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by miked 17y ago
I'd heard some years ago that the Navy's nuclear operations officers and their nuclear safety officers are not allowed to even talk to each other, just to prevent any chumminess from creeping into the relationship. Is that still true?
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by miked 17y ago
Well, I stupidly did not follow the link to the notes, and hence missed that. In my defense, I think pg would have done better to pick a different example. The context, indeed the whole essay, is about "what you can't say". For the reasons
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by miked 17y ago
>> I don't care who said it (My apologies, I'm always a bit critical of throwing in famous names in a discussion, the arguments should count for themselves.). Internal considerations is really all there is. Agreed. I'm not citing au
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by miked 17y ago
>> He's not anti-Semitic; he's Jewish... The history of Jewish anti-semitism goes back at least to Josephus, who sold out his fellow jews to the Romans. Karl Marx, whose early writings were filled with anti-semitic hate. Etc. Etc. (
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by miked 17y ago
>> Any moral is a balance between human needs/wants and some theory about how society functions best. It was Nietzsche's great insight that internal considerations play a much larger role in constructing morality than external consi
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by miked 17y ago
>> If you said them all you'd have no time left for your real work. You'd have to turn into Noam Chomsky. Chomsky could, I suppose, be taken as a heretic. After all, he did write an introduction for a book that denied the Holocaust.
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by miked 17y ago
And Berkeley DB / Sleepycat.
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by miked 17y ago
>> 6.5x10^-13 * 2.6x10^22 joules of energy, call it 1.6 gigajoules. = 16 x 10^9 = 16 gigajoules, not 1.6 gigajoules. Suddenly, I feel like taking off my sweater.
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by miked 17y ago
Yeah, that's part of the concern, too. I've been doing biotech for almost 4 years. That could be a bigger problem.
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by miked 17y ago
I've worked in both startups and corporate IT depts, and that would be my take as well. Large companies are far more concerned with anti-discrimination law. They also strongly prefer a stable workgroup, which is helped (I think) by a bit of
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by miked 17y ago
There are any number of which we have "only X years of proven reserves left", for which we've had X years left for 3X years. That's because mining companies only prove out reserves for many ores only as far in advance as necessary to show t
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by miked 18y ago
What does this have to do with software development or startups?
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by miked 18y ago
>> But though the record labels have certainly captured congress... And not just Congress: http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/76701/ >> their lawsuits tend to destroy startups before government regulation does. In the bro
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by miked 18y ago
Thanks for the feedback, disappointing though it is. What really makes it a shame is that I know how much better I am than when I was younger. More mature and with a much better business sense. Damn.
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by miked 18y ago
I'm 53 and currently trying to run a small (non-software but high-tech) startup. I may be going back to Oracle programming soon. Does anyone know how much resistance there is to hiring middle-aged guys out there? It's been about 10 years si
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Congress needs Google to find out where stimulus money went(washingtonexaminer.com)
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Cybersecurity Act of 2009 to allow warrantless searches of all personal email(washingtonexaminer.com)
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How it started: Every US recession since WW II has been preceded by a spike in oil prices(nypost.com)
2 points by miked 18y ago|1 comments
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by miked 18y ago
Thanks. I have looked at Seaside a bit and it looks impressive. I was impressed at how little code it seems to take to get something going. My app will work best as a thick client, but I still need a website to sell it.
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by miked 18y ago
Unfortunately, I think it will soon become all too relevant. As government becomes an ever greater part of our lives, more and more becomes about politics. The government has just committed for $7 trillion and will probably go to $12 trilli
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by miked 18y ago
A prediction: outrage at "Wall Street" fat cats will, in the next few years, become outrage at "fat cats" everywhere in the country. Especially more visible ones. Like, say, Silicon Valley "fat cats". The hungry maw of populist resentment m
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by miked 18y ago
The (private) financial industry is the minor player here, although still culpable. The Federal Reserve, a government agency, has wildly inflated the money supply (just as it did in the Roaring '20s), setting off (just as in the '20s) a spe
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by miked 18y ago
Make that extra taxes. Congress recently passed an "exit tax" for the rich. With $7 trillion dollars already committed (over 14 times what was spent on the New Deal), I'm betting that the definition of rich will soon be "downsized".
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by miked 18y ago
What makes the article so compelling is how he ties a broad issue like government power and control to a deeply personal and rather embarrassing issue. That had to be hard for him to write, but it makes the piece come alive. Add in a story
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by miked 18y ago
>> Anyone know if the metal/organic catalyst is toxic? I don't know about ruthenium in particular, but almost all heavy metals are toxic to humans. That's because they can often substitute for similar, desirable metals (almost alway
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by miked 18y ago
I hadn't heard of Pharo before. Thanks for the link. It looks like it might be interesting and I'll keep an eye in it.
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by miked 18y ago
The big question: why on earth are the shutdown systems (or any others) connected to the Interwebs? How on earth could the risks of that justify whatever benefits there might be? Governments are stupid about all things except increasing the
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by miked 18y ago
Just to clarify on my comment (and the journalist's writing): "neo-liberal" is here meant (clearly by both of us) in the European sense. I.e., as in Classical Liberalism. Pro-free markets and individual liberty and individual rights. Rather
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by miked 18y ago
Well, I'm not thrilled about it. But getting something out the door is the key. Enjoying the development experience is #2. I can live with a 6% vig for the Cincom guys.
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by miked 18y ago
>> Dubai is a living metal metaphor for the neo-liberal globalised world that may be crashing – at last – into history. Just out of curiosity, is that the same globalized world that the author used to fly there while speaking only E

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