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by bin0 7y ago
Backblaze's failure/longevity stats are indispensable when considering which drive to purchase: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2018/
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by bin0 7y ago
Here's the issue with this: the live-traffic component of google maps, waze, etc. is very much a network effect. You get a lot of traffic info by measuring the speeds and stalls of your users. This creates the classic chicken-and-egg
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by bin0 7y ago
I personally blame social media for a lot oft this. Mob mentality has been a problem since forever, but Twitter has created a nation-wide 24/7 mob which is angrier than ever and never disbands. I blame that for the elections of Presi
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by bin0 7y ago
> I would have to disagree. I think for-profit prisons, money-is-speech, on-your-own healthcare are three examples of extreme individualism and anti-social-ism that it seems the Republicans are proud of. I'm guessing your frame of r
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by bin0 7y ago
More importantly, Google's core competency is PageRank. Sharing the index != sharing PageRank. As time goes on, others will use inferior algorithms, and become worse. This scheme will not accomplish what it intends to do. Also, you
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by bin0 7y ago
That's not a fair assessment. Your opinion of a "sensible position" on "gun control" is almost certainly different from mine. I would take the perspective that people openly supporting socialism is a much further-
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by bin0 7y ago
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/30/hey-barack-...
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by bin0 7y ago
When you say the rest of the world, I assume you mean that Europe is much further left than America? If so, that has no bearing on how we judge American media. Other nations are farther left or right; we judge bias based on the political
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by bin0 7y ago
This is a political opinion. Whether the presidency is doing something good or bad is one. Half the nation disagrees with you. By expressing this in an implicit sense in media, the media is biased. Also, you're wrong: obama was Mist
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by bin0 7y ago
This is misleading as all get-out. "JavaScript assembler" is WASM, I assume? Running it in a browser still includes the overhead of a browser. The slowness is not from the wasm runtime (which has been implemented standalone and
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by bin0 7y ago
But most have regional replacements. WeChat in China, VK (and some Telegram, though it's now blocked?) in Russia. This makes them less reliant on the American originals, which is why governments often encourage home-grown knock-offs.
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by bin0 7y ago
Microsoft could do the same with Windows Defender with jutification, had the windows version exhibited the same malicious behavior.
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by bin0 7y ago
Zoom deliberately circumvented Apple's standard package format, contrary to security interests. Zoom is basically behaving like a virus here.
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by bin0 7y ago
I don't need an "excuse" to continue eating meat. I like it, I eat measured amounts in a health way, and don't believe in this "veganism is healthier" nonsense. I'm going to continue eating it unless som
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by bin0 7y ago
It's costly and slow because of massive over-regulation and American regulators' retarded approval of new generations of technology. And no, there are no nuclear shills; wind and solar are not feasible nation-wide. They require
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Ross Perot Has Died(wsj.com)
3 points by bin0 7y ago|0 comments
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by bin0 7y ago
Not necessarily. Mortality of mothers is higher in multiple births; maybe that's a counter-pressure (fewer children). Children do worse as well ([0], [1], [2]). Ladies are not built to carry more than one child, especially consideri
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by bin0 7y ago
I'd dispute a lot of what is in that source. Their heat-maps of various characteristics are a correlation only, and a correlation among things which tend to go together (fertility rate, tv ownership (wealth), gdp per capita, and femal
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by bin0 7y ago
I think there was such a selection pressure when we were nomadic hunter-gatherers. Agriculture is a very recent development anthropologically, so we were still in the mode of one-kid-per-pregnancy, though multiple might have been advanta
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by bin0 7y ago
> Large families do not just happen due to poverty You're right, they happen due to culture. However, the cultures you listed are notably insular and traditional, meaning they do not have large families for the same reason much of
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Finite State on Huawei's Security(finitestate.io)
2 points by bin0 7y ago|1 comments
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by bin0 7y ago
Everything I'm hearing sounds like a choice. Married? That's a choice. Kids? Choice. MtG cards? Choice. Fruit stand? Choice. America is a place where you have more chpices, but also bear the consequenses thereof. Let me ta
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by bin0 7y ago
Fair enough. I guess not all vegans will be homogeneous here either; I'm assuming some are in it for harm reduction, some for ecology, some for the "animals cute" factor. Oh well. I appreciate the insight.
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by bin0 7y ago
Google is going to regret this in a few years, when it needs security experts and they are in short supply (or rather shorter; they are already in short supply). Maybe we should be commoditizing security knowledge, which is what a platform
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by bin0 7y ago
> We took a step too low and need to climb back up This is not going to happen; we will keep sliding. We are not the ones doing the stepping, because we do not control the platform. What we can do is persuade people to use distribu
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by bin0 7y ago
So here's an interesting question: if plants are conscious, can vegans eat them? And if not, what will they eat? Not trying to troll vegans; if this is different and some one can enlighten me, I'd appreciate it.
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by bin0 7y ago
It's a jobs program which humiliates innocent Americans and treats those who have committed no crime as common criminals without any warrant or probable cause. It's a violation of individual sovereignty without reason. Jobs are
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by bin0 7y ago
I sympathize with your problem, and it feels that things would be easier were the courts not so screwed up. It was formerly the case (hundreds of years ago) that if your neighbor burnt your lawn, you could sue him. No lawyers needed. It&
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by bin0 7y ago
I don't understand what you mean. Do you really think they should hire a less-qualified person because of her sex? "we are going to hire _another_ man" - if he's the most qualified, why wouldn't you? What is this
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by bin0 7y ago
The way you're phrasing it, they need to "admit guilt". They are guilty of nothing. First of all, what kind of heartless jerk fires every one to win PC points? That's a really bad practice, not fair to your employees,

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