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by sgift 8y ago
> Deploying jvm app/service is now even more complex than figuring out which version of node to use to run a service. > Is it supposed to be oracle java? Openjdk? Adoptopenjdk or one of a half dozen more? Which version of it? All
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by sgift 8y ago
> The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) is a non-profit organization and think tank[3] "that favors far lower immigration numbers and produces research to further those views."[4] Looks like the report in your second link is
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by sgift 8y ago
> It’s so obvious you shouldn’t need evidence. And that's how we end up with things like "obviously, we cannot have a climate change, I mean it's cold on the outside!!".
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by sgift 8y ago
Since "ever" is a very long time: Probably yes. Far more interesting: Will it be smarter in some areas that can be used for something? That already happened. AI is very smart for specific use cases and it is useful.
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by sgift 8y ago
> That being said you call it a health tool, and then say it produces stress, which has been documented as being extremely detrimental to health. The dose makes the poison. Not enough stress has been shown to be extremely detrimental to
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by sgift 8y ago
> a handful of flawed or limited studies Compared to the studies which have been done to support the current eating guidelines the studies on fasting have been wide and deep. Most current eating guidelines are based on a mix of "we
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by sgift 8y ago
> It would be one thing if the trend was clearly toward things getting worse because of climate change. But it's not so far. Someone tell Fiji, I'm sure they will be happy to hear that: https://unfccc.int/news&#
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by sgift 8y ago
"Code inflation" talks about programs expanding even when they already can do everything needed (e.g. true going from empty to 8k bytes). That's not the case here. These combinations didn't exist before, so the functiona
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by sgift 8y ago
Because in your world the only way to help people with depression are anti-depressants? Unlike the real world where people have various options (e.g. psychotherapy)?
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by sgift 8y ago
Most people don't, no. A very tiny subset of people in any given field do this.
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by sgift 8y ago
> by law required to be loyal to your company even if its doing illegal or unfair things > And I live in a country with relatively good employee laws. No, you don't. These two quotes cannot be true at the same time, especially fo
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by sgift 8y ago
> My insurance policy is about $600/year and covers up to 25 million(!!!) euro in 3rd party damages. Like, I'd need to crash into several Bugatti Chirons or a plane to actually exhaust my policy. Or one crash where you injure s
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by sgift 8y ago
As long as they are not found guilty naming them would equal to putting up the pillory. Always a bad idea.
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by sgift 8y ago
> I truly wonder how many innocent lives could be saved if military people would start writing honestly. People didn't die because of writing. They died because someone used the building to shoot at people and couldn't be flush
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by sgift 8y ago
> Nobody with options would take that deal. There are more than enough researchers and research which have no options, but are still valuable for society. Let the others be done commercially, more public money for those that really need
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by sgift 8y ago
I wonder that it didn't happen earlier. In the rush to get Chinese money western nations (and companies) ignored for a long time that China is a dictatorship. With all the things that entails. It looks like those things come now in sha
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by sgift 8y ago
They started to be competitors when they entered the streaming business: Hulu, Disneys new service, ..
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by sgift 8y ago
> Netflix is a great example. It went from having a large library because the producers were its friends, to entering production itself, and alienating its former partners. I always thought it's the other way around and Netflix was
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by sgift 8y ago
> Somewhere we went wrong Yes. The moment we brought up the chant of "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me". The brain can break the same way your legs or arms can and the "just tough it out&qu
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by sgift 8y ago
Protectionism implies non-foreign tech companies don't have to pay that tax. I don't see anyone suggesting that.
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by sgift 8y ago
> People talk to each other. They know about migrants’ rapes. 'Know' as in "I've heard that the Meyer has a brother who has a friend who has another friend and THEY have a sister who know someone that was once raped b
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by sgift 8y ago
Is that even (legally) possible as long as Canada and Japan are part of WTO?
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by sgift 8y ago
> Everybody is a photographer today Same as everybody is a programmer - I mean, everyone has a machine capable of it, right?
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by sgift 8y ago
> And, India got partitioned into 3 countries, all of which have spend insane amounts of resources fighting each other when that same could have been spent on economic development and other hostile neighbors of the unified India would ha
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by sgift 8y ago
Brendan Eich wasn't fired, he stepped down.
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by sgift 8y ago
> I have never seen a modern country that dares to host 9/11 terrorists, supports extremism ideologies, and openly fights countries that try to defeat terrorism. Then maybe you should get glasses. If you give me a map of the middle
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by sgift 8y ago
I wouldn't bet on it. The sound of horseshoes on anything hard is really loud. Also: Which horrible place has eighteen-wheelers driving in living areas? Carriages were everywhere.
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by sgift 8y ago
Comparing a city library with an extremely specialized institution which holds a Gutenberg bible or a Shakespeare first folio is ridiculous. These are separate institutions which only share the name library.
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by sgift 8y ago
> eg, wartime footing is capable of terrifying speed and precision. Wartime footing usually disables many of the checks and balances used by democracies in favor of "we have to go faster now".
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by sgift 8y ago
HR is the "no one ever gets fired for buying IBM" of hiring. Not really good, but minimizes risks for all involved.

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