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by ardy42 6y ago
>>> I always like to say that we live in an exponential meritocracy, where your accumulated merit enhances your ability to accumulate more merit, eventually resulting in a small minority rapidly pulling ahead of the pack. Goes wit
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by ardy42 6y ago
> (Do you get why some people are pushing back on your comment above? You can come up with this kind of stuff for anything. You can't eat an apple today without possibly furthering child labor, our world is too complex to try and tu
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by ardy42 6y ago
> So 1) they have "a victim complex" and 2) you laugh at them? Hmm. Having a "victim complex" does necessarily mean that they are actual victims. Also elements of the "right" have made a big deal mocking ot
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Neither party perfectly represents my views, nor would you expect that to happen if political parties are acting rationally. But the debate over the appointment of ACB struck me as a great example of why I find aspects of the Democrati
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> The president and house were won by the Democrats. Why does a functioning democracy require them to also control the Senate, when the American system of government was expressly designed with this sort of legislative tension in mind? Y
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> As for the "anti-democratic" American system of government, a cursory reading of the Federalist Papers would demonstrate that the Framers believed that majoritarian democracy was, in fact, tyranny of the majority....Majoritar
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> It's not that I don't care. However, I object to the huge amount of media/news stories driven by fear which leads to a generalized anxiety and depression about basically everything. So, in summary, you think ignorance i
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Here's an archive of the announcement: https://web.archive.org/web/20201222001232/https://voat.co/v... Looking at those comments, it will not be missed.
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While it would make sense to have recovery routines in some nonvolatile memory to handle a system corruption use case, I'm not sure it if would be necessary for a system restart. IIRC, core-based systems had nonvolatile RAM, and I thi
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Ah, now I see. I'm just stuck in the 20th century. I suppose I should be glad I still don't accidentally write "19" for the century on my checks.
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> Not sure about that. A Russian guy who poisoned Litvinenko with radioactive polonium in London was then promoted to a member of state parliament: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Lugovoy Did that guy get tric
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>> Unrelated: if there were there a chart that shows the number of people killed by each country per year in this millennia -- what countries do you think will "in the lead" by an order of magnitude at least from the rest? &
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> Furthermore the conclusions are always the ones they'd want (e.g. "Russia shot down an airliner"). I mean, it's pretty hard to dispute such a conclusion when you have social media posts tracking the movement from Ru
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> I think one of the more interesting tidbits of the investigation is how they managed to find the agents that were following him using black-market mobile phone records from corrupt policemen. These were only available due to a law allo
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This isn't about a Cray, but it's roughly contemporaneous. According to https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/handle/2014/26062 , the Cassini space probe had an "SSD," and the contract to build it was award
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The biggest problems will be finding a C compiler for the Cray and adding a framebuffer output, I think... but this is a very nice challenge :). I suppose you could run Doom as a batch job: input is a file with the control input and ou
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by ardy42 6y ago
> However, for reasons other than functionality or user-experience, Apple continues to fiddle and fuddle and muck around with laptops - making them weird and unwieldy in the best case, and totally unusable in the worst cases. In the case
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by ardy42 6y ago
> However, I have always been told not to keep rice in the rice cooker for days at a time, for health reasons. If it's warm, I'd imagine it's an even better environment for bacterial/spore growth. IIRC, the reason Zoj
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> True. I made an assumption that the app is built that way. Of course, if te app architecture inherently unscalable, no amount of computing power or private servers is going to help. Isn't it usually a mistake to design your app to
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> I think OP was trying to make a point that the entire investigative journalism industry can't be replaced by freelance bloggers, not that freelance bloggers don't add value. That's exactly it. I elided some thoughts abo
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> I don't think there is any evidence to suggest deep, unbiased, evidence-based journalism ever dominated the field, or that the "crass commercial" interests didn't drive the news rooms. > See the "yellow jour
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> I regularly get the impression a certain slice of HN commenters think "the media" is a bunch of opinion bloggers fabricating sources to drive "an agenda". In reality, the effort for producing a deep investigative s
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> The model happens to be aligned with how and why people actually start companies. It's not my model. That someone else created the model and you believe it doesn't mean it's true. > You have to come up with a persuasi
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> Hmm. You're dodging the question: Why would a cofounder want to start a company with you? No handwaving. > People cofound to get rich. Can your company offer that to your cofounder? I don't know. Why did Steve Jobs and St
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Co-founders? Why are they co-founding? Profit sharing? Because they had an idea with you and want to work together to make it happen? Or all kinds of other things like that? And yeah, if you're going to do that, you're going
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> $130k to pay a single employee for one year. I don't know about you, but it's extremely difficult for most people to save up that kind of runway. I think the idea is that step one isn't hiring a subordinate employee; i
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I was merely responding to your attempt to conflate slavery with a voluntary agreement. ...and apparently missing the actual point in the process.
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> Its not a "panacea," merely a matter of basic human rights that someone should be allowed to choose where to work (or if they want to work at all). It's a panacea in the sense you seem to see that ritualized choice as a
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> It falsely equivocates capturing people, shipping them across the ocean, and forcing them to work under pain of death with offering someone a deal where they voluntarily carry out tasks in return for a certain wage and can leave at any
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Thats a well-poisoning non sequitur. Not really. It's just a snarky illustration that there's more to consider than effects on consumer prices.

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