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by wheaties 10y ago
Phew, for a second there I thought we might have some transparency in our government. Glad to know that in the wake of historic video footage of public abuses, this is being taken away. Our leaders have listened and what they heard horrifie
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by wheaties 10y ago
The problem here is MacOS. The amount of work around and hacker I've had to do on Mac far exceeds anything on Linux and more surprisingly Windows. Let that sink in, it's easier to get things to work on Windows than Mac.
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by wheaties 10y ago
Go isn't displacing Python any more than Elixir is displacing Ruby.
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by wheaties 10y ago
That's not fair. Most of what we eat today is not very tasty. Most large scale farming has chosen to overweight the genetic qualities of larger yields and hardier structures that are more suitable to shipping. In the past, regional dis
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by wheaties 10y ago
...and they will keep trying to get it until someone higher than them either forbids it outright or we change their culture from within. It is clear that a cultural change at the FBI, CA or NSA is decades away, leaving us only the first opt
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by wheaties 10y ago
Wow, CPU is the limiting factor? I've never been CPU bound in a Web app, only I/O bound. Am I doing something wrong? Granted, I don't use python anymore for Web dev. I'm using languages that can handle 10x the traffic pe
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by wheaties 10y ago
Me knowing who someone screws is absolutely not in the public interest. A video of someone screwing that they don't want public and more specifically, didn't consent to film is also not in the public interest. Privacy is a right.
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by wheaties 10y ago
The EU courts have determined, quite rightly, that merely having an link on a website does not equate to piracy.
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by wheaties 10y ago
...because people can not grow, learn from mistakes or change? If you look at people this way, you're doing it wrong.
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by wheaties 10y ago
I'm a big believer in PostgreSQL but it does have one large and glaringly bad area which needs addressing: distribution. MySQL does Master-Master well. PostgreSQL has been a "chose your own adventure" for a long, long time. W
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by wheaties 10y ago
One of the issues with Freddie and Fannie is that they were privately owned but back stopped by the government (not explicitly.) So when they were taken over by the government, the idea was that something else would take their place. There
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by wheaties 10y ago
The biggest issue is the structure of the mortgage finance industry. They've grown so dependent upon Fannie and Freddie that there does not exist a good private alternative who can compete on equal terms. And who can blame them? I woul
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by wheaties 10y ago
Finally, charging $20 for SSL was just highway robbery. Pure and unadulterated money grab.
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by wheaties 10y ago
This site worked great on my android phone. Much better than most responsive sites I've visited. Add to that it loaded quickly. I'd say it's a good design.
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by wheaties 10y ago
I don't understand why developers put themselves on such a pedestal here. I have very few real world problems which require deep non-technical knowledge. That deep non-technical knowledge is worth something far more than, perhaps, the
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by wheaties 10y ago
What bothers me more than anything outside of the conflation of "assets" such as stocks and bonds as indicators of actual economic "growth" is that they are placing an inter-generational bet: They are using money today w
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by wheaties 10y ago
In the US, the "salary" you earn places you in the "poverty" designation of the economic earnings scale. Now do 10yrs of that and see how you would retire, buy a house or even have children any time soon.
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by wheaties 11y ago
I would say that basic economics should have predicted this. I mean, if there's an area where your children can escape poverty with a higher chance, isn't that area more desireable to live? And if so, wouldn't you pay a premi
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by wheaties 11y ago
Not completely true. There's some nuance to it but essentially you have to acknowledge it or give them cause to "revive" it, i.e. pay some of it: http://www.moneycrashers.com/zombie-debt-collectors/
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by wheaties 11y ago
Too much cash? Pay people more! Really that simple. Money has a momentum, a speed by which it flows through an economy. Eventually those mountains of capital will disappear because there is no one left to buy what is being sold.
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by wheaties 11y ago
Quick question, what's to stop someone from reimplementing, say "float: right" to also spin up a banner ad? That is, this sounds great in principal but much like Microsoft's Tay taught us, the internet is full of *-holes
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by wheaties 11y ago
It's a compelling argument he makes. Why would you spend $4k for an event to raise money instead of pitching normally and investing in your fledgling business?
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by wheaties 11y ago
Can we have the data to see if their statistics are good and that they applied the right techniques to clean their data? I don't trust any medical study much anymore because next week one will come out refuting this claim.
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by wheaties 11y ago
Guess I'm an outlier. I like people with experience more than not. I respect more older devs than I do younger. The older devs tend to have the best projects on Github. Then again, I don't allow stupid data structures or algorithm
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by wheaties 11y ago
You do this and they catch you, you will be fired. I am a manager who believes in pay people more. Pay them what they want, not what they were making. That said, if you lie to me, I don't take it well.
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by wheaties 11y ago
Models are only as good as the assumptions that underpin them. Real life tends to do surprising things.
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by wheaties 11y ago
Isn't this the same thing China is in discussion of demanding of anyone who sells software in China? We've already criticized this as "they can steal our stuff." Why would any country not think the same of us?
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by wheaties 11y ago
When you read a review like that, you can only imagine the journal editor having an almost unconscious faceplam reaction before removing the name from the pool of potential reviewers.
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by wheaties 11y ago
The money was held in the Fed.
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by wheaties 11y ago
Only if G isn't already overspent. In the US and several counties G is well over budget and has been for a long time. This combined with large liabilities coming down the pipeline and G should not be something we look to solve the issu

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