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by fleitz 9y ago
They also call it Facebook instead of AdBook, but meh.
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by fleitz 9y ago
There's lots of ways for them to win. For the most part people just complain, it's a couple cycles of bad PR and then a very large segment of the internet goes back to enjoying the walled garden.
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by fleitz 9y ago
Most closures don't reference global mutable state. Generally they take immutable copies and you have to tell the compiler that you want mutable state which is generally limited to the scope of the function the closure appears in.
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by fleitz 9y ago
JavaScript is actually a better case than most languages as it doesn't support threads.
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by fleitz 9y ago
So you feel your program is better off for having only one connection pool and being unable to use another? Regarding caching your processor tends to feel otherwise and has multiple levels of cache because globally mutating state in a coher
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by fleitz 9y ago
So basically you'd Uber them?
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by fleitz 9y ago
Start paying people to hang out with their friends?
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by fleitz 9y ago
Service could be delivered cheaper as you wait 8 minutes for your BTC transaction to be confirmed. It's a very innovative way to increase wait times while increasing customer satisfaction amongst those who give a shit how the payment m
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by fleitz 9y ago
They'll get old and then complain about the new generation doing the same thing. Just like those geezers in The Clash complained about 'phoney beatle mania'
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by fleitz 9y ago
Science isn't about debate, you either falsify the null hypothesis or you don't. The last thing an issue like climate change needs is a falsifiable hypothesis which is why the IPCC never puts one forward. If we want people to stop
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by fleitz 9y ago
GLAAD and HRC are advocacy groups, not organizations dedicated to truth. If a lie creates advocacy that's perfectly within their purview as advocates. As with all organizations the purpose of organizations are to perpetuate themselves.
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by fleitz 9y ago
Indexes don't really require data to be sorted, sorting is a consequence of adding data to many different types of index. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree
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by fleitz 9y ago
Exactly, just like that uninventive louse they are named after. Wires? Existed before. Magnets? Long history. Rotating fields? Over 75 years old at that point. All he did was come up with a winding pattern. Pfft, big deal.
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by fleitz 9y ago
". No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
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by fleitz 9y ago
There was a class action suit because a company was marking up the cost of the goods / services they were selling? Isn't this just called business?
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by fleitz 9y ago
They also don't shoot people in the chest or let them fall onto concrete. They should do the testing a 30 minute drive from the hospital without medical personnel on hand at the top of a flight of cement stairs with no one around to ca
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by fleitz 9y ago
An independent jury undermines the power of the court and the government. If you let juries make decisions next thing you know you get verdicts like not guilty.
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by fleitz 9y ago
arbitrarily? No. reasonably? Probably.
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by fleitz 9y ago
Exactly, so if you are a median Canadian you're getting very shitty healthcare compared to the median American. In Canada you still get really shitty outcomes for any chronic illness. Basically if any idiot can identify what problem yo
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by fleitz 9y ago
The US is dead last in the G20, Canada is 2nd last. Our system still sucks.
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by fleitz 9y ago
Exactly. Just repeat 'free healthcare', never mind that many people in Canada can't even find a family Dr, let alone get things like MRIs. Michael Moore said we have wonderful healthcare just like Cuba, so it must be true. Oh
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by fleitz 9y ago
Exactly, which is why the whole thing is stupid and isn't going to happen. Enviros: You can enjoy longer summers and shorter winters, or you can be poor. Sane people: Longer summers and shorter winters sounds pretty good to me.
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by fleitz 9y ago
Exactly, capitalists pay in cold hard cash. You can't buy a sports car if the state doesn't even allow them to be made.
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by fleitz 9y ago
All solutions are geo-engineering... Exactly what kind of solution are all the things that are recommended to do to lower global CO2? The only difference is the current recommendations are inefficient and take a long time.
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by fleitz 9y ago
Sunlight is not the bottleneck for plant growth, CO2 and temperature are.
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by fleitz 9y ago
tl;dr: Politics 101. Prediction, the side that forked loses.
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by fleitz 9y ago
The political question is whether they can attract via their politics the people who make the cold hard code. Code hard code matters far more than politics to nodeJS consumers, but nodeJS producers may be influenced by politics. You want to
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by fleitz 9y ago
A diverse set of people with exactly the same opinion
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by fleitz 9y ago
The Conservative party of Canada has huge immigrant outreach and is very multicultural because it can't get elected any other way, similarly if your party doesn't work in Quebec you aren't getting elected. The multicultural v
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by fleitz 9y ago
I've never understood what's wrong with voting with your feet. Reminds me of how the people most dissatisfied with their jobs stay the longest

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