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by bertjk 6y ago
But the same supply side problem is also an argument against single payer healthcare. Maybe you've negotiated an awesome rate for the public, but then this comes back to bite you in the form of shortages and/or reduced R&D of
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by bertjk 6y ago
I agree with the point about being able to compare two windows, but I feel like the second monitor adds much less value now that affordable 32" 4K monitors are a thing. Now the more useful investment is simply learning your OS's
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by bertjk 6y ago
In your opinion what is the difference between an SOA and microservice architecture? When does a microservice become just an SOA service or vice versa?
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by bertjk 6y ago
It means that in the sort of zero interest rates environment that we are in, where investors are desperate for yield, they will probably be able to sell these for years longer than they otherwise would have (and ruining lives in the proces
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by bertjk 6y ago
Wait.. so they were securitizing their ISAs? I had no idea they were doing that. It is a brilliant twist I didn't expect, and that also causes me to lose all respect for them. I liked the ISA idea before, but this... is perverse.
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by bertjk 6y ago
I don't see the point. None of them except possibly Intel themselves would have the economies of scale to put the next M1-challenging super x86_64 iteration on a bleeding edge process node, which would be required if one actually want
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by bertjk 6y ago
What makes you think the fed's tap will ever get turned off? What preconditions do you think we have to see before it happens? In the past, every time I thought "the Fed will have to tighten soon" something happens which so
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by bertjk 6y ago
I've used CCC the chrome extension for a long time. What is newsworthy here? Is the landing page new?
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by bertjk 6y ago
(real question) Why is transactional email considered a cesspit?
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by bertjk 6y ago
US spy planes flying near china is definitely not new, nor limited to this administration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident
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by bertjk 6y ago
Some of the IOGear KVMs do provide hotkey functionality.
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by bertjk 6y ago
Don't you think you might be viewing this through an excessively partisan lens? Before Jerome Powell was the Fed Chair, he was a 5 year veteran of the Fed Board of Governors, having been nominated by Barack Obama. His appointment was
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by bertjk 6y ago
>> the democrats don't know enough to read the writing on the wall. What are you suggesting exactly here? That the Fed is hell-bent on inducing general inflation, even at the cost of skyrocketing asset values?
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by bertjk 6y ago
It would be nice if these name suggestions also came with meanings/etymology where available. Sometimes a name might be phonetically compatible but have an unfortunate connotation. There is an easy way to sidestep the multicultural na
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by bertjk 6y ago
Do you mean their potential for war with China? Yes.
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by bertjk 6y ago
> if you don't have kids- don't weigh in on these issues I agree, but would also add that even if you do have kids, they probably have personalities and circumstances unlike everyone else's kids. And that in all likelih
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by bertjk 6y ago
> we'd plop them in front of the TV then struggle pulling them away from it afterwards (google wifi is great for deus-ex-machina internet outages...). I can totally relate. One day our kids will figure out that our fiber internet s
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by bertjk 6y ago
>They resist standard DC... but what about AC at a certain frequency, or pulsed DC at a certain frequency? Um.. yes. This is actually exactly how you model coupling capacitors when analyzing circuits. You use them to connect two nodes.
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by bertjk 6y ago
"parked at sea" has that meaning. There would be no complaints here if the headline was "SUVs Get Parked At Sea,..."
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by bertjk 7y ago
A good defense lawyer never puts their client on the stand. While this is not currently a criminal trial, the same principles surely apply. If Boeing starts talking, then the focus moves from debating whether more training was needed and w
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by bertjk 7y ago
Why is it assumed that mom & pop stores will opt to carry healthier options?
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by bertjk 7y ago
Turkey also: https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/29/turkey-togg-electric-cro... I'm starting to think that the most significant consequence of the mechanical simplicity of electric cars is not the addition
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by bertjk 7y ago
He has recently written about something similar: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-24/we-had... I personally don't see the crime here though. What does it mean to place orders you don
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by bertjk 7y ago
I can accept the pretty smart part (I've never seen the GMAT but I'll accept it for the sake of argument) but what part of getting an MBA filters for "possessing soft skills, being personable, ready to meet with clients or ma
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by bertjk 7y ago
It sounds like you agree with the ISA concept but are only unhappy with the price. I'm guessing the terms are this way to discourage the less motivated.
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by bertjk 7y ago
Have you ever encountered any web sites that you feel went above and beyond in accessibility? I have sometimes wondered while debugging a site for accessibility concerns, fixing the nth input focus problem or what not, whether it would be
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by bertjk 7y ago
Related to the website if not the article, but I wish this website did not hijack ctrl-f.
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by bertjk 7y ago
I think the better phrase is simply "bureaucracy".
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by bertjk 7y ago
Hmm what is the modern file sharing thing that we are supposed to use that is not Samba? if I wanted to share some directories on my LAN that can be browsed/read/written to by non-technical users without extra software what is th
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by bertjk 7y ago
I know what my kids would do. They would take nothing but Jello, play with the ice cubes in their water glass for the remainder of their mealtime and then later they will lose their shit because they feel hungry.

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