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by lsc 9y ago
I think there's a place for non-redundant disk... it's just that you have to understand that while redundant disk mostly either works or doesn't, (well, it returns all data or none, the speed can vary when it's in a non-
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by lsc 9y ago
yeah, this is really interesting, and something that, as far as I can tell, most companies aren't so interested in. I remember one place I worked with many thousands of computers, during burn-in, they's re-write every sector of
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by lsc 9y ago
as someone who has had a proper merchant account in the past, my impression is that the customer has a lot more power than the merchant, when it comes to chargebacks. Chargebacks are super damaging to the owner of the merchant account[1],
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by lsc 9y ago
not badly managed... I just didn't think it was okay to make people sick for your study; perhaps "I don't understand what standards are applied by the ethics board." would have been more correct.
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by lsc 9y ago
>People balance their values between the need to have a target to work towards and the desire to not feel terrible all the time Yes. This is something I do consciously... but also poorly. It would not surprise me at all if most people
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by lsc 9y ago
>Then, the researchers gave each participant nasal drops containing rhinovirus 39, one of the viruses responsible for the common cold, sequestered them in separate hotel rooms for five days and asked them to record how they felt. I... do
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by lsc 9y ago
> If you really do look down on your old friends and acquaintances like that (so that you see their posts as all about being poorer and less articulate than you), then you're probably the one making posts that depress them. Sometime
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by lsc 9y ago
>the cool successful hacker living in SV and who interacts daily with the super-smart-super-wealthy people, That sentence makes me laugh, because when I grew up (and I'm not certain if this is "when" or "where,"
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by lsc 9y ago
>but theaters control the end product, so I doubt they'd share revenue. They're more likely to compete against MoviePass if the plan works. This seems the most likely to me; I mean, if I were to buy a ticket subscription, I&#x
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by lsc 9y ago
Tuesday, this was the theme at my toastmaster's debate club[1] - I got stuck arguing that social media doesn't make you depressed. And... my problem with my argument wasn't that it was untrue, but that it was kinda mean. I
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by lsc 9y ago
You aren't wrong, but if you really are concerned about those sorts of things, you should probably drive a late-model Toyota, not a Delorian. They stopped making this car in 1983; it is far beyond it's design lifetime already, and
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by lsc 9y ago
I find it much easier to do cardio while reading... this is difficult while walking outside, pretty easy while on a treadmill or elliptical.
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by lsc 9y ago
>use a hmd with low transparancy Any recommendations? I owned a Xybernaut and a bunch of other HMDs throughout the years. Few were practical for reading and walking at the same time. (Interestingly, I've had several solutions tha
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by lsc 9y ago
>I would eat more ice cream and fewer beans, I'm less than half the author's age, and I already regret eating too much ice cream and not enough beans.
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by lsc 9y ago
That is the terrifying way of looking at it... what if we only exercised such restraint because our parents and grandparents lived the horrible experience of a major power war? What if the next generation in power doesn't have that s
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by lsc 9y ago
My argument is that even this is a huge step forward. All historical evidence before this was that state actors could not be restrained by the mere threat of overwhelming force; before this, it seemed that nation state, even the big advanc
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by lsc 9y ago
I think the fact that we only dropped two nukes in anger is absolutely shocking; it's an affirmation of human goodness and rationality. It goes against everything else I think I know of humanity, especially against the previous hist
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by lsc 9y ago
If you asked me 20 years ago, I'd have given you good answers. Then? it was mostly a matter of collecting things. tell everyone you know that this is your hobby, especially teachers and people who work around computer labs. Tell
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by lsc 9y ago
the problem with old equipment twofold; first, there's a lot more maintenance. Next? when you are dealing in cast-offs, you by necessity have a heterogeneous fleet of hardware. (The market for obsolete server hardware is interestin
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by lsc 9y ago
My thought? E-waste. This is how I got my first computers; obsolete and broken computers cast off by people wealthier than I was. [1] It's great, because you get to learn how to fix the computer as well as whatever it is you learn
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by lsc 9y ago
http://www.civil-war.net/pages/1860_census.html It varied dramatically by state; according to that census, Mississippi and South Carolina were both majority slave. Certainly, the CSA was majority free, but I think tha
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by lsc 9y ago
and I think there's something different culturally about waiting in line for prepared food I'm going to eat there and waiting in line in the grocery store; I much more frequently am approached by random people in line at Sam&#x27
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by lsc 9y ago
"In agreement with the first hypothesis, performance scores were significantly higher in silence (M= 12.94) than in all four music conditions, intensity levels, and types of music combined" For those comparing this to work perform
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by lsc 9y ago
>Throughout history, "the marketplace" had been one of the major centers of interpersonal interaction If you mean "the coffee shop" (there's a long history there) or "the pub" (a longer history, in t
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by lsc 9y ago
Just sayin, but in most areas that I've been where Engineers make $100+/hr, handymen make rather more than $15/hr.
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by lsc 9y ago
> I'm always surprised by the only-in-this-circumstance libertarian philosophy of people who support congestion pricing. I think if you took the exact same logic and applied it to say, schools, supporters would feel completely diffe
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by lsc 9y ago
huh. On the other hand,there's costco, which quite often doesn't have the same things they had the last time you were there, not because they are out, but because they switched to a different product for that section.
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by lsc 9y ago
so, that's one way of looking at it, it's the conventional view, and probably more correct, but... Another way of looking at it is that the fighting resulted because France and the allies didn't crack down on Germany when the
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by lsc 9y ago
Also, the borders between the higher levels of IT, what we call Systems Administration, and programming are somewhat porous. I've worked as a programmer before, and I've never worked anywhere (as a sysadmin) where they would hi
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by lsc 9y ago
>Don't trust course counselors - or other people in general. I... think it's not so much a matter of 'trust' as you have to understand what people understand. My understanding is that their job is to help you navigat

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