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Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
The big problem though is that the pathological edge cases of our current system are much better than the extremely pathological normal cases of a system without checks on what people are allowed to do.
I mean, anarcho-capitalism is basically what sovereign nations are at a smaller scale: Factions of humans who make decisions without any real checks on their behavior beyond the environment and the reactions of other factions. And I'm supposed to want a microcosm of global politics in my back yard? No thanks, taxes are fine, please fix the roads so I can get to Chipotle.
The only reason I could see for anyone wanting anything approaching individual sovereignty is if a) they somehow believe that there is no bigger fish in the pond, or b) they're really so naive to have no idea what other people could be capable of doing to them.
Comment · 12 years ago
Do you accept pull requests?
From Chapter 3, Exhibit 6:
{
"title": "Hey Jude" // <-- Missing comma
"group": "Beatles",
...
}Comment · 12 years ago
There isn't a line. We're talking about the human brain, these things are fuzzy. Some things will work better than others, and it'll surely vary between people, and you'll have no idea which are which until you try it. But it seems like the theme is association: Find the common information between the things you're studying.
Comment · 12 years ago
I totally agree. In these two specific cases, R53 + ELB wasn't going to work for us though, because of reasons. (I don't think I can go into specifics, but they're actual reasons.) Our workaround was reloading the configs (which triggers a DNS cache flush on both Nginx[1] and HAproxy[2]) once every couple of minutes.
I know, I know, I hate it too. We're working on it. Just wanted to share the workaround.
[1] http://wiki.nginx.org/CommandLine#Loading_a_New_Configuratio...
[2] http://www.mgoff.in/2010/04/18/haproxy-reloading-your-config...
Comment · 12 years ago
I have run into this at least twice this week alone with both Nginx and HAProxy pointing at Amazon Elastic Load Balancers. Amazon occasionally rotates out IPs for ELBs, so everything's working fine for weeks and then boom, now we're having a bad day.
Comment · 12 years ago
I'm confused. What part of this is about bluffing or cheating?
Comment · 12 years ago
Please don't be put off by the harsh tone of this essay. It's important information and based on this post and the resume linked in your HN profile (http://resume.patrickcurl.com/), I think you would benefit from reading it: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro...
Comment · 13 years ago
It is open for debate.
The question does not say cut "into thirds," it says "into three pieces." This - http://i.stack.imgur.com/kEjP0.png - is a perfectly reasonable answer which, assuming the rate of cutting is constant, would result in 15 minutes.
It's a bad question.
Edit: That said, I would have given the same answer as the student, because I think that's the most reasonable interpretation, especially considering the illustration. But the keyword there is "interpretation." The question is ambiguous.
(My argument is taken from this answer: http://math.stackexchange.com/a/380007 )
Comment · 13 years ago
#1 and #2 are in the order I noticed them, and #3 is so the whole post isn't just criticism. There's no deeper meaning than that.
Comment · 13 years ago
1) How it looks on my monitor: http://i.imgur.com/iSjP8ae.png - might not want to repeat that title image like that.
2) I would really like to see if there are any mentors relevant to my interests before I have to make yet another account on yet another website.
3) I really think mentorship is the best way to really become good at a skill. Hope it goes well for you.
Comment · 13 years ago
I haven't used the official Twitter app in a long time, so my memory could be failing me, but I'm pretty sure I remember seeing sponsored tweets even on the old version. I thought that was the reason I stopped using it.
Comment · 13 years ago
They seem OK with downloading to me... http://i.imgur.com/wVZCFLm.png
Edit: And if it was a bug, they've taken their sweet time fixing it. I can still right click -> Save Image As.
> The poor students weren't poor students because they were female, or because they were non-white, but because they were unintelligent and/or uneducated.
And why is that? If you reject the absurd notion that there's some causative relationship between technical ability/intellect and gender/race, what's the explanation, other than the possibility that those people didn't have the same exposure to the subjects that you did? And that's not even including the confidence factor: Of course a white dude can do this stuff, they do it all the time. Your story seems to suggest we should actually be doing this long before university. I would agree with that.
This part will probably be unpopular, but I'll say it anyway: What makes you so special, that your life is the one that gets to be changed? If we were all on equal footing, who says you're even good enough for your university geek-kid program anyway? Or me, for that matter - I was part of a similar program in high school[1]. What if we could be fifty years ahead of where we are now, if only we had an environment that was actually competitive across the whole breadth of our society, rather than jokers like you and me running the ship?
[1] http://www.usfirst.org/