jack9

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by jack9 11y ago
> your defense is simplistic at best. Defense of what? > What does President Lessig do during the first 100 days of his Presidency if war breaks out? He does what EVERY President does. 100 days or not (how are the # of days relevant?
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by jack9 11y ago
> It reveals a fundamental lack of understanding about the role of the Presidency in United States politically and socially and image it projects to the world at large. Your comment is ironic to the core. The role of POTUS is not to serv
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by jack9 11y ago
The name of the star is KIC 8462852
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by jack9 11y ago
Regardless of a fallacy or not, it's effective. So the argument works. Dealing with the populace, citing wikipedia doesn't get you very far.
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by jack9 11y ago
> the far extreme of what mandatory vaccination proponents actually seek Vaccination proponents seek vaccine-preventable diseases to be largely prevented. What do you mean by "mandatory vaccination proponents" if not the previo
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by jack9 11y ago
> There's no need for the gross violation of freedom some people fear, locking up parents or declaring them unfit, tying people to a chair and needling them. Not yet. If you don't think propaganda will align "drug-de-jour&
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by jack9 11y ago
Related noted. If you eat at Jack in the Box, you're eating quite a bit of Kangaroo meat. Their meat packing facilities are nauseating.
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by jack9 11y ago
The government mandating or coercing what is required to be put in people's bodies, is a dangerous precedent. That's kinda important (the only one I care about).
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by jack9 11y ago
> I doubt things would be much different if Microsoft wasn't around. The man-hours wasted working around the bugs with Fat32 and NetBIOS and the slew of broken MS implementations can never be recovered. MS Office is STILL an endeari
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by jack9 11y ago
> he was openly reviled as an abusive monopolist and robber baron with a long reputation for having been mean and abusive to employees. For some people (like me), he isn't anything more. Jobs and Gates were both rather disruptive pe
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by jack9 11y ago
> Stream processing complex JSON documents and storing the documents to disk at rates of 500k documents/second per server is demonstrably achievable on some scale-out systems So is it per server or scaled out? I thought SSDs have ca
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by jack9 11y ago
Do you using batching to reach that scale of throughput? Streams sometimes are pre-aggregated data and it wasn't clear on if you maintained the granularity through the changes.
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by jack9 11y ago
All events are irreparable. Justice cannot be absolute, in either direction. This is not a flaw in morality, but in our limited abilities. Acceptance of that is not weakness, but awareness. No amount of intelligence necessitates wisdom. Sor
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by jack9 11y ago
> It's also something most people aren't all that interested in paying a reasonable amount for. That's me! I have 0 interest in it. I just want the stuff on my doorstep when I get home and a way to address if it hasn'
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by jack9 11y ago
Some minor points > Redis in its special case of memcached replacement, may be addressed executing multiple processes This is always less optimal to a single process. Simpler is better. > Redis is very very observable This has a cost.
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by jack9 11y ago
> What is more, conducting life threatening or physically disabling experiments to examine the biology of extraterrestrial captives ought to be banned The choice between the possible extermination of humanity and some vague concept of mo
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by jack9 11y ago
If she bought it via a loan from a bank, making the bank a financier. If it was paid off, it might show the bank still owning the car (ie not her) even though it was the bank's responsibility to transfer back, per the finance agreement
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by jack9 11y ago
So before learning Haskell, you wished you had already known over 325 pages of what? That seems like a motivation to not try to learn it at all.
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by jack9 11y ago
He imagines that he will face the choice again, which is unlikely via: Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.
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by jack9 11y ago
> he pointed out what the words actually said, the actual meaning seemed obvious in retrospect. > Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. This section negates the "actual meaning" being de
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by jack9 11y ago
I can say, after 20 years that only twice (iirc) have JavaScript comments every been useful to me. Comments, in general, have not shown to be too useful except in very specific problemspaces. The idea that TODO comments "tend to stay i
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by jack9 11y ago
If you're using AWS to the extent that you're leveraging autoscaling, you're at around $30k/yr to start. The dropbox accounts are just an afterthought.
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by jack9 11y ago
> 10k/s is no problem for RabbitMQ, even on aws t2 machines Sending them from themselves to themselves you can do even better than that. Loopbacks aren't useful metrics for message passing. http://bravenewgeek.com&#x
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by jack9 11y ago
> Its weird because I remember when no one knew about CSS, amd then suddenly everyone had to do it. That year was 1999. 1998 it was "a huge improvement" still being standardized. It was formalized in 1999 (iirc) and eventually
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by jack9 11y ago
So what? Reading a page without HTML5 will also mangle some pages, some pages in the 90's required vbscript. Technology isn't bad. It's been years since I've heard someone suggest that non-js support is something to desi
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by jack9 11y ago
It's orders of magnitude slower. Might as well just use AWS sqs. If you want to do throughput of 10k/s per machine, do yourself a favor and use ZeroMQ. Kafka is a nightmare when your topology needs to change. ZMQ is just connectin
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by jack9 11y ago
> You don't get to reinterpret statements made earlier just because he got the general gist. Of course someone can. You can do whatever you want too. Predictions are hard and any correlation in 11 years is impressive, as are these.
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by jack9 11y ago
> Constitutionally, privacy is a pretty cut-and-dry concept You clearly don't understand the US Constitution or existing US law. Saying it's cut-and-dry doesn't make it so. > Information is either private or not I'
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by jack9 11y ago
A Computer Science degree taught you to write a counter-argument blog post that says nothing original or compelling, because you read one you disagreed with. Way to illustrate the point.
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by jack9 11y ago
Example: https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Source+Code+Pro Ew.

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