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by vacri 9y ago
Meh, public transport also sucks. I have a daily commute a bit over an hour each way on a tram. I'm near the end of my line, so I'm 'lucky' enough to get a seat for that time. I'm not the one who gets squished in du
842.
by vacri 9y ago
'easy win' = the people in the area die more slowly rather than in the initial blast? Apart from the now-radioactive work centers (that are the wealth of your country), take out your city centers and industry, and you also take ou
843.
by vacri 9y ago
It is a shitty shortener - www.google.com gets shortened to a link that points at wwww.google.com.
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by vacri 9y ago
If you're not familiar with linux much, the best distros to start with are the ones with the largest communities. That means more support for edge-case stuff. If you've used Debian before, stick with it. Your system's specs a
845.
by vacri 9y ago
Well, taking away the implicit rules, the limit becomes simply "the tallest structure we can build with current technology". For example, put the four Lego pieces on top of the Eiffel Tower, and you've now created a structure
846.
by vacri 9y ago
> with their longest edges aligned Longest axes aligned. Longest edges is not the maximum. The article's final solution uses a long axis rather than an edge.
847.
by vacri 9y ago
Sure, but you also don't need a big NAT Gateway if you're doing the majority of your external chatter via an ELB. Our setup is basically production load goes through an ELB, and incidental traffic goes through the default route (t
848.
by vacri 9y ago
Annoyingly, the VPC NAT Gateway is more expensive than running your own nat instance. If your traffic is low enough to be handled by a t2.small or lower, it's cheaper to run your own. Most of my NATs are nanos or micros. AWS also doubl
849.
by vacri 9y ago
They return home after a brief period.
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by vacri 9y ago
I think most people who want to live off-planet have a very romanticised notion of what that entails. Mars isn't going to be terraformed within our lifetimes, even if it was possible. Living on Mars = living permanently in a tunnel.
851.
by vacri 9y ago
Embiggen the pyramid a little.
852.
by vacri 9y ago
> Anders Breivik isn't the best case for setting a precedence, as far as I could read the ruling was grounded in the fact that he was dangerous and that other prisoners would be a danger to him. Norway has civil law rather than co
853.
by vacri 9y ago
My point is more that systemd makes less sense if you think of it as just init. "Why does init need to manage -foo-?" is a valid question. But "Why does a general 'system daemon' need to manage -foo-?" tends to
854.
by vacri 9y ago
How is the package manager for a language still iterating through major versions and making breaking changes nearly a decade after launch? Node is bizarre in that you have to follow its package manager so closely.
855.
by vacri 9y ago
Systemd is a lot more than just init. It also manages user auth, udev, time, syslog, and a few other things.
856.
by vacri 9y ago
> but there's no arguing that it's a steep price to pay. What's so steep about it? It's marginally higher than the industry average. Some other members of industry will be higher than that average as well. The numbe
857.
by vacri 9y ago
The real problem is not that Firefox has issues, but that it's a small enough market share now that more and more web services can get away with not bothering to test on it.
858.
by vacri 9y ago
We still don't have the android maids that are past due, either. We've got a robot that does the vacuuming, and recently it was counted a major success to have a robot that could merely fold clothes (and only that). I don't
859.
by vacri 9y ago
The only bit of the book Superintelligence that I liked was the historical bit at the start, where it described the problem AI researchers have: as soon as they achieve a milestone in AI, the goalposts shift and that milestone is no longe
860.
by vacri 9y ago
I'm still waiting on our flying cars that we were supposed to be commuting in. And our free beamed energy.
861.
by vacri 9y ago
If we can recover hieroglyphics from the single fragment that is the rosetta stone, than any future civilisation capable of interpreting a 'rosetta stone' will do just fine given the monstrous amount of hardcopy literature we leav
862.
by vacri 9y ago
Can you negotiate a small sabbatical early in that period?
863.
by vacri 9y ago
> No stress I've had my share of these jobs as well, and they pay terribly. Living hand-to-mouth is a stress in itself. And I had zero dependents. Being a founder is exceptionally stressful, but don't overcompensate and prete
864.
by vacri 9y ago
And yet you still choose to be a programmer rather than a cargo handler? It's not just the physical toll as to why unskilled labour jobs suck.
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by vacri 9y ago
Vanuatu has what libertarians claim they want: no income tax; small government; happy people. The 800-strong army doubles as the police force. Not much in the way of government services, so the libertarian can pay all they want for their ow
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by vacri 9y ago
There'll be more Australians around, fleeing our economy when it tanks in response...
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by vacri 9y ago
It's almost like transport is a mature industry, with lots of competition, decades if not centuries of research on cost reduction, and running on thin margins!
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by vacri 9y ago
The money comes from US consumers, but doesn't go back to them. The circle is not complete.
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by vacri 9y ago
How Deep South are we talking? The first and second nations in the world to introduce minimum wage laws (New Zealand and Australia, both are pretty South) weren't ever slave states, about 40 years before the US caught on. It was introd
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by vacri 9y ago
> The first version of something is rarely the best version, and while the US constitution The US is not the first democracy or democracy-style entity. The US constitution was certainly something interesting and with new stuff for its

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