It is completely possible/practical to have zero downtime for a website
It is not, and no sane engineer would agree with your statement. Accidents happen. You talk about redundancy, but even EC2 have been down. Heck, even Google have been down last year in part of the world. A chaos monkey can screw up your servers, or maybe a old lady just cuts your country off the internet
Sure copyright have a weight on US economy, but its not at all the "only thing they produce". If anything, that would be patents, because the technology sector on the US is much bigger than Cinema/TV/Books etc. But TFA doesn't cite patents. The new laws would be aimed at allowing authors to let an unlimited number of people use their content on the basis of free licensing. Sure, a few studios would suffer, but not Apple, GM, Boeing and the like.
(IANAL and all that stuff applies to this post)
For me, it depends on whether or not the "fulfilling job" is part of, or at least related to, the stuff you'll do with the extra money you'll get from the boring job. And then many people such as myself have more than one hobby, so there's a trade off: If I get the not-so-well paid job in something related to hobby A, how much less of hobby B will I do because of the lack of money? No easy answer I guess
That's true, with some exceptions:
Gliders most commonly use the metric system. Never knew why. And then there are also all those soviet build aircraft using SI (don't know if modern Russian aircraft switched to imperial).
As for airspeed, its even weirder: Commercial aeroplanes universally use Knots, but light aircraft sometimes use mph in America, and km/h in Europe.
You can just put widescreen monitor in portrait orientation instead of landscape. I used to have one of my monitors oriented this way to read technical PDFs while I coded on the other screen, but it turns out LCD screens are designed to have a good viewing angle horizontally, and not vertically.
However, I still use the portrait orientation on occasion, as it provides a much more comfortable way of reading ebooks
The turbines are needed if you want to achieve level flight.
Besides Wingsuits have glide ratios of less than 3:1 (they advance 1 unit of distance for every unit they descend) and even when attached with jets they've never been able to keep a level flight path for more 30 seconds.Rossy's setup has a glide ratio of more than twice that, and is the only of such devices to have achieved sustained flight.
That being said, the sense of freedom that I guess a wingsuit provides is probably unmatched.
Different frequencies can be used by sonar in the same way light frequencies are used in images, so there's no much "humiliation" in that. Only advantage I see is speed: Light travels at 299,700,400 m/s on air, while speed of sound in water is only 1400 m/s.
The GP said we shouldn't allow money to buy *everything*. Whether or not you use bitcoin or any other currency system makes no difference in this case.
Ubuntu generally has better packages than Fedora/RHEL/Centos
CentOS is the most popular linux distro for servers, so you'll have no problems finding good packages for it.
BTW I never used Ubuntu for servers, but I can't really think of a reason against doing so.
The point is you can't prove or disprove god. ever.
I disagree:
Say you set an experiment where you make some people pray to make an amputee's arm grow again
If the arm suddenly grows (and the experiment can be repeated, etc. ) then we can conclude than praying works and god most likely exists. Easy, right?
But what happens if the arm doesn't grow again? have you proven that God doesn't exists? not at all. He might have decided that for whatever reason he is not using his omnipotence to heal that amputee. You proved nothing.
It's the problem of falsiability: I can say that Chupacabras exists, and I can easily prove that by showing one. But there's no experiment that can be done to prove that it DOESN'T exist.
For those of us without the gift of ubiquity, "here" implies "one location". If you store your data in two location separated by 10 miles, I think by most standards they are not considered to be "in only one place".
is very murky and it's not so easy to tell who's an enemy combatant, right?
True. But just to clarify, the Geneva Convention still applies as it says on Article 5:
"Should any doubt arise whether any of these persons belongs to one of the categories named in the said Article, that person shall have the benefit of the present Convention until his or her status has been determined by some responsible authority"
The US held hundreds of thousands of captured German soldiers for years, pretty much all without trial.
Which was one of the motivations for writing the Geneva Conventions, which the USA signed and now dishonoured with GITMO.
Besides, most people there are not considered Al Qaeda members, as proven by the fact that they are to be released with no charges.
It's more like: "If you captured all that people and now can't send them back home, why the fuck don't you assume the consequences of your actions and accept them in YOUR country. It was you that screwed everything up"
That being said, many European countries accepted to receive refugees from Gitmo, and some already arrived here.
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Had you read the summary, you'll know that Rojadirecta already fought the [Spanish] government in a legal battle and won. Twice.
It is completely possible/practical to have zero downtime for a website
It is not, and no sane engineer would agree with your statement. Accidents happen. You talk about redundancy, but even EC2 have been down. Heck, even Google have been down last year in part of the world. A chaos monkey can screw up your servers, or maybe a old lady just cuts your country off the internet
"Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech"
Sure copyright have a weight on US economy, but its not at all the "only thing they produce". If anything, that would be patents, because the technology sector on the US is much bigger than Cinema/TV/Books etc. But TFA doesn't cite patents. The new laws would be aimed at allowing authors to let an unlimited number of people use their content on the basis of free licensing. Sure, a few studios would suffer, but not Apple, GM, Boeing and the like.
