jlcoff

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by jlcoff 5y ago
> On the other hand there is basically zero jurisprudence of a soldier ever getting in trouble for following an order they thought was given under competent military authority, even though it was illegal. Are you kidding me ? It was call
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by jlcoff 5y ago
> (2) You cannot explain away 2008 as being the fault of the people who couldn't pay their mortgage. WTAF dude. When you are subprime rated, you would have to be a complete moron to take a variable loan on you life. But sure, poor t
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by jlcoff 5y ago
The "law" itself may be unconstitutional.
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by jlcoff 5y ago
> you have come to the conclusion that the business you're engaging in is fraudulent [...] then you don't deserve any work in tech I do believe the whole tech industry is nothing but a giant scam, selling snake oil at a premium
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by jlcoff 5y ago
I don't have any problem cashing in my 6 figures paycheck when pezzonavantes (from any side since forever) cash out 9 to 10 figures own scams. Honesty is for the poor.
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by jlcoff 5y ago
I build tools other people are free to use. I have historically refused to implement tools to be used for censorship purpose. Here, you're free to invest/yolo.. or not.
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by jlcoff 5y ago
I'm not biting the whole "thrive on what you like" SV mentra. The money is good, I dug my hole, and I'm fine. Just like with 2008, the problem wasn't CDO dogshit, but people with subprime credit rating buying large
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by jlcoff 5y ago
Bitcoin is just as much as a scam as CDO or other financial derivatives. Dog shit wrapped is cat shit is still shit.
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by jlcoff 5y ago
I'm working in the same environment, I'm with you bro, it's all a scam. I'm coasting until the whole thing collapse cashing in my paycheck. The math behind is fun though.
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by jlcoff 5y ago
> It should not be a controversial statement to say that soldiers are expected to follow orders. Quite the opposite, a soldier duty, at least in the US is to protect not the Government, but the Constitution. If the government betrays the
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by jlcoff 5y ago
On genealogy of morality - Nietzsche
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by jlcoff 5y ago
Such as ?
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by jlcoff 5y ago
Windows phone were pretty good. Always been happy with them, of not for the lack of developers interest.
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by jlcoff 5y ago
> Android hardware is weak Is it ? I'm using a 4 years old $200 phone which suits me just fine, if not for stupid apps requiring more resources for a worst experience. The only reason of upgrade is battery wearing off. Any Google re
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by jlcoff 5y ago
FWIW, I recently purchased maybe 21U worth of servers for less than $2000. Mostly IBM 2U servers (all dual 6-cores / 12-threads Xeon, most for spare parts), NAS (enough for triple >12TB redundancy), and LTO-4 loaders and drives to g
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by jlcoff 5y ago
I also prefer 480p with a good scenario than a 4k-60fps turd of the past 15 years. Still manage to have a hundred movie or so below a TB.
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by jlcoff 5y ago
LTO4 is limited to 800GB uncompressed data.
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by jlcoff 5y ago
I'm pretty sure FreeBSD still uses newbus(4), written 20 years ago and already obsolete 10 years ago. 8 years in BSD time is nothing, 8 years in Linux time is an eternity.
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by jlcoff 5y ago
Spend any amount of time in the FreeBSD kernel, and you'll figure out that "polish" aspect is just a myth. The Linux kernel is MUCH cleaner. Kernel subsystem are written by a couple developers at most, in private, and submitt
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by jlcoff 5y ago
There is plenty of commercial support, though, nobody publish anything publicly thanks to the BSD license, thus everybody re-invent the wheel internally. Btw, I'm an ex proprietary-solution-based-on-FreeBSD developer.
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by jlcoff 5y ago
b) and c) are either socialism or cronyism, or a variant of fascism (which is in its core a non-USSR controlled / nationalistic socialism).
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by jlcoff 5y ago
You can argue as must as you want about the legitimacy of my comment. "Regulations" and "free market" are mutually exclusive.
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by jlcoff 5y ago
> If the government intervenes, it would undermine the free market. There is no free market in the US. The US economy is cronyism where all the elites play golf together / marry among themselves, trying to only pass the minimum rega
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by jlcoff 5y ago
Unpopular opinions: the pirate bay.
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by jlcoff 5y ago
FYI, Joe is openly a Bernie Sanders supporter.
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by jlcoff 5y ago
Won't work though, big email providers have made it a nightmare to run your own email.