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by cat199 7y ago
> auditing _every_ EV issued? this is what Extended Validation is supposed to mean in the first place.. and lends credence to the argument that EV solves a problem that shouldn't exist to begin with for 'regular' certs
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by cat199 7y ago
> higher-quality data in the EV certs. Part of this is probably the fact that many people were opposed to the entire concept of EV certs as basically being a money grab by the dominant CA's from day 1, and indeed the trend is away f
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by cat199 7y ago
> I don't see how kosher slaughter is related the welfare of animals. not jewish so commenting outside of my area, but, I think that when the practices were installed, the methods were the 'best available' (and so in line
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by cat199 7y ago
> From the definition of big-oh, the choice of the number one is completely arbitrary. is it? not up on the formal theory, but: O(n) -> on the order of n x 1 time intervals of processing O(n)^2 -> on the order of n x n time interv
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by cat199 7y ago
> (I looked at Racket since I heard they are moving to Chez Scheme, which also has a focus on performance.) to wit, chez scheme was several generations into improving it's native code compilation abilities before python even existed
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by cat199 7y ago
> SBCL beats CPython I always find it ironic that the CMUCL lisp compiler (upon which SBCL was based) was called 'the python compiler', had machine-code generation in 1992 and that CMUCL sports native multithreading that is lar
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by cat199 7y ago
> If you make it less profitable to build, fewer will be built. .. and fewer will be speculated on, driving up the underlying price, which is then translated into rent. this is my problem with simple smithian models of real estate - they
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by cat199 7y ago
hugely important point. helped a less-tech-savvy neighbor 'reset her skype' account that was tied to 'her phone number', only to find that the account bound to that phone number, which she had recently acquired, was publ
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by cat199 7y ago
Agree antitrust regulation is screwed up, and agree self regulation against pollution is good for the environment. but, the particular case here isn't entirely about industry cartels and antitrust - it is also about a single state&#x27
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by cat199 7y ago
> Good luck forming a union coz then the company will go poof too The answer to this is to form a bigger union so that only the bigger contracting companies can survive, and then have high-paid union executives who can negotiate large i
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by cat199 7y ago
yes - close minded. if you want performance - you want performance however you get it. if someone makes a performant cvt, you want that. if they don't, you dont. someone bound up in performance==x will not buy 'y', per
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by cat199 7y ago
cooperatives seem great. relatedly: not sure why we don't create 'partner firms' a-la attorneys - the model seems a good fit.
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by cat199 7y ago
in the us, we also have 'good liquor stores' and 'regular ones', the market is lucrative enough to support such things without a mandated government monopoly. same should go for UK as well I presume..
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by cat199 7y ago
someone this close minded would likely not be considering electric in the first place (and would probably whine about porches being mostly v6 and not v8/10/12)
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by cat199 7y ago
cherry picked? yes and no. These are both hugely influential policy think tanks which hire experts. They both have hugely differing views on the economy. Or is providing evidence to support a claim now 'cherry picking' to be dismi
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by cat199 7y ago
... all 6 of which were running a linux vm until recently, and still predominately so (windows containers are hugely niche and have just about as much 'loner children' baggage in the larger commmunity) writing a gui to spin up the
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by cat199 7y ago
no idea. but things don't happen in a vacuum but are often presented as if they did.
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by cat199 7y ago
here, have some economics experts: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/view/ https://www.cato.org/research/growth-development how big is the middle part of the venn diagram h
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by cat199 7y ago
clearly this is russian propaganda. clearly.
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by cat199 7y ago
not sure how you are getting that from this one - sounds like this 'rag tag' govenment didn't get powned (completely) and was able to rely on good it practice to recover with minimal impact..
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by cat199 7y ago
agree - but juul will be one of the 'regulated' products since they can afford certify it, and also is a reaction to the vaping industry, and a less profitable one at that. if big tobacco could outright ban vaping, I would wager
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by cat199 7y ago
I would posit that: funding = charisma * suitability for capitalism so .1 charisma score of some faceless tech exec * 1B in VC funding goes alot more than 2.0 charisma score * 50k of socially oriented funding..
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by cat199 7y ago
apparently, my sarcasm was missed. $5 that this gets report next to 0% coverage in the media though, all the while gun control 'outrage' blows up. we should be looking at this systemically, is my point, and I'm sure the peopl
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by cat199 7y ago
> simply because the rest of the planet was beat down. Or, also, because your currency was established by treaty to be the de-facto means of exchange to stabilize the postwar economy and then later became the defacto means of procuring e
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by cat199 7y ago
response: media doesn't kill people, people kill people?
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by cat199 7y ago
no jail support on linux..
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by cat199 7y ago
there's only slightly more learning curve between Linux Distro X vs BSD Y as there is between Linux Distro X and Linux Distro Y. In some ways & depending on the situation, moreso, since linux distros are often trying to do things d
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by cat199 7y ago
I would posit that: impact = charisma * funding so .1 charisma score of some faceless tech exec * 1B in VC funding goes alot more than 2.0 charisma score * 50k of grasroots funding..
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by cat199 7y ago
While I get that apps may be heavy handed, and perhaps the contracts should be renegotiated (not providing marketing data to restaurants for one seems 'off') a simple review of 'marginal cost'/'marginal utility
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by cat199 7y ago
> manipulative to try and make their pricing negotiations a social movement. Aren't the apps negotiating terms essentially a 'manipulative social movement' with a single app/VC backer/organizer (each)? why should

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