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by thanatos_dem 7y ago
San Francisco needs to accept that you can’t declare entire neighborhoods historic. You need to be able tear things down to make taller buildings, bigger roads, more expansive public transit networks. But they refuse because of “historic s
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by thanatos_dem 7y ago
It’s a bit on the nose to see their robots.txt file state: > Disallow: taxfreedom
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
Where’s the $80B number coming from? From the sources I found (from 2017) GDP per capita is $52,536 (from Open Data Network), and population is 393,292 (US Census Bureau), giving a GDP of right around $20B. We’ve already spent 14 on it, and
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
As of 2017 Louisiana has a Balance of Payments of $17.7B, meaning they receive that much more in federal funding than they pay in taxes [1] I say it’s time to move people to somewhere above sea level and let NOLA return to being the river d
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
> Are you deeply uncomfortable with the thought of govt jailing you for literally doing nothing? Yes? I’d be concerned for anyone who isn’t. And to be clear... he didn’t crack it. I’ve run password hashes through rainbow tables for s
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
Well that’s quite a slippery slope... it’s going to be corporations vs citizens in a bidding war making all politicians multi millionaires? How about we go back to when politician wasn’t a full time job, and you barely got paid for it? Ma
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
I think the changes are reasonable, but the lack of historic support and the timeline of the changes are not. Java is deeply engrained in much of enterprise software, which is slow and difficult to change. The licensing change was not give
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
They had to take it into an alley and kill it, mafia style. More seriously, they probably means find ways to restructure packages and extract shared dependencies into subpackages to avoid cyclical dependencies.
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
ACH in the EU is generally same day. The US is super behind the times in that regard. The reason that it’s next day is that for most banks, the process of doing an ACH transfer is to effectively SFTP a file with the amount to transfer and
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
I have no sympathy for high frequency traders losing everything. So many more interesting and meaningful uses of computing than trying to build a system to-out cheat other systems in manipulating the global market for the express interest o
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
Restarting systems and cleaning up seem like jobs that can be/have been automated.
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
The problem isn’t having the train, it’s having permission to use the rails. Having worked at a railroad, I will say it’s comically easy to steal a train, for instance. They all have the same key, which is basically just a plastic rod. The
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
Is your argument that they don’t deal with finances or that they don’t use technology?
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
Isn’t that the point tho? It’s very confrontational and generalizing to say “your numbers are always wrong”. Instead, even if it’s a recurring pattern, stick to hard facts and actual examples you can point to. If there has been a history
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
Seems like Cobra is pretty well established in this space - https://github.com/spf13/cobra Tho admittedly it works in reverse; it generates the doc/help info rather than parsing it into an AST. It addresses the
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
I just started my blog (no content yet) and I spun up a Countly server on digital ocean. So far so good, and installing was super easy seeing as it had a pre-configured container you can deploy, but seeing as there haven’t really been visi
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
The concepts presented are good, but the grammar issues are very distracting from the content.
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
Yeah, we have some caching and retain metadata to avoid making more calls than we need to. It’s just frustrating that we need to keep this information around on our side to mitigate issues with the API that is central to their entire busine
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
<rant> I run a service that integrates with pager duty on behalf of our users, and man oh man did they make some poor design choices with their API. The most glaring one is their integration keys, which is how you trigger an alert. T
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
I use this premise as one of my architectural interview questions- design a voting system. Having asked it dozens of times, I’ve come to the conclusion that I don’t trust anyone to build a voting system. I like it as a question tho, since
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
In addition to the issues of vote buying described in other comments, you’re also amplifying the spoiler effect to a massive degree with a real time vote feed. Anyone in later time zones will be less incentivized to vote if they can see the
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
Could be a good application of hash chaining as it has existed since the 80’s. Block chains wouldn’t add much value over that here, however.
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
What does iOS Safari not support? It uses WebKit, so more or less full technical/js support, it has ad blockers, tracking prevention, a built in password manager that uses the iOS keychain... not sure what else I’d really want for we
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
We all do! Something something single payer. Edit: not sure why the downvotes, that’s the reality of things. If you want a more fully fleshed out thought, here you go: We would all contribute to the payment of expensive operations via tax
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
I feel like people go more crazy as a result of having kids than as a result of not having them.
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
Don’t you need to pay to unlock characters in Rainbow 6? Not sure that counts as cosmetic. Definitely seems like paywalling game content.
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
I didn’t make the comment to your original post, nor did I necessarily agree with it. I just thought it ironic that a comment (admittedly crudely) arguing that censorship is dangerous was immediately censored.
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
That child does things that are far too dangerous for not having parental supervision.
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
How do you find them? Are you going to start forcing everyone to log in to view videos? And forcing everyone with a google account to verify themselves as a genuine person, with personally identifiable information? Anonymity brings out th
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by thanatos_dem 8y ago
A bit irconic that this comment got immediately flagged and deleted... Edit: looks to be back now. Edit edit: gone again

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