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by ciconia 9y ago
1. Too much technology. Without their gadgets American soldiers would be helpless. 2. Too much money. Warships costing billions, war plans costing $100m. A ship is sunk? Let's just throw more money at the Navy. 3. A superiority complex
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by ciconia 9y ago
> The two U.S. tech titans are jockeying for the lead at around $90 billion each. No they're not "jockeying". This sort of sensationalism is such a turnoff, and just makes me stop reading.
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The gang that couldn’t shoot straight(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by ciconia 9y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 9y ago
> Why aren't people marching in the streets? Americans seem to have always preferred so-called "freedom" to social solidarity. It's every man for himself over there in the land of the free.
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German automakers formed a secret cartel in the ‘90s to collude on emissions(theverge.com)
5 points by ciconia 9y ago|0 comments
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Next Generation Ruby Helper Library Release(twilio.com)
1 points by ciconia 9y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 9y ago
> The territories are land assigned to Israel by the UN The Palestinian territories were never assigned to the Jewish state. The UN partition plan [1] assigned these territories to an Arab state. > It's perfectly legal and "
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by ciconia 9y ago
You should add the reserved word covfefe (undefined behavior).
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by ciconia 9y ago
Bear in mind that driving conditions in India are very different than those in the western world. From what I've seen when I was there on most roads cars go at 50-60 kph (30-40 mph).
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by ciconia 9y ago
The land life company website: http://www.landlifecompany.com/
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by ciconia 9y ago
As some here have posted disparaging comments about French bureaucracy, I'd like to share my own experience. I've have emigrated to France four years ago with my wife and our two kids. On the whole our experience dealing with the
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by ciconia 9y ago
A lightweight PostgreSQL-based Ruby object store using JSONB, in ~ 100 LOC: https://gist.github.com/ciconia/57ad430cf437f0548d596a6f0026...
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by ciconia 9y ago
> I'd like to hear more of your thoughts on that. These days it seems that even for the most rudimentary programming tasks everybody reaches straightaway for their favorite framework/lib without too much thinking. I think in a
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by ciconia 9y ago
I'm the original author of Sequel [1], an ORM for Ruby. Lately I've been finding that ORM's actually get in the way of accomplishing stuff. I think there's a case to be made for less abstraction in programming in general
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by ciconia 9y ago
> Soil composition and biology influences produce flavor. There's a reason vineyards care a lot about soil. That is true, but look at the current reality when it comes to the produce sold in supermarkets. It seems like most people c
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Europe has been working to expose Russian meddling for years(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by ciconia 9y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 9y ago
> It's time to revisit the whole system, top down, and make it less about punishment and more about making sure it doesn't happen again. And it should be done with data. I think the current system is actually less about punishm
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by ciconia 9y ago
At 43yo I probably belong to the older folks on HN, but those modern devices all of us carry in our pockets to me seem just absolutely incredible and magical. They probably can run around machines that took up whole rooms just a few decades
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by ciconia 9y ago
> When I see how much of EU money goes to farmers, it's ridiculous. True, but at the same time the EU piles on an endless stream of regulations on the farmers, forcing them to invest in heavy machinery, and undergo rigorous inspecti
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by ciconia 9y ago
DO you really need proof that poison is bad for you?
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by ciconia 9y ago
Giving more political power to rural areas is not necessarily a bad thing. One can argue that it is beneficial in that it compensates for the sparseness of those areas and lets them participate in the game on the national stage. I think the
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by ciconia 9y ago
Please correct the title: "warded off ". It is currently unintelligible.
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What James Comey Told Me About Donald Trump(lawfareblog.com)
4 points by ciconia 9y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 9y ago
> But since he took office, Trump has focused on so many other things... that Matello has begun to wonder about his promises to the working class: “Was he just out to get our votes?” This is truly sad. So many people put their faith in t
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by ciconia 9y ago
> Honestly, do we really like interacting with the people with minimum wage jobs? Not really. It's sad how this socially destructive mindset has washed first over the US and then over the rest of the globe. The money religion has wo
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by ciconia 9y ago
I'm incredibly fortunate to live in the French countryside (Bourgogne). I can go out the front door, lie on the grass and witness JFK-scale traffic of insects. It's really astounding the amount of life around my house. If any of
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by ciconia 10y ago
Performance is only one of several factors when selecting a programming language, like suitability to problem domain, available libraries, tooling etc. In my work I have found Ruby often more than makes up for its poor performance record wi
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Trump and the Problem of Militant Ignorance(talkingpointsmemo.com)
3 points by ciconia 10y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 10y ago
> Don't use a relational DB if you deal with time series data. There's time series databases which are far, far better at that. InfluxDB is a good example. Better how? FWIW I'm currently running a 1TB time series DB on Pos
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by ciconia 10y ago
How does that differ from PostgreSQL's stock table inheritance (partition data on arbitrary rules, while letting you efficiently query the parent table using constraints)? The TimescaleDB approach apparently looks very similar.

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