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senand··on Bob CD
Agreed. However, I still believe explaining acronyms is good practice.
senand··on Tell HN: A hacker's life is in danger, your awareness may be life saving
All the best to Jadi
senand··on Only virgin type of olive oil consumption reduces the risk of mortality: study
You simply won't be able to find world-class olive oil in supermarkets or on amazon. I can wholeheartedly recommend https://villahumbourg.it/en-index.html, 100% oil from one farm in Tuscany, for sure no Mafia infiltration and the new oil is just being harvested these days.

How I know that? It's from my mother, who I just visit for my holidays. I know I'm biased, but it's just the truth ;-)

senand··on We memo all the things (2020)
This should have „React:“ mentioned in the title.

I was thinking about a technique to write things down…

senand··on Elixir Is Erlang, not Ruby
Can you elaborate?
senand··on Hiroshima (1946)
Even assuming it did bring an end to the war: was it really necessary to drop two bombs for that?
senand··on Show HN: Configurable Route Planning – Avoid left turns, areas and more
„Avoid“ in this case means: increase weight, to make left turns less likely. And that could make a lot of sense, e.g. if you care about a more stress-free route.
senand··on Notes on the Amazon Aurora Paper
Datomic does the same. Storage, query and writing are completely decoupled.

See more https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/storage.html#storage-servic...

senand··on Macchiato – A way to build Node web applications using ClojureScript
Why? (Honest question)
senand··on MobileCoin: A New Cryptocurrency from Moxie Marlinspike
Complete reference link: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/06/more_on_feuda...
senand··on New Model Warns About Crispr Gene Drives in the Wild
References, please? I would be surprised if mosquitoes don't play any role in the ecosystem, honestly.
senand··on Show HN: Python library for functional programming
Are you aware of the thread_first and thread_last functions from toolz?
senand··on Strongbox: a secret manager for AWS
I had/have the same problem.

Since a while, I subscribed to „AWS this week“ on YouTube from a cloud Guru. This is just 5 minutes, and you have a good idea what‘s going on. (I have no affiliation)

senand··on Aerospike: Architecture of a Real-Time Operational DBMS (2016) [pdf]
Worth checking out if you're considering to use it: https://aphyr.com/posts/324-jepsen-aerospike

In a gist, very good pick if it's acceptable to lose writes in some circumstances.

senand··on Lumo – A fast, standalone ClojureScript REPL that runs on Node.js and V8
I think I'd have a look at ClojureScript and/or Clojure CLR (https://github.com/clojure/clojure-clr). The former is Clojure on top of Javascript, the latter Clojure on top of .Net.

It will not be easy, but I'm no expert. I'm also not sure why you'd really want that? Just to solve the long startup time?

senand··on Noms – A versioned, forkable, syncable database
More specifically, what isolation guarantee do you make? Are writes linearizable? What consistency guarantees do you claim? How well do you think you will do when reviewed by aphyr (https://aphyr.com)?
senand··on Rats free each other from cages (2011)
That just suffering by itself is not immoral is quite obvious. We were talking about _inflicting suffering_ the whole time. And, to be even more precise, about knowingly inflicting suffering by human beings. Therefore all the questions you stated are besides the point.

Now it seems the next argument that will come is that we as human beings are also animals and part of nature, and therefore we can also kill other animals as e.g. lions do.

Well, a female mantis occasionally decapitates its male mates after copulation. Does that mean that it is moral for women to do the same to men? Amezarak's original statement is just too broad.

senand··on Rats free each other from cages (2011)
You gave an interesting explanation of what morality is and where it originates (in your opinion). However, that's besides the point.

Even if morality was just herd instinct, what you were saying previously is that suffering for you is not immoral. And even though, many intelligent people saw absolutely nothing wrong with torture, what about you, right now?

What I'm getting at is that your original statement which basically said "suffering is OK" (you didn't indicate any restrictions or conditions) is just bullshit.

senand··on Rats free each other from cages (2011)
So if suffering isn't ethically inacceptable, then torture of human beings is also OK for you? To me it seems that what you're saying essentially means that you just don't have any morality at all.
senand··on Convox – Launch a Private Cloud in Minutes
Could you tell me in which way it it different than elastic beanstalk? Ease of use?
senand··on Why the Sony hack is unlikely to be the work of North Korea
Indeed. Don't forget the currency is the won, not US dollars. Foreign currency in a communist country is most likely very hard to get (at least in East Germany it was).
senand··on Datamining a Flat in Munich
Wow, good to know! I'm currently looking for a flat in Berlin and will definitely use the site. Let's see if I also write some automation around it as the OP apparently did :)

Question: how does nestoria make money? Do you get some cut from immowelt etc. in case you end up renting/buying?

senand··on I Can’t Afford a Bachelor’s Degree, So I’m Making My Own
I'm diverging from the topic, but isn't it terrible that "a good football team" is a major cost to running a university (in the US)?
senand··on Sandstorm Personal Cloud Platform
Can you elaborate on what you mean with "capability-based". How do developers define capabilities? How does a data-interchange format support them?
senand··on Idiomatic Clojure with LightTable
That's awesome, thanks for sharing!

I hope that with the recent addition of plugins, LightTable will also be able to provide code inspection à la IntelliJ IDEA, since that's the feature I miss most.

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