grandalf

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by grandalf 9y ago
> Manning and Snowden irresponsibly put their government in an embarrassing position In my opinion, the leaders who lied to the American people are the ones who put us in an embarrassing position. Manning and Snowden just helped us real
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by grandalf 9y ago
I agree too.
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by grandalf 9y ago
Right, so why is the FDA the bottleneck to drugs coming to market? It makes no sense and creates a massive, overly risk-averse bureaucracy. There are tradeoffs involved for allowing a drug too soon, failing to take it off market fast enough
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by grandalf 9y ago
The idea that we should all simply trust one entity to "approve" drugs is pretty farfetched. I think there should be multiple "stamps" of approval from a variety of entities that consumers can use to determine whether th
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by grandalf 9y ago
Would it be possible to assess the musical repetitiveness by doing this type of analysis on midi versions of the songs? I'd also be curious which songs were the least repetitive for each decade.
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by grandalf 9y ago
Is there a good virus scanner for OSX?
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by grandalf 9y ago
When the Nextel merger was allowed a few years ago, mobile phone plan prices per minute in the US increased by about 50% within six months. Suddenly the aggressively priced plans came with 600 minutes. What a joke. There is absolutely no
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by grandalf 9y ago
Great job on the redesign! My biggest UX gripe with Apple Music is that the app doesn't open into the same state it was in last time I used it. I'm not sure if this is an intentional decision meant to generate algorithmic feed imp
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by grandalf 9y ago
Before I heard about rails (pre 1.0) I had been doing some stuff in PHP that was quite similar to Rails simply as my preferred convention. So when I saw Rails the thing I was most impressed by was Ruby, a very nice (aesthetically) language
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by grandalf 9y ago
Exactly. I totally agree, but typically with a startup achieving it at least once (the first time) is of particular importance. After that the role is more general as "CTO" than as "Startup CTO". But I'm just spl
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by grandalf 9y ago
Those are good points. I respect that some people have religious beliefs and affiliations. Rights generally begin as a very individual thing... the right to vote, the right to free speech, etc. So the right not to have one's body muti
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by grandalf 9y ago
Both of your comments will require a bit more in-depth a response. I will do so later on today. Enjoying the discussion.
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by grandalf 9y ago
None of those benefits go away if we wait until the person being cut is old enough to understand what is going to happen and to consent for it.
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by grandalf 9y ago
> You don't understand how latency works at all. If latency to a location is bad, fix it -- that's what you are being paid for. Are you serious? There are some cases where latency is a function of a malfunctioning circuit and
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by grandalf 9y ago
I don't think last mile is a natural monopoly anymore due to wireless options.
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by grandalf 9y ago
I've found that most startups fail to scale when it comes to making fast/responsive product decisions. This may not be obvious, since those startups are typically "agile" in the buzzword sense. The cost comes when the un
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by grandalf 9y ago
Why not just go under anesthesia and have it done? You won't remember a thing!
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by grandalf 9y ago
While I would not do it to an infant, it's not a sex organ and will restore to fully healed/closed status if left alone for a few weeks, so it's hard to compare this to removing part of a sex organ that will not re-grow.
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by grandalf 9y ago
> Infrastructure which everyone else has access to. Unless you think ISPs will simply block off many hosts, this is likely hyperbole. More likely, certain services would be charged tolls upstream and others would be promoted with discoun
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by grandalf 9y ago
> brainwashed No but the parents who did it may have been. > subjugated and deprived of rights as children Those who were mutilated without giving consent were harmed in a way that could be significant. I certainly would not consent
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by grandalf 9y ago
Great point.
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by grandalf 9y ago
Even if this is true there is absolutely no reason to do it during infancy to a helpless victim. Perhaps the procedure could be offered to adults as a way to have safer sex without actually having safe sex.
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by grandalf 9y ago
Of course, some reasonable people think that genital mutilation is OK, because being reasonable does not guarantee moral clarity. This is why many reasonable people supported slavery and other abhorrent things. I can't believe anyon
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by grandalf 9y ago
> The upgrade from 2 to 3 took nearly a year on this project and that was with 2 people. The upgrade from 3 to 4 was roughly 6 months. That is typical in my experience for a non-trivial app.
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by grandalf 9y ago
Absolutely. That we tolerate genital mutilation of infants and that many people think it's OK/normal just illustrates how powerful the forces of convention are in swaying our views/beliefs. Genital mutilation is part of the
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by grandalf 9y ago
> In markets with 1 or 2 viable ISPs, what is your solution? I watch about 1 hour of Youtube per month and about 5 hours of Netflix. Why should I subsidize people who watch 5 hours each day? Let's not pretend bandwidth is not a sca
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by grandalf 9y ago
People miss the detail that it's those big players that want net neutrality because it lets them essentially have a captive last mile infrastructure that requires no investment on their part.
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by grandalf 9y ago
> In a data pipeline, that is not the case. You misunderstand my point or you misunderstand QoS. The capacity of a data pipeline can be significantly increased by QoS. Not its absolute, theoretical maximum, but its ability to achieve hig
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by grandalf 9y ago
> not the content they want This is FUD. Any ISP that decided to break the internet is going to fail. All they'd do is offer other services as alternatives to the big dollar ones like YouTube. A last mile ISP does two core things
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by grandalf 9y ago
> Rails 1.x to 2.x or 2.x to 3.x Yep. I stopped choosing Rails for new projects after 2.0 but inherited a few codebases with newer Rails subsequently. The problem is not necessarily just with Rails, it's that gem authors don't

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