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by waps 13y ago
With the exception of T in sports, unless they compete in their "old" gender. Men and women's bodies are different due to chemical reasons, not just looks. Transgender operations only change the looks, not the chemical realit
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by waps 13y ago
Have you thought about what such an architecture would mean bandwidth-wise on a WAN network ? I mean, dear God. This would actually require MORE links than full mesh. In other words, core network capacity (meaning total bandwidth in all lin
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by waps 13y ago
Euhm no. The distance between the commissars and elected officials is much bigger. They're appointed by vote by foreign ministers of the member states (as a group, they can't include or exclude individuals), who are elected as a g
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by waps 13y ago
The EU commission (which is the unelected organisation that actually decides) simply wants power, so if Turkey wants to join and play Trojan horse, they will certainly let them. Because of this, and regardless of the Turkey issue, can we pl
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by waps 13y ago
You neglect that a new supply-demand equilibrium will form, and since taxes effectively reduce supply, it will form at a higher price, with less demand. End result : less sales, customers paying more, and Google earning less. I do think you
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by waps 13y ago
The netflix data itself points to a gradual lowering of bandwidth to their service. Now here's 2 scenarios : 1) Verizon decided to enter some router configurations that affect the packet forwarding to Netflix (well, most likely FROM ne
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by waps 13y ago
Considering just how much more expensive AWS is, I have my doubts on this. AWS also really likes "hiding" costs, like bandwidth costs. It's not obvious that most sites will go over the bandwidth limit and pay extra, whereas f
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by waps 13y ago
According to linus' talk, git's whole point is branching. The point is that cost must not be an argument not to branch. The public-or-pay on github effectively forces one to pay for starting a project. Starting a project should be
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by waps 13y ago
According to linus' talk, git's whole point is branching. The point is that cost must not be an argument not to branch. The public-or-pay on github effectively forces one to pay for starting a project. Starting a project should be
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by waps 13y ago
I think these games are more targeting "addiction-forming" (which is MBA speak for what any sane person calls "drugs"). The same sort of thing happened so mid-90s pay-per-second or pay-for-items games on what we now call
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by waps 13y ago
It's really too bad. Microsoft is the (main) company that got everyone out from under centralized control, and now they're being shoved aside, hey that centralized control is back. People also seem to have completely forgotten tha
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by waps 13y ago
If you want a worldwide site though, AWS gets you in 10 locations around the world. This would take even an experienced admin a month for just the admin stuff to get going. An inexperienced one ... half a year ? (but it's still better
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by waps 13y ago
Then there's the AWS massive disadvantage in data traffic cost. Small VPS providers (or large ones for that matter) typically include 4-5 Tb of data, and their compute is no more expensive (or cheaper) than amazon. And half the custome
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by waps 13y ago
1) Not true : e.g. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2870195/posts 2) Get real, it kind of is. I've studied AI, and studied a lot of evolution to get a better understanding of it's mechanics
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by waps 13y ago
So wait ... we will be preventing students from hearing about religious dogma by ... imposing our own dogma ? Wtf ? The Soviet union, incidentally, did exactly that. Here's one of the initially funny consequences of forcing scientific
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by waps 13y ago
I don't get the opposition against this. There's plenty of Jewish and, especially muslim schools in the US that teach only creationism. Hell, some of them do so to the exclusion of not just biology but all science. They do so, gen
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by waps 13y ago
Example of absolute array: var EGAVGAScreen : Array[0..41360] of Byte absolute $A000:0000; Et voila : bounds-checked memory mapped hardware access. (note: the very well known "Crt" unit uses a memory mapped video buffer like thi
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by waps 13y ago
Don't you think that pascal's standard safeties will prevent mistakes ? 1) array bounds checking (which can be used for safe hardware access instead of peek/poke) 2) pascal-style strings (with actual support for them, both in
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by waps 13y ago
There's lots of problems with this theory : 1) buying 51% of most companies is not possible without approval from the existing holders of power. The problem is that buying 51% of the shares necessitates buying at least a few percent fr
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by waps 13y ago
It's only necessarily infinitely dense from an outside reference frame. Inside you could have anything you'd want according to GR. One certainty is that the space inside a black hole is bigger than the size of the black hole obser
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by waps 13y ago
Well it's a matter of perspective. It is not possible to transmit information across an event horizon. So the position of the particle that has crossed the event horizon cannot be transmitted at all, so it has no position in space diff
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by waps 13y ago
The energy comes from virtual particles. You should think of it this way : anything has a certain chance of happening, but must follow conservation laws. Conservation of energy, conservation of mass, conservation of ... (the "real&quot
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by waps 13y ago
If it's really fraud, there's criminal liability. Meaning the person behind it is responsible, as well as the firm.
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by waps 13y ago
There's also the issue that China is behaving like a telco here. Why is COS better ? More features ? No. Better in any way whatsoever ? No. The only "advantage" is that there is Chinese government control. But I guess it&#x27
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by waps 13y ago
B-trees with augmented information are very fast, and I know of no generic augmented B-tree. So I've contributed to a program that shipped a custom augmented b-tree. I assume the same goes for other types of augmented data structures.
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by waps 13y ago
And it's nevertheless the best argument we have. You see, capitalism would suggest the price of any product goes down to the marginal cost. That means the price paid for labour should be just barely above subsistence. Do you want to li
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by waps 13y ago
> The tax-payers have subsidized massive broadband expansion that never happened. Many of the players pocketed the savings and just never followed up with their end of that deal. All I can say is that subsidies -believe it or not- do not
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by waps 13y ago
How do you know SQL and not know what a tree is ? How about we ask a simple SQL design question that you can't answer without knowing about the datastructures : what operations does an index accelerate, and which are unaffected and why
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by waps 13y ago
I've got only one complaint, but it's a big one : IOS client and long filenames. AAAARGH.
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by waps 13y ago
The reason this happens is because of how ISP business models work and specifically over-subscription. I'm not defending comcast, quite the contrary, but you're going to hit this problem with every ISP, because of over-subscriptio

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