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by markbnj 9y ago
I people didn't need cash this problem would go away. I think of this occasionally when I visit our local bagel shop, which like many bagel shops in the area does not take cards and has an atm onsite.
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by markbnj 9y ago
Whatever "moral valence" they do have, you've put there in your reading of the text. Beowulf is just a story about a famous warrior who takes a group of his supporters to help a king with a monster problem.
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by markbnj 9y ago
Mmm, I think so yes. The voice had a distinctly artificial character imo.
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by markbnj 9y ago
This is a pretty common scenario when a venture funded company doesn't reach a valuation that exceeds the various preferences accumulated in investment rounds. The company is ultimately sold, all of the sales proceeds are taken by the
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by markbnj 9y ago
The article doesn't really address some of the other things that affect where people choose to live, i.e. availability of fast internet; utility reliability; schools; etc. I agree that commute times are a big factor, but they're n
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by markbnj 9y ago
I can't speak for anyone else but I would recognize that as software-generated instantaneously. It's unmistakable imo, and actually sounds significantly worse than, for example, these samples from Google's Tactotron 2 system:
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by markbnj 9y ago
It's an extremely powerful visualization and well worth a few minutes. I'm perhaps a wee bit skeptical of some of the historical data (8m deaths attributed to "Fall of Rome" for example), but I didn't see anything t
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by markbnj 9y ago
On the other hand think about the positives: all the terrestrial traffic and distributed refueling and service infrastructure that might no longer be needed; it would revolutionize everything from personal transportation to shipping and log
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by markbnj 9y ago
They weren't "built for boomers" so much as they were built for returning GIs after WWII. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown
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by markbnj 9y ago
They must have wanted that deal pretty bad. At the very least they should have demanded a break-up fee in return for agreeing to forgo all other attempts at finding an investment partner. The acquirer might very well have refused but that w
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by markbnj 9y ago
I have no clue why this link to a playlist of 131 videos is relevant.
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by markbnj 9y ago
It's always interesting and amusing to read these sorts of articles. This has been a recurring dream and topic of conversation since well before I wrote my first program in 1975. It's easy to understand why. We've built these
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by markbnj 9y ago
There's probably a specific name for this construction, but I don't know it. I'd place it in a category of statements that are not meant to be read as literally true in all cases, but use comedic exaggeration as a warning aga
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by markbnj 9y ago
I would still call redis lightweight compared to mysql, but yes fsync always has a significant performance cost.
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by markbnj 9y ago
Ha, no it's worse for a startup, because you take on obligations hoping that you'll make a big sale of your new thing to a market that hasn't heard about you, has no reason to trust you, and no current intention of sending yo
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by markbnj 9y ago
Wait... this is real? Come on, this isn't real. Is it?
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by markbnj 9y ago
If they post the job opportunity on many different sites is it discrimination if one of those sites targets a specific age group? I'm a 57 year-old steadily employed software engineer/SRE so I am definitely in favor of less age di
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by markbnj 9y ago
I don't know for sure but when I have met with them on zoom it sure doesn't seem private.
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by markbnj 9y ago
What about the additional $1.4T being added to the deficit to pay for them? Is that moving the economy forward? I'm all for a lower tax burden, but like politicians of both parties they're much happier handing out the benefits tha
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by markbnj 9y ago
I work for a fully-remote company and a number of our engineers choose to work from coworking spaces like WeWork. It's entirely their decision and I guess they miss the atmosphere and social interaction of an office.
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by markbnj 9y ago
Perhaps redis streams http://antirez.com/news/114
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by markbnj 9y ago
It's false equivalence because you (and everyone else) knows that the case of an end user injecting script into a page on the receiving end of the connection is not the scenario under discussion, and is not the behavior that the rule i
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by markbnj 9y ago
Right, ok so we're in a discussion about what "wildly" means :). Imo the rfc was mentioned, so a simple link to the wiki article would have been a polite reply.
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by markbnj 9y ago
Um, I assume the code for that pop-up is rendered into the page on the web server that produced the page, before being returned to the browser.
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by markbnj 9y ago
Huh? Not even close to wildly OT. The RFC was mentioned above.
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by markbnj 9y ago
I mean, the end-user who requested the page certainly has a right to voluntarily inject script into the page they requested as it is rendered in their own browser running on a machine they own connected to an upstream internet provider they
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by markbnj 9y ago
Yeah I don't know, you'd need a lawyer to weigh in on that. Contract law and all the stuff around mutual agreements and consideration (the monetary kind) is pretty fundamental. You can always walk away and use a different database
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by markbnj 9y ago
I'm not a lawyer so I don't really have any clue :). But I suspect the defense would be that it's an agreement between two parties: you want to use their shit you agree to use it by their terms. The debate around these things
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by markbnj 9y ago
Writing from the final day of kubecon in Austin. Certainly agree with 4 and 5. Last year's conference had 1400 or so attendees I think. Over 4000 this year. And istio seems everywhere.
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by markbnj 9y ago
> Even if they wanted to, service providers would have a hard time extorting money from huge companies like Google and Netflix, because each service provider needs Google and its billions of users a lot more than Google needs it. Didn&#x

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