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by madgar 10y ago
Large swaths of unemployed unskilled workers are already doing wonders for American politics so far, I can't wait to see what happens when 2.8 million more Americans play musical chairs/jobs.
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by madgar 10y ago
Maybe if you're from Scandinavia are women typically over 5'6". Only a handful of countries register an "average female height" that large on this wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L
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by madgar 10y ago
> Asserting a convention here feels a bit misguided. Expecting GitHub to spend real money to cater to a tiny minority of users of their web service is misguided. The business models behind public internet services are simply not structur
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by madgar 10y ago
I'm not sure if you're arguing about data or personal comfort. Over half the adult human population is 5.5 feet or under if you recall that women exist and are half the people
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by madgar 10y ago
I suspect your calculation ignores that grant money isn't a yearly stipend, so after the $73,600/person runs out those people are back where they started.
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by madgar 10y ago
Yeah, not sure who can swallow that "planning for long-term sustainability [has] been widely practiced" for "the last few decades."
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by madgar 10y ago
Bingo, error detection is functionally distinct from error recovery. In this context, error detection helps prevent some misdeliveries, but can't help ensure additional correct deliveries in the face of error. By analogy, ECC memory ca
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by madgar 10y ago
If we end the war on drugs we'll HAVE to drastically reduce the size of our police forces. We won't be able to pay for them without Byrne funding and asset forfeiture. Let alone the pensions for all the retired police who worked w
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by madgar 10y ago
> A trans person walks into a store and people just start annoying them? You have to pay for what you want at the store. That involves a person. That person then tells that they're praying for you to be someone you aren't and n
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by madgar 10y ago
What does any of all that have to do with values?
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by madgar 10y ago
I believe you'll find that north carolina isn't considered "elite" by anyone but alabamians
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by madgar 10y ago
Actually, timing attacks almost always rely on statistical methods in practice due to the inherent noise in relying on coarse timing data. So adding random noise very rarely helps at all other than increasing the amount of data required for
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by madgar 10y ago
That casual dismissal can be applied just as casually to the entire history of networking technologies, and it would be just as lazy and intellectually dishonest.
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by madgar 10y ago
The goals are also predicated on your OS configuration and having a zero load average.
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by madgar 10y ago
> Can't anyone apply to be on the ballot as long as they demonstrate a reasonable level of support? Yes, they can, no that won't change anyone's mind. This election year is showing that internet-borne conspiracy theories a
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by madgar 10y ago
You don't believe that network effects, or first-mover advantage, play any role in the ride-sharing markets? You think it's 100% about price? Peter Thiel would like to have a word with you. We're supposed to be building monop
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by madgar 10y ago
> Now, I have to check each field individually, in manually written code, to verify that no required fields are missing. You always had to check the individual fields for the zero value. A required field in a proto2 message can be set bu
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by madgar 10y ago
> designing a protocol It's not a full protocol. It's a data type for a serialization library. You can write your own data types and they serialize just as well as the built-in types. > that breaks interoperability Wait, wha
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by madgar 10y ago
There are 1,862 candidates for President right now [0]. The 5 or 10 candidates you will see on the ballot in your statewide election for President are those that have satisfied the ballot requirements in the state. It turns out that satisfy
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by madgar 10y ago
> For heterosexual Whites, the risk of HIV infection extremely low, and HIV infection is inherently more easily spread by anal intercourse (not that other diseases aren't a good reason to use protection). Remind me again why this i
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by madgar 10y ago
Bias isn't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the false equivalency between the the politics of the left and the right. Pretending that the subject matter itself is equivalent, and that the mental gymnastics taken to d
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by madgar 10y ago
This false equivalency is a huge part of the problem.
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by madgar 10y ago
It isn't "clickbait" just because natural language contains semantic ambiguity. Contextual clues - both textual and cultural - indicate that "everything" here is limited to software and not all things in existence,
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by madgar 10y ago
My point is that your sarcasm was laughably bad. You came off like you genuinely believe that any perceived weakness makes room for a new company. Which is something people genuinely believe on this website. If you want to make an effective
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by madgar 10y ago
Won't gofmt turn that into 3 lines?
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by madgar 10y ago
Is it dishonest or is it hustle? The name of the game is putting your business first. You can't let those feelings get in your way.
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by madgar 10y ago
Are you really so blinded by free-market ideology that you think one company having bloated headcount makes room for a direct competitor in their product space? You believe in a perfectly efficient market and don't believe in the exist
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by madgar 10y ago
The entire point was to not draw much blood. Even trying to solve the problem by drawing more blood would be a tacit admission of failure and a huge signaling risk.
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by madgar 10y ago
This is the dirty secret that nobody here wants to admit: the entire startup system that so many here benefit from incentivizes digging yourself deeper. Folks want to blame Elizabeth Holmes for taking seriously all the startup mantras. &quo
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by madgar 10y ago
> I worked for the gambling industry. I never thought I'd say it, but relatively speaking, the gambling industry is grounded in reality. Most of the commenters here are coming from Silicon Valley where regulation is virtually non-ex

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