engineeringwoke

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by engineeringwoke 3mo ago
> This is because they don't understand that it does not run in reverse. It is not symmetrical. They underestimate the pain of a deflationary shock, where everyone (namely your employer) gets an incentive to not participate in the e
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by engineeringwoke 3mo ago
Eh, I'll bite. I haven't read the source but for one, there wasn't really even a US dollar until 1935. When banks failed, and they did unlike now when they artificially don't, you lost everything. There was no FDIC. All
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by engineeringwoke 5mo ago
Yes, it's just a shiny piece of metal. However, it is a pure element and there is a limited amount of it, unlike pretty much anything else except maybe silver. Otherwise this happens. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series&
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by engineeringwoke 7mo ago
Ah sorry our contractor did all that highly illegal stuff. Too bad we can't pierce the corporate veil anymore... shucks.
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by engineeringwoke 10mo ago
That would be like saying that you can verify the software that CERN uses to measure the Higgs Boson because we verified general relativity.
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by engineeringwoke 10mo ago
Basically the modern web uses orchestration, for pretty much everything. Usually Kubernetes is doing that. Theoretically protocols like RAFT are formally verifiable, but their implementations in orchestration tools like etcd have not been,
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by engineeringwoke 10mo ago
You can't formally verify anything that uses consensus, which is the backbone of the entire web. It's a complete non-starter.
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by engineeringwoke 10mo ago
I laughed out loud when he said Cloudflare should have formally verified its systems.
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by engineeringwoke 1y ago
I have worked at several ruby shops and everyone has used heavy IDEs like RubyMine and VSCode, jump to's and language server are far too important.
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by engineeringwoke 1y ago
I mean arguing with tankies is just No True Scotsman ad infinitum, so I'm good to stop this here. Best
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by engineeringwoke 1y ago
What specific way is history being "erased"?
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by engineeringwoke 1y ago
Ever heard of the Little Rock Nine?
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by engineeringwoke 1y ago
It's really fundamentally unimportant what you specifically believe. What is important is what people your age in the aggregate believe. This is an undeniable truth. It's therefore silly to engage in a conversation about you and y
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by engineeringwoke 1y ago
Without some kind of coherent post-Marxist revolutionary understanding of what communism is, this is just pure delusion. Most people don't have the ability to synthesize grand ideas for the direction of society, no offense. There'
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by engineeringwoke 1y ago
Politics is a team sport..? I have nothing in common with tankies, sorry.
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by engineeringwoke 1y ago
Okay here's a secret that you probably won't hear other than in some books that are hard to find. The youth desire a strong executive. They don't yet understand why it can be a bad thing, because they have little experience w
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by engineeringwoke 1y ago
And in turn federal district judges have signed a lot more nationwide injunctions? Orders of magnitude more than had ever been issued? And now they are using a protected class loophole to keep doing it? After it was struck down by the Supre
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by engineeringwoke 1y ago
Burning American flags is free speech? It's definitely an interpretation... and one that many legal scholars disagree with, similar to Roe v Wade. Not that repealing Roe v Wade was a good thing, but it didn't have a solid legal fo
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by engineeringwoke 1y ago
We are all Americans. I however don't want to be constantly re-told why our great, if flawed, history makes WASP Americans out to be the bad guys at every turn.
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by engineeringwoke 1y ago
But it's obvious when people say "dictatorship" or "fascism" today in the USA it is just a dog whistle for not liking Trump. Nobody called Obama a fascist for how Chelsea Manning was treated.
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by engineeringwoke 1y ago
So it wasn't political hacks that tried to add their left spin to every piece of American history that they could get their hands on? Not trying to be offensive, but the tone of how American history is re-told today is not what I would
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by engineeringwoke 1y ago
Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning were both pursued aggressively during the Obama administration. Next, please. I can go all day
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by engineeringwoke 1y ago
Yeah, it's politics. He assumes it will get appealed to the supreme court who will take his side. I personally don't like the Texas v Johnson decision. Burning flags is un-American and should be illegal. How is that dictatorial?
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by engineeringwoke 1y ago
The executive branch has that right. It's happened many many times in the past. I recommend reading a history book and not MSM or social media
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by engineeringwoke 1y ago
> democracies tolerate a much wider spectrum of political opinions in public discourse > UK ...
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by engineeringwoke 1y ago
American museums should not be telling stories to our people that we should be ashamed of ourselves. It's become too much, the pendulum is swinging back. Sorry
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by engineeringwoke 1y ago
Could you describe with specific examples what qualifies the USA today as a "dictatorship"?
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by engineeringwoke 3y ago
For how counter-cultural HN has always prided itself in being, I find it a bit hard to believe just how much the media has shaped the story here. There's a lot of reason to be skeptical... it's not that I like Musk but the media d
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by engineeringwoke 3y ago
Find an article that says that great works of the English language were produced while the authors were drunk then?
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by engineeringwoke 3y ago
The OP was talking about "William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck"... "what about Hunter S. Thompson?" isn't really a good argument. He's not considered a great writer in the

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