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by strlen 13y ago
There are multiple factors that contribute, but here's a few that I haven't (to the best of my recollection) seen mentioned so far: tooling (crucial), "do the simplest thing that could possibly work" attitude brought abo
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by strlen 13y ago
I am all for closing Guantanamo (as well as stopping the horrible brutality in US prisons -- which is a much more pressing, but more "hidden" problem) but it's counter productive to compare US to a totalitarian regime. You ar
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by strlen 13y ago
Background/humblebrag: my brother was an officer in Soviet Strategic Missile Forces, a branch of the VVS (no, he didn't ride ICBMs like Dr. Strangelove, he programmed Forth instead). My father was in the Soviet equivalent of ROTC
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by strlen 13y ago
Problem is that a 5.56 automatic rifle isn't going to be helpful when the enemy is also coming with 5.56, 5.45, 7.62x39 automatic rifles (the choice of plutocracies), but in greater quantities and aided by helicopters, tanks, etc... A
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by strlen 13y ago
> This is the crux of the entire argument to me. The spirit of the second amendment is to allow the citizenry to violently overthrow the federal government if they become too powerful, as a last-resort measure. That's actually not t
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by strlen 13y ago
I don't think "pay enormous cost for a 20 year old firearm, get permission from the local law enforcement (which won't be granted to anyone in California who isn't a Hollywood producer), wait for the federal paper work f
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by strlen 13y ago
No, I don't think there are low crime rates for this reason. I have never implied this or stated this. In any case a comparison between Switzerland and US is bizarre -- there are far too many differences to idly (without multivariate a
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by strlen 13y ago
The Latin American states where the elites lives on hill-side housing, protected by guards and fences, all have fairly strict gun laws. They aren't going to let the poor arm themselves! While European gun laws are usually stricter than
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by strlen 13y ago
I see a lot of comments here talking about unfairness of this system, about how it would mean less motivation, etc... and general comments about wealth redistribution. First, this program would not create additional welfare dependants. Inst
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by strlen 13y ago
To be honest, I did hesitate to include Salazar in the same list as even Pinochet, much less Franco or Castro: it was never totalitarian or substantially fascist, less authoritarian than many regimes in Latin America, and certainly far les
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by strlen 13y ago
So here's a non-hypothetical question that I don't know the answer to: if Charles Murray was a Singaporean who tried to publish a popular book (as opposed to a purely academic paper, which was to be non-publicized and behind a pay
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by strlen 13y ago
Here's tl;dr Criticism of democracy as "mob rule" don't really apply to modern meaning of democracy. Absolute monarchy (or other types of absolute government) will -- in practice -- lead to far less actual liberty than w
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by strlen 13y ago
What I find quite ironic is that today in the British Common Wealth, the combination of an almost symbolic monarch, and parliamentary rule leads to -- in practice -- far less centralization of in the hands of the executive branch in compari
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by strlen 13y ago
Seems like a reaction (no pun intended) to a false dilemma: either unlimited direct democracy (majoritarianism) and equality of outcomes or unlimited monarchy and lack of what is termed "equality of liberty" (every individual is t
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by strlen 13y ago
This was pretty similar to (at least the buildings I worked in 2012-2013) Facebook Menlo Park: open space, but many of small side offices for coding/ad-hoc meetings/views. Personally, however, I'd prefer the reverse: offices
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by strlen 13y ago
> … that no employee below VP level can afford to live near. San Jose, Santa Clara, Campbell, and even parts of Cupertino and Sunnyvale are far more affordable than SF. This is especially so for couples and families. (Suburbia is a far
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by strlen 13y ago
Couple of things: 1) There are many lactose-free milk drinks -- from literally "lactose free milk" (milk with lactose removed) to any kind of kefir/yogurt like products. 2) Being lactose intolerant doesn't mean sudden de
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by strlen 13y ago
Not reactive at all, well put response to mostly confused posts (including my own). I think there was mis-understanding on what was meant by scaling -- web community took it to mean something very different from what you meant. Honestly thi
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by strlen 13y ago
This is a good intro for those (like me) who are unfamiliar: https://blogs.oracle.com/mysqlinnodb/entry/innodb_compressio... I know that a lot of work has been done on InnoDB compression, but I didn't quite g
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by strlen 13y ago
Those are perfectly fine reasons, but the stated reason had been scalability.
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by strlen 13y ago
This sounds counter-intuitive, but the best (from the technical angle) companies I worked at -- or know friends at -- are muddle the "internal enterprise tools" and "public facing applications" divide quite a bit, but
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by strlen 13y ago
Not to bikeshed, but what about Postgres makes the big scalability story any different than the MySQL story, unless you're talking about a commercial distributed RDBMS built on top of Postgres like EnterpriseDB? In terms of scalabili
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by strlen 13y ago
> I'm not actually a fan of functors; I think they obscure the flow of the code, in the same way as using inheritance in OO While functors aren't something to us every day, aren't they more of an equivalent to the Decorato
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by strlen 13y ago
I love OCaml as well, but haven't seen this before. It's interesting that libguestfs provides both object and module style interface and virt-builder seems to be using the object style: http://libguestfs.org/guestf
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by strlen 13y ago
s/const std::string* resource_hash/const std::string& resource_hash/
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by strlen 13y ago
Perhaps the Platonic Ideal of Hungarian notation, but most code bases I've dealt with that use Hungarian notation would simply do (not a real example, but reminiscent of Win32 sockets APIs): bool bRateLimitViolation(uint32_t ui32Co
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by strlen 13y ago
This is hugely myopic: reality is far more Stanford students are going to be joining Microsoft and other established companies (we're not even talking younger public companies like Facebook!) upon graduation than startups; those starti
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by strlen 13y ago
>> Where I grew up, the required high school curriculum includes a lot about ancient civilizations, creative writing, chemistry and physics, and algebra. It didn't teach how to write a persuasive proposal in a business context, s
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by strlen 13y ago
This was a very enlightening chapter in Modern Times. I truly enjoyed Johnson's work, despite his clear (if transparent) bias towards British colonialism. In general, private armies, political assassinations, and other forms of politic
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by strlen 13y ago
I wouldn't call places south of Mountain View and Palo Alto 'Peninsula'. San Mateo is an often overlooked option (not as cheap as SOMA, afaik) but in a way it means a commute both for folks coming from Cupertino/Sunnyv

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