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by amalag 11y ago
There was a nice article on seeking alpha which speculated that sovereign funds of countries like Norway and middle eastern countries used the opportunity of high equity prices and low oil prices to sell. This large selling pressure has giv
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by amalag 11y ago
I think the way reddit does it is great. A red number in the header if you have replies and then an unread page where you can see them and click for context.
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by amalag 11y ago
Elastic Beanstalk drove me nuts. I went with Opsworks and was much happier.
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by amalag 11y ago
Ripple is working with banks on inter bank settlements and they are NOT using a blockchain. A consensus algorithm makes a lot more sense.
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by amalag 11y ago
I think the approach of Crystal is far better for lightweight ruby. They embraced static typing. I think that is the correct approach for lightweight ruby languages. Otherwise we still don't know exactly what features mruby does or doe
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by amalag 11y ago
This is why in days of yore there was something called collateral. Loan goes bad, you take the collateral, maybe take a loss and move on. Now banks think they can get rid of that concept too. They want loans to be insured by governments so
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by amalag 11y ago
No one cares about "premining" accept miners. They don't care about miners, they care about being in the real world with banks. See what they have done in 2015. https://ripple.com/insights/ripple-2015-a-y
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by amalag 11y ago
I know a person fired from his Rails dev position who had a sleep issue on the job. They later came under new management and switched to a remote team and let him have his own hours. If you are competent you can do fine with a remote job. Y
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by amalag 11y ago
I read further on wikipedia and it mentions that these lines can also be underground. DC cables do not suffer from capacitance issues that AC cables do: "Long underground DC cables have no such issue and can run for thousands of miles.
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by amalag 11y ago
A consensus system like Ripple makes a lot more sense. Blockchain and hashing is ridiculous when there are better ways to achieve the goals.
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by amalag 11y ago
You can do RoR on Jruby. It won't be as performant as staticly typed languages, but it is often good enough. You do lose the benefits of static typing though with refactoring.
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by amalag 11y ago
I agree with a lot of this. My only complaint is the business layer has been lacking. I am using the techniques presented in the Trailblazer book and I am appreciating it.
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by amalag 11y ago
I really don't like the way Sinatra has its own new DSL. I don't understand why Rubyists want a DSL for everything. I really prefer the class based approach of Camping.
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by amalag 11y ago
I can see a lot of faults in Rails, but this critcism is silly. The documentation is excellent at that level. http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_migrations.h...
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by amalag 11y ago
I agree with a lot of what you are saying and you know a lot about the situation. However if the Rouhani administration is strategic and its goals align with not having nuclear weapons then the international community should accept it strat
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by amalag 11y ago
I agree with what you say about Iran but I think the US should still engage in order to make inroads with moderates there. International pressure has worked in Iran and a large country like that does feel the pressure. 3 million protestors
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by amalag 11y ago
Cows are intrinsically linked with organic farming in most of the world. They give fertilizer, power and milk. It is now skewed because of oil. If oil is expensive, they are the key to sustainable and prosperous agriculture.
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by amalag 11y ago
"Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they cam
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by amalag 11y ago
Historically the Shia's have been a minority and have often played by the rules of assymetric warfare. As I learned from a tv documentary, we get the word "assasin" from an early small Islaimi Shia group (the Nizaris) which f
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by amalag 11y ago
It is excellent because the US should really NOT fall into being only a Shia or Sunni ally. We do not want a stake in that conflict.
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by amalag 11y ago
Persians will not follow a super strict Islam like Saudi and other Sunni countries do. It will just not happen. You are aware they were quite liberal in the 1950's before the recent fundamentalists. Even now in Iran they recognize 4 re
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by amalag 11y ago
Yes they are hypocritical to criticize Saudi and its sharia. But generally you will find the persians are not as strict as arabs. Now they have an over the top Islamic regime, but historically this is abnormal. You are aware Iran was much m
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by amalag 11y ago
Iran is state sponsor of terrorism but probably less than Pakistan whom the US government funds a lot more. The Taliban is sheltered and supported in Pakistan. Iran would be a far better strategic ally. Their Israel obsession can be cured,
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by amalag 11y ago
There are scholars who have advocated for the US to ally with Iran more than Pakistan. C Christine Fair has written scathing books and articles on Pakistan and its Islamist Jihadist army. She says most countries have an army, but in Pakista
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by amalag 11y ago
I think it worked because it put pressure on the government. The government is not hugely supported everywhere, it would have had increasing pressure on its higher powers if sanctions continued. Do you remember the green movement? This is v
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by amalag 11y ago
The Iranian people in general though are not like the Saudi people. Persia may have become Islamic but there is a stronger current of secularism there. Also the Shiite version of Islam in general is not so strict like the Sunni. Iran was ve
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by amalag 11y ago
I have been very neutral towards Obama ( I voted third party in both recent national elections) and don't like how cozy he is with corporate interests, but he has impressed me with what he has accomplished. Iran, Cuba, Healthcare and a
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by amalag 11y ago
I can see someone open sourcing their proxy software which anyone can run on a cloud provider or even spin up on demand.
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by amalag 11y ago
Yes I see what you mean, they have their own servers to proxy but then are able to hand off the actual video traffic. So presumably Netflix knows which are the Getflix and other service tunnel endpoints. I wonder if it will escalate with Ge
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by amalag 11y ago
The far easier method is with DNS services, I wonder if it will affect those too or this is just an official announcement and they will not do anything drastic.

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