jomamaxx

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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"I've never really understood the "one langauge" argument. " Being able to do front-end and back-end in js is really nice, especially passing data back and forth in js-object like format. If you have not tried it, d
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Your comments about the annoyingness of async are real. BUT Just because you want to do ABCDE does not mean it's feasible. You can access a file, read it, compute something, depending on that access another file, read it, write somet
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"It is only because these people are touched by the long finger of empire that the appearance of their name in a text file is compiled into danger. Manning's heroism tends toward ending that empire and making these people (and tho
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"Governments aren't (supposed to be) private entities." Governments are not 'private entities' but they certainly can have 'private information'. It's really quite difficult to debate this with you gu
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"If the government is able to keep secrets from us, then we cannot give informed consent on whether their governance is appropriate or not for our nation's citizenry." This is completely false - and there is not a single stat
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"My prime example: When Apple released the iPad it quickly became a great hit. For me it was obvious that a lot of cheap copycats would spawn soon. What would you use for a cheap iPad knockoff? An ARM processor for sure. Strategy: Buy
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The US government promotes a lot of narratives, but it doesn't really talk much about the NSA. So I'm not sure there's a narrative play here. And your comment about religion is simply false, this is reaching way too far and c
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"and successfully liberated far more of the data belonging to the public." This is completely false. The information Manning released absolutely did not belong in the public domain. Period. Governments, like any other private enti
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"my point is that his intentions were clearly pure regardless." I would tend to concur, but we don't know that. Also - intentions are not that important. Manning's motivations I surmise were probably innocent, but his in
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"I assert that, whether someone agrees or not, Snowden was doing something that was actually right." Yes, Snowden did 'something' that was right. But Snowden also did 'other things' that were wrong. Snowden rel
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"Cycling is a well-established form of transit that many people participate in," Many do, but it's very small about 2%. In SF it's 4$, NY it's 1%. And overall in America - it's negligible (outside of cities it&
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"Cars are great to go between cities fast, but inside cities they should behave like guests" No, especially in north american cities where you can walk few places, cares are another form of transit, like anything else. Relatively
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Yes, every country has such issues, but they are very minor in Germany in comparison to other places, which is what I meant to say. Furthermore - those 'threats' have existed for two thousand year, the motivation for the current m
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+ 20% of refugees arriving are Syrian (this is early on in the crises) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3240010/Number-refug... + Germany has 100K Syrian asylum requests in Sept 2015. This would be 10% of t
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
By 'populism' you mean 'people speaking their minds'? And that they should be ignored? By 'populism' do you mean the vast majority of Europeans and clear majority of Germans who are not supportive of the '
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
A dirty bomb or gas attack would make it very difficult to get supplies to the right place. If you are 'near' an attack zone, and stay inside your house, you may be able to safeguard yourself from most of the radiation or gas or w
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Those are indeed strong words. Governments in Europe have considerably more power than in the new world. They can do these things - they view statehood as literally the community. Sometimes that has advantages, sometimes not. Even scarier,
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"What evidence do you have to support your claim?" A) The evidence is in the article. It's heading towards a small number very quickly. B) Everyone is learning to speak English. Everyone in W. Europe under 30 speaks English f
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FYI - I'm an ex Combat Engineer :)
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You highlighted the limitations of the license: as soon as you're into commercial terms, and money starts changing hands - things start to get very situationally specific.
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This licence is the basis for a business model - and should not be considered along side gpl, mit etc.. It's not particularly relevant to the discussion. This is a business and commercial issue, not a 'details of the license'
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
I don't think you understood the comment. A bridge reconnaissance does not change once it's done unless the bridge changes materially. The hard part of a bridge recon plain is taking measurements of the abutments, the deck, types
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The US military has definitely planned 'first strike' ops, as well as every other conceivable option they could possibly face. It's called 'preparation'. It's their job to prepare for any circumstances that t
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"Dump Wikipedia on your phone for look-ups during late night conversations and chill a bit :)" HA ha ha ... a true Hacker comment. Well done. But I suggest maybe 'dumping' your phone/computer entirely.
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"It's gotten bigger and more commercialized over the years." You've never been. I've heard this thing so many times. There is no 'commercialization' at Burning Man. Other than coffee and chai tea at center
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You last response made no sense. Your points regarding what hedge funds should do or not are simply wrong. I don't invest, I leave that to professionals. Also - you might want to take a course in investing finance. You'll find it
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Dude, I don't mean to disrespect you, but I don't think you have a background in finance. * "Especially stay away from “tips”." Ha. My friend - most of the big earnings are made from tips. Financial markets are awash in
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'outperforms' ... over which time period? Because over any time period, some strategies are winners, some are losers.
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"Judging each and every investment on its own merits is the only way to succeed." I completely disagree. You have to judge the (long term) investment in full context of the market, i.e. what other people are thinking about it, reg
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Every one of those items could be a good thing, and the primary 'alpha producing quality' of a given find. * stays away from stuff everyone else is talking about --> the big hits only come from things that everyone eventually &

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