mjolk

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by mjolk 10y ago
This doesn't make you an idiot. Being able to trust that this basic functionality (access controlled push/pull) will be available is why I pay for GitHub and decided to wait until GitLab stopped having avoidable, serious outages
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That's totally fair, but the underlying suggestion that "language choice isn't really important to scaling" is more what I was addressing.
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by mjolk 10y ago
I like the cute expression that you're referencing, but for a majority of projects, to a major extent, language choice greatly matters . If you're getting 10x performance from Go over RoR, that's 10 fewer servers you need t
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by mjolk 10y ago
Thanks for responding. To be sure, I'm asking the following questions in good faith as I want your site to work. > Newslines fixes the problem of bias by allowing people to build up the page by adding news events. If people are jus
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by mjolk 10y ago
> My site, an actual working solution to the problem of both fake news and bias, is doing great (Over three million page views last month). How is crowd-funded media a solution to the problem of bias and factually unsound reporting? I fo
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by mjolk 10y ago
> News: We’re facing two major issues with news. The first is fake news. The business model for online media rewards the people who get the greatest number of page views, clicks and likes. That results in a system that prizes virality ov
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by mjolk 10y ago
So that I understand, if you were at the head of a $1bb company, would it by default become "evil"? Further, do you feel that capitalism is intrinsically bad?
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by mjolk 10y ago
> The Haj visa are just for the Haj, during the Haj period (last week of the lunar year), for the Haj, i.e. to go from the airport to Mecca and Medina and back. A visa is just a political device -- we're talking about refugees. >
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by mjolk 10y ago
> The six Gulf countries - Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain - have offered zero resettlement places to Syrian refugees. That's really shocking to me as these countries are rich in resources. Further, AF
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by mjolk 10y ago
> The Haj visas are only open for certain areas of the country - mostly the airport in Jeddah and then the pilgrim trail to Mecca and Medina. Sounds like this is would just be a simple action of politics to extend those visas or just wai
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by mjolk 10y ago
You're speaking as if getting to Cambodia is the same as a quick/cheap flight for most people, especially those who use English as a lingua franca. You're suggesting a very unrealistic alternative to NYC, Seattle, or Austin.
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> Despite the difficulty of access to westerners, the country is relatively open to fellow Muslim nations, particularly during the Haj season when pilgrims from across the world come to Mecca and Medina. This is helpful as I assume this
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by mjolk 10y ago
Of course, for what it's worth, I wrote my response with those factors (subsidies, no such thing as actual "free trade") in mind. However, the USA's role in food security for countries that rely on globalist trade struct
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by mjolk 10y ago
> Just two minor points - be careful not to treat "agricultural goods" and "food" as the same. As one example, the US is a major (THE major) producer and exporter of corn...but a dizzying amount of that corn is NOT fo
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by mjolk 10y ago
I'm sorry that I don't have the time to respond to all of your assertions, but I have done a reasonable amount of research on one of the points and figured I'd add my $0.02. > Why Trump isn't good for poor working cla
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by mjolk 10y ago
This is delivered a bit to dry for me to know if I should laugh.
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by mjolk 10y ago
To be sure, I didn't say anything about the effectiveness of harsher sentencing on addictive substances (as I'm not very well read on this subject), but that's the intent of coming down harder on endemics caused by substances
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by mjolk 10y ago
Oh my, yes, and entire verticals exist to close the loop on what you did when the app couldn't connect in the background for whatever reason (e.g. combining wifi points, other sensor data, and retransmitting when back online and compar
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by mjolk 10y ago
I hadn't tried that, but where it was full opacity on both and where I could see the end of the text, I just assumed it was a little UX issue. Either a list of nearby airports or do metropolitan radius (e.g. NYC means LGA, JFK, sometim
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by mjolk 10y ago
I'm going to be very direct with you as I believe it's been a long time since anyone has treated you like an adult. > I donate my time to arts programs for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities, and I also eng
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by mjolk 10y ago
This is great; you should be proud! - There's a slight CSS issue on buttons not clearing text: http://imgur.com/a/FVvj8 - As I've entered my area, it would be useful if the "from airport" on the res
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by mjolk 10y ago
> Chilling effect. Just in this thread, you can find 4 people who say they avoid flying to/through the US because of treatment at the border. The internet is a hyperbolic place. There's nothing saying those people would have c
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by mjolk 10y ago
> This is just one of those things where if you think you have it licked, you probably don't...there is a high probability you have at the very least some implicit bias.. No, sorry, I reject your ideology and manipulations. Repeati
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by mjolk 10y ago
At what point did I suggest that a literal wall is the solution? > what effect would it have on the legal movement? Why would it have an effect? The process to come to the United States is well-documented and there are US tax-payer back
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by mjolk 10y ago
> The rates effectively differ per race. You could say that this is just about legal votes - but then, why not make sure everybody has similar access? Because politics and vote count. Same reason why re-districting/gerrymandering h
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by mjolk 10y ago
> It's actually pretty difficult not to be racist. I'm racist, for example, as are pretty much all other white people in the US...No white person is wholly racist or wholly not racist, it's all shades of gray... It's
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by mjolk 10y ago
> Yes, US should be letting people in. Wait, why? My understanding is that the rhetoric was specifically about illegal immigration. Why should the US not police its borders or its people lose the ability to make decisions on immig
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by mjolk 10y ago
> For users? YES! (in both cases) I think that treatment should be a larger part of the response to crack or meth, but my point was that specifically targeting a substance for harsher policing is not strictly a single-race issue. > Ju
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by mjolk 10y ago
> No, my default is to look at the statistical evidence around me. No, you're going by anecdote and perception, which is why you fell back to "well I think it looks racist". > The statistics are showing that we treat o
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by mjolk 10y ago
Your default is to attribute something you do not fully understand to racism? To trade folksy expressions, the boy who cried wolf...

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