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by mhuffman 5y ago
> Does Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo offer the same? "Whataboutism" is the last gasp of a losing argument. > The lack of personal relationship with GNU/Linux offering is what made it fail the desktop adoption. This is just
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by mhuffman 5y ago
>The sub-headline: The sub-sub-headline: Researchers develop military tech to hunt down targets that have only been wounded!
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by mhuffman 5y ago
> Apple is extremely friendly to developers targeting the Apple ecosystem. Yeah, I don't know where the hell you get that! Do they offer emulators for non-Mac developers to target their ecosystem? Do they make even simple developmen
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by mhuffman 5y ago
>but ultimately this will harden up potential targets I predict that it is going to be used to get rid of privacy and anonymity features of the web and they aren't going to harden anything!
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by mhuffman 5y ago
Another one here! I use docker-compose, normal periodic DB backups to S3 and a twilio script that can use a lambda function to reload the entire system or parts of it by simple phone commands when necessary. Site does millions of views per
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by mhuffman 5y ago
>It's not that people think you need to pay for your past "transgressions" Well we disagree about this. It often seems to be a certain amount of glee involved when someone posts something from someone's online past th
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by mhuffman 5y ago
>Free speech is a critical component of ensuring democratic government is held to account, and the constitutional protections afforded some citizens of the World from censorship by governments in this regard is superb. >However, it do
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by mhuffman 5y ago
Yes, and it looks like a "space filling" pattern with enough room between to do something like farming. It does not look like an abstract artwork.
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by mhuffman 5y ago
I wildly disagree with nearly everything you have written here. Some notes: >Value cannot be equated to money. This is the point you keep missing. Out of curiosity, how do you think trade of any sort works in a capitalist society? In alm
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by mhuffman 5y ago
>Yes, this was obviously the entire point. You can assume that this is true in any case where people voluntarily agree to trade anything: For each party to the trade, what they receive is worth more to them than what they gave in exchang
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by mhuffman 5y ago
No, it is a wash, and so is your scenario. It is not a 2X gain. They both had an X and swapped it with each other. In you scenario, I am poorer of hotdog buns and you are poorer of hotdogs, but I am richer of hotdogs and you are richer of h
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by mhuffman 5y ago
Universal
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by mhuffman 5y ago
>That means to the extent you believe the "prop them up" part of the theory, you must also believe that most wealth concentrations arise more from things like theft, and less from things like value creation. My experience has b
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by mhuffman 5y ago
That is correct, but the intent of the double jeopardy laws are to stop people from being perpetually retried for a crime by someone that is convinced they have the right person (ie. every cop and DA that ever lived!) and holding the threat
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by mhuffman 5y ago
>"Required" to comment? By whom and for what reason? By stockowners who might not like their valuable IP used in this way or by this company without permission?
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by mhuffman 5y ago
Hey, don't you know that "culture fit" means hating all the same things that I hate?
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by mhuffman 6y ago
>If you genuinely believe this: that it makes no difference, why would you choose to have an all-men judging panel? I didn't choose. Perhaps the people that did, didn't have a lot of, or maybe any, women to choose from? Or perh
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by mhuffman 6y ago
>If you can't be bothered to find a single woman judge, how are you going to rate projects created and designed by women?] That is some pretty non-transitional thinking! Why in the world would a man not be able to just a Redis proje
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by mhuffman 6y ago
Cue tons of people claiming that they "love the freedom" of being able to use discord without swear words!
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by mhuffman 6y ago
This book doesn't seem to exist on Google. Got a link? There is one with that title by Timothy Squire, that has a close plot. Is that the one you are talking about?
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by mhuffman 6y ago
> are people just resetting its state everytime they leave the remote terminal? This is literally the reason that people use it. It can disconnect and reconnect to the same session. I have had a tmux session running remotely for over a y
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by mhuffman 6y ago
I was going to say that Bartle's taxonomy maps pretty closely to those, but it has a little more depth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_taxonomy_of_player_type...
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by mhuffman 6y ago
Yeah, I don't know if you have been watching Disney's moves for the last few decades, but we have been at that place for a while now!
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by mhuffman 6y ago
>This kind of thinking has infected corporate America, which is optimizing return based measures--typically IRR--rather than profit based measures. In uni, this difference was explicitly used to differentiate investors and financiers. In
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by mhuffman 6y ago
Just shooting from the other hip, but isn't correcting for SES something that can easily be done in the study, and is commonly done?
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by mhuffman 6y ago
>What's the alternative? Stop reporting news altogether? Maybe don't report something that one person told you and that you can't otherwise confirm? That used to be the way that news was done, right?
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by mhuffman 6y ago
> Like someone else said, distributing work across multiple machines is a form of horizontal scaling. Sure, but it is the easy kind, when it comes to images or videos. Lambda, for example, can handle a huge amount of image processing for
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by mhuffman 6y ago
Very fun! Also related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21799988 ... which includes SQL and some other interesting types.
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by mhuffman 6y ago
You seem to know what you are talking about, but from my personal experience this does not see correct. To me, it seems that it used to be that way, but now people only download apps for very specific purposes. Do you have pointers to data
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by mhuffman 6y ago
This sounds like a nightmare! Eskom seems to have been around for a long time, but this problem seems to have kicked in a little over a decade ago. Did something recently happen to Eskom to make them incompetent?

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