michael1999

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by michael1999 6y ago
I'm old, and my stats are old too.
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by michael1999 6y ago
Good as far as it goes. But the USA is full of roads that the local county can barely afford to plow, much less maintain. Japan built lots of bridges to nowhere trying to keep the money-machine going. A bridge is only valuable if the use
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by michael1999 6y ago
This is my experience too. Traditional ci hygiene requires that the build runs clean on the developer machine before publishing a change. But once the build time crosses 10 minutes, people resent waiting and start to run test subsets, and
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by michael1999 6y ago
A more generous response would respond to the original point. If we tax the rural aristocracy (i.e. concentrated land-owners) out of existence, then who will then administer that property? The obvious answer is large-scale agribusiness wh
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by michael1999 6y ago
This may be true in general. But the these particular. organizations have demonstrated that they are not trustworthy. So now what? Trusting known liars is a foolish path.
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by michael1999 6y ago
People also expect drivers to kill 20k per year. I don't think Waymo is likely to sign up to that goal whole-heartedly.
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by michael1999 6y ago
Isn't that exactly the problem? People doing what they normally do kills 20k people in the USA every year. Google won't get away with that kind of blood-sacrifice. I look forward to the opposite: a generation of young drivers w
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by michael1999 6y ago
That line has negative width. At least 1/3 of polite behaviour is avoiding rude truths. Some say 100% of diplomacy is the same.
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by michael1999 6y ago
Const. Babak Andalib-Goortani was convicted of assault with a weapon but got off with 75 hours of community service, and Supt. Fenton received a reprimand for arresting 600 people without cause and keeping them in the rain, or in wire cages
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by michael1999 6y ago
JodaTime (and use-310) does in right. Most do it wrong.
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by michael1999 6y ago
Often they don’t. Time-to-business-date is a business or legal rule, not a celestial one. The “day” often ends at 5pm. Trading systems may have eod at 2. If you deposit a cheque into a machine at 5:30pm on Thursday, that is posted Friday. A
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by michael1999 6y ago
I've built that. This works on small, well synchronized teams, on small databases. Once you have to merge a branch, you start fighting over version ids or renumbering like it's BASIC. And remember that any long-lived dev sessio
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by michael1999 6y ago
Off topic: We gave Rumsfeld grief because most of his unknowns were in fact well known! He just didn’t like the facts on hand and led NATO into an evil disaster because reasons.
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by michael1999 6y ago
MS DOS was 1981. I got my vic-20 in 1984. But fair point, the actual numbers employed were tiny compared to current needs. Average experience is thin out there. The old timers clump, both in firms and geographically.
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by michael1999 6y ago
You need to include our food production spaces when talking about population density for that to be a fair comparison. Our urban density is mirrored (and supported) by the sparseness of our farmland.
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by michael1999 6y ago
No. Next-door in Canada, we thought you were bonkers. I thought you were bonkers. We joined in Afghanistan, but invading Iraq never made any sense and we wisely stayed out.
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by michael1999 6y ago
Our local police have $0 budget assigned to bike theft. Anything less than $5000 is petty theft, and their service is limited to recording a formal report for insurance claims.
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by michael1999 6y ago
The real arguments are too dark to say aloud. E.g. without the perks over civilian life, the military would be unable to recruit a volunteer force large enough for empire.
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by michael1999 6y ago
While your usage is common, it is completely wrong. A "conspiracy theory" is simply a "theory" that posits a "conspiracy". What you describe is the opposite - when the evidence is so overwhelming, that the se
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by michael1999 6y ago
Nice explanation. A boat can start surfing once the waterline fits on one face of a wave, so <1/2 wavelength. So a 70m tug just needs a 200m long wave. Mind you, those waves could be 30m tall and breaking over you :-O. So not imp
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by michael1999 6y ago
What is a corporation but a union of capitalists? Why must only the owners be allowed to unite for better outcomes?
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by michael1999 6y ago
Rabbits, like squirrels, face danger from all directions: birds from above, cats and foxes from low cover, coyotes from a hide. Horizontal pupils are a specialization on taller grazers.
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by michael1999 6y ago
Many adult Canadian Inuit are from a time when they were forcibly removed from their families and raised in residential schools which applied corporal punishment liberally, and sexually abused many of them. Christians routinely complained