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by fche 11y ago
(Seems like an "embarrassingly serial" problem -- a smarter lua could turn it into a single "set c = 1e9" instruction.)
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by fche 11y ago
A very quick skimming of the patent suggests that they are talking more about the online / distributed / dataflowish query evaluation engine than about a simple timestamped data storage widget. (Not that this makes it much more n
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by fche 11y ago
(Curious what the basis of the appeal is to be.)
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by fche 11y ago
"You can criticize communism as a concept or you can criticize existing and past communist states, but those two are not the same thing." True. And yet I'm happy to criticize each.
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by fche 11y ago
"Since moving my server to a data-center, the only downtime I had was when I needed to replace a disk." By the way, there exist backup MX services - commercial or self-made, which would give you 100% incoming-mail uptime but witho
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by fche 11y ago
"Communism ... absence of [...] state." So yeah, "hasn't been done right yet". Could you hypothesize who in a true-scotsman communist non-state would regulate people's output ("ability") & input
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by fche 11y ago
Did Jack Swigert stowaway on board to do a cryo-stir?
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by fche 11y ago
But by your reasoning, "we the people ... deciding" is good enough justification for government action. There need to be limits on "we the people deciding" other people's affairs - that's elementary.
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by fche 11y ago
"has nothing to do with totalitarianism" So it just hasn't been done right yet ...? "totalitarianism is considered far right" This passive-voice definition is unauthoritative and wrong. Check a dictionary instead.
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by fche 11y ago
One problem is the question of who gets to decide "ability" and "need" - since in that totalitarian world this is not voluntary & self-asserted.
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by fche 11y ago
... because America doesn't want great trains. There is not enough market demand for better passenger service, that's simply the bottom line. Whether it's because of population density, fuel prices, love of the car, whateve
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by fche 11y ago
... but "we" haven't given government the power to micromanage every aspect of our lives.
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by fche 11y ago
sounds like C+equality
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by fche 11y ago
''I don't regret setting bombs,'' Bill Ayers said. ''I feel we didn't do enough.' 2001-09-11, NYT
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by fche 11y ago
@threeseed > [...] I've never used a database that required me to explicitly define which indexes I want to use for a read. [...] In a way, it's traditional (IBM IMS/DB, 1960s).
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by fche 11y ago
As long as those friends don't misuse the information (spreading it to blackhats), what's the difference? If it's "hell" for everyone else on day N, it would be "hell" for everyone on day 0.
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by fche 11y ago
Government economics, working as designed.
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by fche 11y ago
(over what unit time)?
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by fche 11y ago
Heh, in a typical light general aviation twin, the engines alone are >half the value (replacement cost).
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by fche 11y ago
"crosswind" in the landing contexts is imperceptible at cruise.
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by fche 11y ago
"You'd think we could find better uses for those massive piles of cash" But those piles of cash don't belong to "us" to spend as "we" like.
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by fche 11y ago
See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUvm9UgJBtg
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by fche 11y ago
"all exchange houses" (American banks would give you face value.)
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by fche 11y ago
No, the logic error is yours, not theirs. They said "tea-partier ERGO fiat-money-hater". You're asserting the straw-man opposite.
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by fche 11y ago
"Money does not decay over time..." ... except in the form of inflation. Adding yet another centrally-planned mechanism for that (negative interest rates & elimination of cash) will amplify rather than reduce chaos, and (as i
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by fche 11y ago
"I said we do not need to encrypt everything" ... as justified by many arguments from ignorance, like "I don't think everyone ...", and "There is no technical reason..." over and over. Even one counterexa
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by fche 12y ago
pcp is happy to collect & persist metrics; vector just doesn't happen to render them. pcp offers other ways to interact with live or archive-saved data, including other webapps.
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by fche 12y ago
"You can demand all you want ..." Even better, those feeling this way can refuse to work for more time than they'd like. They don't need to force the rest of us.
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by fche 12y ago
It's not even just "hiding from scary ideas", it's "suppressing scary ideas".
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by fche 12y ago
Or rather, "I may be mistaken in my grand assertion, but I'll place the burden of proof on you".

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