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> Oxford and others released a paper in 2014 I'm familiar with the Oxford research. It's not conclusive and I don't think most archaeologists have signed on. We'll see how it holds up over time. Even if you accept Ox
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> This reminds me of how the academic consensus was that child sacrifice in Carthage was merely Roman propaganda, There is really no evidence of child sacrifice at Carthage. Not sure why this myth persists but the much more plausible exp
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> As noted, I consider Reginald Hunter's opinion -- he thinks you, me, he, and everyone else should use the word a lot in order to remove / defuse its power. For future reference, this is a stupid idea. Certain words have derog
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I think in technology circles people just love to complain. They think it makes themselves look smart for some reason. Personally I'm a fan of MD and other minimalist styles. But it doesn't matter what technies think. What matters
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> US legal system seems to disagree with you. You're wrong. The use of the term "criminalization" here is correct. The Supreme Court has stated multiple times that being on US soil without proper documentation is not a c
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There's nothing wrong with Google wanting as many people as possible to use their cloud offering. I suspect the engineers would be happy for most government agencies to use their offering and it makes sense for Google to pursue governm
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Strange. I've come to find that most who think the modern military is primarily a "defense force" are wholly deluded about what the history actually does and its history.
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This is a very common occurrence on HN where some minor incident involving Amazon/Elon Musk/Google/feminism or GDPR becomes an opportunity for all manner of commentators to gather and exult together in your standard Two Minut
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Of course none of this ever happened. Musk has repeatedly accepted responsibility for many of the problems at Tesla around excessive automation. But try to understand the sort of psychology at work when somebody projects a fantasy onto a fi
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> Exceptions are pricey pricey things that take time and create some minorly interesting VM/GC behaviour that can impact your application. This is all very vague and handwavey. Not sure about the .NET world but in other systems the
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There is no performance penalty associated with try/catch. At least in JVM languages, try is free (its a compile time phenomenon) and throw is also free (memjmps), its only the creation of the exception that is expensive and this can
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> You have ACID transactions within actors, and you can also do transactions across actors I gotta say... this project strikes me as very strange. If you're going to go through all the trouble of sharding your data across a set of H
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The same is true of China, the US, and Germany. The idea that developing countries can get rich through free trade is a myth [1]. Developing countries that embraced free trade (see Africa, South America) largely remain poor today while coun
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At this point I really have to wonder how many people have written graph engines on top of lmdb! In the past month I've seen two from the same bank built on top of lmdbjava. Instead of reinventing this same wheel over and over it'
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Not much is known about the reality of open source because people do not want to know. This is the biggest story of the last decade: a few major technology corporations have banded together to give away billions of dollars of software compl
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This is not likely to be the case. It is not so easy to pursue a retaliation complaint. I suggest you look at the case law history here. America is not France where the courts almost always side with employees. It's just the opposite.
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This is not true. If you're an employee actually brave enough to pursue a discrimination a complaint with the EEOC understand that you will be blacklisted and/or subject to retaliation by various firms (not just your immediate e
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> Look up average SAT scores of different ethnic groups admitted to elite colleges as well. The disparity is glaring. Yes, everybody appeals to SAT scores. SAT scores are easily gamed. That's why more and more colleges are depriorit
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Your argument is that there's some super-intelligent strategy at work here but it must be kept secret in order for it to work. This is literally baseless nonsense. America has a single goal that is beyond transparent: prevent the rise
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The "statistics" don't show any such thing. You do have to admire the intense racial resentment at work here. There's no evidence at all that these Asian Americans aren't boring cookie-cutter kids when compared to t
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The author doesn't really get cyberpunk hence the confusion. Cyberpunk is an aesthetic, yes, but it is no mere aesthetic a la Romanticism or abstract art. Cyberpunk is an aesthetic that asserts that it is real. It's what troubleso
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This is something that can change with a bit of training. All the "plain text" formatting languages tend to break down. They work until they don't and then somebody invents yet another text-based pseudo-markup language. Ascii
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> IQ tests are far from perfect and I think everyone agrees they are a woeful indicator of success. I don't know many people that agree with this. At least in my bubble, the great majority regard IQ tests as bunk and the rest regard
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Yes, this is the real problem, not just in science but in virtually every industry. What you have are stove-pipe organizations [1] where individuals (a) have a single superior or "boss" that they "direct report" to (b) t
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> Google delivers a lot of value right now, and without people pushing back, hard, that value will enable them to get away with anything. So the more Google does for the web the more dangerous they become. Should Google then start fighti
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It's a bit remarkable how quickly this sort conspiratorial thinking feeds on itself. The victim constructs a paranoid fantasy where a single company can "turn off huge parts" of the web. This is silly in itself but what'
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The entire dockless business model started in China and they're way ahead with the backlash. Shanghai has cracked down hard [1] but it's still a huge problem with bikes being dumped all over the place [2]. If people can move pas
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The dockless approach doesn't work. People rightfully hate the race-to-the-bottom that leads to bikes/scooters being dumped everywhere. Once you accept the dockless approach doesn't work there's three interesting possibi
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> The implication is that American silicon itself is backdoored. There was no such implication. Compromising hardware never makes sense unless you can intercept the hardware en route (something the NSA has been known to do [1]). > It&
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The actual attack vector relies upon drivers signed by Taiwanese chip makers. (Taiwan happens yup be a country whose continued existence depends entirely upon the US.) If you depend upon say a Realtek card reader you're vulnerable.

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