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by waps 12y ago
> (not even optimized, and it still made the equivalent Node implementation's performance look mediocre by comparison) You're probably not doing it right. You should see a factor 10 or more difference, without optimization. Why
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by waps 12y ago
Another way for big companies to more accurately exploit their workforce under market-based conditions. If this software goes through, the only possible way to get a raise is if the program believes not getting a raise would actually cause
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by waps 12y ago
1) the majority of the population would just sit at home, either in front of the TV or on drugs. For one of two reasons : disappointment in their own abilities or because they just don't aspire to anything else. I think you'll agr
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by waps 12y ago
Plus this was effectively the situation for several centuries. So we know perfectly well what happens. It is decidedly different from equality for all. But it goes back to the basic motivation for everything. People are motivated by one of
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by waps 12y ago
The real answer is : it doesn't matter, unless you set it way too high. The economy will adjust until the value of basic income is equivalent to a particular value. Now of course, what could happen is that you set it too high and we ge
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by waps 12y ago
I agree that colonialism was a net-positive for most nations it occurred in (probably China being the big exception here), it's just not a point that I feel is too relevant here. Our fundamental point of disagreement is this : > I h
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by waps 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day_Request_for_Co... This years' batch : A new X.509 certificate type : "NSA", RFC 7169 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7169 A new ext
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by waps 12y ago
What ? This is not true at all. Menopause is present in all mammals. The reason you don't see it in most mammals is simple : the normal maximum age for most mammals is less than half of humans. Most animals grow to about 30-35 "do
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by waps 12y ago
> For the whole world? Really? What parts of the world, exactly? Every last part of the world, with very few exceptions. Let's take a few examples: 1) Africa Before European hegemony africa was the slave hunting ground of muslims (g
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by waps 12y ago
This is the great problem of liberals in the US. World-wide of course it's a far greater problem. Liberals espouse democracy, but the majority of the US wants religion, conservativeness and the like. World-wide the situation is far, fa
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by waps 12y ago
As a fellow European, I find this attitude baffling. Your complaints about the US: airport security interference, of the soft political kind, in other countries military intervention in the middle east (and Russia/Eastern Europe, which
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by waps 12y ago
There is just the tiny problem of what the military world order China will support (although I'm thankful it's not the middle east). This seems to me a pretty serious problem, and frankly the reason they will not stay the biggest
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by waps 12y ago
And what would prevent them from running port 80 and 443 cross-domain p2p ? If I remember correctly, kazaa had a mode that worked like this. Suppose you'd do it really, really simple. If you watch a netflix show, you download an encryp
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by waps 12y ago
I wonder what achaeologists think about this theory : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1y8N0ePuF8
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by waps 12y ago
You don't get it. The entirety of (current) leftist ideology falls apart if force is ever used on any large scale. So "it can't happen", right ? The same goes for intelligentsia's hate for violenc. Keep history in m
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by waps 12y ago
Now if we could only get Airbus to, say, invade France, my investment in Boeing would start paying off.
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by waps 12y ago
I think a little CEO is real mad that 1) He refused John Carmack's pitch for a new project. Stupid. 2) That got his best employee to quit the company and start a new one. Double stupid. 3) That new company he has no rights to was worth
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by waps 12y ago
The problem with this argument is that it is both an argument for and against climate change, and so both for and against taking action on climate change. Humans have a history of (locally) causing massive pollution and other various disa
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by waps 12y ago
When you have a large dynamic system you always have different kinds of sensors. You have modeled sensors that tie in directly to the feedback loop controlling the device, and you have "wtf happened ?" sensors. There are 2 big con
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by waps 12y ago
They probably did put it in but forgot about markdown.
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by waps 12y ago
Note that UK data protection laws do NOT exclude the NSA from reading your email. They just restrict the data being sold to commercial third parties. I mean I'm not saying that's necessarily a bad thing, just that you don't h
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by waps 12y ago
You say that as if it's new. International law 101 will teach you that countries claim jurisdiction on any business that happens within their borders, which means if any of the involved parties is within their borders at the time. In o
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by waps 12y ago
> But to collect from one of those US bank accounts, you first have to find it True. Buy a $0.05 gimmick from them and check your bank statement.
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by waps 12y ago
Any company that does business in the US is obviously subject to the US legal system. That they don't have an office in the US can be used to your advantage (to obtain judgements in absentia is a lot easier than facing a lawyer for obv
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by waps 12y ago
Be glad you're not living in Europe. Bank transfer from bank A to bank B (e.g. your paycheck). Day 1: transferred from source account into internal bank-owned account. Day 2: transferred from internal bank account into internal bank-ow
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by waps 12y ago
? Having worked for freelancer in the past, it is pretty obvious that their site is a scam, meant to extract money from freelancers as much as from buyers. If you really want to work on a site like that, go ahead. I'd warn you though.
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by waps 12y ago
How exactly did he handle this issue ?
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by waps 12y ago
Coal power plants are baseload generators. So the simple answer is that this is only possible for 30-40% of the coal generation capacity. If you want the lights on at night, that is. Nuclear, for example, can replace coal if we want it to.
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by waps 12y ago
There is a problem in what the market will do if this is allowed to proceed. The TLDR is simple : if solar power buildouts are allowed to proceed the way they've been going, we will lose grid power entirely. Why ? Market forces. The pr
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by waps 12y ago
Have you done development outside of web development ? 15 years would make your start time 1999. Did you ever do a large program with a swing gui ? A Delphi program ? What do you think ? How do your experiences on the web compare to the oth

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