confusedcitizen

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by confusedcitizen 16y ago
Why must everything end up being a utilitarian pursuit? I don't think it is surprising to many that the brain is plastic enough to absorb certain details subconsciously, but isn't it enough that the book engages us during the time we read i
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by confusedcitizen 16y ago
Maybe I'm being a prude, or maybe it's just inertia, but does everyone have an easy time replacing a textbook with an electronic device? An argument can probably be made about how ever-advancing technology might make note-taking (and the li
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by confusedcitizen 16y ago
If an individual decides to be highly competitive by working crazy hours, is that considered bad? Will her colleagues complain to the labor department? A capitalist country's inhabitants, who belong to a system driven only by output and pro
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by confusedcitizen 17y ago
Too predictable...
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by confusedcitizen 17y ago
Reading the entire article would be a good first step in practicing his ideas. :) Interesting read...
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by confusedcitizen 17y ago
No no, I think he speaks of 50 requests from the get go, i.e., 50 requests of 100 friends each, irrespective of the number of servers. These 50 requests is unrelated to the number of friends, it's just some huge number of requests. He claim
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by confusedcitizen 17y ago
Well, this is the underlying logic indeed. What the author mentions is seeing 50 requests for 100 friends, where these friends might be divided into 3 servers. So, the keys are hashed to servers, i.e., if there is only 1 multi-get request,
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by confusedcitizen 17y ago
I think the advantages of a university education have been chronicled elsewhere. However, to your specific points: Yes, it is about building efficient and reliable software, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Even when you bui
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by confusedcitizen 17y ago
I agree to what you say, but by economic divide in India, I meant, the rich get richer, the poor, frankly cannot get any poorer there and are untouched, maybe even adversely affected by the economic boom. For the sake of free-market policie
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by confusedcitizen 17y ago
In fact, he does mention Peron's protectionism being a root cause (along with depression and wars) for Argentina's financial woes today. He states that protectionism, regulation, large state enterprises (which are anti-capitalistic themes)
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by confusedcitizen 17y ago
"...just ask India and China before they modernized and liberalized their economies." Well, modernization and liberalization of economies have increased the economic divide in India. It's not that liberal economic policies are wrong, just t
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by confusedcitizen 17y ago
This is another economist trying to beat the capitalistic drum. Apart from Peron's protectionist policies (which some call a drive toward self-sustenance), one shouldn't forget contributing factors like the 1948 exclusion of Argentina expor