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by venus 13y ago
> I put a game into the system, and I can play within a minute, but it is a pared down version of the game while it installs With respect, what did you expect? To be able to play the full game before it is installed? > Oh, and if I wa
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by venus 13y ago
> 1.5 million requests a second, and holds trillions of “objects” My god. I used to think I was a bit of a rock star, with (rails) web sites exceeding 100 requests/second on my resume. 1.5 million requests per second ... I cannot ev
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by venus 13y ago
I don't understand this comment. What's "bad" about the movie? I think it works very well. Of course the characters say cheesy things sometimes, they're brainwashed kids acting macho. I always found the action compe
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by venus 13y ago
You're pretty dismissive, but I've read some pretty credible sources saying that exercise was quite the upset. You cannot possibly expect enemies to "follow rules" either. In a real war Blizzard wouldn't be able to
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by venus 13y ago
> Younger Japanese (age 40 and below) [..] understand that the social structures which served their parents and grandparents are keeping Japan held back and isolated I don't know where you're getting this from. Decline of those
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by venus 13y ago
> didn't think that his livelihood was worth backing up Came here to make this exact point. Not to kick someone who's already down, but for god's sake people: If you do not do backups, your data is ephemeral. There&#x27
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by venus 13y ago
There'd be a lot of people inside the FBI with knowledge. Proving it was an NSL recipient, let alone nailing down which one, would be difficult if not impossible in court. Snowden's leaked a whole lot more than any NSL recipient e
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by venus 13y ago
> “[W]e’re compelled by industry policies to revoke certs when we become aware that the private key has been communicated to a 3rd-party and thus could be used by that party to intercept and decrypt communications” This raises an interes
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by venus 13y ago
That's a very dangerous attitude. The availability heuristic is very real when determining attitudes and beliefs, especially at scale. When you hear something bad about company X - especially when it smacks of "dirt", as this
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by venus 13y ago
I don't know. I haven't seen these financials. But it's a frigging database, and not a particularly good one. A billion dollars!? Look, I'm not claiming to be omniscient. I'm sure they're smart people. But woul
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by venus 13y ago
Thank goodness for that! If there was, this development would be quite concerning.
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by venus 13y ago
Well let me be the first to say that I think that is an absolutely fucking crazy valuation and that MongoDB are either nuts or disingenuous for signing up for it. I would be astounded - astounded - if MongoDB generate even a tenth of that
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by venus 13y ago
I wonder if there is anyone who believes - really believes - it has not. The war on drugs is kind of this diorama encapsulation of everything that is wrong with our politics, media, and society.
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by venus 13y ago
That's a lovely straw man you're hacking to pieces there. No-one has said anything of the sort except you.
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by venus 13y ago
> they blew their budget harrassing children and illusionists about bunnies Blew their entire $155 billion budget on bunny inspections, did they? How many of their 100,000+ staff are bunny inspectors? All of them? Or just 90%? What a loa
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NettleBox 2. Virtual reality surface.(youtube.com)
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by venus 13y ago
UR says it best: > All subterfuges and evasions to the contrary, the basic economic problem faced by 20th-century governments (somewhat less in the 19C; far more in the 21C) is unemployment. The cause of unemployment is simple: in an in
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by venus 13y ago
Irony, you say? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism I agree with you, of course - Putin is by all accounts a monster, and he has no moral standing whatsoever. That doesn't mean he's wrong.
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by venus 13y ago
Hm. Well, I agree actually, and in fact it does have some media at least associated with articles, via the "wikimedia commons". I was more trying to illustrate that multimedia alone does not make a high quality resource, as proved
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by venus 13y ago
Like all MS concept videos, it's all very pretty but useless except for the most shallow kinds of collaboration - it's not so much promising any specific technology so much as a future in which you don't actually have to do
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by venus 13y ago
I don't really disagree with you but you're operating on the assumption that the Japanese Gov't will continue playing "the game". Bear in mind there is absolutely nothing stopping them simply declaring that they hav
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by venus 13y ago
> Japan is in the gutters and has a debt of 230% of GDP (twice of what Greece has) Greece's debt is to foreigners. In a foreign currency. Big, big, BIG difference. Japan can erase its debt with a stroke of a pen. So could have Greec
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by venus 13y ago
Not sure why you're making such a big deal about it. Misuse of loan words is common in many languages, not least Japanese. Why, not 3 hours ago I was talking to someone who is about to rent a マンション (mansion) in Tokyo. Needless to say i
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by venus 13y ago
Service sector workers are most likely casual (ie not permanent part or full time) and thus their minimum wage is AUD$20.30/hr [1] Tipping the scales further against America is that they are also fully covered by the national health in
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by venus 13y ago
So what? On my salaried job I sometimes have busy days, sometimes have quiet days. And? I imagine that if you abolished tips, then the service sector would be like all those other sectors without tips, or like all those service sectors in a
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by venus 13y ago
Don't understand this attitude at all. Tips are nothing but a demeaning way to tell low-status workers that the value of their time is arbitrary and their livelihood is always subject to whim. Do you tip your doctor? Do you tip anyone
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by venus 13y ago
Not for a while, but I've heard the same thing. Like Copenhagen I believe it is extremely intermingled with substance addiction problems, especially alcohol. It's a hard nut to crack, that's for sure.
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by venus 13y ago
I'd imagine the main reason is that SF is walkable - not only for the homeless themselves, but also for the targets of their begging activity. The weather is liveable, I suppose, but LA's is better - if that's all it was, the
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by venus 13y ago
From wikipedia: > In North America, Japanese instant noodles were imported starting in the 1970s bearing the name "ramen", causing the term "ramen" to be often used in North America to refer to instant noodles. So the
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by venus 13y ago
I'm no expert on Denmark but I bet that Copenhagen's homeless issues are a mix of lack of resources and a politically correct unwillingness to forcibly detain people who really should be placed into care (chronic alcoholism, menta

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