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by olefoo 12y ago
Let's see where this stands three years from now. Mozilla is working on some pretty neat stuff; and is paying attention to the rest of the world, not just the American/European/Japanese market. Also since they are a foundatio
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by olefoo 12y ago
It's a big story that is being replicated all across the economy. There are many parts to it, and many different aspects. So, you should be seeing a number of stories with some overlap. This is a story about income inequality, and the
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by olefoo 12y ago
You are not even wrong.
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by olefoo 12y ago
mythological in the sense that all sorts of people build up myths about it and it's supposed powers. ( blinding flashes of insight, make you throw yourself off buildings, make you a god, make you an ant, turn your world inside out, hea
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by olefoo 12y ago
Is it the same six people that keep posting this every 6 to 12 weeks on here? The usual caveats apply: 1. lsd is illegal, so no quality control and no certainty that that is what you are ingesting. 2. lsd was and is a mythological drug in e
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by olefoo 12y ago
I would like to be optimistic, but I fear we are caught in the pull of a stable orbit in the political system. Plutocracy and Surveillance go hand in hand, and the more government falls to those who can afford it; the more surveillance the
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by olefoo 12y ago
"I never expected this to happen. I can retrieve the keys but the procedure to do so requires my presence at my solicitors in Zurich." That might fall into the too clever by half bucket; but if you set it up now; you can claim it
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by olefoo 12y ago
It was intended to be offensive. Although, the actual numbers are quite disputed and most of the ones we hear should be considered propaganda. Besides which; we're hardly ones to point the finger over genocide these days (Iraq, Pakista
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by olefoo 12y ago
There is a distinction between crime and acts that are morally wrong. For instance hiding Jews from the Nazis would be a crime from the Nazis point of view. But most anyone else would consider it to be the right thing to do. And given the i
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by olefoo 12y ago
I looked at two of the Algorithms I'm currently working with and found empty entries?
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by olefoo 12y ago
Given their market power and prominence; you could make a strong case that unduly restrictive covenants in the contract language are in fact against the interests of a society that values freedom and equity. Many of the arguments on this pa
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by olefoo 12y ago
Also it could be that they are going for the profit maximising price curve. $129 is worth it; if you would use the functionality a lot. And they must be selling enough units at that price to make it worthwhile for them. Without knowing thei
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by olefoo 12y ago
"the economy is doing well" is always accompanied by a silent "for me and mine". As is the the inverse. We are frail and limited creatures and while we can comfortably encompass the notion of a tribe. The concept of nati
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by olefoo 12y ago
This is not merely a tool for generating test data; this generates a sample of the live database. > random yet relationally consistent subsets of relational databases That's a very different thing compared to a chinese-menu style ra
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by olefoo 12y ago
Economics does not, unfortunately; deal with falsifiable hypotheses that can be tested. And it is at best confined to natural experiments since we can't spin up 10,000 civilizations that start with the same resource base but different
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by olefoo 12y ago
Doesn't need to replace a human; just needs to be Good Enough™ to save the human 80% of the time they would spend in unproductive back and forth. Just like a dishwasher is not a replacement for a scullery maid; and won't individua
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by olefoo 12y ago
Are you saying the NYPD, the DHS and the NSA are terrorist organizations that benefit from terrorism? Be careful. Expressing that opinion openly and convincing others of its truth is ThoughtCrime. And could lead to your being extraordinaril
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by olefoo 12y ago
> The day people no longer have a reason to build systems using computers is the day these jobs will go away. Sooo, not too long after some clever person figures out how to automate 80% of the grunt work of building an analytics pipeline
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by olefoo 12y ago
> the fact that she's a political appointee is what makes your petition moot. They'll just appoint someone else. If they had sacked her, that would have been an important signal to other prosecutors as to the limits of what is
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by olefoo 12y ago
Well, there seems to be some dissent in the choir [1]. And a growing sense among many Apple customers that it's all been downhill since Snow Leopard. For myself, I can say that the benefits of Apple hardware are starting to be outweigh
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by olefoo 12y ago
So, I am the person who wrote that petition. (and yes I'm aware of the issues with the wording ) The decision to name Carmen Ortiz was deliberate; she is a political appointee and thus could be dismissed at the administrations pleasure
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by olefoo 12y ago
Yes. Originator of the petition. Pressed enter. When I thought I could edit after. So PEBKAC
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by olefoo 12y ago
I think it goes to show how slowly culture changes in hardware manufacturing that this isn't a checkbox feature that is in the press kit for new model releases. From looking at the parts list, it seems like it ought to be reasonably ea
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by olefoo 12y ago
The main drawback of this ( and it's a minor drawback in the larger scheme of things ) is that this isn't a portable interface and isn't available on other POSIX-ish OS's. It looks like there are key agents available for
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by olefoo 12y ago
It really depends on the scale you're working at; and whether you can assume that there will be someone available to supply credentials for an instance that had to restart. I've used fabric and ansible to push configs out to small
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by olefoo 12y ago
There's a fairly straight forward pattern for keeping sensitive credentials out of github. It comes straight from http://12factor.net/config store configuration data in the environment. What I do for most projects is k
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by olefoo 12y ago
Depends on how much you trust the guidance systems on your cruise missile. That said, I can't see the advantage to any one player in taking out Washington DC unless they can shift attribution to someone else. I mean the small crazies (
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by olefoo 12y ago
You have a point. I used to work with/for a few of them, and sometimes the online persona was perhaps more aligned with their IRL personality than was good for them. But for the most part it was a way to vent frustration.
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by olefoo 12y ago
Evidently you are not familiar with the sort of humor common to alt.sysadmin.recovery And next you'll be telling us that http://bofh.ntk.net/BOFH/index.php isn't fiction/satire/parody.
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by olefoo 12y ago
How are they going to enforce the exclusive sale model? I can think of three or four ways to defeat even a relatively sophisticated attempt to do so in an automated manner. And if you're going to make money off selling secrets, what co

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