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by librvf 10y ago
> Right now even whiff of support for Trump is toxic This is why he's winning. People are fed up with the PC police and their purging of anyone with "toxic" ideas.
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by librvf 10y ago
> "more and more people don't feel much loyalty for their respective states" The world will not be stable with that sentiment for long. At some point, the "global citizen" will seek to express their political wi
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by librvf 10y ago
It's impossible to have global citizens without a global government. Those "global citizens" not satisfied by National organization will seek leaders and rules, and there will be conflict until a power fills the desired role
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by librvf 11y ago
> IMO, a workable happy medium is the giving the ability to expand the error message to get the dirty operational details, an error code, or similar. That way, the support tech, power user, engineer, etc, dealing with "Why is the In
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by librvf 11y ago
> By this simple measure a recent MBA graduate of Harvard with 200k debt and no assets is poorer than a Mumbai slum dweller with 2 rupees in his pocket. This is only because this example exaggerates a few obviously valuable assets that a
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by librvf 11y ago
To be fair, while I agree that JSON is bad for config, I would argue that JSON's objects and arrays eliminate the need for DTDs and standard query languages altogether in many cases. Of course, with sufficiently lqrge and complex data
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by librvf 11y ago
> There are many ways to do it, you just need to pick a convention. The fact that you have to pick a convention is the crux of the issue. "Easy" is a subjective term, but the fact is there isn't a direct mapping between X
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by librvf 11y ago
It's not just readability. XML has some serious issues when used as a configuration file format rather than as document markup. It has features oriented towards document markup that get in the way of writing data structures, and it
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by librvf 11y ago
JSON is horrible for a configuration language. Needing to put quotation marks around every single literal is insanely irritating if you ever have to write a lot of configuration. There's also a lot of application-specific syntax suga
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by librvf 11y ago
Technically correct, however for users that install from OS packages it's possible that they're getting a version of nginx that had SNI enabled and a version of Apache that did not.
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by librvf 11y ago
> Every "new" webserver tries to fix apache configuration syntax mess, and imho they all fail. Fail at what? What were they were trying to "fix"? > Yes, setting up a reverse proxy looks simpler with nginx or hapro
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by librvf 11y ago
You can tell it's propaganda because of the rampant question-begging. The author isn't "simply pointing out racism is absent in the game." Here is a direct quote from the Kotaku article: In the same interview he also
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by librvf 11y ago
> I think he has a point about the absence of race and racism as gameplay elements being very conspicuous in a game about prison. It's a point in the sense of being the dogmas of a pundit who disguises his propaganda using the form
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by librvf 11y ago
> but we have yet to move out of the consumer mentality, where the only value of a game is if you were entertained by it at your most base level. Neither did Mozart.
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by librvf 11y ago
> I don't think this is one of those cases. It most definitely is one of those cases unless you think Jay Carney's argument can be dismissed out of hand as being entirely factually incorrect. > But when the press reports act
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by librvf 11y ago
On the other hand, you should hold the press accountable. It's easy to say fighting the press is a bad idea, I don't even disagree most of the time. But that doesn't mean we should excuse their failures. Have fun when the pr
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by librvf 11y ago
> Wouldn't it of been easier if Amazon had been a bit humble and say: "Yes, things are not perfect, we will try and make it better for our employees." Rather than fighting it out in public with a newspaper. No, probably no
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by librvf 11y ago
> Decreased spreads; trading is much cheaper now than it was before HFT. By how much? And is HFT the cause or is it merely correlated?
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by librvf 11y ago
We're getting off track. The point is that the value of HFT is disputed. You claimed HFT reduced buy/sell spreads by a factor of 10, which is obviously false once one distinguishes HFT and Electronic Trading in general. If you&
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by librvf 11y ago
The distinction I am making means everything. It enables "Latency Arbitrage." It allows HF traders to see trades that are about to happen before they actually happen and cut in front if it'll be profitable. http:/&#x2
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by librvf 11y ago
That's not what High-Frequency Trading means. The terms for what what you describe are the more general "electronic trading" and "automated trading". They enable HFT, but are not HFT. High-Frequency Trading, while
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by librvf 11y ago
> HFT has led to a dramatic decrease in the price of market making. How? It seems like this should not be that hard to explain.
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by librvf 11y ago
> Lots of things are illegible to the public. Explain to me all the processes involved in building the smart phone in your pocket. You can't. I can't. Probably no single person in the world can. Who cares? That's not true,
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by librvf 11y ago
What it is an absolute disgrace is that it takes a visit to extreme right-wing ranters to discover alternate, more reasonable narratives than the outrageous, divisive, and inflammatory ones that have been recklessly and irresponsibly promot
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by librvf 11y ago
Why are you making such a fuss? He's not making a fuss, the fuss was already made! Even the President tweeted about it. Accusing someone of fussing for asking a reasonable question is hostile and dishonest rhetoric. Indeed, seekin
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by librvf 11y ago
I'm more than a little bothered by this. I'm way more bothered by the way everyone has just assumed that Ahmed's teacher and all the police are clearly racist idiots refusing to back down in the face of supposedly obvious m
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by librvf 11y ago
> I don't see it as particularly dangerous Well, you weren't in the classroom where he set the alarm to go off, were you? So it's not like you're in a position to reasonably judge the reaction. Suppose he did just t
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by librvf 11y ago
The poster who originally wrote those words, wrote them in context of a much larger post. (That phrase was 0.8% of the entire posts by word count). That post was written in response to a propaganda article [0] that got 130+ upvotes. You
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by librvf 11y ago
Unless I'm missing something, there's no actual data about per capita crime or criminality rates by country of origin or even immigration status in that article. That's the data that would actually be useful.
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by librvf 11y ago
We're not using the same definition of community. A community that shares a public library is a community that shares a very broad range of common customs, traditions, values, and interests. They are literal neighbors. They have a

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