reddytowns (u/reddytowns)

reddytowns commented on The Arctic as it is known today is almost certainly gone economist.com/news/leader... · Posted by u/qubitcoder

mikeash · 8 years ago

"The warming is a whopping 0.8 degrees over the past 150 years, a warming that has tapered off to essentially nothing in the last decade and a half."

This article is bullshit.

reddytowns · 8 years ago

As thee declared so, it must be...

reddytowns commented on The Arctic as it is known today is almost certainly gone economist.com/news/leader... · Posted by u/qubitcoder

alistproducer2 · 8 years ago

Even if it turns out the 2% of scientist who doubt man made global warming are right, you would think that it would at least be worth trying to save the world. This failure is not on regular people, it's on the people who know better and are in positions of power yet failed to fight hard enough, make winning arguments and treat the fight with the urgency it deserved.

If people can be convinced to vote for taxes on themselves to build stadiums in cities that already have one, I don't believe for a second that it is a lost cause to convince people of a tax to literally help save the fucking world.

reddytowns · 8 years ago

The 97% claim is bullshit: https://www.google.com.tw/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/alexeps...

I do believe that there is man made climate change, however, but this meme has to end.

reddytowns commented on Systemd-free Devuan announces its first stable release candidate 'Jessie' 1.0.0 linux.slashdot.org/story/... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute

jnbiche · 8 years ago

> I'm glad the project exists and I hope it's stable enough to be adopted by companies in the future - my fear is that debian/rhel are entrenched now though.

It's not just debian/ubuntu/rhel, almost everyone has moved to systemd, even Arch Linux and Gentoo. As much as I agree with the ideas behind Devuan, knowing and understanding all the intricacies of systemd is now required knowledge for anyone doing Linux-based software development or devops. After putting it off for a while, I've moved on and have learned systemd. It's not the way I would have liked for the Linux ecosystem to have moved (I thought upstart was a decent base to build on), but I'm clearly in the minority here.

What's bothering most at this point are the binary log formats. But that changes from week to week. But it's here to stay, so I'm getting used to it.

reddytowns · 8 years ago

While Gentoo supports systemd, by default it will still use init scripts.

reddytowns commented on Show HN: GitMonKey – monitor your repos and commits for exposed private keys gitmonkey.io/... · Posted by u/shaharsol

reddytowns · 8 years ago

I was thinking of another strategy could be a git plugin that had a config file of salted hashed secrets. If someone tried to commit something with a secret, it could then stop it before it was leaked.

Of course, you'd need to collect all the secrets beforehand, but if you are willing to do that, it would seem to be a better solution.

I was thinking this and later I fell asleep and had this dream, where my girlfriend kept saying, "Hey... Hey... Hey..." over and over again. I woke up and it turns out there was a bird chirping every few seconds at the same interval.

Time is strange, though. I saw a star trek episode recently where there was time dilation on this particular planet. They were trying to beam out the occupants. It got me thinking, if I could beam out to a spaceship where, say every second on the spaceship was a year on planet earth, would I do it? I have this vague feeling of regret, like I'm missing all those moments on between on Earth while I'm there. I suppose I'd experience the same number of moments, spread out as they were, though.

reddytowns commented on Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/huangc10

vecinu · 8 years ago

That really wasn't clear to me from initially reading your post.

Of course in those situations I would hope that a jury could pardon the responsibility of alimony if there was rape involved and the child is not wanted.

reddytowns · 8 years ago

There is no jury in family court, and as the article shows, child support wasn't waived. It's always justified by whatever is "in the best interest of the chilllldrrreeeenn"

reddytowns commented on Vanguard Is Growing Faster Than Everybody Else Combined mobile.nytimes.com/2017/0... · Posted by u/deegles

headmelted · 8 years ago

As a Vanguard customer, I can understand why people are so enthusiastic about their products, and have known for a while that passive investment, and Vanguard in particular, was growing while active management was on the decline.

At no point did I think the difference in inflows was anywhere close to 8.5x. And it does worry me.

I'm familiar with the contention that even having some active players in the market will arbitrage the prices back to fair value, but when they compose such a small share of such a large market that's no longer a trustworthy assumption to make.

There's no law that I know of that prevents active players from exploiting the knowledge that passive money will go wherever the market tells it to. There have got to be a lot of opportunities here for profiting, legally, at the expense of those passive investors, that goes beyond simple margin arbitrage.

My point is, the less active money there is around, the less accurate our concept of a correct value can be. This situation has the potential to de-stabilise the economy sooner rather than later.

reddytowns · 8 years ago

If most people ends up investing in strictly index funds, it would end up badly foe them but I don't see it by itself causing a destabilization. Just a lot of people making sub market profits. It would take a large amount of people doing fad based investing and switching all at once cause destabilization, such as what happened during the dot com bubble and the housing bubble.

If investing decisions get slower in general, then I think it would be a good thing. The number of company decisions made only for only the next quarter rather than long term profitability would be much less if it took time for people to switch the companies they invest in rather than doing so instantly, which would in turn make a more efficient and stable market.

reddytowns commented on Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow exponents.co/the-pulse-of... · Posted by u/Devolver

dovdovdov · 8 years ago

No it can't, but it can be targeted by these negative articles indefinitely, so their stock might get to fall faster, and those who are shorting them can buy their new yacht sooner. ;)

reddytowns · 8 years ago

The people shorting Twitter got together to buy a new yacht? Cool!

reddytowns commented on Mary Anderson, a Founder of the Outdoor Cooperative REI, Dies at 107 nytimes.com/2017/04/10/bu... · Posted by u/BobbyVsTheDevil

oh_sigh · 8 years ago

You've heard the song, "A Boy Named Sue", right? It would make the title a lot less impactful if this was generally accepted.

reddytowns · 8 years ago

I don't follow.

reddytowns commented on Mary Anderson, a Founder of the Outdoor Cooperative REI, Dies at 107 nytimes.com/2017/04/10/bu... · Posted by u/BobbyVsTheDevil

oh_sigh · 8 years ago

Fun fact: 'Dude' is has no implied gender in many parts of the world that use the word. Same with 'guys'.

reddytowns · 8 years ago

You've heard the song, "Dude looks like a lady", right? It would make the title a lot less impactful if this was generally accepted.

reddytowns commented on The Shamanic View of Mental Illness (2010) jaysongaddis.com/the-sham... · Posted by u/pmoriarty

jacobolus · 8 years ago

If you ignore all of the “superstitious crap”, what you end up with is: people experiencing mental illness in this tribe are treated with kindness and respect, told that they are experiencing something important and special and helped through their recovery by a patient and sensitive guide, instead of being told they are broken and thrown into a jail-like setting where they are treated with drugs that have severe side effects.

reddytowns · 8 years ago

In other words, religion trumps modern medicine for mental illness. I agree, but I don't see this tribe's beliefs having a special status or better probability of success above any other religion.