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  1. I think you drank the koolaid.

    The French revolution ate itself. Lack of food had nothing to do with it.

    Once you start killing people that disagree with you, it ain't over till _you_are_dead_. As you say: 'we're better equipped', _you_ will die faster than Robespierre did.

  2. Re:Excel has made IT Consultants a fortune on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    You need to hire better coders. Somebody screwed the pooch badly.

  3. Re:Two Words on More Young People Are Becoming Farmers (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm amazed the correct answer is this far down the page.

  4. Re:For really good movies.... on A Third of Americans Still Buy and Rent Videos (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The highest fidelity you'll typically find is Pirate Bay. Because they sell _crazy_ high resolution videos in Japan. Not much past Kurosawa at that resolution though.

  5. Amazon's strategy is quick cheap deliveries. How expensive and inefficient do the Italians have to become before Amazon can eat the cost of flights? Amazon owns aircraft.

    It wouldn't work as well for Ireland as Italy and it won't work for everything, but still.

    How long ago were you in Bulgaria? Things change.

  6. Re:An unpopular opinion on Facebook To Show Users Which Russian Propaganda They Followed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You get lunatic fringe parties gaining power because they are the 2% that put a coalition into power.

    Then the mainstream parties see what nonsense their coalition is getting behind and the government collapses. Rinse repeat.

  7. Restudy history. The French revolution turned out _very_badly_ for all involved. It's a lesson on how not to do it.

  8. For definitions of 'people' equalling 'scripts stuffing comment boxes'.

    Internet polls mean fuckall.

  9. That's how you get giant Amazon warehouses in Bulgaria. They don't want their jobs moving to the lowest cost corner of the EU. But it's kind of inevitable anyhow.

  10. Re:Excel has made IT Consultants a fortune on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Access will let accounting types build simple queries. Sure the queries will suck, but server time is a sunk cost. If the database is 'over normalized' you provide them with simple views to work with.

    _Never_ seen Excel data sources 'fail silently', unless someone was trapping errors wrong. KISS solves that, not like accountants even know how to write error traps.

  11. Re:Fuck the universities on 'The Death of the MBA' (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Was a MIT EE first. Likely got a lot dumber with the MBA, but had enough margin to afford it.

  12. Re:O tempora! O mores! on Facebook To Show Users Which Russian Propaganda They Followed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    History of the 20th century shows Ruskys to be among the most gullible, propaganda susceptible people on the planet. They, as a group, bought into Marxism and now support a leader who stole _billions_* from them!

    * Thousand million: Billion, Trillion. Pick your unit. Pick your currency as well. Works lots of ways.

  13. Re:2021? Maybe. on Uber Expands Driverless-Car Push With Deal For 24,000 Volvos (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It happens, I ran with a bunch of shitty kids. One was really psycho. Rolled a big old tire and rim into 4 lanes of traffic, about 5-6th grade. That's the one that got him busted. Anyhow...

    'Litter' can be pretty large, but out of the way. The moving kind is generally small, not much bigger than a blowing bag or paper. Do AI cars even try to avoid cats in fall?

    I have stepped on my brakes hard because I saw a child's toy (not a child) bouncing into traffic. I inferred the child I couldn't yet see. That can't be that uncommon an experience.

    AI cars should stop for everything bouncing or rolling, at least. Which is trainable. But build an AI that identifies 'toys' in an image and runs realtime. (Coder/Training set builder at end of long 'sprint': Look for rolling wheels and call it a day.)

  14. Re:An unpopular opinion on Facebook To Show Users Which Russian Propaganda They Followed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Confused implies trying to understand. GP is just repeating derp.

  15. Re:Hire John Carmack on Apple Scientists Disclose Self-Driving Car Research (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    What if there are more cyclists in your way than the number of BFG rounds?

  16. Re:Spreadsheets are not a database on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you know many Lisp etc programmers?

    Accountants?

    It's not going to work.

  17. Re:O tempora! O mores! on Facebook To Show Users Which Russian Propaganda They Followed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Russia is weak and lame now, you are right about that. But they can still put together PR.

    It mostly comes off as comical outside Russia, but they still put it out. 99% intended for credulous Ruskys.

  18. Re:Net Neutrality would actually mean you pay more on Net Neutrality Advocates Plan Protests For December 7 at Verizon Stores (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The ISPs own on demand servers were faster. Netflix said that was unfair and that they should get FREE hosting from the ISPs. The ISPs said: no you pay for rack space like everybody else.

  19. Re:Net Neutrality would actually mean you pay more on Net Neutrality Advocates Plan Protests For December 7 at Verizon Stores (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    All data of the same type has to be treated the same.

    QoS is not illegal under NN.

    But that's the bad part. Now federal government lawyers define exactly what is and isn't QoS. What could go wrong?

    Reminder: Netflix wanted free rack space for it's servers, that's Netflix's idea of what constitutes NN.

  20. Re:Spreadsheets are not a database on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    So more complicated and unobvious than Lisp?

    That will surely work for accountants...they do love recursive programming etc.

    Cells in a spreadsheet are kind of functional.

  21. Re:Who would be your "dream CEO" for HP? on HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman To Step Down (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's like a nightmare game of three card monty.

    Keep your eye one EDS...now: Which bid are you going to throw away unopened?

  22. Re:Fuck the universities on 'The Death of the MBA' (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    It's gotten worse too. Used to be they'ed go for a semester or year and get booted for failing. Now they just switch majors until they get down to one that will let them pass at their level of effort.

    If a kid wants to party, (s)he should get it out of their system while working a shit job and paying rent.

    The real nightmare is 'free college' but continued complete lack of academic standards. No nation in the world has that combination.

  23. Re:Fuck the universities on 'The Death of the MBA' (axios.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    MBAs aren't universally air thieves. Of the fifty or so I've worked with, one wasn't an idiot.

  24. Re:I'm a foreigner, so I have to ask on 'The Death of the MBA' (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    It's poaching at worst. They just haven't raised the limit to one.

  25. Re:Over supply on 'The Death of the MBA' (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Wanted: 'All the toilets in grand central station clean licker', MBA preferred.