Moissanite

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by Moissanite 3y ago
I actually thought of this because of a line in The West Wing where the President is making a point about representation, then went off on a googling exploration to understand a bit whether it is a meaningful distinction - most of what I re
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by Moissanite 3y ago
Good; I was worried I'd stumbled into some some paleo-esque "only drink from puddles at dawn and dusk to maximize your gut flora development" nonsense.
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by Moissanite 3y ago
> Don’t drink more than 2 drinks in a day Just to clarify, because this one tripped me up: you specifically mean alcohol, right?
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by Moissanite 3y ago
Listen, if I had to pull the Flying Kipper up a hill with inferior non-Welsh coal, I'd be sad too.
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by Moissanite 3y ago
Interesting - having read the book several times I don't get the reference to the dinner scene; will have to look it up. The parts which bothered me were the Zendaya slow-mo flash-forwards being too long and too frequent with no substa
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by Moissanite 3y ago
I should really have said "elites, including those in antagonistic countries like Russia". My main point was more about the elites than where they are from.
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by Moissanite 3y ago
Yes!
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by Moissanite 3y ago
I'm the OP - and it's more complicated than that. Foreign powers fermented the discord in American society (which was already there for sure, but could have been much less toxic without external influence), hence describing it as
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by Moissanite 3y ago
Do you have a promising example of where normal people were shareholders and managed to push through a decision which was against the interests of the board? Sounds from your comments down this thread like you only favour influence being ac
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by Moissanite 3y ago
Someone has to sit at the top of the tree, making decisions whose impact has to be accepted by the people below. Government is far (far!) from perfect, but at least it aspires in the right direction (where "right" is defined by th
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by Moissanite 3y ago
I think "We bring tech jobs and tax revenue, which we will take elsewhere if you're not more compliant" is hard to label as anything other than a threat - particularly in the context of trying to play off the UK against the E
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by Moissanite 3y ago
Once I get a vote on board membership for every company operating in my country, I will happily participate in that discussion.
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by Moissanite 3y ago
Do you believe the appeal of Trump to disaffected Americans would be enough to win him the election, if big business (Koch et al) turned against the Republican party? Genuine question, because I feel like that is where the lever really is.
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by Moissanite 3y ago
We need to go beyond stopping mergers. Any company which sees itself as large or powerful enough to make unveiled threats against a national economy needs to be broken up. For ultra-large companies (e.g. any company with a market cap over $
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by Moissanite 3y ago
> We live in a democracy or not? Not really, no. Setting aside pedantry about the US being a republic and not a pure democracy, the fact is that wealthy elites decide election outcomes now. You ended up with Trump because elites in Russi
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by Moissanite 3y ago
> Because I hate having people behind me Anyone who has read Dune should feel this way - leaving your back to the room/door is how the Harkonnens get you!
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by Moissanite 3y ago
Seems like we live inside a self-cleaning oven. I only read the abstract and conclusions so maybe this is covered in the paper - but based on some reasonable estimates of the damage done to organic matter by these x-ray bursts (and similar
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by Moissanite 3y ago
Paraphrasing: "In this paper, we reiterate previous assertions about how utterly boned we are as a species in the event that a nearby star has gone supernova in the last few hundred years."
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by Moissanite 3y ago
> Even if you didn't "consent to [the original author's] ToS," you are still going to be bound to it via the redistributors license. In the context of the GPL, are there real examples of judgements which bind defendan
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by Moissanite 3y ago
FYI, this crashed my browser with extreme prejudice; I can't remember one other time when I've had to force-stop the application. (Firefox on Android)
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by Moissanite 3y ago
Mid afternoon meetings are terrible for me; I never feel like I can really settle into a difficult task unless I know that I have the option to make it the last thing I'm doing that day. As soon as I have something scheduled between 1
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by Moissanite 3y ago
There was no "free movement" beforehand either; we weren't part of Schengen.
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by Moissanite 3y ago
Better than all the restagons.
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by Moissanite 3y ago
EFA is not InfiniBand. It has similar goals (low latency via kernel bypass), but is implemented using AWS Nitro NICs and regular Ethernet networking. Other providers (Azure and Oracle) do offer InfiniBand, but that creates a problem with &q
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by Moissanite 3y ago
> people who hold this belief fail to realize that “I don’t want to work.” ACTUALLY means “I want others to work so I don’t have to.” No, it means "I am working to generate more wealth which flows predominantly to the owners of capi
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by Moissanite 3y ago
For someone with a six-figure income, the marginal utility of an extra $100 is basically nothing - but "notionally worthless" shares are a bit like getting a free lottery ticket every week. You don't expect anything to come o
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by Moissanite 3y ago
Thanks!
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by Moissanite 3y ago
Azure is indeed substantially smaller than AWS, and hides it with 365 revenue. The estimates I've seen suggest that in terms of true cloud infrastructure, the next 3 providers combined are still not quite as big as AWS.
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by Moissanite 3y ago
As someone who recently had their first experience of writing unit tests and building a package for installation with pip: it would be really nice to have a concise summary of what the Python project leadership considers current official &q
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by Moissanite 3y ago
> I think all of the cloud vendors are priced with just enough profit to make sure of it Profit margins on cloud computing are insanely high (at least, relative to my expectations). They basically have no interest in anything with less t

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