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by fatbird 5y ago
Hans Reiser would almost certainly be free today if he hadn't overruled his lawyer and taken the stand in his own defence.
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by fatbird 5y ago
One of my philosophy professors was excluded from jury selection, and happened to run into the lawyer who excluded him shortly after in the bathroom, and asked why. The lawyer said it was because he wrote Philosophical Quarterly on his que
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by fatbird 5y ago
The content is encrypted with one-time pads that are constantly refreshed, which is entirely undecipherable through cryptanalysis. Encrypting the radio signal itself would require a much more extensive infrastructure than binders and radio
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by fatbird 5y ago
Ironically, using the phrase "virtue signaling" has itself become a form of virtue signaling to the crowd reading Reason and others around here who see it as a negative. This is like the phrase "politically correct", whi
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by fatbird 5y ago
You reference beanie babies or tulips and describe how a speculative market detached the price from the actual value--so while the speculation was ongoing, some people made money, but when it collapsed, many lost money, and they were left w
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by fatbird 5y ago
A 28 foot context menu is obviously going to be a UX problem.
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by fatbird 5y ago
I know many teachers, and none that would agree that what they're doing is filling a cup. None stand there lecturing students, and expect them to recite it back. They all work hard to come up with different exercises, presentations,
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by fatbird 5y ago
As Vendan said, the point is to get explicit acknowledgement that you're aware of something and have either mitigated it or accepted it. Which sounds kind of dumb, like ISO9000 certification, where the joke is "it doesn't ma
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by fatbird 5y ago
The most plausible explanation I've heard is that after going through JFK's neck and most of Connally's chest without striking bone, it was significantly slowed down so that when it hit Connally's rib and wrist, it was w
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by fatbird 5y ago
Here's video by CBS where they easily and repeatedly reproduce Oswald's shots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghmY6HmR4fs . Contrary to a lot of assertion, it wasn't that difficult.
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by fatbird 5y ago
Where does the gov't itself accept this? Here's video by CBS and Dan Rather showing their tests where they easily reproduced the shooting that Oswald did under nearly identical circumstances, repeatedly: https://www.you
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by fatbird 5y ago
As I described above with my link to the video of CBS, in 1967, testing the difficulty of those shots, they had multiple marksmen hit with two shots, and one hit all three, firing the same rifle from the same height at a moving target, with
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by fatbird 5y ago
CBS and Dan Rather successfully reproduced the shooting by putting marksmen on a tower of the same height, firing at a moving target with the same rifle. Several hit with two bullets; one hit with three bullets. All fired three rounds wit
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by fatbird 5y ago
But don't argue "strictness" is "correctness" I feel my mind expanding right now the same way I did when I first heard "concurrency and parallelism aren't the same thing".
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by fatbird 5y ago
Thanks for the detail. BTW, "quorum of powerful individuals" (QOPI) means the core ETH people who decided to execute the hard forks. I think you're demonstrating my point for me. It's not that QOPI led you all by the
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by fatbird 5y ago
I understand. What did influence that decision? I expect it would be your overall appraisal of the viability of a particular blockchain and future expectations of activity. Is that accurate?
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by fatbird 5y ago
Miners choose where it's profitable to mine, which will always be the more active blockchain. It's called voting with your feet, and clearly Ethereum miners followed the quorum of powerful individuals. What matters your massive
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by fatbird 5y ago
So what? Ethereum classic has two+ orders of magnitude less activity. The hard forks are where Ethereum is today. It's not just the maintainers deciding what's law, instead of code; the coin community actually wants it that wa
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by fatbird 5y ago
You're right, you can do all that--until vested interests revert your blockchain because the current blockchain status quo isn't to their liking, at which point your belief that code is better than law is a lie, because it still
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by fatbird 5y ago
Ethereum has twice hard forked the blockchain to revert the results of "code is law", clearly saying that code is only law when a quorum of powerful individuals accept the outcome. Code isn't law, "code is law" is
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by fatbird 5y ago
Algorithmic domination: the constant application of optimization clumps us at the mean. We're addicted to the broadest tastes. Rather than surfacing the interesting parts of the long tail, we're herded in ever larger numbers to
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by fatbird 5y ago
Do you have an example? I'm not aware of any instance of a general change that lowers property values causing the gov't to have to compensate landowners. The "taking" of which I'm aware is use of eminent domain to
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by fatbird 5y ago
The way you handle retirees is tax deferral: they don't pay the taxes every year, they pay the whole amount when the property is transferred by sale or inheritance. In this case it would just be the land transfer.
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by fatbird 5y ago
Aren't they still paying property taxes? You wouldn't be adding a tax to them, you'd be replacing a tax on them with a differently calculated tax. It might go up, or down (the auther says his would go down). And there is no
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by fatbird 5y ago
The problem with this school of thought is that it essentially says "let's lose the bulk of our Pacific fleet and have to spend a couple years rebuilding, to get a sufficiently strong cause for war." This is absurd on its fac
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by fatbird 5y ago
When this happened to me, we knew ahead of time in general, and waited for individual meetings, and it all worked out. As it is, there's still miscommunication and rumours while all the now-locked-out people meet with HR and return co
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by fatbird 5y ago
Do it the way AirBnB (or most other companies) did it: announce that large scale layoffs will be happening due to X and Y reasons, and that the individuals losing their jobs will be contacted over the next week. Then someone phones/zo
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by fatbird 5y ago
A colleague who's a CSS wizard was working on a site where a defined colour in SCSS was "black" and it was #333333. He added a darker black at #222222, and then didn't call it "dark_black" and I've never
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by fatbird 5y ago
If people still had witty quotes in email signatures, I would totally steal your last sentence.
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by fatbird 5y ago
I'm in the same situation in the paper making industry. Kafka is an almost perfect match for our needs: high volume, durable storage, decoupled stream processing.

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