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by zb 10y ago
A similar situation existed prior to the Apollo 1 accident. After that they renewed the focus on safety, which lasted a while until they started to lose it again, culminating in the Challenger accident 18 years later. Then exactly the same
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by zb 10y ago
Obama himself wanted single-payer healthcare, but was unable to get the support of conservative Democrats for that. What actually passed was based on the Republican proposals made in the 1990s in response to Hillarycare, and almost identica
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by zb 10y ago
Probably not. It depends on guaranteed in-order packet arrival. In general the Internet very much does not guarantee that, so you would need control over all of the networks involved. Of course you can always tunnel over TCP (you need to tu
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by zb 10y ago
According to their profile, the author of the post is a native German speaker. In German, the same word ("schwer") means both "heavy" and "difficult" or "serious" (in the sense that somebody in such a
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by zb 10y ago
> What is likely happening is that your switch is configured by default to implement both rx and tx pause. Yep, this is much more likely than that it's accidentally forwarding the pause frames. The magic phrase to google here is &qu
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by zb 10y ago
> There should be tools that help you write and update a setup.py. Or a setup.python.json or something, so you don’t actually need to write code just to ship some metadata. There are some out there, e.g. OpenStack uses https:/&#x
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by zb 10y ago
Wat. https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/keyboar...
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by zb 10y ago
No, you make more money exporting value-added products (like olive oil) than raw ingredients (like olives). Basic economics says you want to move higher up the value chain, and that's what (I'm told) they did. Of course this cause
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by zb 10y ago
I was just in Spain, and was told that prior to the financial crisis much of the olive oil produced in Italy and Greece was made from olives grown in Spain. (Spain is a massive producer of olives.) After the crisis they stopped exporting
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by zb 10y ago
It was a dumb referendum because it pitted a specific, known option (remain in the EU) against a complete unknown. The unknown option won by cobbling together a coalition of several different, mutually exclusive agendas (some of which were&
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by zb 10y ago
Jacques, please stop. The article is unfortunately ambiguous. It's pretty clear from the comments here that there are two different camps in terms of how people interpreted it. However, it's quite clear to me that the author defin
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by zb 10y ago
That used to be a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parole#Prisoners_of_war
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by zb 10y ago
It's a scale thing, I think. In NZ if you are a bank wanting to introduce new technology for payments then you have exactly 5 other banks that you need to get on board. In the US there's many thousands. e.g. The NZ banks jointly o
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by zb 10y ago
Just a heads up: you're trying to judge continental European cultural practices by Anglo-Saxon cultural norms, and that's pretty much always going to lead to nothing but misunderstandings. There are many things (like a waiter not
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by zb 10y ago
This is absolutely wrong, I have seen first-hand people seriously advocating (and actually trying to practice) it, even within the past 10 years. The thing to remember though is that the 'pure' version of the process (in which you
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by zb 10y ago
If people don't trust their GD to convert to USD in 30 days, the only way for them to get rid of it is to spend it. Who would accept it (at par value) under such circumstances?
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by zb 10y ago
Yeah, unchecking that was the first thing I did after updating the app, and the existence of that option was the only thing that made Twitter tolerable again. But where before I used to read every tweet in my timeline, now I regularly miss
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by zb 11y ago
I have created literally thousands of reviews with git-review, and I have never once used it to create, switch or delete a branch. When I clone a new repo, I run "git review -s" (for setup), which installs the commit hook that ens
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by zb 11y ago
I think you might be confused... (and if not then I certainly am). The -d flag means 'download', and the argument isn't a branch name, it's the review number from the Gerrit URL. You don't use it for reviewing code
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by zb 11y ago
All of the problems you mention are completely, 100% solved: https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/git-review You're welcome ;)
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by zb 11y ago
I think that GitHub's pull-request-based model is fundamentally broken. Gerrit's model, where every commit is quasi-independent (and hence must pass tests) and you can easily edit without force-pushing anything or losing review hi
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by zb 11y ago
I find this idea appealing too, because it creates good incentives in the market. What I wonder about is the kind of incentives it creates in government (what do we do when pollution is eliminated but the government is broke?). Do you know
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by zb 11y ago
It's not your local doctor making $250k that is in the 1%, it's the doctor who set up a diagnostic company and ordered lots of unnecessary tests and is demanding kickbacks from other healthcare suppliers, whose rent-seeking is pul
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by zb 11y ago
> the engineers should have stressed the point long before Jan 28, 1986. They did. They argued that the booster was unsafe at any temperature, but were overruled when NASA demanded proof that it was un safe - a clear inversion of the co
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by zb 11y ago
I've always found the arguments in this paper so bizarre that when reading it I have to constantly keep reminding myself that in the 80s this nonsense must have seemed like a practical way forward. (Parnas in particular was one of the
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Dark Thoughts on Ecomodernism(dark-mountain.net)
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by zb 11y ago
You can, but the parent was talking about an L1, which cannot be transferred.
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by zb 11y ago
Albert Speer?
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by zb 11y ago
In a similar vein, I highly recommend Discussion of the Method by Billy Vaughn Koen. It's a philosophy of engineering that resolves many of the unanswered questions you'll have after reading Feyerabend, and also gives an overvie
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by zb 11y ago
Sorry, but the headline ("TPP makes copy left licences illegal" until the mods change it as linkbait) is nonsense. The actual affect of this section is appears to be to prevent governments ("Party" here pretty clearly me

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