mikejb

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by mikejb 8y ago
Voicing an opinion that announces the downfall of a large collective of states is spreading fear though. Maybe you're right and we're heading into a scary future, but it doesn't change that expressing that opinion is spread
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I guess the Facebook post he got his info from didn't mention that.
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I agree that it is not very clear - which is why I wrote "are often considered" etc. Also the Apple example was brought up to explain a nations' interest in low tax rates, not about whether they're legal or not. Parent w
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'fraud' and 'illegal' might be problematic words here. The tax evasion schemes used by large corporations are often considered exploits of loopholes - i.e. technically legal. Countries try to offer companies a system to
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How much of the information about EU politicians robbing people by artificially devaluing currency, influx of illegal refugees, and whatever you could go on about, has been shared and spread through Facebook, generating attention for that i
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I agree with the repressive (to their own people), but I'd be curious how you determine NK or Iran is more evil than the US.
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Every nation has to trust the country with nukes that they won't invade or destroy them. If you were Iran, would you trust the US not to try to invade or topple your country? Iran isn't alone with the rhetoric of 'destroy you
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Yes, there definitely were more factors that went into that decision. But destroying factories and shipyards in populated cities wasn't the primary factor that went into the choice of weapon.
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Every time someone brings up "wants to wipe out xyz", I wonder how that would play out. North Korea wants to nuke the US and SK, Iran wants to nuke Israel, Pakistan wants to nuke India, etc. But playing the scenario in your head l
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by mikejb 8y ago
I fully agree with you, except to the Lidar argument. It holds currently, because Lidars are relatively new (compared to cameras). Considering the progress cameras have made, and apply a similar progress to Lidar. It's ultimately a rac
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by mikejb 9y ago
I have no knowledge in this area. What can contractors do (that employees can't)? I'm trying to come up with things, but my list starts and ends with "work for competitors".
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by mikejb 9y ago
FYI, google has a dashboard that shows all/most/some of the data in your account. Go through it and remember the US government can access it (likely with some form of Warrent or paper required)
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by mikejb 9y ago
Gödel's incompleteness theorems are really something. Ultimately (iirc) it boils down to this: If an axiomatic system is complex enough, it cannot be both consistent and complete. I.e. either you have statements that you can't pro
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by mikejb 9y ago
One example would be: > Google has created several discriminatory practices: - Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate To me, that translates to: "Google
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by mikejb 9y ago
He said worse than that, IIRC. But his lawsuit will maybe bring more clarity on what he really thinks vs. what might have been mis-written or mis-read in various versions of 'the memo'.
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DuckDuckGo still has the functionality, but I don't think they pay content providers. From that I conclude that it's not just a function of "willing to pay vs not", but that "got sued" also plays a role. Conten
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by mikejb 9y ago
If something seems just stupid, it is always a good idea to try to understand the change. This one wasn't really voluntarily [1] (Though I agree for some recent changes, it seems impossible to find a reasonable explanation :/ ) [1
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by mikejb 9y ago
They got sued, and this was one of the consequences see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16388833
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Thinking about this: For 'Object x', x is nothing but a (typed) pointer. Pointer manipulation is heavily limited, but technically, Java has pointers.
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> That makes perfect sense to me. How else would equals and hashcode work? It also makes perfect sense to me. Visibility is type-based, not instance-based. But to answer the hypothetical question: one would have to introduce class-privat
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by mikejb 9y ago
Yep, you're right, I messed that up.
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Yes, that is a bit annoying as well, but I made my peace with that (Probably also because I'm not affected by it directly). But the "ton" is a constant companion, and when it then gets to "kilo-tons" it just breaks
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Risky strategy, it depends on who does the review. (It should be a motivator for white-hats to dig into this - black-hats surely will).
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by mikejb 9y ago
The "Gigagram" makes me smile. The one thing where the metric system annoys is the "ton" and "kilo-ton" labeling. A ton is 1000 kilograms, hence a megagram, and a gigagram is 1000 megagrams.
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by mikejb 9y ago
The damage to the ASDS might be more of a problem. Depending on how badly it was damaged, it might not be available to catch other cores that could have landed otherwise
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Interesting isn't the word I'd use, but I understand what you mean. I really hope that a third party will start to grow. Whilst it may have benefits, I think the two-party-system feeds a lot into the "with me or against me&qu
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by mikejb 9y ago
This is easily blamed on the shutdown, but it isn't that simple: Falcon Heavy static fire has been postponed numerous times. On Tuesday (Jan 16th), it was cancelled once again, but with no new target test date. That indicates that Spac
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by mikejb 9y ago
SRE is Site Reliability Engineer; GFE is the "Google Front End"
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The (single) Tesla Roadster is going on a transfer orbit to Mars. (Actually, the Tesla is 'just' going into a heliocentric orbit with it's apogee around the Mars orbit. That is sufficient to prove that it can get to Mars beca
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by mikejb 9y ago
Military competition is always necessary. You need to be able to defend yourself, and for that, you cannot fall too far behind. I agree with you when we get to the offensive use of weapons. Though the US is only one of a number of players i

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