magicmu

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by magicmu 11y ago
I'm increasingly impressed with CoreOS, especially etcd, and more generally, using systemd for init. Not that difficult to get up and running either.
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by magicmu 11y ago
Although it wouldn't explicitly allow that, it's a short leap to make. That would be even more difficult to enforce though, and would mostly only impact those who are frequently arrested (pretty much the same downsides as the cu
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by magicmu 11y ago
I agree that the suggestions are great; I'm also generally happy to see a letter like this take a clear tone without being aggressive or overtly confrontational. Re: the prevalence JS/HTML projects, I think that may just be a matt
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by magicmu 11y ago
Yeah, they often propose legislation that just seems like "How far can we really go?" test. Even if this did pass, it would be virtually impossible to enforce an anti-encryption policy at a large scale. It would only end up effe
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by magicmu 11y ago
As a brand, I'm honestly impressed that they've lasted through so many sea changes.
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by magicmu 11y ago
It's interesting that two of the six things that the author suggests negatively effect mental health are social media. I think that a better understanding of the impact of habits driven by social media will be a great step forward. Of
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by magicmu 11y ago
Very true, I meant it in the sense of ethos/logos/pathos -- an appeal to emotion. You're right though, there are more accurate words.
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by magicmu 11y ago
Yeah, I find this particularly odd given Palantir's founders... You'd think they would care more about maintaining the current pathos of Palo Alto. Then again, I found out recently that Thiel is a financial supporter of Ted Cruz,
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by magicmu 11y ago
Solid analysis, your guess makes a lot of sense IMO. I suspect that these kinds of "breaches" take place far more often than is reported -- I think until people are better educated about the importance of using unique passwords fo
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by magicmu 11y ago
I agree, it seems a bit like link bait. From what I understood, though, the author's point has some merit -- in stocks, you are at least always able to cash out, to change your mind, to have new priorities. In the modern form of start-
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by magicmu 11y ago
That's a great point, good IT would definitely help. But it doesn't seem like we're making any real movement towards replacing the current bureaucratic mess with well-designed systems. Then again, I didn't know there wer
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by magicmu 11y ago
My thoughts exactly -- I would much rather be helping raise awareness of government surveillance and developing measures to abate it, instead of giving them even more technological power. The front-end of services like healthcare and immigr
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by magicmu 11y ago
Wow this is a great idea!! I may very well use this to make a bit of money on the side. How long have you been running this service?
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by magicmu 11y ago
Very cool, thanks so much for the link!
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by magicmu 11y ago
Interesting. Is there an existing standard for what everyday goods are used in determining inflation? I understand the usefulness of a "quick 'n dirty" gauge like this big mac index (or the iPod index you mentioned), but I&#x
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by magicmu 11y ago
Absolutely. As a vim user, one of my favorite things about it is how it is on virtually every platform -- it's similar to what the article says about Netscape. Is the code pretty? Probably not. But I would rather have my text editor be
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by magicmu 11y ago
This is an amazing pursuit, and I wish you guys the absolute best! Unfortunately, I think public adoption of encryption will continue to be a problem until there is absolutely no barrier -- both in knowledge and UI design -- between the ave
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by magicmu 11y ago
Me too; I really like the POLICE handler too, that makes a lot of sense. Awesome project!
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by magicmu 11y ago
Thanks for this summary, I've been struggling for the last few minutes to try and figure out what the hell Oberon was. That sounds awesome!!
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by magicmu 11y ago
Yeah, that's totally true. As another commenter pointed out, it's more-so the case that I only feel qualified to comment on American mentality (and even then, I don't feel especially qualified). This is particularly problemat
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by magicmu 11y ago
That's an interesting take... It's like the perfect storm of our collective tendency to shirk responsibility, our tendency to generalize in search of a single unifying class, AND the tendency for powerful bodies (governments, corp
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by magicmu 11y ago
That is a spectacular quote, and really embodies the impetus of the American people to not only blame excessively when things go wrong, but to place blame in a manner which absolves all parties of any (perceived) responsibility.
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by magicmu 11y ago
Like OP, I've been wondering exactly what problem Docker is meant to solve -- thank you for this explanation, it makes total sense.
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by magicmu 11y ago
This is awesome, thanks for the github link! I wonder what service is providing the data -- the lack of back-end in the repo and need for Web Workers makes me think it's something external. A brief tour of the source makes me think tha
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by magicmu 11y ago
I agree, seems like it's just some hype. It would be pretty damn surprising to see AMD sell off given the various contracts in play (as others have commented).
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Free Competitive Programming Course from Reykjavik University(algo.is)
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by magicmu 11y ago
Ahh that makes a ton of sense, thanks!
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by magicmu 11y ago
I had actually never even heard of Tries until today. Fast prefix searching makes a lot of sense; are there any other clear use cases for Tries?
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by magicmu 11y ago
Awesome tool, thank you for making this available to the community! I'm going to take a crack at integrating this into our ember application and (hopefully) cut back on some of the support. Is there any formal ember-cli support in the
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by magicmu 11y ago
I agree with this sentiment, but I do think that there's validity in the claim that the disruptive nature of startups can have negative consequences for uninvolved parties. I don't think it's a matter of "blame," th

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