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swehneron What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture?

The funny thing to me is, it's more important what your neighbour's house looks like.

swehneron Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address

From the list of words at https://github.com/roberdam/Xaddress/blob/master/en/adj_en.c..., I take it that some locations will be labelled DESPERATE, UNSPEAKABLE, POSTDOCTORAL, OBSTETRICAL, GENEALOGICAL, ASSASSINATING,CORRUPTED, PROGESTERONE, etc. etc., also RUSSIAN, UKRAINIAN, DUTCH, ...etc. Where did that list come from?

swehneron Brains of overweight people look ten years older than those of lean peers

The downvoting at Hacker News is often amusing.

swehneron Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

Happy with gitolite. It's just fine, no need for a web interface.

swehneron Brains of overweight people look ten years older than those of lean peers

A ten-year-old can be obese. An 80-year-old can be obese. I'm not sure what it says about the corresponding "lean peer" when adding ten years to these ages.

swehneron Firefox’s latest Test Pilot: No More 404s

Sounds like better left for a browser plugin

swehneron Trust No One: Kim Philby and the Hazards of Mistrust (2014)

Not trusting Gladwell

swehneron Home Computers Connected to the Internet Aren't Private, Court Rules

Bribed?

swehneron Airbnb Is Suing San Francisco to Block Rental Rules

I read it. Quite wordy. Not much difference. To call ads "user-generated content" is a bit of a stretch, no? After all, "AirBNB" is much a party to the transaction.

swehneron Airbnb Is Suing San Francisco to Block Rental Rules

First amendment, for sure.

I'm guessing this is about this, "The new law would require Airbnb and other short-term rental websites to post registration numbers on listings or email the number and name of the host to the Office of Short-Term Rentals, The City’s agency tasked with enforcing the regulations." (From http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-poised-require-airbnb-list-regi...)

So "their" "free speech rights" are "violated" because they have to post registration numbers.

swehneron C14 – Cheap, secure long term cloud storage

Highest listed ADSL download rate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_digital_subscriber_..., ADSL2+)

But here we actually want the upload rate, so it would take even longer.

swehneron C14 – Cheap, secure long term cloud storage

"send up to 20 TB of data using FTP... " -- that's funny. At 24 MBit/s it comes to 2,000 hours, which is more than two months.

swehneron Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent

The title could have been chosen as "Learn to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent" or "Learning learning by gradient descent by gradient descent"

swehneron FAA Slaps Amazon with $350k Penalty for Shipping Violation

Should be $350,000,000, no doubt.

swehneron Why I Would Raise Chickens

If they're so great, why do they need to be promoted?

swehneron Twitter Is Betting Everything on Jack Dorsey

How is this? http://www.aimgroup.com/store/cirs/2015-craigslist-annual/

swehneron How and Why to Log Your Bash History

Doing the same. Also including the git branch (if applicable)

It's not obvious, but with this mechanism commands are only logged once they complete. So the log file does not include commands while they are still running. Run into that from time to time.

swehneron Challenging the myth that the rich are specially-talented wealth creators

Got a 403, here's a copy, https://web.archive.org/web/20160227170731/http://blogs.lse....

swehneron The Quiet Crisis Unfolding in Software Development

It's almost as if the crisis is all these people that think this or that little item, feature, observation, insight, idea, etc. is soooo terribly important.

swehneron Why Does Everyone Hate Monsanto? (2014)

Is from the year 2014.

swehneron Media's Obsession with Trump Not Supported by Data

Agreed

swehneron What disturbed me about the Facebook meeting

To pretend or make out that you're some kind of marginalized group, that you're being ignored or exploited or taken advantage of or just not getting what you're supposed to be entitled to, and that you're afraid and worried and unhappy -- it sounds so lame and cheap, and in the end, boring.

Never heared of this guy, but doesn't seem I missed anything.

swehneron The Peculiar History of Life Insurance

This sounds more convincing in terms of the history of life insurance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_insurance#Life_insu...

Maybe the article means to talk about the history of life insurance in the USA.

swehneron Anal probes are fine, if you've got nothing to hide [pdf]

You have a point there -- the problem goes beyond the victim of this case.

swehneron Anal probes are fine, if you've got nothing to hide [pdf]

Seems to have been settled. Found this:

Mention of "Doe v. El Paso County Hospital District, et al. No. 3:13-cv-00406 (WD Tex., filed Dec. 18, 2013)" at this blog, https://holdcbpaccountable.org/category/texas/ links to "Texas Hospital Reaches $1.1 Million Settlement" http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2014/07/0... (July 2014)

In particular, "Texas Tech University, which operates a medical school campus at the hospital [will pay] $500,000."

swehneron Wealth doesn't trickle down – it just floods offshore, research reveals (2012)

Dated Saturday, July 21, 2012

swehneron Metal foam obliterates bullets

What if you shoot twice at the same spot?

swehneron Half of Scotland's electricity consumption came from renewables last year

One of the commenters, Alexander Fleming, says the headline is misleading and points out: "There's more "energy" consumed than just electricity energy - there's heating energy and transport energy and most of that is not electric, yet."