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by foxylad 10y ago
Refreshing viewpoint. I agree with both suggestions. I hope as you do that humans start limiting their population. It seems to me that we can either breed un-controllable and have the maximum number of humans living awful lives fighting for
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by foxylad 10y ago
You are correct that we don't understand EXACTLY how this works. But we do have an increasingly good idea, and it is now very widely accepted that increasing CO2 levels are due to fossil fuels, and that they are going to make life for
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by foxylad 10y ago
S/he does have a choice - move to somewhere without taxes (Vanuatu was mentioned earlier as a possibility). The fact that non-taxing countries aren't over-run with libertarian immigrants (despite being a tropical paradise!) makes
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by foxylad 10y ago
This. I suppose I am a successful founder, but it sure wasn't some mystical "vision of the future" - I have about ten of those a day, and I'm sure everyone else does too. We succeeded due to blind luck - right place, rig
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by foxylad 10y ago
No, she didn't, on many levels. Her underlings should have known better, but if a 68-year-old politician knew anything about internet security practices, I'd vote for them!
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by foxylad 10y ago
"If you care about privacy, you shouldn't use your voice. Because the default is talking instead of whispering, if you aren't careful when discussing sensitive things, you might be overheard." OK, reach and permanence ar
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by foxylad 10y ago
I imagine sugar producers are far more concerned about the current focus on the health effects of heavy sugar consumption. Surely reduction in general demand is going to have a greater impact on prices than a small trend towards non-GMO sug
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by foxylad 10y ago
Salesforce status page here: http://trust.salesforce.com/trust/instances
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Salesforce 12-Hour (so far) Outage(theregister.co.uk)
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by foxylad 10y ago
There is obviously something unbalanced in the pharma business, and I think it is one of the corner cases where unbridled capitalism fails - perhaps because it is a need, not a want, so it is not discretionary spending. My instinct is that
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by foxylad 11y ago
Good read. I like his point that you should read your inbox oldest first, or else you reward the most annoying correspondents. This also encourages the "handle it once" ethos, because you need to traverse older items to get to new
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by foxylad 11y ago
Yeah, but pricing is ten times Appengine's (actually more - recently we don't seem to be being charged for email at all). Amazon SES is the only service with a comparable cost that I've found. I'd love to hear of other a
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by foxylad 11y ago
We wouldn't use it. To me, the whole point of Appengine is to abstract out system administration. GCE (like AWS) abstracts out the systems, but not the administration - you suddenly become responsible for all the scaling, fault-toleran
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by foxylad 11y ago
This is why I don't invest in actively managed funds. I like the argument that if anyone could pick stocks better than average, they'd end owning everything - but I don't pretend to understand the share market well enough to
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by foxylad 11y ago
I'm one of Cloudflare's customers who would blacklist all Tor traffic if I could. I genuinely don't understand why so many people obviously use Tor for all their browsing, and not just for sites where remaining anonymous is
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by foxylad 11y ago
Until we completely understand the risks, perhaps we should make a rule not to breed after genetic manipulation. If you want kids and gene therapy, kids first.
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by foxylad 11y ago
We've had a very different experience than you. We've used Appengine since 2009, and are about to launch our third service built on it. It's important to understand that that Appengine is not AWS . It is a massively distribu
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by foxylad 11y ago
> Find me a single ops eng on the market who has done scale in GC? Every user of appengine, for a start. You need to code to their datastore, but apart from that scaling is practically infinite - and completely invisible. We don't n
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by foxylad 11y ago
Very true. I cut my teeth on Turbo C and C++ Builder back in the ninties, when they were a very reasonable cost - tens of dollars, I think. They made all their software much more expensive at the same time they killed the Borland brand - ju
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by foxylad 11y ago
> I've always wondered whether you could just have a community that banned outrage. One of the reasons I like HN is that outrage is discouraged.
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by foxylad 11y ago
It's more that they imply the poster is really angry. If you saw two speakers in the street, one arguing reasonably and the other swearing his head off, I think most people would place less value on the ranter.
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by foxylad 11y ago
Downvoted. Your point may not be ignorant, but it certainly seems that way given the unnecessarily violent language.
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by foxylad 11y ago
Yes... and then you've got Opportunity still doing valuable science 48 times longer than the three months it was designed for. Gold medals aren't enough - there should be a Nobel prize for engineering for the design team. The op
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by foxylad 11y ago
You can now program the ESP8266 family with the Arduino IDE, in effect giving you a more powerful arduino with built in WiFi. That costs less than $5.
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by foxylad 11y ago
I must admit I'm surprised at this verdict. I agree he probably has broken US copyright law, but the crown also broke several laws while conducting the case - data from his servers was sent to the US without legal authorisation, for in
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by foxylad 11y ago
Anyone know how accurate the first-stage landing was? Obviously delta v is most important, but hitting the bullseye would just top off the accomplishment.
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by foxylad 11y ago
Pretty sure both altitude and speed were constant during the satellite deployment phase.
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by foxylad 11y ago
Personal preference. The reason I am a Quaker is the lack of dogma - no "thou shalt do this one weird thing every alternate Thursday because the priest/book/tablet says so". Put another way, you have the responsibility f
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by foxylad 11y ago
Quaker here. I can't speak for Pennsylvanian quakers two centuries ago, but I'm very surprised to hear about stocks and flogging in a Quaker context. To be clear, Quakers renounce all violence, including against those who perpetra
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by foxylad 11y ago
Thanks for your service, Daniel. I think there is a cycle to these things. You start by getting excited by an idea, and work night and day on it. If it's useful, you attract attention and users, and it slowly stops being either excitin

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