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by pbourke 7y ago
Why is it not unconstitutional in the US to disenfranchise those with a criminal record who have served out their sentence?
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by pbourke 7y ago
I really don’t get articles like this. You can rent a fleet of computers for an hour for a few dollars. Your cellular phone is more powerful than the time-sharing systems of 25 years ago. There is pervasive wireless broadband internet avail
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by pbourke 7y ago
Oh you mean the era in which the personal computer was invented?
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by pbourke 7y ago
But you don’t need the same architecture replicated across two providers, as your parent post demonstrated. Run Postgres in DO and upload your backups to S3/Azure Storage. This is both cheap and simple to the level that any startup cou
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by pbourke 7y ago
Do you think that corporate America somehow wants this trade war? I think it would have preferred to stay in the TPP trade deal and operate under a predictable regulatory environment.
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by pbourke 7y ago
I wasn’t talking about the reliability of S3, but of your own systems. Say the outage results in a few million messages that need to be retried. Some subset of those few million will never succeed (aka they are “poisoned pills”). At the sam
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by pbourke 7y ago
Are you judging dogs by the standards of human behavior? It would be completely useless for a human to piss all over the place, but for a dog with orders of magnitude better sense of smell than people, that urine odor will linger and be pic
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by pbourke 7y ago
What happens when you need to retry the messages from a few minutes in the past because there was a transient failure in a downstream dependency?
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by pbourke 7y ago
> Big companies separate engineering from programming. I’m curious which companies you mean. Everywhere that I’ve seen, most people who write code are called engineers. TBH, it just seems like “developer” or “programmer” has been mostly
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by pbourke 7y ago
Do you think that the population of potential NBA players is determined solely by height?
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by pbourke 7y ago
There is a vast difference between being at the top of of the apparatus vs being enmeshed in it. A) The people you mention were essentially post scarcity long before they were household names. B) They had substantially more agency in their
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by pbourke 7y ago
Would you be willing to be treated by a Doctor without a medical license or be represented by an attorney who hasn’t taken or passed the bar exam?
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by pbourke 7y ago
Think of it this way: the “cost” to realize a net profit of $450 is a tax expense of $450. What if you could reinvest that full $900 so that next year your revenue and income are higher? High-growth businesses will optimize for reinvesting
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by pbourke 7y ago
The students in the article were taken advantage of. It sounds like nobody even got the chance to find out whether they would like or succeed at coding. So many responses in this thread are written from a middle/upper-middle class cont
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by pbourke 7y ago
How to make housing more affordable: 1) cut red tape 2) relax zoning requirements. Both are politically unpalatable, so around and around we go appropriating money that governments don’t even know what to do with.
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by pbourke 8y ago
> In my experience, people are usually promoted into management when they demonstrate leadership. Really? In my experience, people are often promoted into management when they demonstrate political ability. Often the people who I conside
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by pbourke 8y ago
This seemed to happen with Gord Downie of the Canadian band The Tragically Hip. He was given a diagnosis of terminal brain cancer, but had the energy for a cross-Canada tour a few months later. He was much loved across the country, and thou
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by pbourke 8y ago
The batteries thing was the 787, wasn’t it? At least I recall the ANA 787 fleet was grounded for a battery issue shortly after revenue service began.
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by pbourke 8y ago
It was reported a day or two ago that Trump had a phone call with the CEO of Boeing, with the result being continued operation. Then, Trump makes the announcement today about the grounding, seemingly to try to take some credit for it. It’s
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by pbourke 8y ago
> Everybody who bets against me gets my money in the case that I don't get cancer. That’s called universal healthcare.
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by pbourke 8y ago
This sounds similar to my journey with Python. For years, I used it as a go to for programs that were bigger than a bash script but smaller than an application or service. I mostly wrote single .py files with maybe the odd module and avoide
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by pbourke 8y ago
It helped that the Captain (I believe) was ex-military and an expert glider pilot. They landed at a mothballed RCAF base that was being used for drag racing. Amazing story.
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by pbourke 8y ago
> How much would insurance cost me per month in the US to make me covered so that I never had to worry about not being able to afford medications or a surgury? It’s not the right question. The reality is that you’d never be free from wor
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by pbourke 8y ago
I find it telling that this particular argument is only trotted out against the idea of universal health care. It’s not used in disagreement with military spending, subsidizing religious institutions, agricultural and land-use supports, etc
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by pbourke 8y ago
Wow - I can barely write an email or short reply such as this on my iPhone. Respect.
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by pbourke 8y ago
Please don’t make the claim that “both sides” are responsible for or prolonging this shutdown. The House passed a series of bills that are essentially the same as the ones given unanimous consent in the Senate last month in order to provide
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by pbourke 8y ago
In a normally functioning housing market (with a reasonable amount of inflation), wouldn’t this be the norm?
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by pbourke 8y ago
> The reality is that very few people want to live in that world I suppose I'm in the minority, but I would love to live in a world with fewer impaired drivers and senseless motor vehicle accidents.
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by pbourke 8y ago
I just went from i5-3750K to Ryzen 2700X and had a similar issue getting to the advertised memory frequency. Looks like it’s par for the course and will get sorted out in due time. I’m happy with the AMD CPU outside of that one problem.
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by pbourke 8y ago
Is there a descendent-in-spirit of PSP in active development nowadays?

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