Pyxl101

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by Pyxl101 10y ago
The new maps look clearer and less cluttered and more useful to me. I would guess that the maps were simply designed to follow their primary utility function which is navigation. Old style printed maps had cities on them, because the map di
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by Pyxl101 10y ago
This seems like a pretty strong and specific technical argument in favor of systemd: https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2013/12/msg00234.html What's the best single page summary along with adequate det
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by Pyxl101 10y ago
Your facts and legal insights are always appreciated.
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by Pyxl101 10y ago
Controlling for poverty does not remove the effect where blacks commit more crime than whites. > As a means to assess these possibilities, I estimate separate regression equations for the black and white block groups in Atlanta. [...] Co
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by Pyxl101 10y ago
You wrote the following in a previous comment: > I am a former Amazon employee. I worked there for exactly a year. I assume I was doing well, I was offered increase bonus and base after my initial year. https://news.ycombinato
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Not a good answer for application servers. You can lose data in between the application issuing the write and the disk persisting it, and in between persistence and backup. The absence of data corruption doesn't necessarily mean the pr
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
The phrase you're looking for is "toe the line", having the sense of standing with your toes behind a line on the ground.
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
The elephant in the room, and the aspect of this issue that no one wants to talk about is that players can play on these servers for free. Any player who drops their WoW subscription in favor of a private server is a loss for blizzard, and
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Washing someone's car does not entitle you to ownership of it. Founding a company and working for the company without pay does entitle you to equity in that company -- that is where the equity comes from; investments into the company a
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
I'm not saying that I have a case showing that "what you do on your own time is yours". That won't be the case, especially if you've signed an agreement to the contrary as a salaried employee. I am simply pointing o
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
What connection does Cubic v Marty have to this? From Justicia: > In mid-May 1977, Marty came up with an idea for an electronic warfare simulator (EWS), a device for training pilots in electronic warfare. He developed a block diagram in
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Allegedly Apple wanted this request from the FBI to stay under seal, and it was the FBI who pushed to make it public. If that's the case, then it may have indeed been the FBI not Apple who turned this into a PR situation.
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
So, tack on an "S" and you're good! The laws of supply and demand.
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Most tax protester arguments are bunk. Many or all of them are debunked in this FAQ: http://evans-legal.com/dan/tpfaq.html For the aspect that you're referring to, see the question for "The income tax cannot
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Oh. I assumed this was open source and you host it on your own server. Yes, not a good idea to use a free hosted product provided by a company where you're using the service anonymously over the Internet. It's funny that you menti
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
You are confusing the distinction between validity and soundness. > That is not a valid argument, because all animals do not live on mars It would be more accurate to say that it is not a sound argument because all animals do not live on
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
> Now if you want to talk about environmental impact, then yes I agree there is much to be said for Tesla. Can you share more evidence to justify that claim? Not that I have any reason specifically to doubt it, but this seems like it war
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
That's a really usefully written FAQ. Well done FTC. It gets into a lot of meaty stuff: > Testimonials claiming specific results usually will be interpreted to mean that the endorser’s experience reflects what others can also expect
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Did he break the law or do something unethical? What did he do?
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Thank you for responding to clarify. What parts of a machine do traditional data center VMs emulate that Hyper avoids? What system functions normally supported by a guest OS will Hyper not need to support? (E.g., memory management, network
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Edit: (I am going to clear my comment since I'm worried that I'm being excessively critical. I respect gnepzhao for engaging honestly in this thread.)
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
I don't know if I would describe VMs as heavy. But to the extent that they are heavy, it's because they are an application and OS running on virtualized (i.e. partially or fully emulated) hardware rather than physical hardware. [E
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Site would probably handle load bursts a lot better if it was hosted on Lambda * g *.
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
> it's always tempting to think that we can create a perfect language that would be the best in all situations but we can't Why can't we design a language that would be the best in all situations? I see no reason necessari
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
You're using an inadequate notion of what a "good argument" is in this context. You have not made an argument for why a price floor is necessary or desirable. I could just as easily say, "The good argument for having a m
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
I've never heard a good argument to justify having a minimum wage. A lot of the people who argue for minimum wages commit the fallacy of the false dichotomy: they think that the choice is between everyone having jobs and getting paid w
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
I've often wondered if it would be possible to design a source control system that could track this lineage. Kind of like, "inside" of a commit would be a hidden history that you could unpack if you wanted to. "This sing
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
> Everything else should be recorded in the history. Forensics are important to the long term health of your project and you impoverish yourselves by scrubbing the crime scene. OK. So would you support an IDE that generated one individua
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Exactly. I live in a big city. It's already dense enough that transit congestion is a major problem. One coworker bought a house a couple of years ago, and in the last year told me that his commute essentially doubled . Further increa
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
FYI, the article is satire. Not reading it will miss the point :-)

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