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by bakhy 12y ago
Some time ago I read something that seemed a much stronger case against the Year of the Desktop Linux - lack of binary compatibility. It is hard to develop commercial software for Linux, when it means building your software for every distri
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by bakhy 12y ago
Not a very convincing example. A component provides a callback, and then the callback ends up using the same DB access mechanism that the component is using? Or the same lock? I mean, is it providing a callback to itself? Layering the code,
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by bakhy 12y ago
And I wonder how such trolling as yours manages to pass unmoderated. I guess even this site is not without its bias.
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by bakhy 12y ago
That is true, but one should still give it a read, instead of dismissing it as lies just because it was commissioned by a union. Some pretty interesting stuff is included, from very interesting sources, pretty certainly not pro-worker biase
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by bakhy 12y ago
"Moreover, many of these studies have been carried out by economists expecting to confirm a theoretical argument that privatisation is intrinsically more efficient, which makes the results more striking. The evidence contradicts the as
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by bakhy 12y ago
That's an important point. The Nazis were probably one of the most efficient governments ever. Enough said.
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by bakhy 12y ago
Good to see serious empirical work tearing down the tenets of neoliberal ideology. Too many things get accepted as self-evident truths. I'm always curious about the profit in the private-public-partnership stories. The reduction in was
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by bakhy 12y ago
Very nice work! BTW, the player buttons used to be in the top bar, and the search was smaller. I could not for the life of me understand why they moved it down... I disagree with the comments suggestion - it's a feature probably stemmi
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by bakhy 12y ago
I read only to the end of the first paragraph, where it says that big data might crack the enigma. I think their title needs a question mark somewhere.
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by bakhy 12y ago
Read my comment again, that's more or less exactly what I said. Except I do not see such a simple black and white picture. Taxi monopolies have formed to enable the drivers a better bargaining position. Uber is achieving lower prices b
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by bakhy 12y ago
Uber's only purpose and meaning is exploitation. Yes, the app is handy, but it's no disruption. The disruption is in destabilizing the taxi cooperatives and weakening the drivers' position. We should all cut the crap, there i
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by bakhy 12y ago
Aside from all the serious problems, their puny budget being probably the biggest, what always bugged me was the reality show aspect... What an ugly way to even think about achieving such a great feat. Are they picking their candidates like
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by bakhy 12y ago
With the advent of startups, this is the new normal for IT workers. The best part - after all this effort, majority will none the less fail. But in the meanwhile they will be doing huge amounts of work, while their investors can breathe eas
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by bakhy 12y ago
Yes it is. You misunderstood my point, which was about the purpose of existence for such optimizations - they are meant to improve code, which presumably needs improvement. But if your code needs improvement, then why not go for a higher le
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by bakhy 12y ago
I had no idea that such things are possible in C. The things about I've read recently (the "friendly" C suggestion) and this seem like violations of the spirit of the language. And for what, really? The language looses its si
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by bakhy 12y ago
That is a good point! But the same attitude does not stop at surveillance. Detaining people (or, should I say folks? lol), or executing them by drones, without any trial, are also things that don't cause too much fuss in the US public,
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by bakhy 12y ago
The sentence "Screw that" is actually the core of your argument. Why not spy on "folks" (are you a politician? :D) at home? Their power of voting and free motion within your whole country actually makes them much more da
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by bakhy 12y ago
It is about human rights. "All men are created equal." Of course the US government must only bow to its own people, and only US citizens can lead its policy, that is perfectly understandable. But we all deserve basic human rights
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by bakhy 12y ago
The same offensive narrative repeats itself. - The government is bulk collecting data on foreigners. - Meh... - They're also incidentally spying on US citizens in the processs. - SAY WHAT?! If the USA could try to acknowledge the human
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Inequality Is Really Hurting The Economy, S&P Warns(huffingtonpost.com)
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by bakhy 12y ago
Something smells here... The drug is taken in a short period of time, and cures the disease, thus killing the existing business model of selling treatment for a very prolonged period of time. Since this means lost revenue from the old treat
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by bakhy 12y ago
An interesting contradiction appears here. On one hand, this increases market efficiency, or so we're told. On the other, we are also told that if a big pension fund wants to avoid being played like this, they should spend money on the
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by bakhy 12y ago
I hate the way the word "abnormal" is thrown around just like that. I would bet that any group of people with a strong common characteristic could be found to have common "abnormalities" in their brain. <Morgan Freema
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by bakhy 12y ago
> The collective action problem sounds good in theory, but the concept breaks down when you realize that the formation of a government (at least a democracy or republic) is also a collective action. Formation of a government may have the
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by bakhy 12y ago
"risks a war without end" -- I'm sure many in the Pentagon would gladly take that "risk" :)
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by bakhy 12y ago
> I must disagree with you that simply because the people of Seattle have had a democratic vote for a particular policy that we must respect it and refrain from criticizing it. Now, if only I had ever said that... I did not call your att
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by bakhy 12y ago
lucky thing that most YouTube music videos are blocked in Germany. i won't feel a thing. otherwise, this looks an awful lot like another forced bundling by Google, like the way they're showing Google+ down everyone's throats.
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by bakhy 12y ago
from what i can read OSHA was introduced in the 1970s? i'm not talking about that period, but rather about the famous textile factory fire incident and similar stories from the end of 19th - early 20th century. i'm not from the US
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by bakhy 12y ago
ok, interesting statistics. i did not expect such a large number of teens. the average income part, the key is that it counts "families" or "households", i have seen it in another source where it stated that many of the
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by bakhy 12y ago
"The problem is that if you had WANTED that deal you could have BARGAINED for it." -- it's plain as day you have no idea what you're talking about :D you guessed correctly later on - "But wait, I hear you cry: &quot

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