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New comment by gnaritas in "Kubernetes 1.18"

gnaritas — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 05:46:40 +0000

> we really must appreciate that Kubernetes really is the future of infrastructure

No, it isn't. It's extra complexity most don't need.

New comment by gnaritas in "Your balance is $0.30000000004"

gnaritas — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 18:01:07 +0000

> One thing I've always wondered is who the heck is Martin Fowler and why does he have such a following?

You don't know the history of your craft; study more, look into where agile came from, the extreme programming movement, and who was involved and how refactoring became a thing. Names like Ward Cunningham, Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, Ron Jeffries, Rob Martin, and Dave Thomas should be familiar to anyone who knows their craft.

New comment by gnaritas in "Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume Masterpiece"

gnaritas — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 19:20:43 +0000

Oh I agree with you on the car, but this assumes you know enough about them to get a decent one for 3k; people go for newer used ones because it's a black box to them and they want something they "feel" is reliable and they don't feel that about older cars. They're wrong, but that's the nature of not understanding a thing. 28k is still out of the reach of most.

New comment by gnaritas in "Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume Masterpiece"

gnaritas — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 05:35:01 +0000

There's also someone buying a lottery ticket that will make them rich soon, so what? Both take a huge amount of luck and are extremely unlikely.

New comment by gnaritas in "Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume Masterpiece"

gnaritas — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 05:32:32 +0000

> The freeways around here are gridlocked with cars costing more than $28,000.

Yea, financed with debt over what is now typically 7-10 years. 28k of capital to invest is out of the reach of the majority of Americans. Please don't pretend that's a small amount of money anyone can come up with.

New comment by gnaritas in "Simple, solar-powered water desalination"

gnaritas — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 07:11:51 +0000

Fair point on the LiFePO, but none of those other things really matter as they're easily made up for by a larger bank, what matters is the cost per amp/hour and lithium isn't remotely there yet. The exact fraction varies, but lithium isn't going to touch some Costco golf cart batteries at a $100 a pop. You can buy an entire house bank for the cost of 1 lithium LiFePO battery (nearly 1k on Amazon). Unless you just like wasting money, deep-cycle lead-acid is a far better choice.

New comment by gnaritas in "Simple, solar-powered water desalination"

gnaritas — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 00:18:54 +0000

Lead-acid is still better, it's 1/10 the cost for equivalent usable amp-hours. Most boaters use deep cycle golf cart batteries, they're produced at such scale that they're cheap as hell. Lithium is a waste of money and dangerous to boot. They only make sense if you're extremely space limited, which most bigger boats aren't.

New comment by gnaritas in "A 96 Bitcoin ransom payment ends up on Bitfinex"

gnaritas — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 23:15:48 +0000

> What's the point of anonymity when trading

You don't have a right to trade anonymously; sorry, but that's called money laundering.

New comment by gnaritas in "An alternative argument for why women leave STEM"

gnaritas — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 22:04:43 +0000

Law and medicine are traditionally seen as high status and may retain women longer, but certainly, suffer the same issue; women over 30 drop off dramatically in law as they leave to become parents.

New comment by gnaritas in "Why Japan is so successful at returning lost property"

gnaritas — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 07:05:57 +0000

According to the population who already lives there and have well-established laws and customs. Humans are tribal, diversity isn't generally desired by most.

New comment by gnaritas in "'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science?"

gnaritas — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 02:38:35 +0000

> there's no way to go back and conduct experiments to validate hypotheses.

That's not required to do science. The notion one must be able to go back in time to prove evolution is absurd. Evolution happens, that's a fact. No system in the body, including the brain, is untouched by its processes and consequences.

New comment by gnaritas in "Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost public transportation"

gnaritas — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 03:26:54 +0000

> They're just people who at this time have housing insecurity

They're homeless, trying to hide that reality with a non-sense PC euphemism doesn't change that. This attitude isn't helping, it's obfuscating and bad. They're not housing insecure, short people aren't height-challenged, disabled people aren't differently-abled.

New comment by gnaritas in "LocalStorage or WebSQL unexpectedly cleared"

gnaritas — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 07:15:42 +0000

> It's really unfortunate that it's not a reliable storage medium.

That's not what it's for, you're just misusing the tool for something it isn't meant to be. It's not a database, it's a cache.

New comment by gnaritas in "Show HN: Kong – Physical Cryptocurrency"

gnaritas — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 02:56:58 +0000

You must not live in a state where pot is legal; in such places $2 bills floating around everywhere, I use them all the time. The reason: cash businesses use them heavily to reduce the amount of physical cash they need to maintain and move around. Pot shops occupy a gray area legally and banks don't like to deal with them so they often operate old school: cash businesses.

I have a few in my wallet most of the time, like to use them for tips when I eat out.

New comment by gnaritas in "Two Years of Vanlife: A Retrospective"

gnaritas — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 16:45:38 +0000

Having to work is not slavery. Wild animals work and they're as free as free gets. Work is a necessity of survival, the necessities of life require labor to create/get and it's on you to carry your own weight, that's not slavery, that's reality.

New comment by gnaritas in "How to proceed when you run out of cash, but you still believe?"

gnaritas — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 03:33:00 +0000

Which is about 18% of the original investment, not 20, assuming no gains or losses.

New comment by gnaritas in "Job loss predictions over rising minimum wages haven't come true"

gnaritas — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 01:56:21 +0000

It certainly can be, but that's not a business problem, there will always be people who failed to prepare or lacked the necessary skills to prepare for old age or people who refuse to move somewhere they can find a job. Education doesn't equal skill; jobs pay for skills, not for education; if you have skills you can find a better than minimum wage job, but you might have to move.

Those are problems for society, not for individual business owners. Those problems should be solved by taxes, not by forcing business owners to pay people more than they are worth to the business.

New comment by gnaritas in "Job loss predictions over rising minimum wages haven't come true"

gnaritas — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 01:55:24 +0000

It's not meant to provide a living. Companies don't exist to provide jobs, jobs are a byproduct of the business, not its reason to exist. Minimum wage jobs are people with no skills who are easily replaceable, usually teenagers learning to enter the workforce.

New comment by gnaritas in "X17 Particle"

gnaritas — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 02:02:07 +0000

No, there are other reasons[1] we believe dark matter exists, it's not just a fudge factor in the math. There are multiple lines of evidence pointing at its existence.

[1] https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/five-reasons-we-think-...

New comment by gnaritas in "When George Soros Broke the British Pound (2014)"

gnaritas — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 23:57:16 +0000

> I am sorry for derailing, but how does that happen, did they come out like a faulty batch from a factory?

They grew up lazy in soft times. It's a never-ending cycle, parents work hard to make kids lives easier than theirs, kids don't get challenged as parents did, grow up soft and lazy and blame the world. They fail, raise kids poor, who get challenged again and grow up hard and make something of themselves, and then raise lazy kids trying to improve their kids life, repeat ad infinitum.