patrickg_zill

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   by patrickg_zill 8y ago

   I think that a large amount of skepticism is justified... There's a reason that all self-driving car trials are running in states with mostly sunny weather and no snow. Let me know when a self-driving trial is being run in Vermont or N
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   by patrickg_zill 8y ago

   Source? Each 18 wheeler on the road pays at least $25k/year in road taxes.
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   by patrickg_zill 8y ago

   In the 1920s or so, black men were 24% self employed or had their own small business. Now it is a lot less than that. What exactly happened is up for debate but the results are certainly sad.
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   by patrickg_zill 8y ago

   The German men and women who are descendants of the raped and tortured German women, victims of the Red Army, which Solzhenitsyn wrote about, as well... I don't write this to be insulting, but to point out that untold millions of peopl
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   by patrickg_zill 8y ago

   I agree, and some of the HyperCard stacks today , have me dropping my screen resolution to the old 640x480 or so in order to better view the stacks. There is one on art and history that is very well written: https://archive.org
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   by patrickg_zill 8y ago

   Supposedly fluoridation leads to a change in the pineal gland, which is a partially understood part of the brain. Any truth to that?
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   by patrickg_zill 8y ago

   I am not sure if I would have been able to avoid such a situation myself. That's the only thing that keeps me from excoriating Uber...
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   by patrickg_zill 8y ago

   Only some of them have flywheels. The large telco datacenter I visited had huge pallets of batteries to cover the time needed for the diesel generator to start.
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   by patrickg_zill 8y ago

   Older, actually... NeXT 1.0 was released in 1989; first version of NT shipped in 1993.
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    by patrickg_zill 8y ago

    Although the USA has problems, it is a "no-risk" to "little-risk" proposition provided you make it to the USA. (I am talking about the legal routes.) I can't quite articulate it, but I have a serious problem with th
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    by patrickg_zill 8y ago

    I grew up in 1 country and moved to USA (though both were English speaking 1st world countries). I didn't have to move a family, however.
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    by patrickg_zill 8y ago

    You're contrasting the people whose forefathers built the country, with the people who came later, after it was already built and there was no risk to be taken. How much risk is an immigrant really taking on, when there is a safety net
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    by patrickg_zill 8y ago

    So, can Twitter block people?
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    by patrickg_zill 8y ago

    I am pretty sure that PG has had clustered indexes for a decade or more... ? e.g. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-cluster.html Or is this term referring to a different feature/method tha
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    by patrickg_zill 8y ago

    Lindbergh was not a fascist; he was an isolationist. His stated strategy to the coming war was that Hitler would eventually turn on Russia (he was right) and that Germany and Russia would grind each other down (also true: the total destruct
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    by patrickg_zill 8y ago

    I'd suggest looking at Morley Callaghan also.
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    by patrickg_zill 8y ago

    I don't deny that subways in NYC are an overall benefit, or that it can be tough to fully capture in numbers its usefulness. But somehow the money has to be paid back, or else there has to be a consensus that "we won't get th
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    by patrickg_zill 8y ago

    My math isn't off at all: NYC subway stats, 2016 5,655,755 (weekdays, 2016) 3,202,388 (Saturdays, 2016) 2,555,814 (Sundays, 2016) Stats include ALL riders including tourists and commuters etc. This when NYC population is ~8.5 million i
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    by patrickg_zill 8y ago

    Does Pascal allow a programmer to shoot themselves in the foot the way that C does? Does it have safer memory handling?
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    by patrickg_zill 8y ago

    Current population of NYC: 8 million or so? Figure that with your belief that NYC could handle more, let's say 2.5 times that, to get 20 million riders of the system. $100 billion / 20 million riders = $5000 in capital expense to
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    by patrickg_zill 8y ago

    New York state politics (and also New York city politics) are indeed, corrupt to the core. Do a search on "new york city political corruption" to see a selection of the scandals.
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    by patrickg_zill 8y ago

    Issues with the EULA aside, this could virtualize at full speed Mac OS 9 and OSX/ppc vms, isn't that correct? Power 9 is a superset of the earlier ISA.
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    by patrickg_zill 8y ago

    Any website from 1969 is probably a website that has some bugs in its date and time handling code...
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    by patrickg_zill 8y ago

    I've been saved a few times over the years by being able to "put hands" on the physical hard drives containing the data. Example: a RAID1 setup, 2 drives. The drives used were literally made one after the other: the serial nu
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    by patrickg_zill 8y ago

    My view: 1. Remove the popular election of senators, replaced with the original case of each state legislature appointing its own 2 senators. Decentralizes the money aspect, makes it more likely that senators will focus on what benefits t
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    by patrickg_zill 8y ago

    Occam's razor says that these are all run by the various agencies of the United States government... Any foreign embassy running one, has no right to radiate beyond the border of the embassy, where it is US soil and not foreign.
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    by patrickg_zill 8y ago

    The fundamental annoyance I have is not only Amazon's (apparently) preferential pricing, but the e-Packet from China pricing. As a consumer I can see the advantage to me, but it seems wildly unfair to Mouser / Digikey and the 1000
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    by patrickg_zill 8y ago

    There is still some intarsia, but it doesn't depend on spalted wood for color: it's painted or stained. e.g. https://foxchapelpublishing.com/big-book-of-intarsia-woodwor...
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    by patrickg_zill 8y ago

    Thanks for your addition to my post. Khrushchev built a lot but it was not a fully solved problem, based on your post. I am not Russian, have been to Russia, speak only a little bit of Russian. I think an AMA thread would be a very good ide
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    by patrickg_zill 8y ago

    I keep seeing parallels to the situation in USSR after WWII - there was a chronic lack of housing: some of the housing stock had been destroyed in WWII, there were new couples that were owed (by the state) housing, and of course the existin