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by ci5er 8y ago
You've triggered a thought related to something I've been thinking about for a while (and almost certain to be followed by one or more questions) that I would like to run by you. But I don't want to compose it on a mobile dev
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by ci5er 8y ago
I'm vaguely comforted by the fact that redistributionists haven't come up with the idea that 80% of them are going to vote to chop 2" off me...
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by ci5er 8y ago
Well, yeah: not having the agents of the monopoly on preemptive violence that the state has reserved to itself getting too trigger-happy is something that I think all us plebes can agree upon. When you are talking about normalizing starting
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by ci5er 8y ago
Interesting. If you have 51% of the people declaring that 49% percent of the people should start with nothing, and that they (by right of popular demand) should get the 49%'s stuff, as a starting point, then, ... that's a clear de
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by ci5er 8y ago
Some people do not start out with different starting conditions? Some people are not more productive than others? In what way are varying starting conditions and varying productivity levels (cost structures) not realistic? If I were to gues
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by ci5er 8y ago
Ok. Fair enough. My point was simply that: we might be curious, but most of us aren't lonely or looking for any higher purpose or meaning (well, many may be, but if we were - we wouldn't look to aliens to satifice them)
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by ci5er 8y ago
> But why do humans find this idea so seductive? It's because of an underlying loneliness: we want to believe that we are connected with the universe in some fashion, that our existence has a point [...] No. It's simply that st
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by ci5er 8y ago
Great. Musicians. I'm sure they will come up with the new iPhone. John D. Rockefeller started out dirt poor, and with no handouts, he saved the whales. You think taxing the rich and subsidizing the future Beatles wannabees might to the
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by ci5er 8y ago
Where is it illegal to sleep at the office? In this place, is living in you car (and showering at the gym) also illegal?
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by ci5er 8y ago
I don't think I'm a sociopath, but often I use monte-carlo or agent based simulations to help me understand what happens, because writing and running the code is simpler (for me) than closed form analytic solutions. IF I then need
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by ci5er 8y ago
I don't use managed services, because I want portability, but you are right (and as I think I said upstream) K8S has made many of the issues in production moot. You say that you find that prototyping is as easy with GCP as with AWS? Do
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by ci5er 8y ago
Well, sure. I guess the broader question would be: Why use GCP? I like them well enough, but I find it easier to prototype on AWS. Why would a developer develop the MVP on GCP vs AWS and then go to scale there? (I realized that K8S has made
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by ci5er 8y ago
Why? Yes, AWS can be expensive for performance, but it scales well and is automatable. I 'get' why no Azure for greenfield, but why do you love GCP?
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by ci5er 8y ago
Hey - it worked for L-Ron. Probably about as easy as monetizing a B2C SaaS play.
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by ci5er 8y ago
Thanks, Joke Explainer. I would have never got that. (Although the other theory is that the poster was born after 1994 (not long odds on that one, given the local demographics), and doesn't know much about the Internet's history p
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by ci5er 8y ago
> There's never really been any likelihood of the operators of .com, .net, etc. going out of business ORLY? Where were you in the summer of '87?
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by ci5er 8y ago
> It could become a nice little corner of the internet where ... dot-Jaruzel? You could make a religion out of that.
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by ci5er 8y ago
> Not ideal, but couldn't have afforded the places I moved into two years earlier and moving produces high quality of life gain. Maybe it's years living in substandard student housing, or years in "not-in-the-US" hou
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by ci5er 8y ago
> teared up in housing What does this mean? Moved? Every two years? Sounds horrible. Don't you have any hobbies to fill your time?
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by ci5er 8y ago
Depends on your vertical. There are a number of O&G related startups. And (oddly) San Antonio rates just behind San Diego and Boston for Medical Device innovation (not software, but still, big tech business)
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by ci5er 8y ago
With A/R, it will get worse. When I used to work with Motorola in the early-to-mid-90s (it was an actual company, you know), we had some HUD A/R things, and my kids (3 y.o.? 4 y.o?) got pretty accustomed to flicking at books and o
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by ci5er 8y ago
The PDP (11? I think so, but maybe 7? My home PDP for running the internet in my corner of the universe was an 11) at JPL that processed the Voyager flyby snapshots of Saturn into colorized planet+ring images was 64KB. Instead of viewport-c
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by ci5er 8y ago
80%+ of the VC-backed tech companies died between March 2000 and Oct 2001 (fuckedcompany.com, anyone?), the remaining laid of 50% or so, hiring was dead until 2003, and while the the VCs had stopped hiding under their desks by then, they we
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by ci5er 8y ago
That might be correct. I tend to want to localize explanation at the edge. I've got to think about this. Thank you.
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by ci5er 8y ago
> I actually appreciate JSON omitting these features. I guess this is right if config files are only machine read and written. When I am prototyping, config auto-gen tends to come pretty late in the project (for me), and I like being abl
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by ci5er 8y ago
I've always wondered why most people are not passionately opinionated about methods for heart surgery, and yet are highly opinionated about economics (for example). The latter seems more complicated, in many ways, and yet people have n
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by ci5er 8y ago
I tend to be biased towards wanting to agree with you 1000% on 99% of your post. As I age, though, I become increasingly skeptical of the idea that the human brain is any good at discovering or holding onto the truth. I do believe that the
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by ci5er 8y ago
And that right there is the reason that technocrats are dumber than they think.
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by ci5er 8y ago
Thank you for being you. It has been very lonely for me to propagate that very idea, esp. given how tied humans are to the idea that they are smart. On the spectrum humans use, I'm certainly on the high-end of it, but, gosh, we are suc
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by ci5er 8y ago
It's interesting. As an engineering type (EE, primarily, but I had several other undergrad degrees), everything was about what is true. How do electrons move with their respective related fields across geometries. This other stuff seem

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