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by chroem- 6y ago
Here I was hoping this was something about repurposing RAM as an actual geiger counter by measuring radiation-induced bit flips.
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by chroem- 6y ago
No, it's a different concept. The gendarmarie is specifically internal military police. The Gendarmerie Nationale [1] and Garde Nationale [2] are separate entities. There is some minor overlap, but they have fundamentally differ
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by chroem- 6y ago
A point that often gets lost in the discussion is that the United States, having no gendarmarie [1], has a police force that is less militarized than many European nations. Gendarmaries are literally a branch of the armed forces for the so
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by chroem- 6y ago
I really wish languages would stop following this antipattern of throwing exceptions instead of allowing normal handling of Inf and NaN values. There are some cases where I really do want to perform comparisons against a non-finite value,
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by chroem- 6y ago
I guess it was just that the way it was worded caught me off guard. It seems odd to commit to unilateral actions without consent, especially in the context of recent shootings/bombings/arson.
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by chroem- 6y ago
Is this post advocating for domestic terrorism? (i.e. committing acts of violence to instill fear in political opponents)
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by chroem- 6y ago
>Are you saying you want to take that freedom away from private businesses? >You did not answer the question - Do you want to take that freedom away from American businesses? Yes, I absolutely am. I am proposing that we legally enshr
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by chroem- 6y ago
If Hobby Lobby and Chick-fil-A announce tomorrow morning that they are refusing service to all people who voted for a Democratic candidate in the last few election cycles (something that's within the realm of plausibility), what would
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by chroem- 6y ago
So what's stopping the grocery store from denying you service because they don't like the poltical campaign bumper sticker on your car? This is not a good precedent.
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by chroem- 6y ago
Dang, I thought we had discussed this: moderating based the mere risk of controversy is how echo chambers form. Doesn't this go against HN's guidelines of fostering interesting, civil discussion?
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by chroem- 6y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but thus far my post does not seem to be generating a lot of controversy.
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by chroem- 6y ago
As someone in the US, it's amusing to hear the phrase "knife crime" as a major source of violence.
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by chroem- 6y ago
Glad to see my technical debt has gone full circle, and become the bleeding edge (joking-not-joking). Hierarchical linear models implemented as aggregation queries are surprisingly powerful and easy to scale. We use them in production to
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by chroem- 6y ago
Reddit will ban you if you vote the "wrong" way. (HN has similar mechanisms in place as well.) Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23601595
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by chroem- 6y ago
Why are they targeting regular people, and the services that they rely on? At best, this is friendly fire, and at worst it's a mob that has lost its mind. I'm having difficulty getting the medication that I rely on to avoid goin
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by chroem- 6y ago
Windows 10 is a free subscription, and users don't necessarily own a license of their operating system. Under this precedent, what is to stop Microsoft from deleting problematic files off of users' computers? After all, it'
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by chroem- 6y ago
Your argument is founded on the idea that this is an extraordinary event, but this is clearly becoming a recurring pattern due to the increasingly risky and fragile way businesses are operated. If this were 2008, I might agree with you, bu
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by chroem- 6y ago
> Are you suggesting companies really should keep 6 months of operating capital in the bank? That's exactly what we're suggesting. Rather than going through this whole song and dance at least once a decade where the public has
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by chroem- 6y ago
The money may be coming from the Fed, but very little of it is going to small businesses. [1] What's more, PPP makes up a tiny fraction of the Fed's current coronavirus response. [1] https://www.nytimes.com./2020&
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by chroem- 6y ago
None of those small, low-profit businesses are receiving benefit from this Federal reserve money.
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by chroem- 6y ago
Is it still an external shock if these supposedly healthy and rational businesses took on large amounts of debt to buy their own stock, and are now in trouble because they can't pay their bills?
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by chroem- 6y ago
What is the point of a privatised economy, when all these inefficient businesses are still subsidized by the state?
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by chroem- 6y ago
A lot of people in this country have lost their jobs due to outsourcing.
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by chroem- 6y ago
"Fail fast" is not conducive to good research. It takes persistence in the face of failure.
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by chroem- 6y ago
We're approaching levels of hyperpartisanship not seen since the civil war. I don't think this is a healthy state of being for our country.
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by chroem- 6y ago
? I'm largely agreeing with you. My only point is that we shouldn't allow courts and corporations to become politicized.
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by chroem- 6y ago
Please stop. The more we play this tit-for-tat game of political point scoring, the more it causes the whole system to degenerate. It is corrupting every facet of our society, to the point at which we're no longer able to be objectiv
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by chroem- 6y ago
Is it though? The alternative being an exciting career in HVAC, which many MEs find themselves in. Those air conditioners don't install themselves. I've been there and done that, and really I have no regrets moving on from an u
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by chroem- 6y ago
It's not just the politicians though: the private sector deserves just as much of the blame. Watching this unfold from inside BigCorp has been truly eye opening. In a company of 100k people, nobody thought about preparedness or risk
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by chroem- 6y ago
Maybe it's just me, but generally I would expect a higher level of competence from the leaders of our public and private institutions, than "throw bodies and money at the fire" would imply. If there had been any sort of long

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