MrTonyD

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by MrTonyD 8y ago
The bigger threat that WW3 or Global Warming is pervasive monitoring. Whoever survives all the other disasters can be completely controlled by whoever has the ability to monitor everything (and then kill anybody who acts or speaks against t
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
You know, he didn't say that. He said Red Hat adopted a complex system that solves some problems - implying that they may have some other motivations. If anything, the point seems to be that it is a very complex and unwelcome way to so
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Just for a counterpoint that I know will be attacked - Why not create plenty of jobs? Let's say we want programming jobs for everyone, just start adding constraints to what can be sold in the country based on whether that company hired
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
You might be interested to hear that about 30 years ago I got myself invited to a "union busting" class. It was held at changing locations each week, with nobody giving their names (not even the instructor), and guest speakers fro
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Well, I've been around 3-letter agency guys here in the US who tell me that we have a rating system for everybody in the United States - as well as lots of information tracing their entire life. How many people in the USA know about th
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I think you guys are both right. Back in the days when I measured UNIX performance, it was fork that was expensive due to memory allocation - but not the memory itself. It takes time to allocate all the page tables associated with the memor
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Sorry you got downvoted. A lot of people never studied the history of Unions (and I'm very pro Union, with several Union organizing relatives) to see how incredibly corrupt they become. They have a long history of selling out to the ag
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I remember reading that they were able to cover all the costs because of accounting categorizations that they could consider only because they had the real estate. But I don't really know - that's just what some article was saying
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Look, One person's exceptional is another persons routine life. I'm 60, started as an electronic hobbyist in Silicon Valley wire wrapping computers for startups - worked for a bunch of early famous names in Silicon Valley, then st
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
None at all. Just sharing my experience as somebody who was there.
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Steve didn't believe most of the stuff he said. I used to work for him, and he got monthly reports from his PR firm. One section each month was filled with pages of quotes for him to say to be perceived as a visionary. He used them reg
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Maybe 20 years back I remember reading an article describing how many generics were intentionally ineffective - missing key ingredients - and secretly created by the drug manufacturer themselves in order to increase sales. It was a big arti
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I like your story too. But I have to point out that there are plenty of other stories I've heard. People who drop out and never recover. People who attend a public school and can't find a job since they are competing with people f
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Hong Kong makes 2 billion a year on public transportation. They did that by giving the land around the station to the transportation agency, so they lease it out long term, and that pays for all the trains and operations. They charge a toke
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I travel a lot - typically two weeks each month. I view Uber as very risky compared to cabs. I once had an Uber driver whose phone got flaky during the trip, so he said that he would drop me off (he turned into an industrial park area that
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Well, who is making decisions and how are they being made. What metrics matter? How can we judge them better? How can we improve them in people? Or, to go even further, have you ever seen Star Trek where they use the holodeck for Training?
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I suspect that this is about quality of product. Chicken has had a lot of problems with poisoning people here in the US (since our standards for the environment where chickens are kept isn't designed to reduce disease - rather, it enco
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
The examples on the IBM site had zeros without slashes or dots. And the character set showed a slashed zero exists, but it isn't the default zero. I believe you if you're using it, but I'm not sure where your dotted zero came
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Kinda off-topic, but I've had jobs where I've been considered incompetent, and other jobs where I've been considered gifted and visionary. Other jobs have considered me lazy, a hard worker, smart, and dumb. My point is that o
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Paul Krugman made a very interesting observation about those "better salaries for college graduates". He pointed out that all of their "perceived" gain was from the drop in income of people below them. They weren't
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Checked the website - looks like the zero isn't slashed, and I've spent too much time chasing down errors caused by oh's as zeros.
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I think that is usually true that big companies have little autonomy. And I've usually noticed that the people who say they have autonomy are those who control other people - and disregard the fact that they reduce the autonomy of othe
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
It wasn't until after I started reading Paul Krugman's column that I came to understand that Fed Chairman aren't good Economists. They are more like senior executives who are more concerned about company politics and image. I
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Yeah, downvoting is totally broken on Hacker News. Seems like anything that isn't immediately agreed-with gets downvoted. I don't know where all the small-minded people come from, but they seem to have found their home here.
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I remember reading that Sweden didn't want retirees to be subject to random market forces for housing. So they subsidized housing and in exchange restricted the profit when sold. So, really, the point is that we could set up systems to
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I lived by the beach outside Silicon Valley. My neighborhood gradually became more and more deserted. Executives would buy houses in the neighborhood, and just stop by once or twice a year to use it. At some houses I never saw anyone ever -
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
Apple had installed the entire networking code from UNIX under appletalk. But Steve personally fired the head of Apple networking. Then he fired the next engineering manager too, until he got one who wouldn't keep trying to expose the
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I share my very real world experience of police in the USA, and I get downvoted for it. I must be posting on Hacker News. (I now consider it a badge of honor to get downvoted. It means those who can't entertain disconfirming thoughts h
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
We developed it and sold it initially to the government - using that revenue to make it stable. It was Lyrix word processor and a spreadsheet and graphics program (the graphics program was pretty bad, but the spreadsheet had gone through a
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by MrTonyD 8y ago
I've known a few policemen here in the USA - and every one of them was corrupt. So in this case the law may not make sense.

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