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  1. WebScale guy is old news on JavaScript Is Eating The World (dev.to) · · Score: 1

    While amusing, that video is pretty out of date.

    Today you can choose the level of data integrity and data protection that you want. If you don't understand why you would want to do that then you can come back in a few years.

  2. Well-designed libraries and easy to scale on JavaScript Is Eating The World (dev.to) · · Score: 2

    I've been using node for about a year. What's it good at? Glue. It's awesome at being glue. It's mind-numbingly easy to put something together that can handle 40k messages a minute on one thread.

    The libraries are well-designed, are documented, have good error handling, and make sense. Most of the packages seem to be written by experienced developers who don't have retarded APIs or naming conventions. They're very task-oriented and don't have a lot of extra crap in them.

    As an example, you can build an SNMP poller in about a day or two that could replace HPOV/NetView. That's pretty good. And you could do it using one xeon core.

  3. But Cuba is our friend! on Hearing Loss of US Diplomats In Cuba Is Blamed On Covert Device (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 0

    What, Cuba may have done something to physically injure US diplomats? Unthinkable! Cuba is a valuable member of the international community, and an important partner of the US. Or at least that's what our last President said.

    And friends don't physically assault other friends' diplomats.

  4. He's not wrong on Google Grapples With Fallout After Employee Slams Diversity Efforts (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    If the comment was written by a woman, would it have sparked this much fauxrage?

    Maybe they should use the percentage of a gender able and willing to work in a position as a baseline instead of the percentage in the general population. That would screw up the narrative, though.

  5. Hey I haven't met you
    this is crazy
    here's my coordinates
    call me maybe

  6. Geometry kills on Could Diabetes Spread Like Mad Cow Disease? (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    It's fascinating that a misfolded protein can create all this havoc. It's surprising it doesn't happen more often, really.

  7. "That doesn't make the government beholden to Apple or anything"

    It does in a way, because if Apple decides to liquidate its holdings the sale can and will raise interest rates.

  8. So the men turned into women? on Why We Can't Have the Male Pill (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "side effects, including mood changes and depression."

    Sounds like they were having their period.

  9. This is nothing but good news for AWS.

  10. Israffic prioritization is against net neutrality? on Why is Comcast Using Self-driving Cars To Justify Abolishing Net Neutrality? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Is traffic prioritization (i.e.: giving some uses of the network greater priority than others) against net neutrality?

    Technically yes.

    So would you want your car's telemetry screwed by the guy in the next car's bittorrenting?

  11. Yes, go ahead! on TechCrunch Urges Developers: Replace C Code With Rust (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, replace billions of working C code with billions of lines of code in a new language. What could possibly go wrong?

  12. What happens when law fellows raise false alarms? on Is Homeland Security's Face-Scanning At Airports An Unreasonable Search? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    You'd think that a law fellow would know the difference between pictures in public vs an unreasonable search & seizure.

    Is there a way to disbar him for yelling fire in a crowded theatre?

  13. The serious flaw? They don't agree with the result on Seattle Minimum Wage Study Has Serious Flaws (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    The only serious flaw is that it goes against the liberal democrat orthodoxy that the minimum wage has no effect on jobs.

    What they're saying in the 'revision' is "the minimum wage is destroying small businesses and enhancing chain stores." Is that really what liberals want, the destruction of small mom & pop stores and total corporate dominance of retail?

  14. US college students are not representative on Tylenol May Kill Kindness (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Didn't someone show that US college students are pretty much the worst subjects to do any testing on?

    http://ds-wordpress.haverford....

  15. One guy is a start on Trump Orders Government To Stop Work On Y2K Bug, 17 Years Later (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    One guy here, one guy there, and suddenly you have a mass layoff.

  16. Re:So which was the most accurate? on Home Blood Pressure Monitors Are Wrong 70 Percent of the Time, Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It was enough data to make a conclusion, which means it's good enough to publish the list as well as the article.

  17. So which was the most accurate? on Home Blood Pressure Monitors Are Wrong 70 Percent of the Time, Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why don't they give us the most accurate devices?

    They don't even put the data anywhere, so we can't even figure it out for ourselves.

    It's 2017 people.

  18. Re:People don't know what they are talking about on Americans From Both Political Parties Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality, Poll Shows (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    There are no protections per se, since they never went into effect.

  19. Money and attitude on Before Silicon Valley, New Jersey Was Tech Capital (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It's hard to make new things in an environment that values stability and incrementalism, which pretty much defines the attitude of the Northeastern US.

    Even the Liberals in the Northeast are conservative.

  20. Retransmission costs and ads? on Cable TV 'Failing' As a Business, Cable Industry Lobbyist Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's a strange thing: cable companies pay for the content on their wire (retransmission fees).

    Why are there ads on that wire if the subscriber is paying for the content already?

  21. Re:F*ck the poor on Silicon Valley Is Too Focused On Taking the Easy Path in Health Care (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    "Modern countries" have their free healthcare paid for by high taxes and government redistribution. That's one way to do it, but not necessarily a better way.

  22. Why sell to people with no money?

  23. No evidence...except for young people on A New Report Finds No Evidence That People Will Work Less Under a Universal Basic Income (theoutline.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There was no evidence that people who got paid some cash allowance didn't work, except for the age group where the amount was material (the young).

    That's quite a different conclusion than the headline would suggest.

  24. The vast majority of NY and CA for clinton on Hillary Clinton Rips 'Bankrupt' DNC Data Operation (axios.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    True, the vast majority of Californians and New Yorkers voted for Clinton. The rest of the country not so much.

    That's why the popular vote doesn't count in US elections - nobody wants CA and NY to decide who the next POTUS will be.

  25. Why is inequality bad again? on Technology Is Making the World More Unequal; Only Technology Can Fix This (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Humanity was unequal for the vast majority of its history. The current fad for equality is, for the most part, a historical blip. What ever happened to "respecting other cultures and their preference for inequality?"