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by Nrsolis 15y ago
You don't have to take my word for it. The Telcos did their own reliability surveys. Underground utilities have do deal with more intrusions from water, ice, salt, digging, backhoes, insects, rodents and other stuff you find at "ground lev
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
Franchise agreements aren't exclusionary. They just lay out what a company will pay to the city for the right to use the public right of way. They also cover things like in-kind contributions for schools and libraries and minimum service
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
Uh. Not really. Directional boring is one of the most expensive ways to lay cable. Just going underneath at standard two lane road in a residential neighborhood is something like $50-$100K. Undergrounding utilities (esp in a metro area) r
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
vermontvirtual.org doesn't resolve. Does anyone know what's going on there?
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
Consider the fact that the only real enforcement of immigration laws happens at the borders here. Once you're in the country, people have (and still) overstay their visas for years at a time. It's very common and one of the most abused ru
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
One of my biggest questions is the lifetime of these drives. I know that flash memory has a certain number of write-cycles but has there been any study done on how long these drives last in an almost constant write environment like OLTP?
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
Oh, right. bozhidar's account exists solely to post links to this kind of batsov.com's blog.
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
How is my comment off-topic? I've read the article author's other work and my general impression is that he's inexperienced with all of these languages but that isn't stopping him from writing ill-researched tracts with poor examples. I've
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
I'm with you. The author doesn't appear to be very experienced in any of these languages. He just seems to be posting his own naive interpretations. That said, I'm really excited about Clojure. I got back into programming via Ruby and no
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
Watching it via Roku on NASA TV.
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
"Isn't there something inherently wrong with society when an industry that [b]provides little value to society make so much money[/b] that they can afford to pay better than anyone else?" I dont think I misunderstood you there.
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
Here is my problem: I see a lot of finance industry bashing in between the lines of your post. You're making an argument about the choices that individuals make based on their own personal goals and circumstances. When you bemoan the choi
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
I read the whole thread and it doesn't change my argument. You don't seem to understand economics or different value systems. Obviously SOME people make the choice to go do startups even though they could make more MONEY (at least initiall
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
Right where you made a value judgement about the "value" the algorithmic component of the financial services sector provides to society.
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
They aren't being "lost" to the financial industry. They are proving "value" to the consumers of those (valuable) services. You could make the same argument for home health care workers and cardiac nurses. Potential home health care worke
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by Nrsolis 15y ago
Thom, if you're so convinced that the financial industry provides so little benefit to modern society, why don't you try and live in a country without one. The Great Depression in the US (which effectively wiped out a significant portion of
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
Do you have any opinions of Ceph? They seem to be dong a similar thing.
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
Oh, one more thing Abe: http://dataprivacylab.org/people/sweeney/index.html She got her bachelor's from HES. She's now running a department at CMU. You should drop by and visit her when she's back from MIT.
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
Interesting fact: Two of the world's most famous billionaires attended Harvard and didn't stay long enough to finish a degree. Care to guess who they might be?
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
Not most. ALL. Those of us who have already established ourselves in a career feel less insecure about our credentials than your typical Crimson "English" concentrator. I, for one, have never felt particularly threatened by 19 year-olds.
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
That signaling effect works both ways: 1. There are plenty of people who automatically consider Ivy Leaguers a threat and work to undermine them almost as a matter of principle. 2. Simple mistakes made by Ivy Leaguers are often amplified by
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
Full Disclosure: I earned my bachelor's degree (an ALB) via the Extension School (HES) and graduated in 2009. I'm disappointed in your comment. Firstly, it reflects an almost complete disconnect between what HES's stated mission is and wha
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
It's not really that simple. You can't really ever simulate your trading with 100% confidence since you're never entirely sure what your participation in the market will do to the results you see when you /aren't/ participating. There is a
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
The actual term for being paid to "not work" is called "being on the beach."
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
"It's as much a rag as HuffPo, it's just a lot better at maintaining "production value"." Well then, you're in luck. The content you don't care about will not longer be free to you. Enjoy your full refund. Seriously, I can't take you seri
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
I can't see how you could come to this conclusion, but I'll play along... What do you envision the "newspaper" of 2020 will look like? HuffPo? Please. That rag is 75% unadulterated opinion pieces and biased claptrap. To me, you sound lik
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
I read his comment and I can't say that I disagree with his assessment given the amount of information that we have. I spent some time on a US nuclear warship and he's probably got some nuclear engineering background. Right now, my main co
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
So don't go back. You could make the same argument about a lot of restaurants/bars/public places, etc. Honestly, I know a lot of VERY big guys who lift a heck of a lot of weight. Without exception, every single one of them is the nicest,
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
With respect to the service tiers of the various networks, a much more useful graph would include the mean, median, and standard deviation of the observed throughput. It should then be really easy to determine if DSL vs. FiOS is responsibl
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by Nrsolis 16y ago
Ditto. Kindle rocks.

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