge with an odd distribution of p
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by MCRed 12y ago
Background: 25+ years in startups, numerous financing rounds, more pitches than I could possibly remember My perspective: Even the best investor- the one you're in love with that seems like a match made in heaven has a good chance of r
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by MCRed 12y ago
FWIW, we built a team of Elixir developers in the spring of 2014 in Austin Texas. Austin is not the bay area, it's maybe a Tier 3 startup town. And still we were able to build a great team over the course of a few months. At the time,

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