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by repolfx 7y ago
No. What it's saying is that data based decisions are not always right and may in fact often be more wrong than an emotional decision. The argument can be found in much greater detail in the book "Wrong" by David Freedman: h
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by repolfx 7y ago
Yes but I imagine a lot of developers haven't. How many new projects are being started on a mainframe?
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Do you believe it's ever possible for anyone to genuinely disagree with leftist activism in good faith? It sounds a lot like the answer is no.
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It's amazing to me this is actually a debate. The US Constitution forbids people under 25 from being in Congress because children are not expected to have reasonable political opinions. They're children! They've never paid ta
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But there's nothing an 8 year old can do to be helpful for climate change. At 8 you don't even really understand what the climate is or how it's different from weather, let alone what CO2 or methane are. This appears to just
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by repolfx 7y ago
VPN.
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by repolfx 7y ago
Doesn't matter though. Azul is probably doomed. Does anyone pay IBM for a commercially enhanced JVM? I never heard of it. IBM might have some enterprise JVM, but they just bought Red Hat. Red Hat hired a bunch of former Sun/Oracle
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by repolfx 7y ago
Actually large parts are under the Universal Permissive License these days, which explicitly deals with patent grants. e.g. https://github.com/graalvm/graaljs/blob/master/LICENSE https://opens
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by repolfx 7y ago
Yes. This is Twitter's own implementation of the idea. It may not get accepted. The maintainer of Graal asked Twitter some tough questions about whether they'd really be maintaining it over the long run and how much it really help
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by repolfx 7y ago
ARM doesn't make CPUs, just designs for them which can of course easily be modified by any licensee. The chips themselves are usually made in Asia. So ARMs ownership is irrelevant to the issue of CPU back doors.
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by repolfx 7y ago
What convention? You mean stating what you believe and then providing arguments for it? I'm not sure why you believe a normal argumentation structure is somehow linked to PR firms. Do you have any actual rebuttals or, would you rather
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by repolfx 7y ago
The Withdrawal Agreement is worth studying in more detail. The EU is demanding terms that are infinitely worse than it has ever offered to any country. The UK is not being treated as a third country like a Japan or America. That would be fi
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by repolfx 7y ago
You overlooked the much more likely third option: I don't believe these claims are true. Most people supporting no deal don't believe they're true, and for valid reasons! Let's break it down. Loss of hundreds of thousand
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by repolfx 7y ago
A second referendum would be a terrible idea. It might have been theoretically defendable some years ago, if events had worked out differently. But what we've seen over the past 3.5 years is that there was already a referendum, and it&
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by repolfx 7y ago
In fact it was. It was a simple vote between leaving and remaining, with the exact details of both options being left undefined. Certainly our remainer establishment would have wasted no time in interpreting a Remain vote as permission to
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by repolfx 7y ago
In practice the EU's competition mechanisms aren't based on votes and the people have no influence over it. But people can choose who to do business with, as you observe. Apparently all those people's decisions added up led
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by repolfx 7y ago
You're assuming you can know (or rather, that a bureaucracy can know) what the 'correct' size for any given business is. Google is a medium sized company by many measures. There are companies with far more employees, offices,
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by repolfx 7y ago
Watch out for a scaling fallacy. If the Dutch are just as entrepreneurial as Americans, then there will be way more successful Americans and American companies because the USA is so much bigger. Ditto for China. You'd really need to ca
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by repolfx 7y ago
Would you be much happier if it was a normal room, but locked from the outside? I never saw anyone talking about "cages" until about a year or so ago. It seems the alternative of better accommodation isn't what people are dem
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by repolfx 7y ago
Are you talking about Twitter accounts here, or the influence of journalists? ;)
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Because that carrier group was testing technology that combines sensor data from all different vehicles by transmitting it between them to create a unified view. Can't recall if that was a known fact or theory, but it's an entirel
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by repolfx 7y ago
No? He seemed to know his stuff very well. He also studied the other videos and showed that the data on screen didn't really match the pilot testimony and some of the apparently impossible manoeuvres matched exactly what you'd exp
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by repolfx 7y ago
I meant in the sense that most newspapers and media outlets are pro EU. Yes, the few that aren't have higher circulation. You can't easily disentangle cause and effect there though: do people read these papers because they feel th
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by repolfx 7y ago
"The EU" means both the institutions and the whims of a handful of national leaders. Nothing about what it does has anything to do with the will of its people. Where is that even measured? The text of the Withdrawal Agreement was
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by repolfx 7y ago
Good explanation, thanks.
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Yeah, but most places don't have UPS at all. If Newcastle Airport can survive a power outage but other places cannot, why should it be prioritised?
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by repolfx 7y ago
Actually they are much better! Trump ran on an explicitly populist platform ("I listen to you, the elites don't") and Johnson is currently staring down the threat of a jail sentence because he's trying to actually leav
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by repolfx 7y ago
Yeah I found that part the most concerning. Basically RWE don't have any clue why they tripped even more than a month on from the event, and apparently have to wait for their next scheduled outage to make progress? That's not good
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by repolfx 7y ago
Also, 10 minute reboot time. And I thought Windows Update was bad! I've been on trains when they were obviously rebooting due to some sort of fault. It takes forever. What is the train doing during this time, exactly? Does every sub-co

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