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by vacri 9y ago
1. Hardly fair, considering that Postgres JSONB is only 2.5 years old, and the marketing fanfare around Mongo had largely petered out at that point. I've been involved in three companies which use mongo, and all of them selected it bef
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by vacri 9y ago
You chide others for buying into some western myths about north korea, then buy straight back into them yourself. As a simple example, Wikipedia has a list of 122 merchant ships registered in North Korea[1]. Do you really think that these s
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by vacri 9y ago
> I think this is more mythology that the silly westerners believe. ... > Plus who gets let out of the country. Bomb makers?
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by vacri 9y ago
Surely the SK government would be interested in employing an ex-NK sysadmin, who will have intimate knowledge of NK networks?
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by vacri 9y ago
I wouldn't go to a $1200/day developer for a slackbot... it's not like a slackbot is going to be central business logic, almost by definition.
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by vacri 9y ago
'Staying within the lines' is why game theory doesn't actually work as a good predictor of human behaviour.
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by vacri 9y ago
What happens when the things you enjoy doing either aren't financially supportive, or you're not good enough at them to compete for work where they are financially supportive? Like drinking beer, playing video games, and jogging?
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by vacri 9y ago
> [I] am rather ambivalent towards the touch bar. Enough of the hard sell, take my money!
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by vacri 9y ago
> down and searching the yellow pages for data recovery services. Back when I was a medical tech, we lost a hard drive with patient data on it. I ran a chkdsk with no luck, and out of ideas, called a data recovery company. They stated
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by vacri 9y ago
You certainly get a lot more bang for your protestor buck when you're able to show the politicians that their own electorate is against issue X.
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by vacri 9y ago
> The author conflates networking with shameless self-shilling. I found the same. Cold-calling and party tricks (like dropping businesscards into bags) is not 'networking'. It's one aspect of it, yes, but a minor one. No
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by vacri 9y ago
I had trouble figuring that out as well. Maybe it's "total wins proportion-out-of-100"? It seems to scale with the absolute count. If it is that, then it's a terrible name.
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by vacri 9y ago
Primary industries have a lot more political clout than environmental protection. Primary industries generate tax dollars for the government; conservation consumes it.
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by vacri 9y ago
The Nazi economy was ticking over through the means of confiscating wealth from people, and later on, through just straight-up murdering them from it. It wasn't 'very productive', it was short-term gains with no long-term sus
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by vacri 9y ago
I think it's better described as "largest population growth in areas with no pension". When the only way to provide for your old age is to live with your children, you have significant reason to have several.
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by vacri 9y ago
"I got rear-ended once in fine conditions" != "I pass 2-3 rear-ends on my commute every day "
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by vacri 9y ago
Surely 'speed-adaptive cruise control' is an oxymoron?
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by vacri 9y ago
Weight photos differently to js?
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by vacri 9y ago
It's not a prisoner's dilemma at all. There are plenty of humans trying to change, and several countries. Herein lies the problem with game theory - it reduces human behaviour to absurdly simplistic levels.
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by vacri 9y ago
My first car was a beaten-up old hunk of junk. I knew it was time to get rid of it when I realised that every time before I drove it, I was planning my route so that I'd be least inconvenienced if it broke down at any point along that
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by vacri 9y ago
> Students who now go to schools who do nothing for them and have no chance of paying their loans -- or spend most of their adult life trying to -- would be dissuaded from making that incorrect financial choice. The feedback loop for th
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by vacri 9y ago
Kiwiland is further from mainland Asia than pretty much anywhere else is, excluding the Americas. I'd go for Oceania, and throw Australia in there as well.
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by vacri 9y ago
However it's true - anti-regulation types don't care about regulation in their favour. For example, look at patents or copyright.
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by vacri 9y ago
I don't fear libertarians, I just find them juvenile and annoying. Stop projecting. My point about re-reading my comment was that you were accusing me of the very thing that I said people other than libertarians care about. This is why
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by vacri 9y ago
Well, one issue is that any employee with customer contact generally has to be available for business hours. I can't imagine a sales or support issue being dealt with in the manner of "Sorry, you'll need to contact us between
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by vacri 9y ago
Perhaps you should re-read the last sentence in my comment.
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by vacri 9y ago
In my own experience driving for a little while around the Four Corners area in the desert, there were more than a few spots where the only option was NPR, because all other stations on the dial were glassy-eyed christian proselytising,
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by vacri 9y ago
Limited government, except for the massive expansion of the court system, so that everything can be decided post-facto in the courts rather than beforehand with regulations.
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by vacri 9y ago
Libertarianism is, at its core, an ethos where skilled people with in-demand skills get to keep all their stuff and pretend that their wealth has nothing to do with other people's inputs. If you want to keep all your stuff, libertarian
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by vacri 9y ago
There is absolutely no way that money went from Google to Nabisco on this one. The Nabisco marketing department would be crying tears of joy at landing this coup.

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