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by iofj 11y ago
There's the reverse problem as well. If life develops by itself when it has (chemically) the chance ... then where is it ? Our sun is a third generation star (meaning some sun went nova, recoalesced into another sun, went nova, recoale
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by iofj 11y ago
That's the second time : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/04/yahoo-layoffs-2000-...
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by iofj 11y ago
True: the 7% cash in their economy happened months ago, starting years ago, but really picking up steam last September. It didn't drop 7% though, neither the stock market nor the Chinese economy. Drop in Chinext since peak: (4037-2254)
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by iofj 11y ago
It applies in both directions, however it has only existed while the market was going down fast. Also, I very much doubt China is going to start disappearing traders who make their stock market go up 5% like they're doing now : http:&
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by iofj 11y ago
India didn't turn it down, it introduced it, and then other megacorps, Microsoft up front, lobbied until it got outlawed.
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by iofj 11y ago
This seems a worthless reduction. I tried having my online dedicated box on ec2 for a while, cheapest server. Bill per month $120 USD. Yes that is mostly traffic. It was over 200 the month I decided, foolishly, to host a video on a blog. Do
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by iofj 11y ago
That doesn't protect you as much as you think. Ddos resiliency really depends on the amount of unused (!) available capacity, in absolute value. And Amazon, I guarantee you, doesn't have that much unused network capacity. That wou
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by iofj 11y ago
3x redundancy doesn't actually require you to triple storage : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming(7,4) If you check out 3x redundancy, what does it get you ? Well, you can correct any 1 bit error (not 2, becaus
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by iofj 11y ago
Keep in mind that if you're sufficiently large, you can negotiate better rates on dedi as well. Because of the massive competition in that market, you don't have to be that large to do it either.
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by iofj 11y ago
Aside from the fact that total egress for AWS is biggger and thus (slightly) more ddos resistant ... what exactly is the quality difference here ? There's plenty of dedi providers that are big enough to prevent real outages though. And
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by iofj 11y ago
You can, and of course, should, refuse to sign any document detailing additional job requirements. If you are presented with a PIP you should fold the paper, put it in your pocket, and inform the other party that said paper will be used in
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by iofj 11y ago
When you think about it, the two are really the same thing. A lot of people (some 15 million) got coverage, and they're not paying for it, you are.
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by iofj 11y ago
> In my opinion the public option wouldn't have cost us much ... If you look at the margins the insurers are using (the maximum a public option might be cheaper), they're not much. 10% is rare. Given government inefficiency, I&
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by iofj 11y ago
First thing that needs to happen to social cohesion in America is stopping focusing everything on race. Yes, minimum wage affects different races differently. But so does everything else. And one thing I'm pretty sure about : the rich
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by iofj 11y ago
One does get the impression that the problems with websockets are mostly much extremely large web companies complaining that it isn't perfectly ideal for their exact application, and that they'd rather have their exact usecase wri
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by iofj 11y ago
Yep this is simply a "we can pay workers with threats of deportion instead of dollars", except the police doesn't actually search much, if at all, for illegal immigrants. So very soon, the threat carries no weight. Thankfully
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by iofj 11y ago
You're arguing in favor of unit tests. > If you don't have a test for a given item of functionality; how do you know it works? This would be an integration test > If you don't have a test for your subsystem that covers
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by iofj 11y ago
> As others have said, you test inputs and outputs (and maybe you need to test some failure modes depending on the complexity of the situation). When you're working on a parser, or lexical analyzer of any sort, wouldn't it be n
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by iofj 11y ago
Let me just replace debugger with supermarket. Hopefully you will see how this is a stupid argument : One of the insidious things about supermarkets is that they let you be lazy when getting food. When you don't have a supermarket,
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by iofj 11y ago
We all know the answer. Because all governments feel they should spend that money instead of Apple. And they can take it, so they should. And the more left-leaning part of the aisle has this idea that they will get to decide what that money
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by iofj 11y ago
Yes, but when have you ever encountered a large company where unit tests are judged by what needs testing as opposed to "coverage" ? There is almost no use for unit tests, as they lock down function implementations without verifyi
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by iofj 11y ago
Except that pretty much any measure of market-rate is likely to be biased. From the FED's estimates biased up to rental sites biased down.
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by iofj 11y ago
I think the bigger story here is that the NSA spied on, and tries to publicly shame, the lawmakers that are supposed to control it. For the NSA this should be totally and completely inexcusable. Democracy does not work if the branches of th
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by iofj 11y ago
True. However ... any central bank is free to do that in any currency they please. So the ECB can do it for Swiss Francs today, for instance. If you now proceed to say that that is lunacy ... I'd agree with you. But it's still how
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by iofj 11y ago
So what you mean to say is that the Swiss will now create a system where Swiss banks are required to have a tiny and fully controlled "overseas" (about 5 cm overseas preferably) subsidiary that "really"/legally orig
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by iofj 11y ago
http://www.bgpmon.net/issues-with-allocating-from-1-0-0-08/
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by iofj 11y ago
And now the government has stolen it from the cops. Well, it's better than nothing I guess.
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by iofj 11y ago
Oh so we're going to start burning more oil ? That sucks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox (Note that you can currently see it in action. Fossil fuel usage is very near an all time high while prices dr
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by iofj 11y ago
Until battery tech gets within a decent percentage of a gas tank. Commercial batteries are currently worse than gas tanks, but catching up fast. If they get to 20% volume/weight/price of a gas tank I would predict a switch is goin
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by iofj 11y ago
The simpsons already did that project for cats : http://i.imgur.com/XeDNt.gif

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