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by jbooth 11y ago
A lot of people think that situation (public API) is even more true with the filesystem API than the graphics driver API. It's pretty hard to call ZFS a 'derived work' of Linux when it was originally developed for a complete
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So where would you reallocate from? Calling it '4 trillion' is technically correct but I find that taking out the passthru social programs (SS, medicare, medicaid) leaves you with the real number of what's available to alloca
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by jbooth 11y ago
Infrastructure spending in the US is backlogged for decades. Hard to argue we're overspending on that when we see a major bridge collapse disaster every 5 years. Bring that schedule forward through issuing more debt at record-low inte
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by jbooth 11y ago
I only read the article, not the brief, but it sounds like they're objecting to Google touching the pole at all (AT&T's property) without working with AT&T.. if it were a matter of moving around AT&T's actual equ
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by jbooth 11y ago
That's an interesting line of argument, but Google IS investing in the field and IS being tripped up by regulatory, rather than technical or capital hurdles. Just because the cable cos piss away the money at various layers of the o
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by jbooth 11y ago
I wonder what a legal engineering solution looks like. Clearly ZFS is open source, Linux would profit by including it, but both ZFS and Linux have licenses that are, at this point, impossible to change for various reasons. It seems that the
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by jbooth 11y ago
All that being said, when your frickin business is selling HR stuff, you should be on top of compliance. Jesus. They had people selling health insurance without a license. This isn't just a failure to sit through the "don't
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by jbooth 11y ago
Yeah -- I'm arguing for composition because it's harder to screw up, at the cost of being less pretty. The manner and order in which composed objects are delegated to is crystal clear if you're wiring them yourself (or with
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by jbooth 11y ago
Not really, at all. Order the traits differently and you can get different behavior. Inherit one subtrait vs another and you can get different behavior. You can reason about all of this, but I'm not that smart, so I prefer compositi
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Alternate view: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_over_inheritance
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I'm not very in touch with device drivers, but I suspect 'supporting classes of device drivers' vs 'a framework for all device drivers' is at the heart of the disagreement on frameworks here.
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Of course he's changed things about how he works. But ESR was wrong about the specific change he was arguing for (more frameworky code for device drivers) in that mess of musings about maturity and intelligence. See elsewhere in this
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> Arguments stand on their own. No, they don't. Arguments can be measured against reality. Let's check the score. 15 years later, Linux has been really smart about where to share code (vfs) and where not to (drivers, subject
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by jbooth 11y ago
If you have union contracts dictating that your costs go up by X% a year to roll over personnel, then a budget increase of less than that is indeed a cut as you'll be laying off personnel to meet the budget. See also: Every department
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1) That's half-true. Or 60% or 40% true. Econ 101 says some % comes out of profits, some % comes out as higher prices. 2) Externalities. Also Econ 101. We've got a basket of reasons, from environmentalism to national securit
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I'd agree and call it a mildly divergent opinion. The banks being regulated or the Republican primary candidates would call it outright communism. Depends on the yardstick, I guess.
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Yes, but it's also a huge indictment of "free market proponents" who tend to oppose any regulation, as it implies the need for muscular regulation of the market. In American political terms, calling it an indictment of '
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by jbooth 11y ago
That guy looks like a kook. Not that everything's on the up-and-up in China but I bet this guy spent 2008-2012 exhorting everyone to buy gold.
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Funnily enough, a big side effect of the ad tech's evolution over the last 10 years is that junk websites tend to get junk ads with junk CPM and quality websites get the higher-value stuff.
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by jbooth 11y ago
Unless microtransactions for content take off, and they haven't, ad tech is necessary to incentivize content on the web. 90% of the websites you read could not exist without the ecosystem that appnexus is a big player in. Hacker News
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by jbooth 11y ago
Yes, the installed base of working, high-performance, money-making programs written Haskell is astounding compared to those part-time Java amateurs.
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Seems way harder for way lower returns to recover the second stage. Only 1 engine instead of 9, and you're recovering from orbital velocity which opens up several new cans of worms. Would they need heat shielding? The extra weight t
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by jbooth 11y ago
Nobody's saying it should be illegal for them to censor. They're saying that they shouldn't censor.
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Most people who are commuting probably don't look at Google Maps every day to figure out how to get home. They're taking the bike lanes because they're safer.
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Is this poe's law?
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So, if we're talking revenue of billions.. cut taxes to 0.0001% and that's the peak of the Laffer Curve where we maximize revenue? That's the argument?
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So you're saying that if the tax were lower, people would fire their accountants and pay more taxes out of the goodness of their hearts? A sense of fairness?
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by jbooth 11y ago
No, it actually wouldn't. We're not talking about the Juarez Cartel here, we're talking about 2 white people from Kansas with an extremely weak lead. If the lead was accurate, which it wasn't, it would've been 2
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Well, it starts with a fundamental belief that they can and should do a good job.
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It's not about 'wisely' in terms of returns to the individual who invested, it's about 'wisely' in terms of creating aggregate demand. For example, funding a bunch of national infrastructure projects would have

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