jackfraser

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by jackfraser 8y ago
So does this unfortunate and regrettable historical event mean that we can't use research, demographics, and psychometrics to determine likely outcomes and inform policy decisions?
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by jackfraser 8y ago
> The parents and grandparents of the children in her class were taken away from their families and put in residential schools where they were abused and mistreated their entire lives. Let's keep in mind that residential schools wer
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by jackfraser 8y ago
This is why other people are suggesting that this is close to a reimplementation of Lisp - what you want by using a .js for your config is the right to use any kind of dynamic definition that suits your needs down the line, and have the app
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by jackfraser 8y ago
This sort of research is amusing in a sad way. IQ studies on large populations have revealed data for nearly a century that would easily have predicted the outcome of your sister's efforts. The scores for teachers have to be normalize
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by jackfraser 8y ago
So a simpler, cheaper, smaller PDP it is then.
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by jackfraser 8y ago
Yeah no I'm sure you do, but you didn't read the comment, he's talking about the native INI-style syntax for boot menus baked into the DOS 6.0 kernel that allows you to specify multiple different CONFIG.SYS sections, and lets
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by jackfraser 8y ago
Every single thing has to be about feminism, somehow, doesn't it? Even a guy trying to relate to us about how the truck driving industry treats people badly - well gosh darn, it's not doing well enough if it's not treating wo
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by jackfraser 8y ago
> And they would come back with 150 more recent, more well researched studies and explain to me how statistics works Has anyone actually put this data together in a presentable way? I've only seen things that say the opposite and it
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by jackfraser 9y ago
Well yeah, it's pretty straightforward. Company A borrows $4 billion; it's leveraged against the company they're going to buy; they buy Company B, paying out the shareholders, and B merges into A and keeps the debt. I'm
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by jackfraser 9y ago
> Everyone has stood by while this has happened, more so than Tech in many cases, for example, with respect to immigration First, I don't think that's the case, because it's impossible to open any media website, tv channel
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by jackfraser 9y ago
> Any company doing that deserves to have their decision makers crucified, head down, on the outer wall of the town church, with the nails hammered through their genitals. You're the security hero we need, but not the one we deserve
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by jackfraser 9y ago
Ah, didn't know that. While it lowers the barrier to entry for getting a cert, the idea is fundamentally insecure.
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by jackfraser 9y ago
It seems that some people have conflated the idea of "socially constructed" with something not being real. Nations are composed of people and power structures; while these may have been designed by people, in no way does it mean t
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by jackfraser 9y ago
If they operate as any other CA does, there's no reason to assume that they would have had any way to have the private keys which would only ever be on customer systems. This implies that Trustico was sent the keys (or recieved them so
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by jackfraser 9y ago
It really does feel like a lot of policymakers don't actually realize how onerous their requirements are, and in turn, how much this hurts smaller businesses that can't afford dedicated resources to keep up with all these issues.
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by jackfraser 9y ago
> ...so we need a uucp interface to HN? There's no quicker way to the front page...
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by jackfraser 9y ago
That's surprising. Seems like it would be easy to inadvertently drain your battery.
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by jackfraser 9y ago
I don't mean to be offensive, but I'm not sure you've necessarily delved deep enough into the space of config management to understand that what you're talking about falls into three sort of areas: 1) irreducible complex
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by jackfraser 9y ago
It really does feel like we're slowly recreating the mainframe the hard way, doesn't it? Some day soon we'll be rewriting Terraform in LISP and running it on something that might as well be z/OS.
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by jackfraser 9y ago
The thing is, once you have a monopoly on violence, you've inherently handed over all of your decisions to them already. (There's no alternative, though, so deal with it)
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by jackfraser 9y ago
This is brilliant. You'd need to basically define every single compile-time param and then have your build process emit a customized binary (and retinue of supporting stuffs) that does just that and nothing else. Probably makes your to
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by jackfraser 9y ago
Sorry, reselling? How does this work, exactly? Would you find an upstream CA that is trusted, implement automation around their API, and sell certs? Why would I pay you instead of just using the upstream vendor? Why would I go to the troubl
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by jackfraser 9y ago
Build a prototype. Aim low. Get some basic functionality sorta-working with shitty, hacky code. Throw it away. Rinse and repeat, learning on each cycle.
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by jackfraser 9y ago
Amplifiers that can power loudspeakers without sounding terrible take up a certain amount of space. That said, many smaller/cheaper alternatives end up getting packaged in larger form factors than they need so as to avoid looking cheap
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by jackfraser 9y ago
On the one hand, standing for the "right to general purpose computation", or however you'd like to phrase the idea, has a strong moral case behind it. Like it or not, the philosophies and ideas of RMS and his successors who b
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by jackfraser 9y ago
Why exactly was incineration not allowed? I can understand it being logistically difficult to implement, but it would sure be a lot simpler, and it's not like there's enough people down there that the carbon footprint relative to
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by jackfraser 9y ago
You could tell _exactly_ what it was loading...
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by jackfraser 9y ago
You own the name; the service of actually pointing that name to some nameservers, and maintaining secure control over it, is what you're paying for. I could see a registrar telling you they don't want to do business with you any m
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by jackfraser 9y ago
> You cannot program a smart contract to know who has the most reliable sports scores or political information. You can't do that as a human, either. All you can really do is look at someone's record to see how their prediction
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by jackfraser 9y ago
> it's one group of people who consider other humans biologically inferior, and therefore less deserving, than others. That is an extreme mischaracterization of the views of those who believe in differences between the sexes. Nowher

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