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by sonthonax 3y ago
They tend to use the tools provided by Government Digital Services.
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by sonthonax 3y ago
> Why would anyone trade an EMP for all their cities? ICMBs were a theoretical threat. Cold War doctrine had a more realistic (and less apocalyptic) WWIII that would be fought by tactical nukes and tanks through Europe.
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by sonthonax 3y ago
Depends what you’re writing to be honest.
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by sonthonax 3y ago
It's a shell script that should be executable by any UNIX shell. Parsing it (rather than executing it) is why those questions are raised.
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by sonthonax 4y ago
Banks usually have a regulatory requirement to keep a portion of funds in the Federal Reserve.
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by sonthonax 4y ago
Sprinting has almost nothing to do with the slow plodding runs that a typical “I want to get fit type” does. Completely different energy systems, <90% anaerobic, and has a level of skill acquisition that distance running doesn’t have.
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by sonthonax 4y ago
What isn’t true about it?
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by sonthonax 4y ago
For best results distance runners should have a BMI on the lower end of the healthy range. If you’re serious about improving your performance over <1500m having a BMI of ~25 will be the biggest impediment. Not sure what the range is bu
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by sonthonax 4y ago
On a technical note, people underestimate the costs of horizontal scaling. The Silicon Valley world would do well to learn some things from finance. You’d never write a horizontally scaled order matching engine.
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by sonthonax 4y ago
I’ve always thought there’s something misguided about the legions of “want to get fit” types who self flagellate with long runs. Running is terrible exercise. Terrible because it’s extremely hard on the body unless you’re on the lower end
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by sonthonax 4y ago
I kinda like it. It’s easier to read margined text.
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by sonthonax 4y ago
Agriculture may be a small constituency, but you’d rather the food supply continues to flow.
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by sonthonax 4y ago
The majority of engineers understand basic SELECT and INSERT semantics. Correctly building queuing and caching systems on top of database concurrency primitives is an order of magnitude harder than just using RabbitMQ and Redis.
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by sonthonax 4y ago
Yes. Twitter is likely going to try to pivot towards being a crypto driven fintech. If he succeeds in turning Twitter into a P2P payments platform that holds custody of funds you get to be at ground zero in creating a digital bank with mil
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by sonthonax 4y ago
As a general consumer, the slowdown in the erosion of my earning power is welcome news. My gamma hedging hedging costs have never been lower.
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by sonthonax 4y ago
FCPA is such a stupid law. The universal way to bribe someone as an American is to pay them a absurd day rate for consulting. These people then have to be given fake roles when all they do is hand over money to corrupt officials. It just a
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by sonthonax 4y ago
There’s a distinction to be made between a small customary bribe to an seriously underpaid state employee, and a larcenous bribe to a high official.
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by sonthonax 4y ago
Furthermore it's not inaction, in order to starve someone to death you have to get a lawyer and a judge to sign the death warrant. Pretending this is ethical is palming off the moral responsibility to some medical-tech who refills the
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by sonthonax 4y ago
No, it’s petty minded high-school philosophy to pretend that starving a paraplegic is morally speaking better than euthanising them with morphine. There are endless things that distance this from the trolley problem, but mainly starving som
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by sonthonax 4y ago
Agreed. I don’t really know what problem these i18n tools solve that this doesn’t.
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by sonthonax 4y ago
Agreed, lots of things never need to be internationalised. Pretty much everything in institutional finance will never need it.
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by sonthonax 4y ago
> YouTube has a policy about not questioning the results of previous elections. Such an absurd and institutionally biased policy, the USA has on many occasions in the last decade vigorously endorsed the outcomes of clearly rigged electio
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by sonthonax 4y ago
Heart rate isn’t a good metric to be iron clad to. It’s far to variable as your stroke volume changes in response to: stimulants, sleep, stress, external heat, blood pressure, body temperature, and time spent running. For all of the fitness
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by sonthonax 4y ago
I bought a 120 year old Bechstein on the cheap a few years ago. It’s not in the best shape and the key action is a little bit fucked on some keys. It also has a wooden frame which means it’s liable to go out of tune faster than a more mod
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by sonthonax 4y ago
> Another classic is the “joins are slow” argument The only person I knew who died on that hill would insist on doing two queries to the database, and then would insist on doing a client side cartesian join.
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by sonthonax 4y ago
> Marathon running is quite hard on joints, with an increased incidence of osteoarthritis. Most marathon runners are terrible athletes who have terrible training goals and usually stop running due to self-inflicted soft tissue injury. T
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by sonthonax 4y ago
You know very well that healthy people live differently and end up subsidising the habits of others. Don’t be so lazy as to argue that a marathon runner makes comparable choices to an overweight layabout. It’s just not true that people’s li
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by sonthonax 4y ago
> My opinion is that we should reconsider the ethics around researching nutrition, because it's been an overall failure That just isn’t true. Advances in nutritional science have had a major impact. Vitamin C made transatlantic shi
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by sonthonax 4y ago
There’s plenty of money and plenty of ideological conviction to produce negative papers on animal products. It’s not like it’s a hard battle of numbers where the winner takes all in the battle for public opinion.
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by sonthonax 4y ago
How does it feel to subsidise those who make poor health choices?

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