xkemp

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by xkemp 7y ago
The only thing more boring than government work are tired lazy stereotypes accusing government employees of incompetence/lazyness/wastefulness.
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by xkemp 7y ago
Despite your (and many others in this thread) assertion, this is fundamentally new because it hasn't previously been done in political campaigns in any meaningful scale. The mere existence of a few private campaigns of the sort doen&
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by xkemp 7y ago
No, it wouldn't help. The typical scenario is Comcast asking "startup X" for money to allow them to reach you. You wouldn't have to pay more, nor would you necessarily notice: established sites would be exempt because cu
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by xkemp 7y ago
None of that has anything to do with NN. NN is when you can't get to "Social Media Startup X" because they didn't pay your ISP. You are unlikely to even notice this, because only newcomers would be required to pay rans
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by xkemp 7y ago
It's somewhat unlikely that there are X ISPs times Y "established players" = a few hundred contracts at least, without any of those arrangements leaking, nor anything showing up in network analyses.
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by xkemp 7y ago
That's not a scenario net neutrality regulation would affect. Larger companies will always have more resources, and with that they will have opportunities to invest in infrastructure and improve service that smaller competitors cannot
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by xkemp 7y ago
> A single pipe can only handle so many providers A single pipe can handle only so many customers. I don't see how it limits the number of providers? There actually are countriess with such rules, and they seem to work well. The dif
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by xkemp 7y ago
I believe people arguing "politeness" are missing the point, though. What I most value is "dialectics" (not sure if that term is commonly used in English). I. e. the willingness to entertain the best argument against you
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by xkemp 7y ago
It would have been impossible for Greece's GDP to drop by that amount (in absolute terms) before it joined the EU. Because it quadrupled after joining. Here, check out this graph, which rather obviously shows the benefit of joining the
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by xkemp 7y ago
People in this thread seem to mostly not even consider the value that the ability to (sometimes) speak privately has. As an analogy: would you want your spouse (and vice versa) to hear recording of every conversation you have, including tho
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by xkemp 7y ago
Oh, that old chestnut. The believe that other countries are bound by what you promised local voters. I'd quip that politicians making that argument could just as well legislate for good weather. But considering Greece, I'm now won
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by xkemp 7y ago
That's an extremely one-sided point-of-view. The net effect of the whole saga was Greece getting to spend a lot of money in the 90s and 2000s, and the stronger countries of the Eurogroup ending up paying for (at least part) of that. Fo
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by xkemp 7y ago
Please don't use "third-world" as a generic insult for countries. Even the wrong-yet-common definition of "poor" doesn't fit here, because internet censorship isn't a function of wealth: Saudi Arabia is ra
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by xkemp 7y ago
Just look at the ugly violence of nationalistic hatred currently gripping, oh I don't know.. let's say India ? If that's too much recursion, consider the World War I and II (among many others), both being based essentially i
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by xkemp 7y ago
I'm starting to believe this meme was really concocted by some of those "big companies". It's quite brilliant, actually: using the public's hatred of big corporation to actively protect them against any changes.
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by xkemp 7y ago
> established multinational corporations > money being extracted from local economies > the coffers of the ultra-rich For someone complaining about "environmental debt", a term I have never seen before, you do use a lot
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by xkemp 7y ago
A union is run rather democratically. It will tend to reflect the attitudes of its membership, i. e. your coworkers. In some old industry on a downward slope, employees will tend to be older and risk-averse, and so will the union. Tech Unio
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by xkemp 7y ago
So I guess we should take the overwhelming majority in this threat rejecting the idea of democratizing private companies, and the at least skeptical attitude towards unions as indication that both are likely to be good ideas.
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by xkemp 7y ago
Not if there's a warrant out for your arrest, no.
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by xkemp 7y ago
It's sad to see this conspiracy theory being voted to the top. For HN, the only cause more motivating than functional programming seems to be accusing women of lying. With, in this case, often the gall to claim that this would somehow
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by xkemp 7y ago
Great! I'll just run a forum on "everything chess that isn't trolling, bullying, or flamewars".
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by xkemp 7y ago
Your relationship with both your sister and Apple users seems to mainly consist of condescension. For your sister, there's some added dependency: of course she's eventually gonna fold if she wants you to do tech support and you mo
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by xkemp 7y ago
i believe OP would, for example, want to start training locally just to check for errors, then do the run somewhere remote. Synchronizing local and remote code shouldn't take much time, but it's still at least a few seconds on t
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by xkemp 7y ago
How can there still be people writing these yearly "I'm so disappointed" articles. It's the same for every single MacOS release . I bet if I look through the archives here, the last halfway usable OS release from Apple
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by xkemp 7y ago
It still aptly demonstrate the ability of the UK to shoot itself in the foot. Nobody believes that this necessary reflects badly on any individual British citizen. Unfortunately, in a democracy it only takes the barest of majorities to ma
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by xkemp 7y ago
Predicting with All-Caps confidence that autonomous driving is "decades away" is at least as indefensible as overly optimistic predictions were.
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by xkemp 7y ago
This is said the other way around at least as often. As in: the high price of Apple Hardware is only worth it because it's a requirement to get MacOS. And I'm willing to admit that there have been more annoyances in the OS. But ha
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by xkemp 7y ago
I've been using a "Hackintosh" desktop for the last five years, and once it was set up, it has worked flawlessly. That includes all the hardware except the Intel Bluetooth, which was replaced by a tiny dongle that came with s
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by xkemp 7y ago
You seem to be joking, but isn't that pretty much the SQ? Not universally, but there is a lot of clothing incorporating high-viz features. Most prominent in children's clothes and work clothes, but I've seen reflective materi
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by xkemp 7y ago
Ah, the self-anointed "Brave" browser, that believes what humanity really needs is a middleman between publishers and readers, skimming off the ad revenue.

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