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by dnomad 8y ago
Yeah, there really must be some kind of alternative "even worse timeline" that these people live in. There are shady sellers on Amazon but all evidence indicates that the vast majority of Amazon shipments (I'm guessing 99%) a
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The entire exercise is about expressing dependencies. (The real third hard problem in computer science. Only idiots fall for off-by-1 errors.) Containers are one way to force an application to explicitly declare all of its dependencies. The
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Exactly. Docker files are worse than war files in pretty much every way. The economics are interesting though. Computing resources are super cheap and getting more cheap everyday. (Well except for RAM!) The waste produced by containers mean
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Low wages are not a problem per se. In the situation of low wages what is supposed to happen is the best workers either (a) move to competitors or (b) just strike out on their own and start their own business. If businesses are colluding
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What this actually looks like is a case of very imperfect knowledge transfer within the technology industry. What's interesting about the entire craze of microservices and containers and the cloud is that they are not a new technology.
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Buybacks, in practice, are not good for investors. They are basically always abused by management to defraud investors. I'm not sure why people focus on the theory of buy backs and not the actual application. Study the history of h
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I think when historians seek to determine exactly why America failed they will have a really hard time understanding the psychology at work. After launching a wholly illegal and unnecessary war abroad that slaughtered a million innocent p
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This sort of thinking is hilarious, you've got admit. The most immediate example here is the gay marriage debate. It goes like this: Conservative: Gay people shouldn't be denied marriage to the people they love. Liberal: That posi
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Yeah, the article is stupid nostalgia. What killed the web is very clear: a select cadre of companies conspired and worked very hard to turn the web into an advertising platform. The developments here are obvious: 1. Google Ads monetized li
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by dnomad 8y ago
You might read the Bitcoin paper written by the inventor of Bitcoin. There is absolutely no doubt that Bitcoin was originally and has always been marketed as a currency. I can see why you might want to deny this but, please, it's insul
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This is not true. Bitcoin was heavily marketed as a currency. It failed at this. Bitcoin was heavily marketed as decentralized where no single entity owns 51% of the network. In fact Bitmain likely already does or soon will control 51% of t
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by dnomad 8y ago
> I kinda got that impression as I was reading it, but had hoped I was wrong. Absolutely hilarious that all it took was one anonymous comment to "convince" you of this despite the fact that you hoped you were wrong. This thread
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> Rather, the sophisticated targeting systems available through Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other Big Tech ad platforms made it easy to find the racist, xenophobic, fearful, angry people who wanted to believe that foreigners were dest
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> Having a new HTTP verb for subscribing and publishing would seem like unnecessary complexity to me. Complexity for who? Introducing a secondary "hub" resource here is just accidental complexity. If I want to subscribe to reso
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Not sure why you think the problem lies with immigrants. Particularly in Denmark where, more often than not, you find the children of recent immigrants to be very strongly integrated. Consider the possibility that the anti-immigrant hysteri
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This is pure nonsense. A better question is what could possibly lead you to believe that immigrants "have a distaste" for their new home countries? You certainly didn't actually talk to any immigrants. Perhaps this is the rea
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> I see no evidence that could lead you to assert that a Trump voter picked at random would know that Trump was lying about climate change being a hoax. Trump supporters know perfectly well that he's lying. There is clear evidence
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Leiter tends to take Nietzsche very literally. Yes, Nietzsche grasped quite clearly that exceedingly few people have the courage to endure the world "in itself." Most people persist their whole lives trapped in elaborate fantasies
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The problem isn't "kids these days." The problem is relational databases. It's a profoundly non-intuitive and fundamentally broken model. Developers shudder away from SQL precisely because it is so alien from the problem
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Considering that everybody's talking about it online and GT (Global Times) just published an editorial I don't think it would be too difficult. (BTW, congrats on making it out alive. Millions of people weren't so fortunate an
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by dnomad 8y ago
Your fantasy version of China bears little relation to reality. In fact there's vibrant discussion online and in person, frequent protests (which actually produce real change because local officials are very sensitive to protests [1])
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What's really strange are Westerners who unilaterally deem China totalitarian, a sentiment not shared by most Chinese themselves. You wonder if people will ever outgrow the need to invent a boogeyman to legitimize their own dire circum
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by dnomad 8y ago
I suspect XMPP is superior to ActivityPub and the way to go. Bandwidth is only increasing with 5G and with binary XML [1] I think you'll (one day, in theory) be able to get large scale, efficient real-time message flows. XML is just mo
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It's not unique to Japan: many other Asian cities exhibit dynamic, multi-polar cities and extraordinary continuous density. > 1- Zoning is a national law, not a municipal by-law This is pretty much it.The fact that strong central go
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Not sure why you give credit to politicians. Politicians are not smart enough to engineer this. This is completely the genius of capitalism. The reality is there are millions of people out there who cannot meaningfully contribute to the mod
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I think it's pretty obvious considering how shallow and frequent the reporting is that this isn't traditional media criticism. There are real issues with Facebook that are not new but they have nothing to do with "creepy pate
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Yet another New York Times hit piece against Facebook. It makes you wonder what a private corporation is supposed to do. In just this year: 1) The New York Times has published an endless stream editorials calling for Facebook to be destroye
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But this is true of all groups. All groups offer identity and possibility of growth. What makes cults special is the element of faith. This is the difference between an investor and a speculator, an engineer and a magician, and real currenc
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> The headline reads like it's only a cult, which isn't the case. Bitcoin sold itself as a cult from the very beginning so it's no surprise that all manner of cults have congregated around the technology. Bitcoin is an int
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You're definitely not the only one. It's a very strange phenomenon: Golang developers insist their language is boring and uber-simple but every non-trivial Go codebase I've encountered has been anything but. It seems like the

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