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by olefoo 13y ago
The cognitive load of understanding apache is greater than that of nginx; at least initially. And given that we're talking about people who are already taxed by the cognitive load of running a massively multiuser Wordpress installation
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by olefoo 13y ago
You appear to have strong internet accent. This may hinder your attempts to make a successful business that operates outside of the internet as well as on it. This isn't a personal criticism; just something I've noticed. /par
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by olefoo 13y ago
You're right, and the reason why you're right is pretty interesting. Meetup.com's business model is built around charging meetup organizers and building the relationships between organizers and participants. So Meetup's
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by olefoo 13y ago
Given that the automobile industry was a major source of wealth for most of the past century; it's safe to say that it's cultural primacy is part and parcel of the corruption of our elites. Automobile deaths in this country are pr
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by olefoo 13y ago
The side effect of that level of paranoia is that office politics becomes an extreme sport. If you can make it look like the guy angling for the same promotion as you has a secret; or is actively selling out the country... It may also expla
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by olefoo 13y ago
I wonder how much of a picture of the outsourced parts of the black budget could be assembled by going through EDGAR filings. http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?CIK=BAH&Find=Search&... I'm not that fa
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NASA Data Reveals Mega-Canyon under Greenland Ice Sheet(nasa.gov)
63 points by olefoo 13y ago|22 comments
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by olefoo 13y ago
"Enterprise IT" and "Enterprise Management" are broken out as two separate categories for both the CIA and the NSA. Is one of those the asset spend ( software, hardware etc. ) for non-mission-tasked items and the other t
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by olefoo 13y ago
Remember that a year or two ago all of the public instructions for installing nodejs were of the form. sudo wget http://example.com/node/install.sh | sh so it's not like it's only newbies who blindly r
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by olefoo 13y ago
So clearly the answer is: you can remain anonymous, so long as you pay tax on your income. So if you're reasonably careful you can earn an income on bitcoin and spend it in bitcoin, you just have to issue payment to the IRS for (.25 *
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by olefoo 13y ago
The TOR project has been doing some work on deterministic builds to deal with exactly that issue. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/deterministic-builds-part-o... I never thought that the whole "trusting trust&quot
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by olefoo 13y ago
That is a very useful resource; thank you. Some cities make shapefiles available for urban growth boundaries and city limits. It's worth enquiring. But be aware that some cities city limits are not simple polygons; depending on local o
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by olefoo 13y ago
If you're wanting to query the data importing into PostGIS is a fairly straightforward way to do it. And you don't have to download the whole planet in one go.
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by olefoo 13y ago
Too bad this has been buried. This is the sort of thing that HN needs more of.
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by olefoo 13y ago
So, is it too hard to accept that direct exposure to the magnitude of what was actually happening made him conscious of his role in perpetuating institutional violence? That perhaps in his service as a low level functionary of the army inte
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by olefoo 13y ago
Wyden & Udall are constrained by their roles within the system; they have both been trying to encourage people to ask the right questions, but they are not going to break the laws they are sworn to uphold. What we need is an independent
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by olefoo 13y ago
Well, clearly the answer is put a price on the lives of the sweet young things who are so eager to throw themselves into the jaws of Moloch. I mean that would be the Capitalist solution; and it would make banking into an heroic activity on
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How the NSA could stop sucking and be awesome instead.(teddziuba.com)
17 points by olefoo 13y ago|1 comments
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by olefoo 13y ago
" reading Objectivist literature " while on food stamps? Clearly he is doing so from curiosity and not conviction.
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by olefoo 13y ago
Derrida. And I'm only sort of being facetious. Sometime in the 1980's the humanities seemed to collectively decide that 'theory' was more important than the ability to think and communicate clearly. To my mind this has a
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by olefoo 13y ago
I think Charles Stross said it best[1], what we have now is effectively the ancien regime pre-revolutionary state; that MUST retain absolute control, lest the natural order be shattered irretrievably. In effect, the guardians of the statu
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by olefoo 13y ago
Or ESRI. Oracle was rather late to the Geospatial party.
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by olefoo 13y ago
For the US; there is a fairly comprehensive collection geographic data sets available from the National Atlas http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp-1m.html all freely available and public domain. And of course the US Census
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by olefoo 13y ago
At this point in time we have plenty of evidence that the NSA has not been staying within the lines. If nothing else the "parallel construction" collaboration with the DEA shows that the line between the NSA and the corrupt shari
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by olefoo 13y ago
The real moneymaking tools in this space are going to be a class of utilities that can broadly be described as "assisted design"; everything from object editors that know about pleasing proportions to linters that will tell you th
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by olefoo 13y ago
If the information that they are acting on is closely linked to evidence of entrapment; or the sorts of grooming and radicalising tactics that the FBI has been known to use to create "domestic terrorists" from angry young men. The
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by olefoo 13y ago
This. I've worked with a number of systems that "use json as the configuration language"; and in every case it's led to issues. Given a choice it's better to have a .ini style format like the one that pythons Config
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by olefoo 13y ago
Something that has been true for the past decade; inside of Microsoft are hundreds of small companies that will never get out. As I see it almost everyone involved with the Surface ended up paying the Windows strategy tax. Microsoft should
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by olefoo 13y ago
How trolls steal from us all. Internet trolling is a social technology problem so you'd think there would be an opportunity for a technologically social solution. The main problem is how do you collate multiple identities in multiple f
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by olefoo 13y ago
Several simplifying assumptions were made; in a real world scenario you would have a certain number of duplicates that is shared with any given contact; but the overlap of redundancies between contacts is going to be low. You also need to f

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