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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Not really. Building your parking lot for peak demand has a very, very high opportunity cost. You could instead surround your business with other uses (like housing) resulting in a greater increase in steady-state business traffic that mo
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
The underlying reason is racism. White people dislike the idea of a social system that benefits everybody, because that would include the blacks. This is even true of desperately poor white people, who are very numerous, but would rather de
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Looking at the code I’d be surprised if this is anywhere near as fast as a simple equivalent written in C++ (which wouldn’t be as pessimistic with the register saving, in an opt build) or even compared to bozohttpd.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Yeah I don't know if there's all that many craft beers _in_ Oakland, but the state is just crawling with them.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Same experience in Oakland. It has never been easier to find Japanese whiskey. In fact all kinds of spirits have been having a renaissance around here; you can get anything from anywhere including many local spirits. That’s on top of the cr
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
How does all of this behave when you have an eGPU and a Thunderbolt-attached storage device? In what order do you install those peripherals? Who loses when the CPU wants access to GPU and storage at the same time?
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
That’s good to hear. My intuition is random failure like that resulted from inability to find your instances, or a belief in their non-existence or ill health.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
I guess that closeness to user got eliminated from the “good” list since Google’s FELB is serving 502 to this author’s customers.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Also familiar: monitoring frontend is tragic-comic with no units and inscrutable data. It’s cute that the author thinks the internal version must be a lot better! On the other hand, the article doesn’t mention Stackdriver Profiler, which ha
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Coin Metrics says the transaction fee stands at $7.67 which is astronomical. ETH is a bit lower at $1.39 but that is still far far higher than most payment instruments.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
That's what I am getting at. To pervert the old saying, you can't eat a Bitcoin. Presumably what this person wants is some instrument that can be exchanged for, say, 50 kilos of rice. Are Bitcoin and Ethereum really the best su
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Why not just dollars?
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Yep, seen that. I worked on a system where the company did not really want a reimplementation but they destaffed a project in one site and reconstituted it with all new people at another site. The new people decided to rewrite from scratch.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
You omit the possibility of a third outcome, where the Chinese people do not rise up and the oppression does not tire them out.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Nobody has been cited for any kind of traffic infraction in Oakland in many years.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Branches are virtual copies/views in p4.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
What’s wrong with it? Perforce is excellent. Git is OK but owes a lot of its popularity to its price.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Unfortunately pollution is not easily reversed. It's easy to say that if someone pollutes your water you'll sue them, but in reality it's unlikely that you'll be able to recoup your damages; pollution is often irreversi
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Committing crimes is the basic activity of Libertarians. The point of getting rid of the rules is you want to do the things that are against the rules. If the other countries still have the rules then you have conflict. Especially consideri
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
The best thing about a sovereign seastead is how any properly equipped Real County(tm) will roll up in a boat and just blow it away. It’s like barbarian cities in Civ, essentially.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Did you mean awareness of how it’s the most thoroughly debunked idea of the Reagan era, or something else?
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
I didn’t say he personally did it all, I said he was dedicated to that purpose. And why? Just greed.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Today, Los Angeles hit all-time-record high temperatures. This is with 1C change from pre-industrial climate. We are headed for 3C and Scott Pruitt is dedicated to accelerating that change. We'll be lucky if the overnight temperatur
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
My bank allows me to cancel my credit card online, which is good enough for me.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
All journalists covering the self-driving car beat are basically required to ignore Waymo so they can continue writing “When will cars drive themselves? Experts say nobody knows” articles. If you ignore Waymo it’s a race; if you include Way
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
OR I can just read and edit PDFs in the peak-optimized, ahead-of-time-compiled native PDF reader that comes on my computer.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
tcmalloc has a lot of parameters, and the defaults are not suited to any workload I've ever seen, so I'd be interested to know if these knobs were turned for this benchmark. Things like total thread cache size make a huge differe
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Unfortunately, no. Spanner may garbage collect the snapshot timestamp to which your example query was bound, if the garbage collection policy was triggered by additional writes at greater timestamps, or by the simple passage of time. The
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
If that's your definition then it's even more dumb to hold up Google Cloud Spanner as an example of how SQL gives you consistency. There's NO WAY to mutate Spanner tables via SQL. All writes are performed via the lower-leve
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
The conflation of SQL with consistency in this blog post is dumb. Yes Google offers SQL on Spanner but the query execution is built atop lower level Spanner primitives that are also available to developers and are similar to Bigtable concep

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