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by dannypgh 8y ago
I think the ability to setup BIND is easier to acquire than $185,000.
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by dannypgh 8y ago
Putting off integration is cheaper when it's not yet clear what you need to integrate with. Or to frame it differently: having requirements of "be everything for everyone" is a surefire way to fail.
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by dannypgh 8y ago
I'm pretty sure "subjugation of the population through chattel slavery or Jim Crow" and "net neutrality" are on different coins. That can't be your calculation in deciding whether or not to side with the "
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by dannypgh 8y ago
But, why? This transfers power to the less populous states and away from the more populous states. What's the point in doing so? The current system creates incentives for states to split in two. What's the point of that? Why is it
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by dannypgh 8y ago
Democracy is rule by the people. That is not the same as majority rule. Consensus-based decision making (including wiser approaches like consensus-minus-1) requires supermajorities to make decisions, but that does not make them undemocratic
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by dannypgh 8y ago
The only entities that are guaranteed representation are states. It's not obvious that statehood maps to any other demographic attribute over time. It made sense the ensure states felt they had some guaranteed level of representation i
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by dannypgh 8y ago
365.25 is a ratio- the number of rotations of the earth per revolution. In a real sense, it comes from our solar system. If you shy away from it, any given point in your year's calendar will drift in terms of seasons. You see this in t
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by dannypgh 8y ago
I'm not sure it needs to be effective at influencing the decision making in order to be worthwhile. I think people owe it to themselves to evaluate the ethics and morality of their work, and not contribute to things they do not want to
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by dannypgh 8y ago
I'm familiar with inetd, but I don't understand your point. Unix is more than a dozen years older than 4.3BSD. Claiming that long lived daemons is somehow anti-Unix is absurd. Just ask init or getty.
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by dannypgh 8y ago
Eh, that's the original idea of the Unix shell, sure. But Unix has many ideas. Long running daemons have been a part of Unix systems since the beginning.
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by dannypgh 8y ago
I am not arguing that Communism is free of coersion. I don't think free markets exist, I believe they are an idealized model. I think this is especially true for the labor market. Likewise, I don't believe there are coersion-free
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by dannypgh 8y ago
> or to allow living without work. I join in the argument that labor is coerced into participating in the free market in the US. The agent/subject that you're missing is the government and their enforcement of laws pertaining t
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by dannypgh 8y ago
So, does P=NP? There's a lot of great unsolved problems in most fields, including CS.
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by dannypgh 8y ago
If it's Intel demonstrating on Intel chips, does it really count as "over"clocking? Seems like it's just clocking.
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by dannypgh 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry#World's_largest_... Do you think this technology will really "disrupt" wh
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by dannypgh 8y ago
It's a good thing computers are good at search and replace.
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by dannypgh 8y ago
NSA?
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by dannypgh 8y ago
Yeah; to be honest I couldn't make it to the end of this "postmortem" because of how badly it seems to want to assign blame. I have taken part in numerous postmortems for multi-million dollar outages, and find they're va
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by dannypgh 8y ago
Legally: This depends on the type of surveillance. Reading someone's first class mail requires a warrant. Posting a car on public streets to observe them requires nothing. Ethically: law enforcement finds most violations of the law in
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by dannypgh 8y ago
The issue with this use of technology is it creates an air of science to investigating large groups of people. It's easy to imagine a world where if they find someone that's likely a first (or second!) cousin of a rapist, that the
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by dannypgh 8y ago
I think you're looking for familylink: https://support.google.com/youtubekids/answer/7124142?hl=en
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by dannypgh 9y ago
I think the term you're looking for is simply "radiator."
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by dannypgh 9y ago
I disagree. Frankly, for a lot of people and a lot of contexts, I don't think the halting problem is particularly important. You're using understanding of it as a shibboleth for exposure to common curricula about theoretical compu
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by dannypgh 9y ago
I don't think I've heard anyone make that Linux relies on security through obscurity in at least 15 years or so. Linux pretty much won in the server market, and if you consider the volume of e-commerce transactions by the big play
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by dannypgh 9y ago
IANAL but https://fairuse.stanford.edu/case/klinger-v-conan-doyle-esta... leads me to believe that derivatives of Mickey Mouse that only draw from the public domain work should be fair use. So, no mentioning Minnie, an
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by dannypgh 9y ago
I disagree that it's misleading. Net new seems equivalent to "new capacity" to me. The new non-renewable electric producers are mostly replacing retired fossil sources. I suspect a lot of the churn in fossil-based plants is f
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by dannypgh 9y ago
Is this somehow incompatible with bringing your own bags?
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by dannypgh 9y ago
Relevance? You can seek perfection while ignoring sunk costs. Avoiding the fallacy just means you compare the costs of reaching "perfection" from your current position to the value of reaching perfection. The cost you ignore is th
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by dannypgh 9y ago
It would likely be quite difficult to ethically do such a study. Correlation alone isn't compelling: it could simply be that the underlying reason a significant share of people turn to [insert mind-altering substance here] is underlyin
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by dannypgh 9y ago
You're telling me star wars would have never been made if Lucas only had 28 years of exclusive rights to the franchise? Please. Here's some public domain characters that have ended up in works that have given a lot of people enter

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