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by rqebmm 11y ago
Can you provide a link to a good overview of his arguments? I'm interested but the wikipedia page is all about critical reception.
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by rqebmm 11y ago
True. I was using democratic as shorthand for democratic republic, but that does lose a bit of clarity.
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by rqebmm 11y ago
Except part of the point of a democratic society is to leave the hard decisions of state to a small group of people who are ideally best equipped to handle it. The intent is precisely for the public at large to NOT have to assess every minu
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by rqebmm 11y ago
Legal recourse is the substitute for the role of violence in dispute resolution, not the other way around.
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by rqebmm 11y ago
There are substantive parts to Trump's campaign?
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by rqebmm 11y ago
Not to mention those who advocate for free-market capitalism as a panacea, but don't acknowledge that violence is logical conclusion of the exploitation of a market without any regulation. That or they believe the Roman model of privat
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by rqebmm 11y ago
The police aren't spending money on military-grade gear, they're being gifted surplus from the military. It's a minor distinction, but it's the difference between "we spend too much on the defense industry" and
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by rqebmm 11y ago
what if the middle managers are phoning it in?
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by rqebmm 11y ago
> That's characterizing industry as the more advanced form of academia It's not a perfect analogy, but I think he was mostly trying to hit on the amateur/professional split.
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by rqebmm 11y ago
A corollary of "if it ain't broke don't fix it" is "if you can't read it don't refactor it." http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
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by rqebmm 11y ago
This came out a little while ago, but presaged the increasing understanding we have of the brain's lymphatic system.
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by rqebmm 11y ago
In the US, it depends on the state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recording_laws#One-p...
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by rqebmm 11y ago
In the article they mention that Kepler-438b is likely subject to extreme solar radiation during flares because it's so close to its star. That would make it poor candidate despite scoring high on the ESI scale.
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by rqebmm 11y ago
IT doesn't seem unreasonable to plan a project in stages, focusing on the most critical components in order, and only starting on the next once the first is ready. For instance with an airport you could build one terminal at a time. Ob
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Ususally titles are written not by the author, but by the editors, in order to be attention grabbing
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by rqebmm 11y ago
> Look at the map and tell me what other NATO bases you can use to dominate Middle-Eastern airspace I think this is precisely why there's been such a huge buildup of the airbase in Erbil. Granted, that wasn't a viable option a
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by rqebmm 11y ago
It's a fish-eat-fish world out there...
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by rqebmm 11y ago
http://map.norsecorp.com/ Cyberattacks originating from China is not a new variable
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by rqebmm 11y ago
When I was first learning, I googled everything. When I grew comfortable, I took pride in my ability to look up the reference docs myself and figure out the correct solution. When I grew comfortable with that, I googled everything because i
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by rqebmm 11y ago
No, but it will raise your XKEYSCORE profile! http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/07/31/xkeyscore...
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by rqebmm 11y ago
>States screwed up when they took the civil part of marriage and associated it with the ceremonial part in a church. Couldn't agree more. To me the correct answer is that the government should grant civil unions, and not recognize m
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by rqebmm 11y ago
> Even under the current system, at least the waste is symmetric. But it's never symmetric. Someone in HR spent time setting up the job posting and managing the process. Someone in management took the time to respond to HR and revie
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by rqebmm 11y ago
They don't pay you for the interview, but that usually costs the company several man-hours worth of work just for the time an applicant is on-site. Should applicants be reimbursing companies for failed interviews?
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by rqebmm 11y ago
I often see complaints on HN about the silliness of whiteboarding in programming interviews, would you whiteboarding to a take-home assignment? Are there constraints you would prefer on one or the other? What amount of time spent qualifying
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by rqebmm 11y ago
There's evidence[0] of other, possibly currently active, whistleblowers leaking documents from inside NSA. This database includes those leaked documents as well, as it mentions XKEYSCORE, which Snowden has said he did not leak. [0] htt
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by rqebmm 11y ago
Having used both on a few projects, including a JS frontend, my advice is: "Don't use protobufs if you don't have to". Protobufs can be much faster, and provide a strict schema, but it comes at the price of higher mainte
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by rqebmm 11y ago
> “If the question is, Are these valuations divorced from fundamentals? I think they are,” he said. > “There’s definitely some craziness and people overpaying” > “I think we’re in a period of overvaluation and frothiness” > &quo
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by rqebmm 11y ago
Can someone fill me in? It looks like there's a ton of backstory to this on popehat, but no good summary.
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by rqebmm 11y ago
There's no bad interview question, but there are certainly bad interview _processes_. We use a whiteboard session as the last step in the technical interview, and we're really not looking for someone to write functioning code, we&
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And even if it were, worldwide adoption will be measured in decades if it follows the current automobile aging curve

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