vrdabomb5717
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Comment · 4 years ago
I'm curious if we see other unconformities related to other Ice Ages. If receding glaciers scraped away the earth and led to this big of a gap, shouldn't this have happened again when the glaciers receded after more recent ice ages, like in the Pleistocene?
Comment · 5 years ago
Not a professional anthropologist or historian, but I do enjoy reading about it. You should be skeptical when authors/books make general claims about a large group of people. There are counterexamples, especially when writing about a long period of history, and books like these can often end up being Eurocentric.
Here are some good Reddit threads from r/AskHistorians and r/AskAnthropology, where professionals often visit, describing the flaws in Sapiens. The comments have specific examples, if you follow the links.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/igfkv5/is_sa...
> Beyond that, Harari seems generally unconcerned with differentiating the experience of Western Europe from the experience of "us"- the species. This is why I can't really recommend the book, because this so thoroughly undermines his apparent goal. The very name of the book tells us that it will be a history of all of us and how we became so dominant in the world. And yet, so much of the book focuses on things that only a portion of H. sapiens ever developed, but talks about them as if they were natural developments for our species as a whole.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/i7v3ab/wha...
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/71mayz/tho...
Comment · 10 years ago
With FileVault, the disk won't decrypt until the user enters their login password.
Here's Yubico's documentation on Filevault integration: https://www.yubico.com/support/knowledge-base/categories/art...
It seems an attacker with physical access still requires your password to unlock the disk. At that point, they'd need the Yubikey to login (assuming they haven't already decrypted the disk and taken your data).
Someone on Reddit suggested saving a static password to the Yubikey and then entering that at boot time to get around this: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskNetsec/comments/3dpa2q/how_do_yo...?
Comment · 10 years ago
Hmm, it's unfortunate that this is being shut down. If you're looking for alternatives, I've been using the New York Times app, CNN, and Buzzfeed News. You need to deal with some annoying notifications (for example, CNN sent me a "Hero of the Year" notification today), but it's better than nothing.
Comment · 10 years ago
I think funding mass media is less interesting than finding a way to have sustainable investigative journalism, both at the local and national levels. Investigative journalism, especially at the local level, has been hit hard by local newspapers getting shut down and the media forced to either pull out of unprofitable areas or focus on money-making ventures. Most media outlets are not the New York Times or Washington Post; they can't afford to send reporters out for months to put together enough evidence to run a long-form story. The end result though is that most media outlets focus on what attracts viewers and makes them money: partisan commentary, stories that spread FUD, and feel-good stories. The end result is that government and business officials can run amok without anyone holding them accountable.
Let mass media focus on general-interest stories and slowly become reality TV for reality. If we instead focus on investigative journalism, we'll have a way for journalists to provide unbiased content without depending on the mass media to provide the funding to do so.
Comment · 10 years ago
At the big tech firm I work at, there's a best practice where any database (whether that's a traditional RDBMS or a NoSQL client) is abstracted away by a microservice with a defined API, and every other application that wants to get that data needs to interact with the microservice. That way, the database schema can change without it affecting multiple applications. There's still the traditional mismatch between ORM and database, but doesn't feel as painful because only a single application is using that data, and that application can have special knowledge of the persistence layer underneath (meaning, use database hints if necessary, defer to raw SQL, etc.)
Comment · 11 years ago
Sounds a bit like a web version of this: http://junecloud.com/software/iphone/deliveries.html
Comment · 11 years ago
All this has happened before, and all this will happen again.
- Six, Battlestar Galactica
Comment · 11 years ago
What fascinates me is how close this synthetic filesystem is to making REST calls with a small client library. All your application needs to know is the path to call and what HTTP verb to use. Even the way the author introduces versioning sounds familiar: using a versioning file is similar to having a version at the beginning of your URL.
I appreciate how good architectures all resemble each other at some point, with only the transport layers differing between applications.
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