(IANAL and all that stuff applies to this post)
For me, it depends on whether or not the "fulfilling job" is part of, or at least related to, the stuff you'll do with the extra money you'll get from the boring job. And then many people such as myself have more than one hobby, so there's a trade off: If I get the not-so-well paid job in something related to hobby A, how much less of hobby B will I do because of the lack of money?
No easy answer I guess
That's both strawman and false dichotomy. Follow your own advice to "think about it yourself" please.
And bluetooth, everything is better with bluetooth.
Look at a 747. Did it *start* at that size? Oh yeah, wait, it did
No it didn't, it started as the small Wright aircraft. next question?
That's true, with some exceptions:
Gliders most commonly use the metric system. Never knew why. And then there are also all those soviet build aircraft using SI (don't know if modern Russian aircraft switched to imperial).
As for airspeed, its even weirder: Commercial aeroplanes universally use Knots, but light aircraft sometimes use mph in America, and km/h in Europe.
...fighting your Windows PC doesn't show you are more clever than a Mac user...
If they can't handle a Windows PC, maybe they are not as clever as you think they are.
(BTW, software developer using Linux here)
You can just put widescreen monitor in portrait orientation instead of landscape. I used to have one of my monitors oriented this way to read technical PDFs while I coded on the other screen, but it turns out LCD screens are designed to have a good viewing angle horizontally, and not vertically. However, I still use the portrait orientation on occasion, as it provides a much more comfortable way of reading ebooks
Solar impulse is manned. That alone makes a huge difference with Helios, the UAV you link to.
The turbines are needed if you want to achieve level flight.
Besides Wingsuits have glide ratios of less than 3:1 (they advance 1 unit of distance for every unit they descend) and even when attached with jets they've never been able to keep a level flight path for more 30 seconds.Rossy's setup has a glide ratio of more than twice that, and is the only of such devices to have achieved sustained flight.
That being said, the sense of freedom that I guess a wingsuit provides is probably unmatched.
Different frequencies can be used by sonar in the same way light frequencies are used in images, so there's no much "humiliation" in that. Only advantage I see is speed: Light travels at 299,700,400 m/s on air, while speed of sound in water is only 1400 m/s.
But it took 119 years of Punic wars. Doesn't seem like a great strategy after all.
The GP said we shouldn't allow money to buy *everything*. Whether or not you use bitcoin or any other currency system makes no difference in this case.
Ubuntu generally has better packages than Fedora/RHEL/Centos
CentOS is the most popular linux distro for servers, so you'll have no problems finding good packages for it.
BTW I never used Ubuntu for servers, but I can't really think of a reason against doing so.
The point is you can't prove or disprove god. ever.
I disagree:
Say you set an experiment where you make some people pray to make an amputee's arm grow again
If the arm suddenly grows (and the experiment can be repeated, etc. ) then we can conclude than praying works and god most likely exists. Easy, right?
But what happens if the arm doesn't grow again? have you proven that God doesn't exists? not at all. He might have decided that for whatever reason he is not using his omnipotence to heal that amputee. You proved nothing.
It's the problem of falsiability: I can say that Chupacabras exists, and I can easily prove that by showing one. But there's no experiment that can be done to prove that it DOESN'T exist.
...since you can't go deeper...
Maybe you can. There can be caves going deeper which went unnoticed to sonar.
I can store my data "here" in two locations
For those of us without the gift of ubiquity, "here" implies "one location". If you store your data in two location separated by 10 miles, I think by most standards they are not considered to be "in only one place".
is very murky and it's not so easy to tell who's an enemy combatant, right?
True. But just to clarify, the Geneva Convention still applies as it says on Article 5:
"Should any doubt arise whether any of these persons belongs to one of the categories named in the said Article, that person shall have the benefit of the present Convention until his or her status has been determined by some responsible authority"
This is obviously not the case.
The US held hundreds of thousands of captured German soldiers for years, pretty much all without trial.
Which was one of the motivations for writing the Geneva Conventions, which the USA signed and now dishonoured with GITMO.
Besides, most people there are not considered Al Qaeda members, as proven by the fact that they are to be released with no charges.
It's more like: "If you captured all that people and now can't send them back home, why the fuck don't you assume the consequences of your actions and accept them in YOUR country. It was you that screwed everything up"
That being said, many European countries accepted to receive refugees from Gitmo, and some already arrived here.
They use RP-1 (refined petroleum), for which inflation, as you know, has been more than 10% last year
Oh please, 90% of the people who copy things haven't built anything
But then we have to wonder how many people who doesn't copy stuff build something.