MichaelGG

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by MichaelGG 8y ago
>Well history suggests some answers to that question Such as? American Natives arguably fared rather poorly with immigration. What other examples did you have in mind? Other countries don't seem keen on immigration. Is South Africa
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
What's wrong with them having preference for people of a similar race? What's wrong for looking at the source countries of many of these immigrants and saying no thanks? No one's in a hurry to make sure lots of whites have po
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
I agree with your first 2 paragraphs. The problem is that people can be convinced that there is an issue where there is none, then resort to violence on weak grounds. It is easy to get people riled up on spurious reasons. I was about to bri
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Applies to software too. Standards need to be strongly defined with no leeway. Parsing should be tight and leave no room for creativity. (Text protocols like HTTP I'm looking at you!) Anything that deviates should be rejected by refere
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
I'm unsure how it doesn't fix the speed advantage. Anyone can get in front by bidding a millionth cent more. You can keep doing that until the price starts mattering, right? I'm not against HFT at all. But having such granula
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
SEC can "fix" HFT instantly by allowing more decimals. There's no good reason to only have 0.01/0.001 increments. Making it so granular forces speed over accurate pricing. Make it 8 decimals and the speed advantage goes
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Who has Tether defrauded? I agree Tether may have just issued without backing, but they don't promise being able to withdraw. So who is actually being harmed? And why is it unfixable? What if Coinbase promised to completely cover any u
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
It's bizarre. I tossed the book away in disgust because it's crazy pseudoscience....and it still worked.
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
At this point, it's unlikely he or any other artist will release more music in the 1900s or even the 2000-2017 period.
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
If it'll let me play YouTube audio on my Sonos it'd be a great feature. Otherwise I'm not quite getting the value. Workaround for this is to buy an HDMI splitter and send the audio to a sound system then use Chromecast, but S
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
There is probably a trade-off depending on the content of the string, right? So the API probably needs a general-purpose and a "this should be all ASCII" version?
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
I meant Rust should have a SIMD optimised version that assumes mostly ASCII. I'm guessing there is a trade-off involved depending on the content of the string.
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Some things are just wrong. I've implemented SIP, a horrible standard. Lots of compatibility issues just from their insistence on a "human friendly" text format alone. At any rate there's lots of things you just have to
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Fast checking is really useful in things like HTTP/SIP parsing. Rust should expose such a function as well seeing as their strings must be UTF-8 validated. Though it's even faster if you can just avoid utf8 strings and work only o
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
>I could see Cook & co. make the case that these devices are so dangerous in that regard that they shouldn't be able to be used by anyone. OK but that is not a legal strategy. You're not providing any basis other than that
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
What are you talking about? You want to make it so that a company like Apple can just draw arbitrary bounds and say "no messing around beyond this point" and have that be internationally, legally, enforced? We got that with the DM
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
But I am saying that it is unlikely Google will let you spam reservations. This idea that some kid will now be able to make 1000 reservations via Google is not probable.
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
That's just misusing the word blockchain. Like saying "cloud server" for "hosting" when there is nothing cloud about it. Using digital signatures in a chain is not a novel idea. Without PoW you do not need the block
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
I get "Connection problem or invalid MMI code" on an AndroidOne device when I dial that. Edit oh hidden asterisks.
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Here's a version https://github.com/michaelgg/cidb -- Just some of the raw integer k-v storage part. It assumes you already have the hashed entries (you truncate them and the compression takes it from there). It i
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
What stops a restauranteur from abusing Google's Gmail service? Presumably Google won't allow you to do spam with Duplex either. If you are going to be more enterprising then you can already do this. Just put some HITs on Mechanic
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
As much as I dislike this Israeli firm how have they done anything illegal? Hacking a device in your physical possession should not be illegal. Your comment about the NRA makes me think you're just being hyperbolic here?
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Depends on scale. At higher end, it was near impossible to scale when you're e.g. inserting a MySQL row per packet. But maybe good enough for a viable business. I would probably try to take it as far as possible on Elastic if I were to
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Sometimes it's a huge advantage. I wrote a network search engine. On a single 1TB spinning disk, I could handle 5TB of traffic, stored and indexed, per day. That's around 2 billion packets indexed. The key was having an log/m
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Why would China want Korea unified? I can't imagine China wants that long NK border holding SK/US agents or tech.
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Ok but that sort of takes away the entire argument that .io "belongs" to these people somehow. It doesn't, it's purely a political issue. It's not some natural resource or anything they'd have claim to otherwis
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
I mean why would Chagos, free of ever having the British, end up with IO as a country code?
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Would Chagos get .io if it wasn't British Indian Ocean Territory?
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Ok but a serious company wouldn't pay per byte if they were trying to save money. They could buy that much connectivity for like 50k a month. (Though they'd need to get some switches and have a network engineer.) And if that'
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by MichaelGG 8y ago
Is this new? I tried it out a couple years back on a decent spec phone and it was the slowest app I've ever used. I'm pretty sure Snapchat the app was known for being sort of a wreck at some point. My daughter still put up with it

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