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by dnomad 8y ago
> 1) libraries, so anyone can make a program off them. 2) command line tools, which use the libraries to achieve specific goals. 3) GUI tools, which use the libraries or tools to show a nice graphical representation to the user. I often
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by dnomad 8y ago
> short-term bond is generally anything that comes to maturity before one year, and long-term is anything else. Yeah that's now how any of this works. First, average muni bonds duration is 10+ years. Short-term debt is inherently
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by dnomad 8y ago
> Typically, when we test experimental products to gauge their safety and efficacy, we engage in informed consent with the participating parties. The state consented on your behalf. You, in fact, automatically "consented" to al
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by dnomad 8y ago
The idea that bond investors only care about "short-term solvency" and therefore ignore unfunded pension obligations doesn't make any sense at all. I don't even... Also this idea that California, the 5th largest economy
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by dnomad 8y ago
California is the 5th fastest growing state economy. This is despite already being the largest state economy by far. That is simply remarkable and to call such a state of affairs "verge of bankruptcy" is just stupid. Further the n
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by dnomad 8y ago
You're really disconnected from reality of you think California and New York, the two most dynamic and wealthiest states that actually fund directly and indirectly most of the other states, are on the verge of bankruptcy. Try coming ba
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by dnomad 8y ago
> But the idea that bank-run paper based systems are 100% secure is not true - they routinely go wrong just through basic mistakes and screwups, let alone actual fraud. Nobody expects bank systems to be 100% secure. Banking -- and in fa
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by dnomad 8y ago
Seriously? That lawsuit certainly does not demonstrate at all, in any way, that any of the primaries were "rigged." It shows what is and was widely known: the DNC had a preference for one candidate. It's extraordinary that t
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by dnomad 8y ago
Java applets never enabled arbitrary code execution. (Where do people even come up with this stuff?) Spend five minutes on Google and you can learn about the Applet sandbox which prevented Applets from doing most anything but draw to a sect
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by dnomad 8y ago
Applets, unless especially privileged by the user, run in a sandbox that prevent them from interacting with the local OS [1]. They certainly cannot run EXEs, again, unless the user consents. In theory the Applet sandbox works really well. I
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by dnomad 8y ago
Yeah, none of this is true. The vast majority of users have, again and again, called for Twitter (and Facebook and Google) to perform more censorship because (surprise) absolutely nobody has any interest in reading the tweets of various hat
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by dnomad 8y ago
I think you're really underestimating how tenuous the UK's claim on Scotland really is. Frankly, there is no model in which the UK deploys military assets to forcefully retain Scotland. This would almost certainly delegitamise the
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by dnomad 8y ago
I don't see anything in those guidelines that I've violated. Is there any hope that you might be more specific? All of my comments include supporting evidence whenever possible. They are not vague or dismissive. They are certainly
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by dnomad 8y ago
> The Wall Street Journal has a long history of thorough research and well-respected publications. This is a bullshit appeal to authority. Let's be very clear about the process: * The WSJ reports the claims of anonymous sources. It
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by dnomad 8y ago
It's funny because I've always felt this is something the military gets right. (At least the Marines do.) The military understands quite well that most tasks cannot be planned or managed at all. It is never a matter of giving peop
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by dnomad 8y ago
> It's unclear why or how could a disequilibrium form and stand in a free to travel country: as long as the metropolis offers even a modicum of economic opportunity, such as being a water seller at the intersection, that is already
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by dnomad 8y ago
No we only know about it because Snowden blew up his life to reveal it. That should give you a hint about how this works. China is remarkably transparent about their efforts. The government literally holds classes to explain the social cred
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by dnomad 8y ago
Nobody outside of the American fantasy believes this even for a second. In the US you have local law enforcement running around with cell trackers, public and private organizations deploying widespread facial tracking, and let's not ev
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by dnomad 8y ago
You will never see Western journalists go after their own surveillance state even though it is far more extensive and aggressive than China. What's really strange is they accuse China of doing things like exporting compromised telcom e
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by dnomad 8y ago
It's funny because your comment is itself textbook hysteria. You provide absolutely no evidence at all that any of your claims are true. You attribute behavior to some undefined group of "people", and then insist that this be
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by dnomad 8y ago
SQL is a bad solution to the wrong problem. After 50 years it remains non-intuitive and confusing and extracts a tax penalty far greater than its value add. Worse, the problem it claims to solve, "I have all my data in one database now
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by dnomad 8y ago
> "A REST API should spend almost all of its descriptive effort in defining the media type(s) used for representing resources and driving application state, or in defining extended relation names and/or hypertext-enabled mark-u
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by dnomad 8y ago
GraphQL is pretty different from REST and SOAP. In practice it is like exposing a very limited interpreter directly to the public internet. Instead of working with resources and limited verbs and hypermedia or SOAP (which is literally just
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by dnomad 8y ago
Yes, the great failure of the internet is that it is lacks of standard mechanisms that exist in polite society to exclude the assholes. Being an asshole is cheap on the web and so you get lots of assholes. IRL being an asshole (at least in
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by dnomad 8y ago
That's now how any of this works. That's certainly not how inflation works. At some point, particularly given the last 40 years of evidence to the contrary, people need to simply accept that monetary expansion does not "cause
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by dnomad 8y ago
This is what all the China fear mongers don't get. China has in reality zero external debt when you consider their real, income-producing over seas investment. China's extraordinary growth is not being financed by overseas investo
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by dnomad 8y ago
Eh it's absolutely sustainable. China is a monetary sovereign. All of this debt is issued in a currency that they can literally create out of thin air. There is zero possiblity that China will default on this debt. And China has been v
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by dnomad 8y ago
This is the most incredible thing about China. The numbers are very clear: there are about 10_000 companies are being formed each day in China [1]. The government is actually investing heavily in these new firms and they receive all kind
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by dnomad 8y ago
> So 150 people per year, or 0.000015% of India’s population. This is an enormous and completely baseless leap. Why would you ever assume that the rate of killings is constant? What makes you think these killings aren't part of a ra
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by dnomad 8y ago
I wonder if you've ever even been to Saint-Denis? Segregation in France is absolutely nothing like what you see in America where, outside three or four major cities, different races, no matter how rich or poor, are absolutely cordoned

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