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by amscanne 3y ago
Such a statement seems, at best, a controversial view. For example, I’m pretty sure that the religious aspects of the crusades are generally accepted as the primary cause.
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by amscanne 3y ago
Canada has already banned foreign buyers, in some cases even if they are legally living/working in Canada. (This is despite the fact that it’s mostly an ongoing domestic speculation problem, as indicated here, … and despite the fact th
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by amscanne 3y ago
Discrete events and very small numbers make it hard to draw good conclusions, and you shouldn’t extrapolate like that. With the exact same logic, you could have argued yesterday that Cruise vehicles are less likely to drive into concrete
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by amscanne 3y ago
This would mean that every container has its own buffer cache, you can no longer have intentional shared state (K8s secrets, shared volumes, etc.), and must construct block overlays instead of cheap file overlays. You’re definitely losing s
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by amscanne 3y ago
Ah, now it makes more sense to me. Thank you for the clarification.
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by amscanne 3y ago
This sort of feels like seeing someone riding a bike and saying: why don’t they just get a car? The simple fact is that containers and VMs are quite different. I’m responding to what I believe is the intent of the comment, but I will also p
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by amscanne 3y ago
The reason you can focus auditing on the second process is because you have a security architecture that enables that. Of course the security mechanisms you’re relying on there need to be exercised and occasionally fall apart too (meltdow
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by amscanne 3y ago
I mean the “pump” probably isn’t a vacuum pump. Maybe it’s a water screw. Maybe it’s a rope and bucket. The effect is the same, no? The water must be lifted X.
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by amscanne 3y ago
I suspect that these are vastly different methodologies, as “heat-related” mortality is probably overwhelmingly existing conditions that are being exacerbated, whereas the 18 here are probably direct “heat-related” causes, e.g. suffering fr
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by amscanne 3y ago
In theory, wouldn’t you be able to just keep pumping from the surface of the pipe (increasing x) until x provided a sufficient differential pass through the membrane? It would then stay at x even while you continue pumping. The pump would m
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by amscanne 3y ago
Well, TIL. Interesting that I had so many hours of Canadian history yet this particular angle didn’t stick with me. I recall a framing of the constitution act as a quintessentially Canadian “we asked politely for independence, and Britain s
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by amscanne 3y ago
Maybe it’s just me… I like open platforms but I don’t see how they are important in the creation of open software. If it were, then why did GitHub accelerate collaboration and network effects for open source so much? Sometimes “free as in
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by amscanne 3y ago
I presume this is a joke (though I don’t get it), because AFAIK the US had nothing at all to do with Canadian federation.
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by amscanne 3y ago
Stacks changed a lot in Go subsequently. I believe that in 1.2, segmented stacks were still being used. (They now are contiguous and copied on upsize.)
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by amscanne 3y ago
You just asserted it was a lie, but didn’t say why. I want to know how you are refuting the “cashless is cheaper” argument? All of the business owners I know value cash only for the ability to declare a bit less, the fees are a wash with
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by amscanne 3y ago
What is your argument here? I believe the oft-cited reason cash is more expensive is primarily due to shrinkage, which is on the same order as the credit card fees (unless you’re a family-run business or have only amazingly trustworthy empl
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by amscanne 3y ago
If you sell unique, valuable items way below their value then all you’re doing is creating a secondary market for scalpers/squatters to thrive, which is terrible for everyone. Having premium domains means they can be priced correctly,
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by amscanne 3y ago
There is such thing as "local-looking" in Go. That's the point -- the compiler and runtime make the decisions as needed and the programmer doesn't care. (Obviously there are some consequences to this, wherein you may fin
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by amscanne 3y ago
If publishers aren’t paying, what did you mean by this, exactly: > Publishers' relevance on, say, Google, relies partly on sponsored contents. They pay Google for this. I understand that Google has optimized to avoid the user clicki
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by amscanne 3y ago
> And if Google or Meta were honest about it, they would just remove all the news links and shut down their news sites. Instead, they make a fuss about how unjust is for users to not have access to news through their platforms, and how n
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by amscanne 3y ago
> I've always wanted to create a new language (probably visual) where the implementation of that language is open to be extended and changed right in the same context as where you use that language. A readily-accessible trap down to
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by amscanne 3y ago
One subtle distinction: it has helped Canadian artists that are producing "Canadian Content" [1], not all Canadian artists. If you are a Canadian singer in a band with a song that was composed by your American band mate, you are S
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by amscanne 3y ago
Texas seems to be 1500-1800, whereas Northern Canada (including all of Ontario and Quebec) seems to generally be 900-1200. So 20-50% worse, no? No clue about the cold factor, but the maps are lifetime kW per nominal kW panel, so presumably
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by amscanne 3y ago
Hours of sunlight per year is really a misleading metric. For solar to be effective, you need consistent, direct sun. Disregarding the massive consistency problem, even in the summer Northern Canada will have a much low angle of incidence f
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by amscanne 3y ago
I don’t think the connections between the receptors (rods and cones) and the ganglion cells are “trainable”? You seem to be assuming Brain-like learning functionality inside the eye . I’m not a biologist, but I don’t think this is the case
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by amscanne 3y ago
I don't think any of those channels are trying to replace an actual science education in any given subject. But they are certainly imparting a lot more than physics "factoids", and some are probably closer to intro lectures o
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by amscanne 3y ago
I don’t think it matters that much. The firing itself takes a couple of milliseconds, and there’s a refactory period of a millisecond. I’m approximating 250hz as the maximum rate of firing. You’re arguing that the neuron can encode more inf
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by amscanne 3y ago
It’s always interesting to think about the exact technological analog for our biological sensors, but I believe that our vision would be way less than that in terms of raw data. We have a super high-res area at the center of vision (the fov
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by amscanne 3y ago
That’s a complete straw man. Microsoft, Meta and others managed to pull off safely laying off employees while still treating them respectfully and allowing them to say goodbye.
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by amscanne 3y ago
I’m not sure if you are being intentionally obtuse, but the obvious answer is that rather than being locked out in the middle of the night, people would prefer to be told directly by a human (ideally their manager), and given the opportunit

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