madgar

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by madgar 10y ago
Why do you say that? The NRA is one of the single most powerful special interest groups in the USA. The tech industry doesn't even come close to the NRA's lobbying results.
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by madgar 10y ago
the judiciary is bound by precedent, and there are 5-4 conservative Supreme Court rulings from the 80s to the early 2000s that cemented the status quo into place. With Trump/Pence as POTUS the judiciary will be hamstrung for years barr
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by madgar 10y ago
My source is in-person conversations with a real-life human being, and working on one of his codebases that employed the technique. If you want to look up his work, his name is Bill McKeeman. I personally have never felt compelled to find s
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by madgar 10y ago
Technique as old as dirt. My thesis advisor used it in the 60s and 70s. His favored approach had one artificial limitation, perhaps a remnant of the age: he limited the size of source files in bytes to some power of 2. This let him represen
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by madgar 10y ago
Perhaps you shouldn't be asserting yourself as an authority on what did or did not happen if you are too young to have experienced it in the first place. I'm very young, only 27, and know that I missed a full decade of early inter
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by madgar 10y ago
Oh god I hope nobody ever ends up innovating with my drinking water. The last thing I need is companies racing to cut costs on fucking water.
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by madgar 10y ago
Research won't be done because over 20 years ago, Republicans made it illegal for federal taxpayer money to be used to study gun control. Very little cleanly private money exists to study the issue. Universities are tainted with public
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by madgar 10y ago
> You're not supposed to buy infrastructure for these types of gigs. Then why does Uber offer financing?
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by madgar 10y ago
I didn't ignore your reasoning, I acknowledged it and said it was not insightful. Unused CPU instructions are difficult (but not impossible!) to deprecate for completely different reasons than the critical functionality of line discipl
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by madgar 10y ago
> Imagine standing still for eight hours a day. Imagine sitting perfectly still for eight hours a day. I just imagined both, and I preferred the standing still nonsense to the sitting still nonsense.
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by madgar 10y ago
If hacker news doesn't stem the growth of trolling (which has pushed out plenty of my friends) then it probably will eventually "shut down" new signups for a while.
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by madgar 10y ago
You are conflating genius with productivity. In so doing you are missing the point of both your parent and grandparent poster.
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by madgar 10y ago
Ruth Porat is the change you're looking for
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by madgar 10y ago
Seems like a huge difference between "instructions we don't use at all" and "ring 0 input processing we use constantly and can't stop using" The only similarity seems to be "modern computers with legacy lo
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by madgar 10y ago
The problem for Mercurial (with respect to group dynamics) was that it didn't have the built-in user base of Linux contributors right off the bat.
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by madgar 10y ago
I'd love to dig into Pijul but sadly it's AGPL. Just looking at the code effectively taints me as a developer who works tangentially to VCS - it could be argued that my work is derivative and thus needs to be AGPLed. The viral nat
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by madgar 10y ago
If so, then I see two possibilities here: 1) The IP in question was only reimplementable with Carmack involved, and the lawsuit was basically inevitable. Hiring Carmack in this scenario is reasonably perceived as an end-run around buying&#x
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by madgar 10y ago
They didn't seem to do clean room here. Seems like Carmack was wrote code for both companies which is the exact opposite of clean room. (Please correct me if I misunderstood the facts of the case)
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by madgar 10y ago
> In the limit it means "you read this code, understood how it worked, and wrote new code that could do the same function." You can stretch that to cover anything you have ever seen. Which is sad. I thought the industry adopted
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by madgar 10y ago
Not all user-generated content on Twitter is public. I couldn't possibly know what kinds of transactional records have been requested or the distribution therein, but DMs seem like plausible targets.
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by madgar 10y ago
In the office I see a pretty big overlap with the group expounding/demanding absolute meritocracy and the group of people without any personality (or with explicitly anti-social personalities). They're toxic IMO and the best strat
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by madgar 10y ago
It's not about discarding what every scientist says. It's discarding the scientists that say things incompatible with his political opinions. If a scientist pursues a line of work that might end up contradicting the GOP party li
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by madgar 10y ago
You seem to be confusing work without net pay with slavery. Sharecropping was abhorrent but was distinct from slavery. Slaves may be killed legally by their owner.
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by madgar 10y ago
You underestimate how deep this goes with the actual public. My father has been in the GOP base his whole life. The refrain when I challenged his views on science was: "those scientists are all liberals. Why should I believe anything t
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by madgar 10y ago
Your first comment in this thread - in which you mention representatives in passing - suggests that you assume all "democracy" to come in the form of democratic republics. This might be true in a discussion of practical implementa
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by madgar 10y ago
Interestingly, I'd never use pinning if it didn't shrink the tab down. I never have any trouble with keeping my tabs ordered, so the main value pinning gives me is the shrinking.
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by madgar 10y ago
You forgot about protecting minorities. What do you do when the majority of the people in a jurisdiction like (eg.) Mississippi consistently vote down land use by black people? Just accept that the people have spoken and that black people a
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by madgar 10y ago
The most common problem is with asymmetric network connections with limited upload bandwidth. If you don't limit your upload rate, BitTorrent will consume your upload bandwidth so thoroughly that even TCP ACKs for other applications ar
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by madgar 10y ago
Do you mean immigration from other countries, or other US states?
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by madgar 10y ago
See reductionism : https://xkcd.com/1734/

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