rswail

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by rswail 4y ago
Part of the problem there is "in the infrastructural sense". Architecture is not about infrastructure at all. Infrastructure provides the constraints that the design must accomodate within its functional and non-functional req
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by rswail 4y ago
Having just gone through that for the company I work for, a cloud based HSM that is compliant and attested for the key storage and an API around issuing/revoking/auditing certificates would cost a lot more. So you're not payi
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by rswail 4y ago
Sorry, it wasn't and isn't a "media narrative" that is relevant here. Neither is there anything related to the trope of the "MSM" or power of the FAANGS. There was obvious collusion and conspiracy to cause the
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by rswail 4y ago
By the force of their numbers occupying the seat of government and forcing the elected representatives and the chain of government (VP, Speaker, President of Senate) to be isolated. No one knew whether or not the rioters were armed or not
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by rswail 4y ago
The only way to stop this is via regulation. The mobile providers use public spectrum that they license from governments. Make it a condition of the license that they are only allowed to provide dumb pipes and PTSN services. It will reduce
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by rswail 4y ago
Speaking as a T2 diabetic that relies on Semaglutide, I'm really pissed that doctors are prescribing it "off label" for weight loss to the point that it is becoming difficult to get for its primary use.
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by rswail 4y ago
You mean Aotearoa?
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by rswail 4y ago
You can use ordinary USD (or any other fiat currencies) to "enable" stuff like assassinations and child abuse. All anonymous cash allows that to happen. That's why there are regulations and reporting of large cash transaction
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by rswail 4y ago
I like that the article had an error missing the space between "Reed-Solomon" and "error-correction". A bad subeditor, or an Easter Egg joke? :)
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by rswail 4y ago
BMW have always "nickel and dimed" purchasers on options. They're just extending that into the post-sale relationship. Cars are becoming part of a "mobility as a service", and like telcos and phones (in the non-US m
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by rswail 4y ago
I have an original copy of the Apple II manual somewhere, with the ROM listing and handwritten changes. Will have to dig it out.
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by rswail 4y ago
I'd really like issues porcelain that is built over git so that when I clone I get all of the project's history, as well as it being merged with pull requests etc. I hate that the github/lab hosting solutions end up with a ce
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by rswail 4y ago
Functional programming is actually mathematics based on lambda calculus. Imperative programming isn't. OOP is a failed metaphor, unless you use composition, not inheritance, even then, the actual basis for OOP was about the messages be
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by rswail 4y ago
When will people realize that "depositing" money somewhere is lending it to the people taking your "deposit". Regulated deposit taking institutions have rules on what they're allowed to do with that loaned money.
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by rswail 4y ago
For the sake of argument, assume that life does begin at conception. However murder is defined as taking the life of a human being . Conception is not a logical place to ascribe the beginning of a human being. As an example, is the loss
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by rswail 4y ago
> The right of the people to be secure in their persons ... against ... seizures, shall not be violated. By what power does the government enforce the seizure of a person's reproductive system and require it to be used to breed anot
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by rswail 4y ago
Maybe that rate of abortion, as it was in Soviet countries, is due to the lack of contraception and family planning in the US. That is tied to the structure of the health system. Why is it that people that want to outlaw abortion, and are w
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by rswail 4y ago
> Your job is to argue that abortion is not murder. Sure, and your job is to argue that abortion causes the death of a viable human life. Murder is defined as "the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another."
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by rswail 4y ago
But it is legal to kill women suffering sepsis from having to keep a fetus that has died without getting a D&C. It's legal to force a raped child to carry a pregnancy to term even if they will suffer lifetime damage or fatal inju
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by rswail 4y ago
- Resume screened by in-house recruiter Are they fully up to speed with what you really need, as opposed to box-ticking? (eg seniors might not have the official certifications and degrees, but they will have the years of experience)
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by rswail 4y ago
Agreed. They're nonsense. They either test irrelevant capabilities that anyone with Google and Stack Overflow can solve, or they are hoop-jumping for the sake of it. If you can't tell whether someone is just talking the talk or ac
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by rswail 4y ago
This is nonsense. Most Western nations fully respect IPR and patents. There is nothing wrong with patents "promoting the Arts and Sciences". The problem in the US is that your largest buyers (Medicare, Medicaid, VA, Tricare) aren&
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by rswail 4y ago
We didn't have conscription in WW1, but we did in WW2 and then "National Service" in the 50s. In the 60s there was a draft that had a "ball draw" every month with the date (a ball numbered from 1-28/30/31)
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by rswail 4y ago
You need to vote for people who have policies to increase tax on the rich. Government will pass climate change measures on to those that squeal the quietest. Globalization is not the cause of climate change, it's a natural effect of ec
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by rswail 4y ago
It's parents being lazy and demanding that the rest of the community accommodate their needs for bringing up their children, while abdicating any actual effort on their part. So instead of parents actually installing and/or config
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by rswail 4y ago
It's like the republicans on abortion, the last thing they want is to actually pass any legislation, because then they'll have lost an issue that they can use to rile up the dumbest side of their supporters, combining the best of
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by rswail 4y ago
Minor correction: iff |a| < |b| then round(|a|) < = round(|b|)
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by rswail 4y ago
There are numerous models: Single Payer: eg the NHS in UK. Single payer pays all costs and wages, care is free at the point of contact (GP/Specialist/Hospital), prescription prices capped for pharma approved by NICE. Scheduled Rei
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by rswail 4y ago
The UK/CA/AU/NZ all have similar models of an independent review of a drug's overall cost/benefit. In Australia, the Pharmaceutical Review Board reviews a drug for its cost/benefit and expects the pharma compan
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by rswail 4y ago
Under convention, a British MP that is convicted of a crime is expected to resign. No Prime Minister has ever been issued a fine or committed a crime before. Johnson (and the UK treasurer) were both issued a fine for disobeying the COVID re

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