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by denom 10y ago
In some ways it's natural to _reduce_ human experience to its commodified representation (Can't we have Hacker News without the $foo??). But the truth is that there is no boundary between human experience. Your economic, social,
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by denom 10y ago
Bernie almost won. In some ways the DNC presented a larger challenge to Bernie than the RNC did for Trump.
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by denom 10y ago
In the linked video Elon mentions a "lifetime" of use. If that's true, then sign me up.
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by denom 10y ago
There is a strong path dependency to how Apple is able to pull in record amount of profits. The fact is that any institution with considerable resources will be able to coast for a long time. Mediocrity can easily sustain Apple on Wall S
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by denom 10y ago
I guess they deserve each other?
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by denom 10y ago
It seems Simone Biles, and the Williams sisters are taking performance enhancing drugs. But the athletes in question have an exemption from the doping agency. More coverage over on the NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/2016&
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by denom 10y ago
This is an ad-blocking arms race for sure, but sites like the Washington Post and NYtimes have done a good job dealing with the new ad-blocking 'normal'. The point is that there _are_ things sites can do to deal with this situatio
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by denom 10y ago
The immortal words of Lao Tzu: 80.1 Ah, for a small country with a small population! Though there are highly efficient mechanical contrivances, the people have no use for them. Let them mind death and refrain from migrating to distant place
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by denom 10y ago
Well there are a couple drawbacks. The author is describing celery as a solution to the GIL thread lock problem. However the time it takes to dispatch the job[1] and fire up the worker is much greater than the time it takes to create a thre
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by denom 10y ago
Celery's pretty nice, I've used it in several projects with rabbitMQ and it's useful for IO bound workloads. The main drawback with it is the overhead of dispatching the job and waiting for the result. With threads, there&#x2
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by denom 11y ago
This is exactly what politically empowered people and lawyers are good at figuring out. Let the law and motivated individuals sort it out in institutions that society has designated. What we are seeing now are the consequences of conflictin
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by denom 11y ago
What will happen when the national security apparatus falls into the hands of someone like Donald Trump?
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by denom 11y ago
As kenneth rexroth put it: the value of something is proportional to its loss. To live is to take up and hold some measure of ultimate value. In dying we give up and release _everything_ we hold and love. This is the poetic essence of life:
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by denom 11y ago
There is a ongoing internal friction in the software development process. We rely on capitalized business processes to self-correct against dramatic failures like this. This is not a failure of society, it's a failure to appropriately
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by denom 11y ago
It could be hypnagogia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia
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by denom 11y ago
I know it's a little esoteric to ask, but where does violence begin and where does it end? If no one in our society is willing to step forward and give a helping hand, the cycle of poverty and violence will continue, always. It takes v
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by denom 11y ago
I appreciate your point of view, but doesn't this deny human nature, replacing subjectivity with a kind of sterile mechanistic objectivity? We can make rational choices. For instance, we could remove advertisements from public places a
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by denom 11y ago
Look at the various computer museums and organizations that deal in archiving old technology. They have been dealing with this problem for years. It could be as simple as mirroring the website or service and firing up a virtual machine with
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Sendgrid hacked and used to send phishing emails(sendgrid.com)
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by denom 12y ago
If no one is going to review the paper, no one is going to examine the additional artifacts that "prove" science was being done.
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by denom 12y ago
Doesn't every well financed institution do similar things? I thought that was the substance of public relations: getting your side of the story out there. It even happens on a small scale e.g. Yelp reviews.
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by denom 12y ago
In the arts there is almost a complete inversion of this observation, e.g. Wallace Stevens did his best work late in life, and many others perfected their aesthetic expression in advanced years. The work that software developers do is diffe
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by denom 12y ago
I use stainless steel as a tougher alternative to glass. Though glass is probably the best solution to the problem. Check out kleen kanteen, http://www.kleankanteen.com/ they make high quality stainless canteens of various
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by denom 12y ago
Makes sense. I am put-off by the complexity surrounding the initiation of host provisioning. Writing recipes is a breeze with berkshelf and vagrant. But diving into "real" provisioning tools is a pain for me. There is a lot of chu
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by denom 12y ago
I love the combo of vagrant and chef for provisioning. Is it possible to use the existing provisioning code in the context of a push block? Very cool, I'm excited to try this out.
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by denom 12y ago
China launches 3 rockets in one week[1]. Russia launches a resupply of the International Space Station, ready to fly just 9 hours after yet another space vehicle crashes here[2]. Say what you want about "cheap spaceflight", ther
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by denom 12y ago
After doing some poking it looks like you can access `this.userId` in the server-side publish and Meteor.methods functions. That's enough to prevent a lot of client-side tampering
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by denom 12y ago
This is something that I've wrestled with when working with meteor, how do you execute privileged queries from the client? You can do a 'Meteor.call' to execute code on the server, but there is no way to shield the user from
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by denom 12y ago
If you reduce them to singular acts, that is feeding a hungry person and smoking in a restaurant, arguably one is actively doing specific harm (carcinogens) while in the other case it's hard to deduce a specific harm from the act. In t
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by denom 12y ago
Exactly. Facebook doesn't have shadow profiles, they have user data and algorithms. The algorithms traverse the shadow profiles at runtime and produce some output, but there is no need to hold onto the profile data in that form. All fa

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