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by specialp 9y ago
I salute those that stand up for human rights for others, even when the oppression doesn't affect them. But then again, there is also nothing wrong with refusing to do something based on direct oppression to the person. You are right
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by specialp 9y ago
This reminds me of during the dot com boom. An analyst said that business to business sector is worth some huge amount of money, and B2B stocks started booming. So a janitorial supply company changed their name and their symbol to BTOB and
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by specialp 9y ago
Unfortunately that is what consumers are funding. There are a lot of compromises that decrease the longevity of the phone for a svelte sleek look. For instance phones made of metal and glass with no bezels that break on fall (phones are dro
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by specialp 9y ago
If you add up all those numbers you just gave besides the gold in the ground one, they add to exactly 187200. So no that is not gold in the ground. That is the estimated gold existing that has been mined. You may be reading the articles but
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by specialp 9y ago
I guess you didn't read the article you posted as evidence. In that article it says all the gold ever mined is 187,200 tons. Percentage of reserves != percentage of gold market. That would have the USA at ~5% and that is a country of 3
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by specialp 9y ago
"FUD" = Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt. That does not imply that spawning FUD means it is some sort of unfounded gossip. Customers should be fearful, uncertain, and doubtful of a completely unregulated company that acts as a bank of sor
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by specialp 9y ago
Yes I know a real person that works for MTA police but no he didn't make 130k, he made 195k. Go on seethroughny.net and look it up. Try to find MTA police NOT making over 130k. Keep in mind this also includes 20 yr retirement with stat
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by specialp 9y ago
There is absolutely no way any of this will replace the subway ever. All you need to do to see this is come to NYC when transit is on strike. The city is immobilized. There is nowhere in the USA that even approaches the density and mass tra
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The NYC subway system started as 3 organizations; only one of which was city owned. I am normally not for privatization but it is probably the only thing that can save the MTA. The NYT points out a lack of funding but really their funding h
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by specialp 9y ago
We've had this happen in our small onsite datacenter. A single phase out of the 3 changed waveform after a lightning strike on a utility pole. The power monitor to turn on the generator didn't see this a problem, but the UPS did.
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by specialp 9y ago
Google really needs to have a human contact that can be reachable for channels with a large amount of subscribers. Advertisers do provide Google with nearly all of their revenue, but then again so do content providers as Google provides nex
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Correction: If it is not resulting in you transferring more data from yourself or others to Google to profit off of, it is not going to stick around long. Google doesn't seem interested in running paid businesses besides advertising no
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by specialp 9y ago
Apple did not drop the floppy drive at the right time. They did in in 1998 which was at least 4 years before widely available USB flash drives. I remember every computer in the labs at school having a external floppy drive or even worse a Z
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by specialp 9y ago
I know it is very difficult for victims of such aggravated harassment to name "the guy", but it has to be done. If this man had gone up and punched her in the face, he would have been lead out in cuffs and everyone would know who
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by specialp 9y ago
Well the entire market is up over 3x since 2009. Also Ebay does indeed make a lot of money. The current P/E ratio is 5.6 which actually makes it a good value. Amazon is starting to struggle with the issue of fake or defective goods tha
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by specialp 9y ago
Well the American version of Donald Trump is not silenced as silencing people is not the American way. In short it doesn't matter who he is or what he does, we don't like big internet companies silencing people to appease censorin
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by specialp 9y ago
My brother got charged as a result this law as the police wanted information about one of his friends. It is enforced very selectively too. If you can swing it down very hard and it opens, it is a gravity knife and thus criminal possession
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by specialp 9y ago
There is another factor at play here: Rugby, Australian rules, and Gaelic league wear next to no equipment. The problem with American Football is the players are geared up with heavily padded helmets. This has the effect of turning heads in
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by specialp 9y ago
I used to work selling and maintaining instruments primarily to physician's offices. They were all 50k+. It depends on the tests being run, and what type of insurances the patients have. If they have good insurance that doesn't re
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by specialp 9y ago
I get what you are saying, but I think the author was not trying to do that. The example was meant to show the imperative approach which is not necessarily the best approach in Python either. They said so much in the paragraph before the ex
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by specialp 9y ago
I am a big Alex Honnold fan, but no matter how much your skill, free solo climbing will kill you one day. Alex Honnold is not the first free soloist, and won't be the last. He is great climber, and has no fear of heights it appears. Yo
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by specialp 9y ago
Outside magazine has a lot of very high quality long form articles. I ended up subscribing to them since they do not nag, and produce a great product. I want to support sites like theirs.
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by specialp 9y ago
Keep in mind that when LIGO was built at tremendous expense, gravitational waves were never conclusively detected, and just to get to this sensitivity it was a feat of engineering. It was unknown how long it would be or if they would ever d
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Third gravitational wave detected by LIGO(journals.aps.org)
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by specialp 9y ago
It is good to have healthy skepticism for new things. But I don't think k8s is just the "cool thing to do". Here's some reasons why running an enterprise on it is better than on bare VM metal: 1. Containers are a better
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by specialp 9y ago
Now in the USA as of 2012, banks cannot turn on overdraft protection on a debit card unless the customer requests. Prior to this they were taking your day's debits and applying the largest one first. So suppose you bought lunch for $10
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by specialp 9y ago
You can have email everywhere with IMAP and SMTP. Even phones. One thing that is difficult running your own mail server is assuring you do not get spam filtered for running on a cloud server netblock. I had to set up DKIM, DMARC and SPF. I
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by specialp 9y ago
It's not good that comments like this against the group think are voted down. I certainly do not want my wages to go down, and I am not sure yet that globalization is good in the long run. When equilibrium is reached, in a world with i
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by specialp 9y ago
Politicians made a decision to help the "free market" by making an exception to immigration rules with H1B visas. H1B visas were intended to address a shortage of highly skilled tech workers. They were not intended to supplant U
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by specialp 10y ago
The "a while back" qualifier here is important. Both Mesos and Kubernetes are relatively new projects in a rapidly moving space. FWIW we are running Kubernetes 1.4x with multiple redundant masters in production with no problems. W

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