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by hapless 10mo ago
Amazon charges you for the “privilege”
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by hapless 10mo ago
Roughly half the gold produced each year vanishes into gold hoards. Half . This has been going on for forty years. There's literally decades of gold production sitting in hoards all around the world. Gold prices could get very s
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by hapless 10mo ago
Tl;DR computer nerd reads marx, rejects marginal revolution, writes about classical economics in turgid prose Complete and utter horseshit
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by hapless 11mo ago
The first x86 project I saw doing line speed route+filter on 10gpbs used 4x top-end Nehalem chips, an output of the RouteBrick project Although, their original paper says they used a 2-socket prototype and got some very impressive numbers:
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by hapless 11mo ago
The user interface is literally 1000x better. That's all Linux is enormously higher performance but it is a huge pain in the ass to squeeze the performance out AND retain any level of readability which is why there are like a dozen ve
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by hapless 11mo ago
I just today deployed an $800 mikrotik in my house that can route 10 gbps at wire speed. on the CPU. with firewall and nat rules applied. no joke. 4 million packets per second is, like, a lot, post-filtering and with any substantial p
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by hapless 11mo ago
OpenBSD's pre-journaling FFS is ancient and creaky but also extremely robust I am not sure there is a more robust, or simple, filesystem in use today. Most networking devices, including, yes, your UPS, use something like FFS to handle
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by hapless 11mo ago
This post sounded faintly crazy to me, so I went into a little wiki-hole consisting primarily of mailing lists and dev docs Turns out, the main reason `pf` is non-portable is that half of it runs inside Berkeley-type network stacks, often
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by hapless 11mo ago
Well, that is just the problem, isn't it? A lot of the bad behavior in corporate America comes from signalling (for above) and posturing (for below), not from finding ways to make money (Communes often have the same signalling and post
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by hapless 11mo ago
The American army, the origin of the term "fragging." (to wit, making sure your commanding officer has a close, and final, encounter with a piece of ordnance, such as a frag grenade) if we are to learn anything from the US milita
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by hapless 11mo ago
fads come and go but idiocy is forever this guy didn't write a blog post, he wrote the preface material for a training module to be sold to the least-competent HR execs he can find it is generally a bad sign when you set out to taxonom
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by hapless 11mo ago
Gonna file this away under the "I am very old" category Revised opinion: Maybe it should be EXTREMELY ALARMING to see a neighborhood kid make a one-time purchase of condoms or lube edit: i have worked retail but it was 30 years ag
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by hapless 11mo ago
It remains legal to provide drugs off-label because physicians sometimes know better than federal regulators It's horrible that A-Z would illegally market drugs for off-label uses -- I would not disagree for a minute with your reasonin
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by hapless 11mo ago
You've never seen a kid buy condoms because mom and dad are lazy? I aspire to your lifestyle ;) kids buy condoms for the same reasons kids used to buy cigarettes or beer. It would be super weird to see the same neighborhood kid buy co
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by hapless 11mo ago
Pen and paper are not restricted by Apple's "App Store."
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by hapless 11mo ago
So, what is your own company's approach to restricting underage use? because your blog post is, ahem rather less than persuasive
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by hapless 11mo ago
It is a tracker of sexual activity. It has no other purpose. It ain't livejournal, my man
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by hapless 11mo ago
I am pretty sure that raping children is a problem worldwide Also, there is an entirely separate set of Apple content guidelines around firearms.
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by hapless 11mo ago
I would have thought this app was targeted at people with unconventional lifestyles Maybe people need a dedicated, mobile-ready spreadsheet to track sexual partners! but this particular blog post makes me think they need a mobile spreadshee
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by hapless 11mo ago
It is, quite literally, a diary for your sexual activity Condoms, lubes, and intimate apparel are not threats to children. If you found children buying condoms, lubes, or intimate apparel at unusually high rates, that would be very alarmin
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by hapless 11mo ago
It is an explicit sex tracker that does not restrict usage by children You can imagine why Apple takes a dim view
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by hapless 11mo ago
Well, no, because Apple categorizes all of these things separately. The world is not subject to MPAA notions about "Sex" or "Violence" -- rather, Apple splits those up into "does this app have any sex" or &qu
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by hapless 11mo ago
it is light on details because the author wishes to invade your privacy in exchange for catering to your perversions
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by hapless 11mo ago
he didn't have any power or ability to fix anything that didn't involve trafficking young girls he can "fix" you up with a teenager who will give you a private "massage"
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by hapless 11mo ago
hang loose, young lady, i have to ask this sex criminal how best to respond to your latest message
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by hapless 11mo ago
really cringe dating advice about pursuing an affair with a student almost 40 years younger than he is it's way beyond cringe
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by hapless 11mo ago
Arguably it had a great deal to do with what we think of as a "virtual machine." Virtual 8086 remapped all opcodes and memory accesses to let a program pretend to be on a single, real-mode 8086 when in reality it was one of many p
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by hapless 1y ago
People, both then and now, are fond of Hayek and Von Mises works in anti-communist polemic. At no point were they reputable economists .
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by hapless 1y ago
One school consists of every university in the world. The other school is George Mason University, and, uh, the John Birch Society.
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by hapless 1y ago
Ludwig Von Mises was never qualified for a university appointment. Even today he would never have a chance at a reputable economics department -- only GMU gives any credence to that kind of witch doctor nonsense.

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