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by cbsmith 3y ago
IBM's proprietary nightmares have, historically, often been quite cost effective. AS/400 did eventually get too long in the tooth, but it had an amazing run for decades where it was extremely competitive for TCO.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Canada does need more housing supply, and ironically an influx of fraudulent real estate money like this helps to fuel more growth in the supply. Still, fraud is fraud. Stopping it won't fix Canada's housing problems, but that&#x2
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> Out of curiosity, why? China's stock market is melting down in the midst of persistent deflation. A lot of people who thought they had liquidity may not anymore. Beijing could open the taps, but then that puts pressure on the curr
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Short answer: no.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> The whole country is a gigantic house of cards propped up by real estate, with horrible service quality, terrible healthcare, no jobs, ZERO innovation, risk taking and entrepreneurship. Canada has generally had a more conservative fina
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Oh, I'm using that!
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> Also I am not sure what the problem is that is unique to those with ADHD. The issues raised are the same for everyone. The joy of ADHD is that issues that seem the same as everyone else's are often far more difficult/easy to
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Yeah, hence the "in theory". In practice, titles and roles are often weird on film sets. Don't even get me started on "associate producers"...
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by cbsmith 3y ago
The director is the person who actually crafts the movie. They don't necessarily have anything to do with managing the money. Sometimes you have producer-directors, but it's like a restaurant that is owned by the chef.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
In reality, these lines are a lot blurrier. Executive producers usually are investors, but they're not necessarily the primary investors. Definitionally, they're responsible for the financing of the film. Producers on the other
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I wouldn't agree that it is moving reliability issues to the message bus. This is more a scaling/availability problem than a reliability problem, but the message bus is definitely helping to solve scaling/availability problem
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by cbsmith 3y ago
No, that's more like traditional load shedding. I'm talking more like Kafka/NATS/0mq/etc.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Ironically, stream processing, which we tend to call "push" architecture, is largely the same solution.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
The thundering herd problem comes from throughput decreasing due to overhead when you need to scale up capacity (traditionally due to increased context switching, but these days often from autoscaling activity). While rate-limiting, circuit
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> Comparing a government's debt to its GDP is like comparing a couple's debt to their employers' total revenues. No. It's more like comparing a merchant's debts to the value of the turnover of their inventory. Su
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by cbsmith 3y ago
That's a misapplication of the razor here. The simplest explanation for the statistically unusual prevalence of the disease amongst these patients is indeed that there is a causal link.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Someone in the comments explained what's really going on here (and it isn't cheating, though perhaps one might see it as a scandal): "The 6.67 factor is based on 1.00/0.15. The intention was an incentive for 15% of the f
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Orwell would be proud.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> The only people who care are the insurance companies but they have no authority. That's not strictly true. Usually there are terms attached to insurance agreements, and there's a lot of flexibility there in terms of discounts
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by cbsmith 3y ago
You might argue that intent has to play a part, but it doesn't. Maybe just accept that you're interpreting meaning that is not there.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
ATF
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Worth noting that with success also comes scrutiny. The "causation" here may just be the added scrutiny.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
At the time, it's not what people wanted. It was pretty common for Flash apps to have access to the whole page.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I don't disagree with these statements, but I don't understand how they're relevant to my point. The Javascript-in-SVG is what I pointed to in the spec. 18.2: "A ‘script’ element is equivalent to the ‘script’ element in
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I think you're missing that it was a design goal to have that support in the spec. Scripting was a requirement, not a design choice.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I was referring to the Resource Curse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse#Democracy_and_h...
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I decided I'll answer the question even though I don't accept the premise. * CSIS is a civilian national intelligence service * RCMP is a national police service They're related because CSIS was born out of recommendations fr
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by cbsmith 3y ago
It's okay to demand competence, but I wouldn't expect competence to materialize overnight.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
>Your password should not go anywhere near a database. > > It should be salted and hashed a few hundred thousand times and that compared to the salted, hashed version stored on file. > > If you can't even manage that, yo
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Yeah, there's very much a "cobbler's children have the worst shoes" aspect of this that some people don't get.

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