lazyant

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by lazyant 11y ago
Processes and threads are basically the same in Linux (except threads share resources, since we're talking about the same mysql "program" is a given that these are 'threads', sorry if I'm imprecise and call eve
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by lazyant 11y ago
Not sure I understand why there's 4 nginx processes, 4 php-fpm processes and like 20 mysql processes, why so many, don't you need like 1 (or 4 if there' no pooling)?
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by lazyant 11y ago
A bit off-topic but on US tv shows is ridiculous how actors (esp. main characters) are usually white or black, little or no Asians and Hispanics. "Friday Night Lights" is about teenagers in Texas (1/3 pop. Hispanic) and they
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by lazyant 11y ago
It seems driving kids in cars (to school etc) is unsafer (due to more obesity and car accidents) than letting them walk after a certain age. I think in Canada there have been no cases [citation needed, maybe a handful] of children abducted
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by lazyant 11y ago
There should be a law (I know, too many laws!) that cancelation process should be the same as sign up, for example you can sign up online for many services but need to call for cancellation.
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by lazyant 11y ago
I don't understand, index follows basically the whole market by a representation of it like SP500 or Dow 100, how investing in whole market compromises it or it's based on sentiment versus investing in stock of particular companie
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by lazyant 11y ago
I think I was taught the adjective order as in generic to specific.
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by lazyant 11y ago
Appalled that people are killed legally based only on a criminal's word. Also appalled that we still have the death penalty in some countries, these are pretty much all backwards countries with the outliers of US and Japan; it's a
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by lazyant 11y ago
"For more technical roles, you can even build a timed Excel test with some practice problems or logic tests.", what? is the Excel page for the interviewer or the candidate? In any case, you can use whatever questions you like, the
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by lazyant 11y ago
You can start by summarizing somebody's ideas (like Yudkowsky's), then compared them to other authors you know. You can focus on one aspect and add your own thoughts.
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by lazyant 11y ago
Doesn't seem a good idea to do a drug test on someone whose body has been through a lot of unproven drugs already
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by lazyant 11y ago
Most / many homeless have substance abuse and/or mental problems [citation needed], hardly opportunists.
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by lazyant 11y ago
So this is the job interview equivalent of the ice-breaker "what would a day in your life look like if money was no objection?"
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by lazyant 11y ago
"Republican politicians () argued that many law-abiding families struggled to afford college and shouldn’t have pay for convicted criminals to get degrees"- while this opinion has merit, it shows again Republicans have no compassi
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by lazyant 11y ago
This article looks like somebody read some books and summarized parts of them with a common theme without adding anything, I know because I read some of those books. Still a good summary.
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by lazyant 11y ago
As "Faster, Higher, Stronger..." author explains, doping wouldn't level the field for everybody since drugs affect people very differently. The concept of "fairness" is arbitrary, he mentions the use of altitude ten
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by lazyant 11y ago
One of the good things about this is that when somebody comes again comparing AWS to any regular ISP's VM we can point at this to show that EC2 alone may not look favourably in a comparison, it's the other services in the vast AWS
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by lazyant 11y ago
Also 'crazy' people were more apt at recognizing other people with mental problems that the doctors
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by lazyant 11y ago
found it, it was Collegiate basketball (Cardinals) not NBA: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3119836/
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by lazyant 11y ago
I think I'm not smart enough to get it; lots of servers run on Linux so how's that different?
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by lazyant 11y ago
2- Google App Engine and Heroku are not Open Source, can't think of an Open Source PaaS or one that is Open Source and made somebody a lot of money,
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by lazyant 11y ago
they made a study with an NBA team where players used to get about 5 hours of sleep (lots of traveling) and they when to sleep about 7-8 hours and their metrics (free shooting etc) improved quite a bit
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by lazyant 11y ago
Lotteries should advertise the odds and the percentage that goes to prizes (31% from the article is low, largest I found is 70%)
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by lazyant 11y ago
Not in professional sports, see http://www.amazon.com/Faster-Higher-Stronger-Generation-Supe... or http://www.amazon.com/Sports-Gene-Extraordinary-Athletic-Per... (similar ideas in both books)
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by lazyant 11y ago
Somehow related, very rare but good to know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
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by lazyant 11y ago
Not anyone, I don't support non-democratic "foreign" institutions. Most people don't care as in they don't realize about something that's been there all the time.
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by lazyant 11y ago
perhaps a band with a panic button that flashes and makes sound? although I'm very skeptical of any device due to false positives etc
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by lazyant 11y ago
More embarrassing is to build an airport with no demand and have it abandoned several years afterwards without any flights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castellón–Costa_Azahar_Airport
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by lazyant 11y ago
"just" , there are very well paid full-time people working in big name companies doing pretty much this. Auditing is a real big pain, and this is certainly not the first company trying to address this.
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by lazyant 11y ago
I remember here some nasty comments about the previous owner of the dropbox.com domain (similar situation of an old unused domain), calling him squatter etc when Dropbox finally acquired it.

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