jomamaxx

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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Yes, double congrats. And 'tech conferences'? Loserville. No offence. I like techies, and like talking tech. But getting drunk with nerds is not fun.
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
To be clear, the 'realignment' in Europe and to some extent the US is a function of the dissolution of the classical left. 'Left Wing' used to be a 'labour movement', i.e. workers rights, unions, social welfa
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
The problem is not 'bikes v cars'. It's how the city was planned. European cities have small, walkable centers, the mid-density around that, then instead of suburbs, they have a lot of higher density hamlets around them. Also
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"The problem is that it's hard to write people's long-term residences off as ruins." It takes leadership. Not semi-corrupt status quo.
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
HuffPo has an entire section just for Detroit: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/detroit-corruption/ The culture is as rotted as the buildings.
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
This article and SOJ propaganda are insufferable. Detroit does not lack resources or technology. They lack intelligent social organization and responsibility. The lack of economic opportunity is not a cause for violence, otherwise every far
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Of course. But supply/demand economics means as wages/issues rise in China (i.e. trade war) the rest of Asia, which is rising quickly, picks up the slack. China has scale, and the right value chains for certain things. But ultimat
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"China has leap frogged pretty much everyone else in every aspect." How laughable. Is anyone in the world using a Chinese based OS? Is anyone outside of China really even using a Chinese OS derived from American ones? Is anyone in
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"And watch while we are plunged into a recession due to a huge disruption in global supply chains." This is false. China is not the sole or important supplier of most things. Vietname, India etc. are becoming capable of providing
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"OH really? How will he do that?" By slapping tit-for-tat policies. + Don't allow Chinese companies to invest in the US. + Control capital + Impose tariffs + Get the US gov to make it impossible for Chinese to do business in
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"Why is it a problem if China develops a higher GDP than the US" That isn't the issue. The issue is protectionist policies and direct interference by the state in all sectors. They can do that if they want, but we need to sla
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Lisp as a 'language' maybe, but the problem is it's more than syntax and compiler. The advantage of JVM, garbage collection, relative platform neutrality, docs that are really consistent, libraries that are very easily shared
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Admittedly, that part stinks. It's been 20 years and they still haven't fixed some of those basic things. BUT - Python is a great language for scripting. If you need to parse some stuff, produce a result ... Python is it. The docu
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Ha. I think Java is the best all round language. Oddly, it's usually not the best language for any specific thing :). Paradox :)
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
I don't believe wechat is credit based. That said, I don't use it.
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"As far as I know, the modern trains that I've seen in China seem to be manufactured by Chinese companies." Yes - because in order to do business in China, you have to give over your IP to a Chinese company and 'partner&
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Credit is very different than bank accounts. For example, even in countries like Spain, buying a new car and making payments is a new concept. Without functioning consumer credit, some industries have a hard time. A functional credit system
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"All other things (education, market) being equal, the biggest pool should generate the most hits, and the most advancement. reply" The problem is there are many, many, many factors. Too many to count. 'Education' - even
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Thanks for that. Nifty invention - that nobody uses outside of China. Meanwhile, talk to any rail car maker in the world, and they'll tell you that as part of the deal they had to sell trains in China, they had to hand over 100% of the
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"It makes sense that China (and Korea) have leaped ahead. They have relatively high average IQ populations. They have cultures that celebrate education, intelligence, and hard work (not sports and broism)" How ridiculous and bigot
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"Cutting edge or not, the next century will be driven by China simply because the momentum that they have generated" (Almost) Nothing is led by China and (almost) nothing ever will. I remember as a boy the stories of Japan taking
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"Pretending that the driver problem does not exist on macOS does not make it go away." I never said there was not a driver problem. I alluded to the user perception of drivers. Users in this day and age should have absolutely no n
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
The 'good bits' of OSX is that there is no such a thing as 'drivers' from the users perspective. If you have to use the word 'driver' - it's not user friendly. If you have to 'build' anything - i
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
You can look up your own source. If you have to ask the question then you're not familiar with the subject. A small distance away from 'ground zero' of the nuclear test sites there is basically zero difference in background r
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
The LHC experiment is not the issue here. There is a lot of transparency there, a lot of well meaning people with a lot of oversight. I suggest most would admit 'there could be a problem' there, but it's out in the open if th
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
" he is coming across people who treat science like religion." The only difference between Scientists and people in other fields is that Scientists completely lack self-awareness. Science is obviously systematically biased. Have y
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
There follow on health effects from nuclear testing on the continental USA are negligible. You're more at risk getting an x-ray at the dentists office.
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
It's very misleading. The only reason R is there is because of mentions in research papers which is weighted at 100%. Java is #1 for jobs and StackOverflow. Python and Swift is trending + hackernews mentions. C/C++ are always up t
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
" but it turns out statistics prove almost no one actually watches" ... ha ha .. ha ... People still watch a lot of regular TV and will continue to do so for quite a long time.
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
I should add, there are actually very few news outlets that make the pretence of being centrist. In particular, Western state agencies such as BBC and CBC and the US, arguably CNN 'kind of' long that vein. They are definitely left

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