joobus

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   by joobus 10y ago

   Israel has a real problem allowing journalists to accurately cover Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine.
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   by joobus 10y ago

   FLAC is useful for listening to high quality music which hasn't been filtered and compressed. It sounds significantly better than lossy audio. Iscit so hard to comprehend that as more bandwidth comes online all the time, people won&#
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   by joobus 10y ago

   This answer is just being contrary to be contrary. 'Most people' can't distinguish 1080p from 4k from 6 ft away, yet people still stream 4k content, which 'gobbles bandwidth' too.
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   by joobus 10y ago

   Because they make no money!
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   by joobus 10y ago

   Maybe firing the team just revealed a bad algorithm, and now they should fix the algorithm.
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   by joobus 10y ago

   Star Trek is only utopian if you are a massive government statist to the Nth degree.
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   by joobus 10y ago

   To be followed shortly by: > Adblock Plus updates code to nullify Facebook's workaround of Adblock Plus workaround
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   by joobus 10y ago

   jquery-3.1.0.min.js is 84k. vue.min.js is 75k. vue-resource.min.js is 13k. So jquery is smaller.
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   by joobus 10y ago

   The FBI also said it wouldn't recommend prosecution against Hillary, and the DOJ isn't prosecuting, but everyone under the sun knows Hillary broke the law. The FBI's inaction isn't indicative of an absence of criminalit
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    by joobus 10y ago

    In the section "After some reflection, figured out that this issue is caused by these libraries being in our Cabal file:", both cabal files are the exact same (I diffed them). What changed?
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    by joobus 10y ago

    I'm hoping WebAssembly opens up lots of other languages to browser development. Any language could compile to WebAssembly: rust, haskell, go, swift, etc. I think it will really open up the browser.
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    by joobus 10y ago

    Use one of these: http://www.wnd.com/files/2015/08/hillary-clinton-secret-serv...
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    by joobus 10y ago

    > Verizon is discussing a price close to $5 billion for Yahoo’s core Internet business... Yahoo's current market cap is ~$37b
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    by joobus 10y ago

    One way to "solve" the time to visual completion would be to make all the images, but especially the larger images, progressive scan. For very large images, the difference in visual quality between 50% downloaded and 100% downloa
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    by joobus 10y ago

    Dear butthurt inventors, entrepreneurs, engineers, investors, researchers, and business leaders working in the technology sector, Hillary Clinton traffics in weapons, bribes, political favors, dead bodies, and war.
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    by joobus 10y ago

    There is no significant benefit to python 3 over python 2.
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    by joobus 10y ago

    Their github website is written in mithril.
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    by joobus 10y ago

    Why didn't he test his script on a dev server before blasting every server in production?!
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    The Road to Running Haskell at Facebook Scale – Jon Coens [Nov 2015](youtube.com)

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    by joobus 10y ago

    > For example, the confidence interval for the monthly change in total nonfarm employment from the establishment survey is on the order of plus or minus 115,000. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.tn.htm So 38,0
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    by joobus 10y ago

    Excess reserves are near a record high: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/EXCSRESNS Banks are just sitting on their cash. Also, the Fed is paying the banks not to loan out this money, currently 0.5%.
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    by joobus 10y ago

    I'd like to know what the author considers "systems work"; I don't consider garbage-collected languages (Go, Python) "systems" languages.
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    by joobus 10y ago

    Nit seems a lot like Nim at first glance. http://nim-lang.org/docs/tut1.html
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    by joobus 10y ago

    Twisted doens't support py3.
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    by joobus 10y ago

    I have a hard time believing 'millenials' will pay $7 a month for financial news. Netflix costs $8. Hulu costs $8. Showtime costs $9. I don't think Cheddar has the weight to charge $7 a month for niche programming. Plus,
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    by joobus 10y ago

    FTA: "In 2004, EA paid the NFL a reported $300 million-plus for five years of exclusive rights to teams and players. The deal was later extended to 2013. Just like that, competing games went kaput." They became a monopoly.