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by cheriot 8y ago
Are you against new cyclists using bike lanes as well? Inexperienced riders are a hazard on any form of transportation.
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by cheriot 8y ago
It's the same answer for why so many more bicyclists are killed by cars in America than Europe. We need protected lanes that are separated from cars by more than paint. https://peopleforbikes.org/blog/14-ways-to-ma
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by cheriot 8y ago
We've had robot vacuums for ages now without any additional automation. Any thoughts on which tasks are more viable for automation?
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by cheriot 8y ago
Ok, yeah, their marketing speak fooled me. I thought they were more like Spark, BEAM, etc. I still think the "Kafka or /tmp" framing of the article is a straw man, though. There's plenty of options in between depending o
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by cheriot 8y ago
Comparing to Kafka and Kinesis (which aren't even in the same category) feels like a straw man. The author needs durability, but one disk of one machine satisfies that need? I'm skeptical.
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by cheriot 8y ago
They also started making enough money that the cost of two native development teams isn't a problem.
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by cheriot 8y ago
It's crazy to me that big Tech Cos keep building massive offices and don't mind that there's not enough housing built to match. Those rent/housing prices drive up the wages they have to pay.
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by cheriot 8y ago
> Slave owners in the south were a very small percentage of the population. The south did not rise up to defend slave owners. They rose up to defend themselves. This is a really important point and you have been severely misinformed. The
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by cheriot 8y ago
That's awesome, thanks. Since declaring it means you're no longer trying to avoid be caught for the underlying crime I don't think it adds to the point I'm skeptical of.
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by cheriot 8y ago
Wouldn't they still be guilty of tax fraud? Making more actions/people criminal just to catch the people that should be criminal more easily doesn't sit well.
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by cheriot 8y ago
What the article is talking about is an order of magnitude larger. Think millions of data points per minute coming out of a medium sized data center. It gets harder when you look at the cardinality of the data (explained better by the artic
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by cheriot 8y ago
A solved problem at what scale? A kid with pencil and paper can solve the problem when it's small enough.
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by cheriot 8y ago
GraphQL shifts complexity to the server instead of the client. That can be an advantage when there's multiple clients or just one client iterating faster than the underlying logic. There's certainly a short term cost to GraphQL c
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by cheriot 8y ago
Can we not debate the term "serverless" on every FaaS and PaaS article? Edit: remove false claim
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by cheriot 8y ago
That's common when the financial press is talking about financial companies. Remember their audience. Edit: I'm mainly thinking of Bloomberg and WSJ. The Economist is better on this one.
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by cheriot 8y ago
Our society is so bad at policing white collar crime that there's not a better option available. Unsophisticated "investors" will loose their shirts, their homes, and their retirement.
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by cheriot 8y ago
I'm not sure it requires a bank account. People can go by the same stall they bought their sim card from and put money on their account. One of the benefits is that it brings people into the financial system that otherwise don't h
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by cheriot 8y ago
There's more to it than rationalization. https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy
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by cheriot 8y ago
The expense is the investigations and reporting not the website. That's part of why news organizations have been so hard hit. As soon as they publish information, someone else can republish it for nearly no cost.
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by cheriot 8y ago
Is bias the right thing to focus on? It's like we're all discovering that journalists are imperfect humans just like the rest of us. Even if an article is a mere list of cited facts there is judgement in which facts to include and
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by cheriot 8y ago
A Trump appointee ended the investigation into Equifax https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-equifax-cfpb/exclusiv... Wikipedia has more of this guy's greatest hits. I especially love this one: "In Janu
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by cheriot 8y ago
Then the difference became battery life. It's been a few years since I ran linux on a laptop; has that improved?
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by cheriot 8y ago
> Once the donor has given that contribution, it is no longer "their funds." There's power in controlling money even when you can't spend it on yourself. The donor can use it to own securities and control corporations
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by cheriot 8y ago
I love the new movement in on GAE Standard. With GAE Flexible, GKE, Cloud SQL, etc there's actually a growth path for something that out grows it. When Standard first launched, that additional complexity meant a rewrite. Can the Java r
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by cheriot 8y ago
Wow, someone actually wrote a schema exposing that account number. I've seen that with RESTful endpoints because it's so easy for a developer to serialize an entire object (or object graph) without thinking about what's on it
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by cheriot 8y ago
I see a semblance to their original motivations in building chrome. By making the web as a whole more competitive, it made google's offerings more competitive (more ad surfaces, more gmail users, less OS lockin). Actually winning the b
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by cheriot 8y ago
There's more than one reason gym memberships work they way they do. Subscriptions, especially low cost ones, tend to run longer than if a person paid per usage. That's why there's so many subscription scams. PF has the lunk a
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by cheriot 8y ago
> AMC also believes that promising essentially unlimited first-run movie content at a price below $10 per month over time will not provide sufficient revenue MoviePass has proven theaters are interesting to more people than I'd hav
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by cheriot 8y ago
That's how Planet Fitness sells gym memberships for $15/month. People are not good at predicting their future behavior. I don't like their gyms, but the business model can make money. If movie pass owned the product they were
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by cheriot 8y ago
That wasn't a complaint about the per person cap. It was a response to > Basing the budget on real estate value makes two incorrect assumptions ... My challenge to the per person cap is that 1) All prices in an area go up when prope

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