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by bbayles 9y ago
Infinite Jest is worth getting through. It's not easy or pleasant, but it's something I'll always remember vividly.
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by bbayles 9y ago
Yes, it can. The purpose of the project is to figure out how to do that while minimizing the number of APIs that have to break.
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by bbayles 9y ago
This video isn't my cup of tea, but Roberts' EconTalk podcast has been educational and illuminating for over 10 years now - highly recommended.
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by bbayles 10y ago
Hopefully this new process's product can help alleviate some of the issues faced by burn victims. When I was a small child I was run over by a car and severely burned (by the catalytic converter). I had to have multiple skin grafts, on
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by bbayles 10y ago
I've never had a medical procedure work like this. The office was transparent and prompt about everything. Every other encounter with the U.S. medical system I've had has been a confusing mess. When I first visited the office they
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by bbayles 10y ago
I got my eyes fixed with LASIK a while back. I noticed glare and halos for a while, but they subsided. Overall I've been very satisfied with the how it went. I wish that more medical procedures worked this way.
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by bbayles 10y ago
One concern with this line of argumentation: reasonable people shouldn't have to change their behavior, but rational people might want to. That is, suppose you believe (as I do) that D.T. and his supporters are quite dangerous. If
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Show HN: Redis-collections – persistent Python data types backed by redis(github.com)
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by bbayles 10y ago
I'll advocate for: see a marriage counselor regularly! Before getting married if possible, and at least every couple of years after. Many people take more seriously the maintenance of their car than the maintenance of their marriage. T
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by bbayles 10y ago
Water damage could run to hundreds of thousands of dollars in a few hours.
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by bbayles 10y ago
The directory structure is beautiful.
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by bbayles 10y ago
See Mark Thoma's "Economist's View" for a broad sampling. I personally enjoy Marginal Revolution (Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen), Confessions of a Supply-Side Liberal (Miles Kimball), and The Money Illusion (Scott Sumner
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by bbayles 10y ago
This is why I said "Dubner's and Levitt's books are entertaining, but I wouldn't try to learn much about economics from them."
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by bbayles 10y ago
I read Dubner and Levitt's Freakonomics in 2005. It's lame to say that a pop-science book changed my life, but since then I've thought about economics every day. I would recommend some pop-econ to become familiar with a sty
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by bbayles 10y ago
I offered to take over a library that provides a Pythonic interface for Redis a little while ago. The original author accepted, and I've really enjoyed bringing the project back to life. I'll probably do something like that again
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by bbayles 10y ago
This is an under-appreciated point... if 99 people leave money on the table, and the 100th person picks it up, we're back to efficiency in the aggregate.
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by bbayles 10y ago
Mozilla Planet! That site was a big part of how I immersed myself in open source and software generally. When I was in high school I would read every post on the web site, and eventually started reading it on Google Reader. It's where
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by bbayles 10y ago
I've tested a few times - if I floss the day before and day of I don't get the "floss more!" lecture.
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by bbayles 10y ago
Citation needed? I'm just describing the Montessori method, which was developed in the early 1900s. But maybe they were driving "sales revenue" then also?
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by bbayles 10y ago
My partner became involved in Montessori a few years ago, and I've been really impressed with how it works. If you don't know much about Montessori, here is my "in a nutshell" version: It's a method of schooling usu
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by bbayles 10y ago
I read something once that had a real effect on me in these situations. It was "who says you have to feel like doing something to do it?" (Is it magic? Of course not. Will it work for everyone? Of course not.)
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by bbayles 10y ago
I have to fight the hipster in me too, but Serial is an example of something that is deservedly popular. It was very entertaining, yes, but very informative. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about criminal justice. The
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by bbayles 10y ago
You could definitely use Security Onion's tools for that. The full SO distribution is a little bit overkill for that. You could run YAF ([1]) on a box attached to a mirror port to log IP headers and then periodically check it against a
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by bbayles 10y ago
SANS has a slightly dated paper ([1]) about setting up this sort of thing that gives a flavor for how it can work. I think AWS's VPC Flow Logs are the foundation for better tools (disclaimer, my company develops these tools - [2]). I h
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by bbayles 10y ago
I've been a fan of Security Onion for a while. Richard Bejtlich's book "Practice of Network Security Monitoring" discusses setting it up and how to incorporate it into an operations center's routine. Notably, Securi
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by bbayles 10y ago
I didn't really know anything about init systems until 2014 (so I all but missed the systemd wars) when I found myself in need of process synchronization and supervision on various platforms. My task was pretty straightforward: I had a
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by bbayles 11y ago
I agree that it's perfectly valid, but disagree that it's necessary. Deploying proxies has costs - it obscures the endpoints of communication from sensor software and makes anomaly detection more difficult. Richard Bejtlich's
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by bbayles 11y ago
This article is OK overall, but I could do without the "I am so brave for exposing this" trope at the beginning. The author presents some new insights, but complaining about the state universities isn't exactly original.
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by bbayles 11y ago
I don't think it's that crazy. Switching to IPv6 is painful. It's a fine standard, and better than IPv4 in most every way, ignoring transaction costs. But IPv4 + NAT persists because it's a smoother path - the same reaso
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by bbayles 11y ago
The need to exempt various types of traffic for business reasons is ultimately why I think monthly data caps will fade away for cable/telco-provided Internet service. An example would be some provider like Disney saying that in order f

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