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by sitharus 8y ago
Other DBMSs have similar typecasting to PostgreSQL, but they're all different. It's one of those things that never really standardised. Personally I like the breadth of different types available in PostgreSQL. First-class enums an
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by sitharus 8y ago
I've been watching lobste.rs for a couple of years and the content is generally excellent. I've never gotten around to getting an account though, just following the links is usually enlightening.
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by sitharus 8y ago
No, but drugs spend literal years in testing through various models and animal subjects before even being considered for years more of human trials. Then the benefits are weighed up against the known side-effects and if they stack up the dr
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by sitharus 8y ago
As another New Zealander with an investment property I thought the government closed the loss-making rental loophole s few years back. You can’t use rental losses to offset personal tax so why would you rent at a loss?
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by sitharus 8y ago
No they don’t, their tenants pay the property tax. I own a rental property in New Zealand (not out of choice, long story) and the rates are paid from the rent. I don’t chuck in the extra $120/month from my other income.
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by sitharus 8y ago
Through process verification. I don't know about other countries, but here in New Zealand elections are monitored by the Electoral Commission who employ people to watch every step of the process. In addition every political party is en
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by sitharus 8y ago
A counter argument to expanding popular votes, the reason for a representative democracy is so we _don’t_ have to vote on everything. If we’re electing representatives that we distrust so much we want to directly vote on more of the laws I
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by sitharus 8y ago
How easy? Are the offices open outside 9-5? Are they in areas easily accessible to everyone or only in the major cities?
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by sitharus 8y ago
No, a Ponzi scheme relies on recruiting new investors to pay out the old investors at the promised rate. This doesn't involve paying anyone out.
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by sitharus 8y ago
You really need to read it to get the full impact, but essentially Naomi agreed to Vice running a story on the condition that they don't mention her relationship or sexuality topics - topics that are not only very touchy in China but a
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by sitharus 8y ago
It happens all over the place. I haven't done it to QA but I've certainly done it to project managers, similar to this story: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/06/05/duck/
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by sitharus 8y ago
In New Zealand we have a similar network, EFTPOS. It’s not mandated by law and business could (but don’t) opt to only accept credit cards. However since it has no per-transaction fees for either party in most cases (some low-volume personal
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by sitharus 8y ago
Four years ago I bought a desktop gaming PC (I'm normally a Mac user) with the idea that I could upgrade it over the years to keep it current but avoid replacing the whole thing. Turns out in practice technology changes enough over tha
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by sitharus 8y ago
Often personal preference, especially when travelling through different countries. Canada has vastly different preferences in deodorant style and scents to New Zealand for example. Also different countries have different brand names (eg Lyn
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by sitharus 8y ago
It's not a big deal for most affluent well educated people (I live 18,456km from my birthplace and most of my family), but according to a 2015 study only 20% of Americans live more than a few hours drive from their parents and most liv
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by sitharus 8y ago
Use any database enough and you'll find weird table corruption bugs. I've seen them in MySQL and MSSQL in my professional career. Fortunately in both cases it was caught before there was an unrecoverable issue, but it happens. I&#
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by sitharus 8y ago
To be fair to objc_msgSend it's orders of magnitude faster than most reflection APIs. https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/performance-comparisons-of-co... has some benchmarks, it's a bit old but I don't think
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by sitharus 8y ago
Yes, most developers did save a copy but there often there was little thought to proper archive storage. This means the media degraded in storage, lost during moves or thrown out accidentally. For an example see this story about Prince of P
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by sitharus 8y ago
No, it still has springs as I understand it. However the dampers are replaced with some sort of linear actuator so the degree of damping and even the position of the suspension can be controlled. If there were no springs it'd bottom ou
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by sitharus 8y ago
Assuming that's true do you think that removing other countries ability to bulk purchase drugs would cause the prices in the US to actually drop? Also given a capitalistic marketplace you'd think US drug consumers would also band
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by sitharus 8y ago
You can quite easily. Meat from a natural-death cow will be tougher - age and movement makes muscles fibres stronger. Also a dairy cow will be much leaner than beef cattle, a consequence of much energy going to milk production instead of fa
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by sitharus 8y ago
You are correct, if you have no need to add additional servers or scale the platform, have predictable bandwidth and storage requirements, and your sysadmins don't mind patching all the base OS instead of just rolling new VMs. However
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by sitharus 8y ago
Agreed. At my job we've integrated all the tools. Developers have to put the ticket number in the commit manually, but then the tooling will attach the commit to the ticket automatically. There's also a bot that checks what you&#x
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by sitharus 8y ago
Not in China! In China you typically need to present ID for all travellers to buy a ticket, at least on the new high speed services that are mentioned in the article. When I was there 15 years ago you needed ID for all regional services, th
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by sitharus 8y ago
Just reading or were you writing to the SD card? Flash memory gets hot during write cycles.
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by sitharus 8y ago
That’s correct for milk-based drinks, they often have a ‘stabiliser’ added to improve the texture - often xanthan or guar gums - to make them feel creamier and keep the additives in suspension. In ice cream other gums are used to trap air i
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by sitharus 8y ago
Correct, there's no such thing as grain-fed dairy in NZ, though you can get some grain-finished beef. Dairy cows are supplemented with palm kernel cake though which has some controversy around it.
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by sitharus 8y ago
I can't comment on what the US allows, but the normal process of standardising and homogenising doesn't involve any additives. The fats and a liquid known as permeate are separated from the milk via centrifuges and filters. Then t
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by sitharus 8y ago
The article suggests the end payment is around $3,000 after insurance, which is still more than the ~US$2,000 + 500/night you’d pay for a non-resident birth where I live. I’d be free if you were a resident, unless you want a premium ro
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by sitharus 9y ago
From observing non-techy people it's because of intent. When you go to YouTube or Pandora or whatever you intend to make your phone make noise. When you follow a random link from your Facebook news feed on to an unknown website with

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