jgowdy

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by jgowdy 7y ago
There's no way I'd buy the first generation of this kind of tech. Of course the folding screens broke. Anyone could have guessed that would happen. Just like we can guess what the spin will look like etc. That being said, I just b
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by jgowdy 7y ago
Humans aren't the best living creatures at something, so doing it competitively or watching others do so is absurd? I don't believe that follows. Only the most anti-social people on Earth would recommend we not have Special Olymp
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by jgowdy 8y ago
I'm somewhat glad to hear I'm not the only one who has been subjected to extremely excessive recaptcha tests according to these comments. Especially when I'm filling these out just to login to websites of which I'm a cu
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by jgowdy 8y ago
For rough comparisons in these threads: The tax rate for someone making $20 USD per hour in the United States is: Gross pay: $41,600 Tax due: $6,157 Net pay: $35,083 The same wage through Denmark's tax rates: Gross pay: $41,600 Tax due
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by jgowdy 8y ago
What amazes me is with GDPR, so many people were cheerleaders of Europe being the regulator of the internet. Regardless of what you think of GDPR, once we get a political body comfortable with the idea of regulating the internet, this is wh
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by jgowdy 8y ago
If you're going to compare wage numbers between nations, why are we comparing gross pay? If you're taxed drastically more, the pay difference isn't very relevant. Obviously you get social benefits, which become much harder
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by jgowdy 8y ago
I would guess it's a simple cooling off period, which some states in the US have. It gives you 72 hours to recend the agreement. This allow you to escape the social pressures of the room where the contract is being signed. Allows yo
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by jgowdy 8y ago
Why not avoid artificially grouping those age restrictions out of an artificial sense of "fairness"? I was one of the previously rabid "if you can be sent to war you should be able to have a drink" back in my teens. Th
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by jgowdy 8y ago
I think it resonates with the HN crowd because many of us are on the 737-800 when we are on the nerd bird and many other Southwest flights.
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by jgowdy 8y ago
No offense, but do you honestly believe most heroin users are going to buy a test kit to test their drugs and then if it tests positive not use them? The practical value of those test kits seems low to me, as I don't believe they would
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by jgowdy 8y ago
Thanks for the No True Scotsman logical fallacy. Let me say in return that if you're this irrational, your adherence to the left (and your gatekeeping the left) is far more of a disservice to the left than a service. I defend anyone&#x
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by jgowdy 8y ago
> We should be able to do that. Exterminating the billionaire class (by taking their money) would be a great thing for society. Historically, weak private property rights are used to hurt the poor, the vulnerable, the weak, the unpopular
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by jgowdy 8y ago
It's sad that people sit here and beat their chest about how wrong Amazon is without looking at the other side. Amazon doesn't owe you jobs, tax revenue, or anything else. The discounts are reductions in the amount of money they w
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by jgowdy 8y ago
I don't get how this blog post helps anything. It seems like they're saying, we did what we can and we will keep trying but we're convinced most of you will just come to peace with it because there aren't a lot of better
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by jgowdy 8y ago
I try to avoid me too posts, especially on HN, but I recently ditched my MBP for an XPS 13 running Mint. I'm very impressed with how much software is natively available now, Wine 4.0 staging is reaching amazing levels of support, and
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by jgowdy 8y ago
"When the terms you offer are accepted, hold to them. Else no one will trust you." For someone to release a major software package under an open source license with particular terms, and then to get angry when other people enjoy
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by jgowdy 8y ago
As dguido posted below, the details are a bit different than the tiny pair of sentences you're basing your analysis on. > On 12/12/2018 at approximately 10:30 a.m., Tan contacted his supervisor, advised he was resigning fr
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by jgowdy 8y ago
Yes, as long as every corporation continued to invest at the same rate despite the fact that their trade secrets would be worthless and they'd be undercut by cheaper competition. This fantasy of "if only all commercially valued kn
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by jgowdy 8y ago
> (worst case, if the cache line were stuffed end to end with pointers) Worst case scenario is probably a GOT or vtable.
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by jgowdy 8y ago
It’s simple. Pointer sizes being twice as big consume twice as much cache, thus you’re effectively cutting your cache size in half (worst case, if the cache line were stuffed end to end with pointers). I imagine the idea that cutting the
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by jgowdy 8y ago
If only we had something other than the subdomain to indicate what protocol we want to use to access the host in question. Like maybe some kind of... port number and/or protocol prefix. "www." is useless. Eliminating it wou
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by jgowdy 8y ago
TLS 1.3 doesn’t currently have encrypted SNI. It’s a work in progress.
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by jgowdy 8y ago
Power efficiency, performance, concurrency, compile time error detection through strong typing, etc. You know, trivial things. :)
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by jgowdy 8y ago
I agree with this being a valuable heuristic. Not for whether or not the food tastes delicious in terms of seasoning or flavor, but are they moving product. It’s easier to think of it in terms of a butcher shop. You don’t want to buy me
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by jgowdy 8y ago
Unfortunately, outside of more rational circles, I believe a significant number of people will in fact draw some kind of inaccurate and superficial conclusion from this data.
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by jgowdy 8y ago
I appreciate what they're trying to do, and it may improve the status quo, but we've learned that the push away from implicit SSL/TLS and towards STARTTLS was wrong. Using one insecure aspect (DNS) to note that you SHOULD be
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by jgowdy 8y ago
Userland TCP/IP stacks are in fact a thing once again, for the sake of performance and scalability in high end systems. It's not common to most systems, but to say it isn't done anymore isn't true. As we move beyond 40
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by jgowdy 8y ago
Remember how government agencies and people would literally advise everyone to have an emergency plan, first aid kits, flashlights, and other preparedness? It was considered wise and rational to be prepared for disasters. Yet today some pe
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by jgowdy 8y ago
I think perhaps I didn't explain my perspective very well. I'm not saying I don't think you should have to pay for products, just that when it comes to the idea that every party to a contract should receive "considerati

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