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What Montezuma's Aztec Sounded Like – And How We Know(youtube.com)
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by virmundi 10y ago
Actually for the small town I'm in, muggings occur at night between 12 AM and 3AM. My office is down an unlit blind alley. As a result I carry a flashlight and a gun. Should be fairly good at defense. Also train to draw quickly for bo
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by virmundi 10y ago
Better enforcement is a good idea. Seems to be worth the money. Or carry concealed permits. You'll have to repeal California's action that requires all new semi-auto's to have a unique firing pin. But then you don't have
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by virmundi 10y ago
Look at the US. We have a surveillance State. The US government keeps tabs on everyone. Do they care? Probably not, but you have a file. The British won't allow locking blades. They too have a surveillance farther along than the US&#x2
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by virmundi 10y ago
Christianity is even odder than that, comparatively to the pretty much every other philosophy. You only need to repent (not that it's a small thing). That's it. The story of the prodigal son shows this. Total fuck up son gets acce
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by virmundi 10y ago
I believe we're seeing the systematic destruction of human rights in the West. Many governments from former British colonies desire a centralized economy. They want to watch their citizenry. As we dismantle the West, it will look more
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by virmundi 10y ago
As an abstract statement, I can only agree. In reality, modern compilers can do some incrementally. So when you make a change in file A, the compiler will only change things dependent on A. In practice this chains a small number of file rec
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by virmundi 10y ago
I've disabled swap on MacOS. Works fine with just 16 GB. That's with Spring STS and at least one 2GB virtualbox for running ArangoDB. I do use Safari so it uses less memory than Chrome. I shut it off because, in my opinion, OSX is
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by virmundi 10y ago
I have issues with the Emulator due to needing virtualbox to run my ArangoDB instance. So I moved to just running Android as a VM instance within VirtualBox. The end result is a fairly nice setup. Edit, here's a good source for an imag
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by virmundi 10y ago
We've come a long way in 10 years. This company was recently discussed on HN https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-06/silicon-v...
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by virmundi 10y ago
Fair enough. What I meant is that they will shovel funds into the markets in order to actually make money. The best way to do this is to have a higher risk approach plus no human traders.
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by virmundi 10y ago
Is value created by labor necessarily the only way to create value? Can labor by itself cost $10, I pay out $10, but when I combine that labor (a largely undirected force) with thought (scheduling, order placement, etc) I get a multiplier o
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by virmundi 10y ago
I am curious if they are going to make an AI hedge fund. This is how insurance companies make money. If they can create money without having to pay traders and analysts, it just might work.
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by virmundi 10y ago
It's nice to see that The Atlantic caught up with Thomas Jefferson [1], "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. " The question now before us is can we live with the ine
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by virmundi 10y ago
Yes. Take Andrew Carnegie as an example [1]. The dream is that you can eventually, through work and luck, make it big. You can also do the same to make i comfortable. For the most part that is still around. What we're seeing now is a c
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by virmundi 10y ago
The thumb, in this scale metaphor, is requiring an Apple computer to create software for the iPhone. From what I've seen, there is little to correct this. Even remoting into a Mac Mini won't help, it just makes things harder. So i
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by virmundi 10y ago
How do you know that something is extreme if you can't hear it? How do you engage individuals, hopefully productively, if you don't allow them to speak? If the answer is social norms, how do you prevent those norms from drifting
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by virmundi 10y ago
Ha, you think you're tricky, but your not! You didn't define the units. 120 what? Seconds? Nice try though.
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by virmundi 10y ago
Stuffy and smell does correlate to disease spread. How many people die from the flu or other disease as a result of being pressed upon during their commute?
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by virmundi 10y ago
I saw that chain too. I guess I do devops differently. Since I'm bootstrapping I don't have money for an ops person. So I've set about learning ufw, let's encrypt, nginx/tls termination to a service only accepting l
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by virmundi 10y ago
As a white man, I'm a bit concerned about coming back into my own country. The only social media accounts I have are here and reddit. Will the guards at the gate accept that I don't have a Facebook or twitter account?
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by virmundi 10y ago
You might not need the equity to invest in a medical degree, aside from cost of living and some pre-med catchup. Many states offer free medical education if you are willing to serve an underprivileged population for 5 years. I researched fo
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by virmundi 10y ago
It appears to be a difference between immigrant (with permanency) vs transient skills. There was a time when society needed itinerant skilled workers. Now we have the infrastructure to train, en masse, our workers. While skipping the traini
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by virmundi 10y ago
I don't think that it has to be a startup. What I'd like to hear from actually high skilled people with skills beyond that found in the US. I think that the H1-B program makes sense if a company need nuclear scientist, etc.
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by virmundi 10y ago
One nice thing about Hadoop is you get free distributed apps. On my current project, we only read about 50 TB of data per run across 70ish fraud models. Some read 1.5 TB, others only 20 GB. On a single system, that kind of data reading woul
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by virmundi 10y ago
That is a dank meme at this point. Even if you use a complex framework like Spring, your code won't need to do any of this. At worst you program to contracts, interfaces. At best Sprong does all the heavy lifting without any implementa
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by virmundi 10y ago
I'm kinda ok with that too. Spring tries to provide that kind of feature. For my present work I can't use it. Rights are document based. Authentication isn't even possible because any given doc could actually be allowed to th
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by virmundi 10y ago
I've used events successfully for an important fraud detection system. There are a set of known events. A fraud model could hook into the event chain at any point. It would then produce an alert event with its findings. Downstream anot
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Ask HN: Anyone use Infosys Mana?
1 points by virmundi 10y ago|0 comments
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I found the end funny: While today the Mac’s app ecosystem is somewhat stagnant compared to that of iOS, it is still rich and broad. While there will always be Windows-only enterprise tools, almost everyone else can get by with a Mac and a

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