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by thecabinet 12y ago
> The above shows the US East region in Ashburn, Virginia. It has five availability zones, and these are protected areas that are isolated from each other by a couple of kilometers ...
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by thecabinet 12y ago
I'm no Bitcoin expert, but from skimming the paper it seems that the way they were able to achieve this (being "trustless") was by adding new opcodes. You record your position and commitment to the wager in the blockchain, a
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by thecabinet 12y ago
Harvard's endowment is $36.4B: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University Stanford's endowment is $21.4B: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University NSA's budget is ~
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by thecabinet 12y ago
A fun game to play with any new battery charging press release is to figure out how hot the thing will be after charging. An iPhone 5 has a 5.45 Wh battery, which is approximately 20kJ. 70% of that is 14kJ. Charging a lithium-ion battery
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by thecabinet 12y ago
One of you missed the point. The reason ECC is suggested with ZFS is because all of the other features (RAIDZ and checksumming in particular) don't do any good if your data gets corrupted in memory. This is true for all filesystems,
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by thecabinet 12y ago
Instead of accusing people of racism, why I don't you try actually answering the question? "OMG, he said crack rather than meth, therefore racism!" So, what did all the bootleggers do? I don't have any idea, so I&#x27
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by thecabinet 13y ago
I don't do much writing for the web, but I do a lot of reading. For awhile I was using Evernote to save a snapshot of every (worthwhile) page I read, but once I had about 10,000 notes in my Evernote account it started to impair my abi
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by thecabinet 13y ago
This would be great if drink spiking was an actual problem, but the overwhelming evidence is that in most cases the victim simply drank too much alcohol and then blamed their subsequent problems on their drink being spiked. (Your drink bei
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by thecabinet 13y ago
Professionals!? You mean the guys who refuse to record interviews with suspects? Now what reason could they possibly have for refusing to record an interview...
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by thecabinet 13y ago
In the District Court of Maryland, minimum waiting time from arrest to trial is 4-6 weeks, and in major cases it can exceed a year. The only thing that eliminating bail will accomplish is further strengthening the power of the plea bargain
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by thecabinet 13y ago
The Hatch Act[1] restricts the ability of Executive branch employees to engage in partisan politics. The Smith Act[2] prohibited executive employees from advocating the overthrow of the US Government, although I think it's been found
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by thecabinet 14y ago
Bingo! An absolutely wonderful blog entry on the decline effect is http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/02/the_decline_effect_is...
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by thecabinet 15y ago
I'm a fellow Sodexho hater, but sorry, your argument isn't compelling. While you might not like their food, you clearly find its "value" (taste, convenience, etc) superior to the alternatives (bringing lunch, taking a longer lunch, hanging
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by thecabinet 15y ago
> So this post really resonated with me, because my thoughts have basically echoed this for awhile -- why isn't software engineering taught as a discipline that can let you implement and create, since that's exactly what it is? Because
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by thecabinet 15y ago
One thing I absolutely despise about the phrase "anti-intellectual" is the ambiguity about what it means. There was a great explanation of why people should be suspicious of "intellectuals" in an HN comment from a year ago: http://news.yc
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by thecabinet 15y ago
> I thought this article was pointing out how racial prejudice around 'athleticism and blacks' was out right false. That's what the article wants to do, but it doesn't succeed. We know that elite "black" athletes are the best. Maybe t
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by thecabinet 15y ago
It does seem very odd that there was no difference between high-quality and low-quality black candidates, but I'll guess at an explanation: employers are suspicious of black achievement because of affirmative action and similar programs. I
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by thecabinet 15y ago
Your text isn't resizeable (in Chrome, on Linux), which means I can't read the page, which means I can't care.
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by thecabinet 15y ago
This is my experience too. All the people who are members have no idea how useless the site is to the rest of us. The only time I ever visit Quora is by direct link from HN. It never comes up in search engine responses, and they have no
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by thecabinet 15y ago
If what you want to use Evernote for can be done in Notepad, then you might not be the right audience. Or you might not be thinking big enough. I've been using Evernote since very early, and it took me awhile to get it, too. I have a few
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by thecabinet 15y ago
This article is wrong about six different ways. Hell, he didn't even make it through the first sentence correctly: "... Google... are heading in a completely different direction than their core business, search." Search is not their busin
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by thecabinet 15y ago
What's your point? "You dont like something? Well I don't like somethig else!" Well, other than demonstrating you don't know what you're talking about? "Viagra" was originally developed to treat heart conditions. Human testing subseque
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by thecabinet 15y ago
Some of your complaints are definitely right. A lot of factory-mill certified Java programmers go crazy with XML, factory-pattern, and other enterprisey stuff. But there are two things I can't let slide: 1) Maven fixes a lot of the project
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by thecabinet 15y ago
Your phrasing of that statistic is misleading. What you mean is, "90% of Americans have used illegal drugs or used legal-drugs illegally." When you say "illegal drugs" people think of marijuana, heroin, cocaine, etc. Casually lumping in
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by thecabinet 15y ago
We use paper as money because a strong entity said they would accept those pieces of paper for tax payments. Rather than going to jail.
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by thecabinet 15y ago
I don't like it; I'll be sticking with Michael Grinich's "Hacker News", although it has plenty of faults too. In particular: * I don't like the threading. * I don't like the partial view of the comments.
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by thecabinet 16y ago
But that's just another government. What makes Brussels more likely to get it right than Paris?
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by thecabinet 16y ago
It's really difficult to take this sort of article seriously. Whether it's the talk of the top 1% "taking" (which is strange, because everything else in the article is trying to demonstrate ther undeservingness) or this: > While many o
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by thecabinet 16y ago
> the US no longer produces like before You're right about that, but not the way you meant: http://mercatus.org/publication/us-manufacturing-output-vs-j... The US produces twice what it did in 1975 using a third fewer people.
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by thecabinet 16y ago
| It clearly must be easy to outdo vodka distillers. Dave Arnold at the French Culinary managed to make extremely high-quality flavored vodka out of pure food-grade alcohol --- an industrial supply! --- for a couple bucks a gallon. So there

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