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No, that doesn't constitute implicit moral approval. We all understand that platforms and providers can't police each individual user. That's a concern about logistics, not moral c…

They frame it as "imposition of morality" though the issue is broader than that, i.e. Breitbart's tendency to incitement and spreading disinformation. Crying "free speech" over iss…

As someone who owns a couple rental units, the prospect of being a rent-seeking gentrifier or a slumlord

Lmao, if you paid $10 you got ripped off.

Genuinely lmao at the narrative that the taxi unions all got together and conspired against greener rides

yeah, real shame that the unmitigated sexual harassment got in the way of their complete avoidance of regulations

You send a message to [the person who can prove ownership of HN username 'perfmode']. c.f.: https://keybase.io/docs/kbfs Soon, you'll be able to throw data into /keybase/private/yo…

Companies that grant options could fix this in a heartbeat by extending exercise windows; they choose not to do that. Nothing to do with AMT here. If AMT repeal would 'fix' stock o…

Nothing says "normal demands of everyday life" like bouncing quarters off of bedsheets

You'd... know if it was him. He'd, uh, have some choice words about Bomb Man.

I was most surprised by this CEO who goes around messaging randoms on LinkedIn to start friendly conversations. Does that happen?

70x faster? If Crystal gets its own port of Ruby on Rails, oh boy.

If you're a tech company, and your stack is so tightly coupled to Amazon that it represents an existential threat to your server fleet, you were never going to make it anyway.

Wal-Mart, probably. They bought Jet.com, which is effectively Amazon retail. I've tried it and it works just fine. Amazon's definitely the 900 lb gorilla of convenience, but the BA…

Off the top of my head -- protobuf, thrift, avro, XML, lua tables, properties files, yaml.

Heh, people sure to use it like it's the answer to everything, and "don't use it" stops being an option if you're writing to a JSON-based interface. JSON's fine if you don't have a…

s/CIA/arbitrary third party/ Headline makes it sound like the Cisco routers come with a CIA SSH key baked in.

facepalm Thanks.

Yeah, private equity is a natural response to business failing in the wake of a bubble, but bubbles themselves are market distortions caused by insane valuations. Highlighting the …

I'd almost pay a premium just to AVOID branding associations with Bono.

All this needs is a "This is good for Bitcoin." and we've reached full success-fail.

In that case, I guess we're just drawing from different glossaries. I've always heard "blocked" used to mean "can't execute because of something other threads are doing" regardless…

In this post, I will summarize my understanding of a non-blocking (lock free) design of linked list data structure... The author conflates blocking with lock-free. Starvation is a …

You realize you cherry-picked a snippet of my post, and then made the exact point I just made, which is: There aren't deadlocks, but there is still waiting and potential starvation…

Oh god, "non-blocking" is even worse, no thanks to Javascripters. Lock-free data structures can wait, and can block if they deal with failed operations by spinlocking. The muddled …