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mamon commented on Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by cutting power   theintercept.com/2021/04/... · Posted by u/DyslexicAtheist
systemvoltage · 4 years ago
Israel is a democracy, has human rights, conducts elections, has free trade and great tech scene, currency is stable and they've got one of the best intelligence agencies. Israel's population is some 9 million which is half of Beijing city and little bit larger than SF Bay Area.

Let's contrast it with fundamentalist Iranian islamic government, hell bent on developing nuclear weapons despite of non-proliferation treaty signed by the whole world in 1960's, hanging their journalists and publicly executing dissidents.

I am not sure there is a shred of doubt who is the good guy and who is the bad guy here.

mamon · 4 years ago
Israel is not a democracy. It is a country ruled by religious fanatics, basically. If you are not a Jew, you do not profess Judaism you are denied some of the civil rights, maybe not officially, but practicaly. Think of all the Palestinians there.
mamon commented on Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by cutting power   theintercept.com/2021/04/... · Posted by u/DyslexicAtheist
knowaveragejoe · 4 years ago
Elaborate on what you think they should see in the mirror.
mamon · 4 years ago
If one person thinks you're an asshole they might simply be wrong about you. If everyone in the world thinks you're an asshole then you, almost by definiton, are one.

There's a reason why there's a separate word in most languages for "anti-semitism" but not for "anti-italianism" or "anti-brasilianism".

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mamon commented on Israel may have achieved herd immunity against Covid-19   israel21c.org/israel-may-... · Posted by u/_Microft
mamon · 4 years ago
Oh, so that's why they stopped paying Pfizer for the vaccines :)

https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-covid-pfizer-hold...

mamon commented on Intel 3rd gen Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake): generationally big, competitively small   anandtech.com/show/16594/... · Posted by u/totalZero
JoshTriplett · 4 years ago
> For larger (amazon, google, etc) players the economic incentives against idleness are just too great.

Not all workloads are CPU-bound. Cloud providers have many servers for which the CPUs are idle most of the time, because they're disk-bound, network-bound, other-server-bound, bursty, or similar. They're going to aim to minimize the idle time, but they can't eliminate it entirely given that they have customer-defined workloads.

mamon · 4 years ago
But if the workload is not CPU-bound then why would they care about upgrading their CPUs to more performant ones, like Ice Lake Xeons?
mamon commented on Programming is hard   dorinlazar.ro/2021-02-pro... · Posted by u/zuzuleinen
watwut · 4 years ago
Afaik, it is extraordinary rare to pass the bar without going to Law school. That test is quite difficult.
mamon · 4 years ago
Test being difficult is not a problem, we want our lawyers to be competent, after all. The more important part is if it is fair. In Poland bar exam had been famous for near impossible questions, which were only answered correctly by applicants that knew them in advance, which typically were family members of already practicing attorneys/judges.
mamon commented on Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal   indiatoday.in/technology/... · Posted by u/gaius_baltar
decrypt · 4 years ago
I sent Mark a message yesterday on Signal. It was "delivered" but not "read", obviously. Today, I don't see that contact as a Signal user anymore. I see a "Invite to Signal" button on that conversation view. Guess he deleted the account?
mamon · 4 years ago
Probably changed the phone number after it had been leaked.
mamon commented on A categorized list of all Java and JVM features since JDK 8 to 16   advancedweb.hu/a-categori... · Posted by u/pjmlp
avmich · 4 years ago
Well said :) . Spring looks so much as to show how useful ideas can be misapplied with catastrophic results. For example, liberate encouraging of dependency injections leads to multitude of interfaces which are only ever implemented once by a production code class, and maybe one more time by a test class, even though Java has all methods virtual and testing could be done without requiring the interface.
mamon · 4 years ago
>> Java has all methods virtual and testing could be done without requiring the interface.

Not sure what you mean by that. I thought that interface/implementation divide is the way to implement virtual calls. Unless you want testing frameworks to do bytecode instrumentation.

mamon commented on AI skills are worth less than you think (2019)   medium.com/inside-inovo/y... · Posted by u/tate
YeGoblynQueenne · 4 years ago
Yes, more people who want to, can do the job today without needing a PhD.

However, most of the people who want to do the job want to do it because they heard Google pays six-figure salaries for it. But Google pays six-figure salaries for the job because it takes a PhD to do it right. When the job becomes a job that everyone can do, Google won't pay six-figure salaries for it any more - to PhDs, or anyone else.

At that point, once more, you'll need a PhD to do a job that Google pays a six-figure salary for.

The goose that lays the golden eggs gets killed over and over again. Some people get in early and get a golden egg. The rest are left to suck ordinary eggs and accuse the others of cheating.

But, who was it who killed the goose in the first place?

mamon · 4 years ago
I think you meant "seven-figure" because "six-figure" is a salary that Google pays to fresh college grads.

u/mamon

KarmaCake day1383August 22, 2015View Original