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by repolfx 8y ago
Which conclusions, exactly? He claimed that writing the memo would put his career at risk because left wing opponents would attempt to purge him. In fact the memo wasn't even primarily about gender, it was about anti-conservative bias
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by repolfx 8y ago
The cost of firing Damore was much, much higher than that. It sent a message to the entire world that Google is staffed by extremists who systematically cannot be trusted to provide unbiased services or search results for anything involving
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by repolfx 8y ago
Damore clearly wanted an open and honest discussion, which is why he wrote so politely and provided citations for all his arguments. The resulting meltdown and repetitive lying about his memo just goes to show how right he is. Nobody has su
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by repolfx 8y ago
Engineering is a discipline that requires and rewards rigour. It isn't just travel budgets. Just compare how you do hiring vs those other departments, or how work is reviewed, or assigned, or performance measured. I bet you anything th
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by repolfx 8y ago
Clearly the French FinMin (Lagarde) didn't agree with you. But if the 'rules' a group of people agree to are such that they are thrown out the minute they become inconvenient, then the entire concept of a treaty or written la
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by repolfx 8y ago
The EU institutions invariably ignore treaties the moment they become problematic to the further progress of the EU project. It doesn't matter what the Maastrict treaty says - if the political will is there to print euros to bail out I
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by repolfx 8y ago
That's a very federalist viewpoint. Many Germans would undoubtably view it as a working political institution - that is, they don't want to have to bail out the Italians, they never agreed to that, and in fact insisted on budget c
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by repolfx 8y ago
Yes, I know the debt ceiling isn't in the constitution. My point is that when faced with a legal limit to borrowing Congress always voids it. It would have happened a long time ago if the restriction was constitutional in nature.
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by repolfx 8y ago
You don't ban making loans! You ban fractional reserve banking - the act of issuing currency not backed 1:1 by central bank money . All it takes to stop boom/bust is full reserve banking and abolition of central bankers. Very sim
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by repolfx 8y ago
It would just have been amended out. Look at the debt ceiling. You can't really stop a government from borrowing except by taking away the power to print money. Grab your popcorn and watch Italy a.k.a. "Greece: Part II" over
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by repolfx 8y ago
Hedonic adjustment as it's called and the weird games governments play over housing is a part of it, but not as impactful as you'd think (I looked into this some time ago). There's unfortunately a simple reason why costs like
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by repolfx 8y ago
Maybe. Or maybe it'll just cause frustration, resentment and denial when people realise the expensive degrees that were supposed to confer on them a superior intellect and lifestyle don't seem to have worked.
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by repolfx 8y ago
It's worse than that. Central bankers define 2% inflation as price stability . 2% isn't even stable, it's compounding, prices go up more every year than in the previous year, and CBs say they achieved "stability".
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by repolfx 8y ago
Good to know about the 0x00 trick. My point about metadata is that if protobufs had even a small amount of self description in them, the middlemen who weren't being updated could all have been found automatically and the version skew i
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by repolfx 8y ago
Maybe there's an amazing type system idea out there that would be even better, but I don't know what it is. Required and optional is just an encoding of nullability in the type system. This is a common feature in most modern lan
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by repolfx 8y ago
He meant "centralised in the serialisation library". I don't see how that conflicts with versioned evolution, especially because protobufs historically did verify the presence of fields. The story behind "required cons
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by repolfx 8y ago
No way! That's the response I least expected! :) I'm a huge fan of the work you did on Slashdot and Slashcode back in the day. It's still by far the best thought out moderation system I've seen. I'd love to see a mo
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by repolfx 8y ago
Graal does, but the JavaScript engine does not. And the main thing the commercial edition of Graal gives is just faster performance. You can run GraalJS without the commercial edition and even without Graal at all! (it acts as an interprete
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by repolfx 8y ago
Nashorn doesn't have a commercial edition and it's being deprecated in favour of GraalJS which is fully open source too. The JCK is also open source now I think. Reduce the age of the editions they'll help support - no, there
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by repolfx 8y ago
But the Chinese government is famously intolerant, and spreads misinformation and hate all the time (hate towards various groups, some of them ethnic some of them ideological). They consider silencing of various people to be good housekeepi
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by repolfx 8y ago
I don't think citing a random saying is a great way to rebut an argument, let alone support a claim of naivety. Here's another saying for you: you can fool some people all the time, and all the people some of the time, but you can
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by repolfx 8y ago
You could also see it as the inverse. Online we talk as we really are, saying what we really think, and thus the quality and depth of the discussion will inevitably be higher and deeper than in the 'real world' where we are faced
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by repolfx 8y ago
A lot of people are saying sand shortage, but surely weight savings matter more? If your building is 6x lighter your foundations can presumably be a lot cheaper?
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by repolfx 8y ago
It's pretty hard to do well. If you look at Graal, a lot of the cutting edge research work they've done is about how to do cross-language inlining and subsequent optimisations better. It's more of a function of the JIT compil
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by repolfx 8y ago
That's not the main benefit. The reason Google et al split services up into independent servers is for physical reasons. They have large datasets that don't fit on a single machine, so they have to shard the servers that handle it
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by repolfx 8y ago
Yes that claim is wrong, here's CNN admitting they ran a story that was totally false and aren't going to do anything about it, because it met their standard of two sources: https://theintercept.com/2017/12&
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by repolfx 8y ago
Great, some meat, let's meta-check the first fact check. This is useful because your citatation is a good example of misleading commentary that tries to make Breitbart look worse than it actually is (again, do not mistake this argument
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by repolfx 8y ago
Here's another discussion of the same Wikipedia problem of calling Bitcoin a ponzi scheme from 2012: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=123760.0 As you can see, people were arguing with some editor who kept sittin
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by repolfx 8y ago
I don't, not on the broad strokes anyway. I gather there's some controversy over ocean acidification in particular. But where did you get that idea from? My comment on another story pointing out how both sides of the political spe
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by repolfx 8y ago
Go read the set of stories published in the west about Russian hacking. Every story collapses when examined. Again, I cited Greenwald above, he was written about this extensively. The only reason you believe the outlets you named are "

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