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by tcbawo 10y ago
And, which version(s) of the Kafka protocol?
902.
by tcbawo 10y ago
The biggest benefit IMHO would be from making this a pluggable service within the Kafka client and server. Then, you're not tied into ZooKeeper explicitly.
903.
by tcbawo 10y ago
Since reading through the source of the Kafka server (and several client implementations), I've been intrigued by the idea of reimplementation using cooperative multitasking. Kafka clients tend to be very resource intensive. It would
904.
by tcbawo 10y ago
Just wait until Twitter starts selling first access to tweets.
905.
by tcbawo 10y ago
I agree. I just think that the phrase "entirely victimless" is a little strong for most types of drug use.
906.
by tcbawo 10y ago
There is often collateral damage among family (children!), friends, and coworkers of addicts. Complications caused by prenatal drug/alcohol use are also well documented.
907.
by tcbawo 10y ago
I read this recently: Drug wholesalers shipped 780 million prescription painkillers to West Virginia over a six-year period. In a state of 1.84 million residents, the shipments amount to 433 pain pills for every man, woman and child in West
908.
by tcbawo 10y ago
The long time horizon to recover from any disaster is scary. Chernobyl (clearly inadequate safety planning) aside, is there any reason to believe that a Fukushima-type disaster would not be possible (or inevitable)?
909.
by tcbawo 10y ago
I'm loving Win10 with WSL and Mintty on my Lenovo X1 Carbon. A few glitches here and there, but the touch interface is intuitive, battery life is good, and reasonable driver support. I've also been quite happy with Linux VMs mana
910.
by tcbawo 10y ago
Another article by this author ( http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/8/a-utah-republica... ) describes a rejected federal proposal to hand over most federal infrastructure dollars to states, the impl
911.
by tcbawo 10y ago
Looking at the data in his spreadsheet, I think he has the models and build times switched.
912.
by tcbawo 10y ago
Calling with 46 arguments seems to move this onto the stack: https://godbolt.org/g/tbKtGz
913.
by tcbawo 10y ago
The biggest cost gains have probably been realized, especially given the reduction in long term obligations (pension, healthcare, weakened union position). I could see another round or two of automation, but at some point it's not wor
914.
by tcbawo 10y ago
Of course overflow and rounding error must be accounted for in your data type. Exchanges have price boundaries, price quanta, or risk boundaries that would guide this decision. My point is that you would not rule out a data type for tradi
915.
by tcbawo 10y ago
My impression is that Python 3 finally has critical mass. After 3.5, most of the heavy users I know have switched or are considering switching.
916.
by tcbawo 10y ago
A large swath of the finance industry (especially trading) is concerned with optimal speed, not outlier edge cases. They would rather ignore pathological cases like the Zimbabwean currency than sacrifice performance.
917.
by tcbawo 10y ago
Once productivity increases through bio hacking becomes possible, we may see the day when hacking yourself to be competitive for employment becomes an ethical problem.
918.
by tcbawo 10y ago
Do research methodologies exist that can document subtle personality changes? This seems highly subjective.
919.
by tcbawo 10y ago
Another approach gives each element a 'data ready' flag (ie the real element type inherits from T). This flag is set by a producer and cleared by the consumer. This would give you an empty/full indication.
920.
by tcbawo 10y ago
Also surprising that Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and Pittsburgh aren't in the list.
921.
by tcbawo 10y ago
I hope that we see technology and analysis used to improve outcomes rather than to screen or filter the customer pool. I worry that this will happen without protections in place.
922.
by tcbawo 10y ago
Related to health care which was discussed in that other thread, it will be interesting what happens in medicine as AI software begins to take on functions of patient diagnosis. Will it reduce the cost of health care? Or, will the likely
923.
by tcbawo 10y ago
I believe that objects of namedtuple have less runtime overhead than a class. Guido seems to point out that the process of instantiating a namedtuple class is expensive.
924.
by tcbawo 10y ago
Perhaps a Copy On Write scheme could work?
925.
by tcbawo 10y ago
Some have argued that skilled labor actually benefits the most from a minimum wage increase (can't find a citation offhand). This is caused by wage inflation as employers must increase compensation to retain workers. I'm trying t
926.
by tcbawo 10y ago
Honest question: how could you prevent foreign financing of religious institutions? What would that look like? That seems like a difficult thing to prevent without affecting charities and 'good' institutions (eg. the Catholic chu
927.
by tcbawo 10y ago
We've lost long-form and investigative journalism as a counter-balance, but we've gained ubiquitous surveillance and crowd-sourcing social media. Traditional corruption is much easier to see. "White collar" corruption
928.
by tcbawo 10y ago
I had heard that the mortgage deduction was designed to incentivize the population to settle down. A population that is settled is more invested in the community, less likely to cause trouble, and more likely to pay taxes. Although, in to
929.
by tcbawo 10y ago
I had high hopes for Everyblock, the hyper-local social network (almost a geographic form of Facebook). Besides user-generated content, it aggregated much public information (permit applications, police reports, etc.). It was initially de
930.
by tcbawo 10y ago
Better (yet scarier) would be curated content. I would love for someone to filter the firehose of information, but I don't want to live in an echo chamber. I don't want a feed that tries to hide opinions or facts I disagree with

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