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Excuse the mostly pointless post, but how many days are in your week? :)

If I'm looking at a join I need to make sure that the data is how I'd expect- is it 1..1, 1..many? If I don't have a good understanding of the object and the data it contains, I don't care if it has a prefix, I'm going to dig deeper. If I dig deeper I'm going to remember what that object represents and I won't need a prefix in the future.

So what exactly is the use case of the "tbl" prefix? Are you skimming over unknown objects just because they have a prefix? I don't see any upside.

"It's not your mother's phone"

All of the "nicer" areas that I mentioned in my previous post have very low crime rates and no municipal tax. To add to the previous issues I had, Detroit is poorly run. There have been quite a few cases of corruption of city officials.

It's just another thing that needs to be wrangled in.

-The income tax needs to go. 2.5% to live in a city with pretty bad crime and no amenities? No thanks.

-Car insurance is through the roof. If you park on the street it's assumed your car will get broken into occasionally.

-I don't feel entirely safe. If I were to walk home from a bar at 2:30am I would be concerned. 20 miles away in any direction and I wouldn't think twice about it (I'm a young guy and I will not drink and drive, so this is a legitimate issue)

-It's actually quite expensive considering the above. A "nice" apartment in a decent part of downtown will cost $1k+/mo. Go to Plymouth, Northville, Royal Oak (high demand, up-scale areas nearby), and you'll be able to get a reasonable apartment for this same price, sans all the above issues.

I really hope it turns around, but my realistic side is a little worried.

Wouldn't any semblance of avalanche effect make this attack useless?

Going back to the Red Cross example: If I'm a doctor in the US I'm making very good money, I get to see my family every day, and I have a very high standard of living.

It takes one of those doctors (not necessarily from the US, but I imagine most doctors live well) to give all of that up and fly over to a country in ruins to help. Without the people who are willing to really make those sacrifices, we've got a bunch of money and that's it. Money in and of itself is not what is usually needed to rectify situations.

This is what I'm worried about. Who really stopped SOPA? You can bet that anyone who signs up for this will go around touting how they stopped SOPA, just like the guy next to me pretty much single handedly saved Haiti in 2010 with his $5 donation to the Red Cross.

There is a disparity between giving money so that others can continue to do work and being the one doing the work. I want that distinction clear, and to remain clear. The doctor who flew down to Haiti to personally help is infinitely more valuable than someone who donated.

EDIT: I'm not saying that this is useless or dumb. It's a step in the right direction, albeit (IMO) a small one. I just don't want to see "I signed up- I'm going to save the internet!" I think the people who really devote themselves to these causes should be respected on a different level than those that, for instance, sign up for this.

It's literally the absolute least you could do.

However that really puts it into perspective, thank you.

Can someone explain this a little bit? They were able to put 500 terawatts into this beam, I think I understand that part. But that's 1,000x more energy than the US is using right now.. so did they actually create that much energy to begin with? This is where I'm failing at understanding.

Actually, I kind of liked it.. though I have no idea why. Gimmicky.

You're mixing apples and oranges here.

In the highest most competitive horse races, it's not uncommon to still see horses that win by large margins. Having a horse win without advantage against other horses is not a good reason to start having humans race against horses.

It doesn't make any sense- I don't want those other things. I only want rims.

Now with computers- say I work with big data, so I really only need a computer with a boatload of RAM and a pretty meh processor. If this model takes off (which I seriously doubt it will) all the sudden, to get my 64GB of ram I need an 8 core processor and a top of the line graphics card? It doesn't make any sense.

Package deals inevitably force people to buy things they have no desire for, and I'm not even taking into consideration how they are intentionally making this near impossible to repair or replace pieces manually.

It's just really dumb, and I have a hard time believing anyone actually thinks any part of this is a decent idea.

On the other hand, I think that another contributor is that I sort of assume everyone is male unless there is some indicator otherwise, and I'm sure most women prefer not to put themselves out there with a "Hey everyone, female here!" I wonder if there was an actual poll how many people on HN are actually female?

I should have made that more clear.

Depending on how it's done, wouldn't a hash of an unknown salt + password be impossible to translate back to plaintext? Even if the salt is known, as long as it changes per user, doesn't that make the look up incredibly time consuming? (Honest questions)

The sentiment was "There is a large portion of gamers that do not enjoy playing games, they enjoy winning games."

I think this translates to Diablo 3 very well- everyone was perfectly happy farming Diablo or Baal (previous "final" bosses), yet no one seems to enjoy farming Act 1 or Act 2 inferno. It's the exact same thing, but I believe people are not enjoying it because they are unable to beat the game.

I see a lot of talk about how it's impossible to beat the game just by grinding, and you have to play the AH to get gear from the people that have already beaten the game but it's important to remember that there were people that beat the game for the first time. These people didn't have people to purchase the best stuff of off because they were the furthest of anyone in the world.

Similarly, there are people progressing (albeit slowly) through inferno hardcore where there are probably less than ~100 people in the world. There's very little gear on the market and there are still people progressing by farming gear themselves.

To me it sounds like he is almost refusing to use an RDBMS to its fullest.

It's all just hindsight garbage.

1) Find (false) fact on Wikipedia. 2) Include fact in your important paper (journal, etc) 3) Fact is found on wikipedia to be false, and is removed 4) Fact is later found in your journal, and is then added to Wikipedia with a reference to your important findings. 5) Fact cannot be removed because it was been referenced from a journal

He paid for college. He paid for taxes while he was using the infrastructure you've mentioned. Now he's going to greener pastures and you still expect him to continue to support the U.S. through taxes? I don't think that makes a whole lot of sense. I don't continue to pay college tuition because at some point that "infrastructure" helped me land a job. I paid that debt off, and it's behind me.

I don't want to turn this into a political discussion, but this is why I disagree with people suggesting that the U.S. will fix its problems by increasing the taxes on the rich. The rich will leave- the U.S. doesn't offer anything that other countries in the world can't, and at a cheaper cost.