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I'm very familiar with the literature since I'm a distributed database developer. If you investigate high frequency trading you will understand that the quantum phenomena that I'm …

No I disagree since you left out atomicity from your argument. WalMart cannot commit if someone else committed previously, they have to try again. Atomicity is precisely what it is…

Hey guys, I'm a fellow developer of distributed systems here. First of all I think what you are doing is great. My question is what's the point of clocks at all? The current time i…

Instead of just downvoting, how about refuting my claim? I'm seriously curious what is the disagreement. These guys already established atomic clocks are unnecessary. Very interest…

Clocks are meaningless under load. The higher frequency the transactions the more you get into quantum physics. In reality, nobody cares if T-Mobile debited your account 0.01ms bef…

I worked in risk management in the mid 90's with Bond to Swap hedging. You have it right.

I really don't want to get into it, but it involved a beautiful Russian agent driving a BMW X5, baking implements and cup cakes. That's how it started. Not the first time I've been…

Well that's how I run my life and I know a lot of other people do that as well. We used to talk about having "Fuck You" money back in the day. What was the amount of cash required …

Right, eat chocolates until you are sick. I don't think Marx anticipated just how many chocolates Eight Billion people were capable of eating.

Yes this. Captitalism as it stands is totally unsustainable. Communism too but that was not Marx's idea that his critique should lead to what it became. Some form of socialism is i…

The downvotes on this really make me chuckle. I guess there are people out there who really believe the individualism in Atlas Shrugged is a model for society? My interpretation is…

Genius of the Modern World: Marx I think it's an Open University production by the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07gpdbx

Hmmm, well as I see it, Marx, like many luminary geniuses forgot about one thing. Human Nature. The ideas in and of themselves were profound but the prescription was unfortunately …

You rock! Absolutely, you need Atlas Shrugged on the bookshelf to understand the mess we find ourselves in. The most amazing thing is the hypnotic scam that has been pulled, on us …

Wow cool top comment! Which reminds me, I just watched an excellent documentary on Karl Marx which was very timely. It's largely forgotten what he was really about I think. Really …

Right, NLP as a "Science" is kind of crackpot, but there are some things in the texts that are truisms and worthy of note just because they are laid out concisely. It can be very d…

Yup totally agreed. Knowledge of NLP helps. Not practicing it consciously but understanding the theory behind it. Is important to make a connection and pay attention to others. Too…

IMHO, you aren't going to get any respect from HN mods for being "correct". Group-Think is what runs things around here not fairness.

It's nice to see you've reached out to Alex publicly. Any time someone or an organization brings in someone else's code and makes use of it, no matter what the license we really ne…

Thank you for the clarity. I actually knew what you meant and probably the other person did as well. It did come off a bit harsh, that was my only point and I don't think think it …

I'm not offended, I'm stating a fact that we were talking about what makes a genius and you decided to make it about rape and there was an implicit derision aimed at the person you…

That's not actually what you said. What you said is it is about time we moved on from C and suggested Rust. That seems like your own subjective opinion. Which is fine of course, ea…

I don't downvote, even if I could. However, this comment is exceptionally rude, disrespectful and out of place here on HN. [EDIT] Specifically I don't appreciate the way you change…

Is that something you are just musing out loud, or are you proselytizing? If it is the former free to use whatever language you choose. If it is the latter, can you please keep you…

No, those would require domain specific knowledge. But at least inside the Linux kernel everyone is talking the equivalent of English. Understanding English does not imply you will…