brmj

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by brmj 15y ago
I've seen one of a different design in a small town in Ohio since earlier this week. Interesting.
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by brmj 15y ago
I'd like to briefly point out that the "economic oligarchy" argument is just a special case of one of the classic Marxist arguments against capitalism in general. Take that as you will.
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by brmj 15y ago
I sit on an Ikea stool. I'm essentially spending my summer doing sysadmin gruntwork at a tiny data center in an outbuilding in someone's backyard for less than the median wage of a Wal-Mart "sales associate", so perhaps that is to be expect
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by brmj 15y ago
Solaris isn't your only option. Various BSDs support ZFS quite well.
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by brmj 16y ago
I assert that, in principle, any labor performed by humans may be replaced by equivalent labor performed by machines, and that as technology advances, the fraction which may be cost-effectively replaced will increase, most likely going to 1
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by brmj 16y ago
In this case, the internet is definitely your friend. Also, it is worth noting that there are a lot of technical people who graduate from RIT and pick up some ASL while there to better interact with the NTID students. At some point you may
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by brmj 16y ago
I actually hoard quite a bit of information for that, among other, contingencies. I've got engineering textbooks of all kinds, a book on the preservation of library books, books on metallurgy, a book on vacuum tube design, military survival
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by brmj 16y ago
As a long time GNU+Linux user, I would be fine with being forced to use Linux or FreeBSD. As a matter of general principal, however, I am opposed to such OS requirements when they extend beyond reasonable security and comparability concerns
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by brmj 16y ago
That is depressingly likely. However, the user who made the post that started it all had been a redditer for over a year and posts on a number of topics, so if your theory is correct they were fairly subtle about it.
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by brmj 16y ago
Believe it or not,it has only been 17 days since the post that started it all.