patrickg_zill

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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
The first NeXT cube used.. The Motorola 68030.
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Lindbergh was excoriated for his position. However in retrospect he was more correct than he is given credit for.
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
My understanding is that real estate is not taxed in China, so it is used to park extra money or as investment. There are places in drug lord countries like Central and South America where e.g. condominium prices are $300,000 USD minimum, w
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
A government that has laws that require ID and a minimum age to purchase plastic knives? Same government?
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
Also Microcenter
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I have 2 of them, paid $10 plus tax . I visited a microcenter and they were $5 each, I and a friend of mine bought 1 each.
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
Thing is that before Windows this was the case. The sound card had its own Midi and sound effects chips, for example. Now reduced to one chip if that on the AC97 capable motherboard. The modems had their own discrete processor to handle th
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
Trusted Solaris had fine grained X Windows security. In the Year 2000... http://www.cse.psu.edu/~trj1/cse544-s10/slides/cse544-lec12-...
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
That a guy who is building the surveillance system for governments worldwide and who has serfdom-lite attitudes towards labor laws, is suddenly a sympathetic character on HN, is kind of surprising to me.
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
Bezos essentially got paid by the CIA to buy the WashPost ($600 million contract from the CIA, next thing you know, Bezos buys the paper). Let's not kid ourselves about his altruism - the purpose of owning a large paper like the Post i
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
There are phone switches that were made in 1982 that are still running phone service, including 911 calling, for mid-sized towns. And yes, postfix or Exim or qmail, once set up, in a fixed configuration like boat only email, could easily ru
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
Your statement is not supported by reality. As even a cursory web search easily shows.
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The yellow vest movement has been tragically under-covered by the US media. Perhaps they don't want the proles in the US to get any ideas...
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The benefits of this labor go to the private business, while the economic and social costs (education, healthcare including pregnancies the workers don't earn enough to pay for, so the state pays for it) are borne by others.
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I have been suspicious of Roth IRAs because I keep seeing sales taxes increase in the US and a push for something like a VAT. Which might negate most Roth savings (but not in this case).
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Buck Knives used to have a demonstration where their knives could be used to cut a bolt with a series of many light taps. But if you want to cut bolts in real life you should probably use a bolt cutter...
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Heinlein speculated about this in the book, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". Except they were family corporations that were multi-generational as well.
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Long ago I was a consultant for a large church. One of their IT guys got a call from the pastor, who was worried about being hacked... The IT guy had been working on the desktop and had left up a browser window. The pastor read the URL as E
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
Paywall in place for me?
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The Canadian government sponsored the development of the 5BX program, which is designed to give you a decent fitness level in 11 minutes per day. Have you ever tried this program?
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Corporate America Gets Ready to Monetize Climate Change(bloomberg.com)
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In the specific case of Leica, the company did raise their prices rather steeply. If he bought before then, his camera might have increased in value.
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Let us know your experience with going on an Israeli forum and saying the same thing re Jewish immigration. Then go to a Ghana forum and critique the right of return law for any black people who want to emigrate to Ghana.
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
I think part of the speed of APL is the way that parts of it are small enough to fit in L2 cache (at least 1 of the APL descended languages, Q / K, bragged about this). Whether the Go implementation seen here will fit in typical caches
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
Sometimes yes. It's not just DevOps but CVops :-)
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George Borjas has pointed out that: Wage trends over the past half-century suggest that a 10 percent increase in the number of workers with a particular set of skills probably lowers the wage of that group by at least 3 percent. Even after
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
There isn't any true difficulty; people are running multiple sites that could all fit into 1 dedicated 64gb RAM server from Hetzner on a different infrastructure that allows them to develop their resume...
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What Twitter is paying for and the level of service they receive from Google, is very different from the typical GCP pricing and service level that would be available for say, your company... Realistically, it can't be considered as
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What the article fails to tell you is precisely why the Janissary was a better soldier...since the training could have been applied to anyone. The fatalistic view of Allah being in charge extended to the trajectory of the fired weapon. Th
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
So pg&e will be bankrupted, on purpose, because of the law. Watch carefully and see who (cynical me says they will be politically connected) ends up with the newly debt free pieces of infrastructure. The power network and the rights of

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