josephv

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by josephv 6y ago
Coordination with the US means jobs and economic opportunity for both sides. Coordination with China means gunfights and border tension. It's pretty simple if you don't try to extrapolate everything to logical extrems. India and U
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by josephv 7y ago
Physical controls can be as effective as technical.
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by josephv 7y ago
They say this junt "jawn" is unique like anyone cares.
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by josephv 7y ago
This sort of hyper-sensitivity to any negative effects of your actions is absolutely paralyzing, as you clearly demonstrate. It will keep you from enjoying anything. People believe they shouldn't have kids because "there's to
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by josephv 8y ago
Eastasia certainly wouldn't be the same without Eurasia and Oceana.
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by josephv 8y ago
Vaccination doesn't 100% guarantee immunity, so there is always a % that isn't immune. Each disease requires a different % immunity to prevent a wide-spread outbreak, i.e. to provide herd immunity. For particularly aggressive dise
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by josephv 8y ago
Haha, this is brilliant. Exempt NBA Star X from all state income tax if they play for the team - that seems completely believable. Obviously NBA rules relate to tampering would come into play, but it would be a compelling story for the 24 h
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by josephv 8y ago
I love the spirit of this comment: Facebook employees as poor pawns to be pitied. I share the sentiment as a corporate family-oriented programmer from a flyover state that has been heavily recruited by FANNGs. I don't like working for
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by josephv 8y ago
These comments read like a bunch of low-income retail shoppers defending Walmart because they provide something they otherwise couldn't get. I think these types of debates are bellwether for programmer/IT professional unionization
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by josephv 8y ago
He's definately chewbacca.
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by josephv 8y ago
Other articles on hn mention correctly that right now in technology monopolies are the norm and anti-trust is dead (maybe a little dramatization there). The 30% cut from distribution platforms is arbitrary, not based on cost, but rather imp
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by josephv 8y ago
https://www.willowpump.com/ These things seem to be fairly new. Not available afaik 4 years ago when my we needed one. I've heard good reviews of the style, but don't know anything about specific brands.
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by josephv 8y ago
Cool project, but is it a failure for one of the requirements being that it costed under $50 and title says it costed $100?
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by josephv 8y ago
Upvoted for your excellent XKCD reference. https://xkcd.com/927/
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by josephv 8y ago
That's what I was thinking! Enjoy being up and walking around. Being chained to a desk is not always a dream job by any stretch of the imagination. There are very direct mental and physical health ramifications impacts that can only be
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by josephv 8y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Computer-Espiona... Honeypots are good fun. This book introduced me to them many years ago at university.
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by josephv 8y ago
For those of us that have had to use opioids for cancer treatment to the point of being addicted, then kicked the habit after treatment, all of the asinine demonization of opioids is absolutely infuriating. I used ate percs like candy durin
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by josephv 8y ago
I agree, when I lived close to a grocer it was amazing and that is the absolute biggest thing I miss being a suburbanite. Beer runs were so much less complicated and my neighbors annoy me so I could avoid borrowing the proverbial cup of sug
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by josephv 8y ago
My kids have had no trouble screwing up and I try to help them learn lessons. There are many other shows that teach that same lesson without a cartoon cat and mouse filleting each other, dad drinking and bumbling around and choking their ki
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by josephv 8y ago
I ravenously consumed The Simpsons for most of my youth and loved it. I watch it now whenever I get the chance and love it, but life happened. I don't like my kids to watch it so they don't grow up Fd in the brain like me. Having
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by josephv 8y ago
I think this is a valid critique of the title. Sorting means whatever it means in a specific context (dewey decimal system, post addresses, etc...). Most languages are context sensitives, but generalized computing is fundamentally defined b
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by josephv 8y ago
This is 100% true. A functioning and reasonably healthy person can exhibit or be affected by anything in the DSM5 - from hearing voices (God) to alcohol consumption (social lube) to compulsiveness (hard working). It's only when that pe
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by josephv 8y ago
Obviously GITer bombs
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by josephv 8y ago
It's fast! I like the technical detail - index too limited. Searched Red Dead Redemption 2 - no game info Searched "bobs" - no bobs
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by josephv 8y ago
The omission is interesting only in that it highlights that programming and debugging are one in the same. Us old folks that have been programming for 20 years don't even separate the two, there is no meaningful distinction. Programmin
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by josephv 8y ago
I've done it twice, you're wife is a saint to deal with you and your addiction. But they all are because men seem to have zero understanding of how not to be self-obsessed and "in the moment". Induced vaginal births are
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by josephv 8y ago
So you have whatever mental model you have dreamed up for zero marginal production costs. Does this zero cost production include zero spoilage during the zero cost logistics to move the zero cost food, water, and shelter? Of course, we can
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by josephv 8y ago
Turks, coming from the East, would be known to use and consume yogurt regularly, as do so many asianic cultures, in their food for taste and to balance the lit-ass spices (technical term for hot-ass and stanky-ass).
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by josephv 8y ago
Turning sand in to grass - this sounds like a great thing doesn't it? It's for golf courses - there are amazing golf courses in dubai that required genetically modified burmuda grass in a sandy synthetic fertilized substrate. They
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by josephv 8y ago
Pragmatic programming has lost. If you aren't a zealot about being pedantic, just move into the old-folks home.

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