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by bcoates 9y ago
What's wrong with Houston that growth restriction would solve? Assuming your point isn't "I don't like Houston and wish there were less of it." It's not like those last 2 million people are what prevented it fr
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by bcoates 9y ago
I'm honestly surprised that people still bother with multi-user access control. Defense in depth only works if the defenses are actually manned, and it's been pretty clear that nobody's been taking linux local escalation seri
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by bcoates 9y ago
These were installed about a year ago across dense, pedestrian-heavy section of Santa Monica, near where I live. I don't drive and usually travel that area on foot. I can't speak for any safety changes, but they're vastly les
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by bcoates 9y ago
The Baader-Meinhof effect combined with a growing awareness of your own mortality?
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by bcoates 9y ago
Your code is actually less portable if you use types like uint64_t -- if your system doesn't have exactly that type implemented the typedef won't exist. If all you need is a really big number 'unsigned long long' is requ
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by bcoates 9y ago
But you're not getting rid of the warped incentive structures, you're just simulating them! Assuming you actually get your data and everything perfect you just get capitalism-world, warts and all. If you just want to be able to di
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by bcoates 9y ago
If you can do central planning, money becomes mostly superfluous. The whole point is that factories don't pay for their inputs, stores are stocked without borrowing to buy goods, profitability of individual firms becomes irrelevant,
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by bcoates 9y ago
That's not central planning, that's just regular planning. Both Walmart's supply of resources and other producers of its goods (or near-identical substitute goods) are outside the control of its planners, forcing them to spen
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by bcoates 9y ago
At first I thought this was going to be a joke, then I thought it was going to be stupid, but it's actually brilliant.
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by bcoates 9y ago
It's slightly useful if you only give the key to your application servers, and not your database servers. Now you need an application server breach and not just read access to a database. It's not unheard of for something like a d
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by bcoates 9y ago
There's no actual need for two algorithms -- you can just hash them with the same algorithm twice. This is essentially what PBKDF2 does, hashing the password a configurable number (thousands) of times. It's a little more complicat
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by bcoates 9y ago
Here's a vested interest trying to cherry-pick studies to make tablets in the classroom seem useful, and it's pretty thin gruel: http://www.securedgenetworks.com/blog/8-Studies-Show-iPads-i... 1. A study show
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by bcoates 9y ago
I think you're confusing learning with memorization and/or indoctrination? If your lessions are only lecture, discussion, and reading then you can go ahead and skip them and replace them with nothing [1]. It's bunk that some
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by bcoates 9y ago
It's gone downhill since. Windows 8/10 search is virtually useless compared to Windows 7.
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by bcoates 9y ago
The first channels to relocate will not do so for another 18 months, according to the FCC. And TV stations that are changing channels or will go off the air will be expected to notify their viewers ahead of time with on-screen
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by bcoates 9y ago
How would I, a passenger, even know what Uber's rake is? It's not shown anywhere.
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by bcoates 10y ago
Hundreds of people a year die adventuring in that region cash prize or no. Leaving the house is dangerous.
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by bcoates 10y ago
It's not hard to tell if someone is actually seeking dialectic and wants to pursue the truth. The vast majority of people are making smalltalk and may as well be discussing professional basketball.
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by bcoates 10y ago
If the problem is overhiring not underhiring then there's no market failure: companies waste dumb money on hiring reams of sexy culture fits, smarter/leaner companies hire broadly but selectively at appropriate volumes. Older and
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by bcoates 10y ago
Some people think their problem is JavaScript (most of these people are wrong)
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by bcoates 10y ago
It allows the optimizer to assume away the halting problem; all nontrivial loops are obligated to halt.
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by bcoates 10y ago
They don't get paid for the accuracy of their public pronouncements, it's just a marketing tool to raise their profile. It doesn't prevent them from being competent and maintaining clients. Also, most clients would be more th
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by bcoates 10y ago
Nobody has perfect attribution and direct sales ads are a minority. Traffic quality is big deal.
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by bcoates 10y ago
No I'm just bad at reading. the other way around, current state bad. I don't think you need to disintermediate entirely but you need everyone in the actual chain to have a real business relationship with each other where you have
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by bcoates 10y ago
I think he's saying between the lines that his source is a insider, and it's either a leak or an internal hack. That's the only way he could have any reliable information at all about the source.
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by bcoates 10y ago
CrowdStrike's partisanship is like the news media's: bias towards spectacle, unwarranted certainty, and producing a coherent narrative facts be damned.
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by bcoates 10y ago
It's bad. Ending it is necessary and possibly sufficient for Internet ads to stop being awful for both advertiser and publisher. (I've worked in the space buy-side)
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by bcoates 10y ago
Processors are inherently extremely stateful; this is an argument against having unix-style signals.
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by bcoates 10y ago
It's not physically possible either. It's a pretty common affectation of trust fund kids that they can just pretend to be normal, but it's just play-acting or maybe economic tourism. The song "Common People" describ
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by bcoates 10y ago
Not operating anywhere near the scale of grandparent, but spending a decent amount on FB ads results in a noticeable lift in search volume. It's hard to back this into value but it's at least independent verification that your mon

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