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by jwatte 9y ago
Society is better off if everyone can speak openly to police. Meanwhile, the risk to any one person that might accidentally mis-speak is wholly unacceptable to the individual. So we end up with tragedy of the commons. How did we fuck this u
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by jwatte 9y ago
It should be. Society is better off when the trained, paid officers, bear the risk, rather than unarmed civilians. As it is, any police officer can claim "I felt threatened" and do whatever they want. That is 100% a recipe for thu
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by jwatte 9y ago
Demanding a lawyer, and refusing to answer questions, explicitly should not make you look like a suspect in the eyes of the law. (The eyes of the investigating officer may be different, but they must follow the law in the end.)
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by jwatte 9y ago
What it does is not just arbitration things, but establish global consensus and an unalterable log of that consensus. If you've tried linking distributed Oracle databases between just a few different sites, you'd understand this h
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by jwatte 9y ago
Want to try deep learning for your own cheap robot? http://donkeycar.com is a fun project. Races in various parts of the world at various intervals!
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by jwatte 9y ago
Do not show. Enterprise customers are known to string startups along, and then not buy anything. They don't even think it's wrong -- to then, a couple of months is nothing.
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by jwatte 9y ago
No it works for years, too.
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by jwatte 9y ago
It's only about control in the sense that it matters what a business invests in. If I believe that feature X will be worth $Y, whether I invest in that, or some other feature, depends a whole lot on how much I expect to pay to get X. O
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by jwatte 9y ago
In "debugging the development process," the author recommends the method of "make a quick estimate, then give a range between that and 5x that. Suggest that the estimate can be made narrower only with significant additional s
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by jwatte 9y ago
Welcome to Monad Burger. Would you like a fmap with that?
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by jwatte 9y ago
I would much rather have the certainty that I get working high quality products with no hassle and solid return policies, than save a few percent extra on price. If Amazon turns into Walmart, or eBay, they have lost.
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by jwatte 9y ago
How do I create a highly leveraged long position in scandium commodities?
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by jwatte 9y ago
That's your privilege speaking. Try living as a single parent of two children on minimum wage, and then tell me how much "choice" there is. Do we believe that all Americans should have access to at least a minimum of food, cl
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by jwatte 9y ago
Federal minimum wage, times 2000 hours (if you can get it,) is not enough to sustain a living, much less a family. If we want people to work for a living, we'd support significant increases there.
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by jwatte 9y ago
Anyone with substantial state taxes and mortgage interest is unlikely to take the standard deduction currently, and the increase in the standard deduction seems unlikely to compensate nearly enough. Couple with the significant impact on edu
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by jwatte 9y ago
> I know it sounds like a small thing, I think the case is obvious for integer vs floats -- addition should be addition. Many languages don't use "+" for string addition, because string addition is not commutative (a+b !=
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by jwatte 9y ago
I tried do-release-upgrade on 17.04, and it failed. Maybe they should work on that first? (The reason it failed was that I have the arm64 architecture installed to get cross tools, and those repos somehow return 404.)
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by jwatte 9y ago
Why no comparison to webmachine? Webmachine has a really robust mapping to the HTTP standard, and sits on top of mochiweb.
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by jwatte 9y ago
SSNs are fine identifiers (user names.) The problem is that people try to treat them like authenticators (passwords.) Using SSNs as identifiers everywhere would reduce lots of mistakes and bugs. Having a national ID system and modern ID doc
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by jwatte 9y ago
They probably just multiplied cost of living straight up. Of course it doesn't work like that. If you live 20% below your "maximum means" then you can sock away a lot more money in the higher cost markets. Also, certain expen
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by jwatte 9y ago
We ran into performance problems with graphite that github.com/imvu-open/istatd doesn't have. I'd much rather run the latter for production and application monitoring! It has, like, 10x the per machine performance of the
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by jwatte 9y ago
How clear had you been in 1:1s that you were unhappy and would consider looking elsewhere?
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by jwatte 9y ago
There's a difference between "this offer shows that I'm underpaid in my current position" and "I decided to move on for a variety of reasons." An employee who gives me solid market data, and is a good performer
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by jwatte 9y ago
That could also just be done with client local JavaScript, with much less chance of downtime or service load time...
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by jwatte 9y ago
Some real time analytics are useful. For example, pricing of virtual currency (how deep to run an online "sale") can be much more profitable of you have a real time measurement of price elasticity. I've built tools like that
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by jwatte 9y ago
If you do that, why wouldn't you use a FPGA or just a fast CPU? Microcontrollers and CPUs are blending in performance, and are cheap enough to plop on a board and call it done for many applications.
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by jwatte 9y ago
You can start by buying a Papillon board and going through the free range VHDL book. That's the high level. When you want to understand CMOS and integrated circuits, you need some electronics experimenter kit, and a lot of practice in
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by jwatte 9y ago
Nobody is "given" a job; you "earn" a job by convincing the hiring manager that you can do what they need done. If you're any good, and have good results to show and talk about, yes, you could totally be employed. I
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by jwatte 9y ago
I did the "early years" of both statistics and tiny neural networks/perceptrons in college a long time ago. It also helps that I use math at work (anything from simulated 3D physics to DSP.) Since then, I've used Wikiped
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by jwatte 9y ago
Longer travel is inherently less efficient. It's much better to build denser close to existing transportation hubs. Proposal: Pass a law that cities can't prevent permitting of mixed developments up to 8 stories within 1500 feet o

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