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by jbooth 13y ago
It's a shock because the university system is paid for by us, by our tuition and taxes. People pay high tuition to go to research universities and the societal bargain USED to be that those tuitions subsidized basic research which is
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by jbooth 13y ago
Android has industry-wide repercussions. I'm too young to remember but my history says that UNIX was regarded as a crappy, uninteresting operating system for years. Go's dealing with a much more established computing environment
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by jbooth 13y ago
Well, I'll admit that I haven't used Oracle in 4 years, but back then, the automatic-sharding thing (goldengate IIRC?) just plain didn't work. I guess I'm just biased towards solving scalability problems at the applicati
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by jbooth 13y ago
Well, IMO, you're saying that you basically trapped yourself in a box there. If you're completely determined to embed your business logic into a relational query language, then PL/SQL is probably the best there is. I'm
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by jbooth 13y ago
Eh. Different strokes for different folks, I guess. Most of those built-in features are anti-features IMO, and none of them make up for having to maintain long-ass PL/SQL functions as opposed to a reasonable programming language. An
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by jbooth 13y ago
Why would someone run Oracle in this day and age? "We have 100k lines of established PL/SQL running our business" is a reason, of course, but you could make a similar argument that COBOL development is alive. PL/SQL pr
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by jbooth 13y ago
I'm not familiar at all with RabbitMQ, so can't really comment, but I'm pretty sure they give guarantees like a producer can wait until a given message is consumed. This means there's no fire-and-forget, even though the
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by jbooth 13y ago
It's an architecture thing. Most message queues are written the way you'd initially think to manage a message queue, you keep a big queue of objects in memory, and in order to get delivery guarantees, you have to hold on to them
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by jbooth 13y ago
Gold. The dollar's been mostly at 1-2% inflation through that time period, reaching a high of 5-6% (I think? from memory here) for a year or two during the peak of the housing bubble. Gold had a huge ramp-up in value after the housin
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by jbooth 13y ago
China's Yuan peg is doing more to prop up the dollar's value than anything else. To maintain their low exchange rate which makes their exports relatively cheaper, they have to continually buy dollars with yuan.
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by jbooth 13y ago
It's pretty amazing that we've got all these brand new accounts showing up, all to make sure that we're aware of what a terrible person Nelson Mandela was. I had no idea this movement existed, but I guess I shouldn't be
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yeah, I saw a ton of sea mist in Wuhan when I visited.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Thought experiment: Some other civilization (let's say the Arabs) comes to America and puts us in a system analogous to apartheid, where the groups are whites on bottom and arabs on top. In that hypothetical, would your opinions be dif
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by jbooth 13y ago
AND of peace. Mandela was in prison for 27 years, oppressed his whole life before and after that, and once he gets power, his watchwords? Truth and Reconciliaton. That's why he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, because with any other le
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by jbooth 13y ago
Huh. Any theories as to why that is? Highly tuned coalesced reads that backfire on the kepler arch?
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by jbooth 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
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by jbooth 13y ago
Most/all of those others provide appropriate disclaimers and, if the FDA is calling them, they pick up the phone. From what I saw of the FDA complaints, really all they wanted is a disclaimer and a dialback of certain marketing claims.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Could you explain that second sentence a bit? I don't see how EMH being wrong implies that there's a strategy that beats the market. Let's say I think the EMH is false, because, I dunno, I think people are irrational and emo
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by jbooth 13y ago
It's a mediocre essay, and you're right that it's a little bit paint-by-numbers, but "pride cometh before the fall" has been proved right before and will be proved right again.
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by jbooth 13y ago
FYI, you don't actually need to categorize everything you ever read into "liberal/conservative" and then cheer or boo depending on which side you've declared allegiance to. In fact, you'll be happier if you don
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by jbooth 13y ago
Sure. If the proposal is "government is tyranny, abolish the FDA!", there aren't any merits, the proposal is fundamentally unserious and comes from a place of deliberate ignorance. That's the kind of idiocy I was objec
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by jbooth 13y ago
I should have slid in the word 'significantly' like I did in the previous sentence. You're willing to take significantly more risk that a routine drug prescription harms/kills you in order to streamline the process for d
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by jbooth 13y ago
Nothing's an absolute assurance, mistakes happen in all walks of life. If you're talking about streamlining the FDA process without significantly increasing the risk of harmful drugs slipping through, I think everybody's in f
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by jbooth 13y ago
Lesson being, the world is shades of gray, you don't just call all government good or bad unless you want to be spectacularly wrong and confident about it. The world's realized that the communists were idiots who thoughtlessly ca
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by jbooth 13y ago
There's also a question of how do you define the index fund. The S&P is pretty non-ambiguous. How do you define which startups are in the index? By the time they're definable as a real business, they're no longer early
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by jbooth 13y ago
But then they're effectively excluding the best-interviewing groups from the random experiment.
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by jbooth 13y ago
It'd be unfair to great startups in the experiment batch -- not that it's pg's job to make life fair for people, but it'd put a big dent in YC's reputation. Why spend time flying out there if there's a chance
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by jbooth 13y ago
Why is it offensive? You seem pretty aware of the history there.. if it's foreign spies, ISI has to lead the list of possible suspects, right? They've got the motive, means and a history. I'm American and I wouldn't b
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by jbooth 13y ago
Losing data when you're a professional who should have known what you're doing is one thing. Losing your life when you're a layman in the medical field is another.
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by jbooth 13y ago
I definitely agree that there's money swirling around looking for somewhere to go. We're kind of in no-mans-land for political economy punditry on this one -- nobody knows how the hell to explain the current situation, Econ 101 is

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