jgowdy

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by jgowdy 2y ago
"but the company founder is some billionaire's daughter. I fear ever having a boss like that just because of the fundamental difference in perspective and life experiences. I'm sure I won't be able to communicate with th
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by jgowdy 2y ago
The Dutch Innovation Box regime provides a lower effective tax rate (7% as of 2024) on profits derived from qualifying intellectual property, such as patents and software. For companies like Uber, which rely heavily on proprietary technolog
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by jgowdy 2y ago
That's one way of saying "Europe is full of nations who provide unethical tax shelters for businesses (while criticizing any nation that doesn't provide their level of social programs), so they can regulate and fine and fill
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by jgowdy 2y ago
Brother, wait until you hear about Tailscale... Which is also point to point for the traffic.
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by jgowdy 2y ago
Respectfully, these vague states of support between “active” and less active, “first class” and not first class, etc comes off as “we want to say we have that but shrug any time it’s deficient.” Its similar to calling the port overall “linu
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by jgowdy 2y ago
Here are some citations since people seem to be just downvoting because they don't like the message: Go requiring non-ELF standard parameters for initialization of supposedly "C ABI" libraries, open since 2015. https:/&
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by jgowdy 2y ago
Yeah, only supporting glibc behaviors and ignoring the ELF standard at will really qualifies as best managed. /s
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by jgowdy 2y ago
Is the new tech lead more likely to get rid of the glibc-isms that Golang won't let go of, like crashing if non-ELF standard parameters like env aren't passed in ELF library initialization, or maybe supporting global-dynamic threa
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by jgowdy 5y ago
Oh, is it a "crisis"? Sounds like we need a "war on" it then. I think food waste is horrible and I literally donate money monthly(1) to multiple charities to fight hunger, but I'm sick of this framing language th
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by jgowdy 5y ago
Yeah, the traffic isn't bad enough so let's just shoehorn in multifamily units into single family zoned neighborhoods that aren't remotely close enough to the jobs people work for bicycling to be a realistic option. Virtue s
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by jgowdy 5y ago
I had a 386SX 16mhz Packard Bell, so I was able to run Windows 3.1 in 386 Enhanced Mode like a boss.
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by jgowdy 5y ago
Out of principle, I've wiped my iPhone and moved my primary SIM card to a Pixel 5 running https://calyxos.org This CSAM scanning will do effectively zero to stop children from being abused. It will only serve to breach the
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by jgowdy 6y ago
I often bring this up in HTTP vs HTTPS conversations. It's not about what CAs you trust, as that's a policy decision you can make on your own devices. It's about knowing (through whatever CAs you trust), what the origin of
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by jgowdy 6y ago
The US wants to tax companies earning money in the US.
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by jgowdy 6y ago
The EU is literally in the process of putting the same kind of taxes on technology companies. And people are cheering for it. The US does the same in reverse, everyone loses their minds...
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by jgowdy 6y ago
How is this not exactly the same as the EU putting targeted taxes on major US technology companies to stop money from leaving their market?
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by jgowdy 6y ago
How is this not exactly the same as the EU putting targeted taxes on major US technology companies to stop money from leaving their market? Any time the US does something, the reaction is always strangely different than when other players l
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by jgowdy 6y ago
Yes, in today's age of liberal democracies, we can take lessons from the past, like the value of free speech, innocent until proven guilty, not being deprived freedom without due process of law / habeas corpus, abolishment of debt
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by jgowdy 6y ago
The British, European, and American atrocities were the only ones you consider "recent"? We only hold those to account who are open to being held accountable? Or only those who keep good records? Sorry, but that's not a ver
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by jgowdy 6y ago
Honestly, I've lost a bit of confidence in the Internet Archive project's judgement and long term stability, given the risk they took in distributing books during Covid-19. I feel that they risked the entire project with massive
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by jgowdy 6y ago
What other families have benefitted from colonialism and slavery? Is this family the worst example or simply the highest profile? It seems like there are a great number of people and even entire families living lives of luxury due in larg
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by jgowdy 6y ago
The topic is always British, European, or American. That's why it's valid to bring up other similar historical wrongs in this discussion without dismissing it as whataboutism. The "strange" focus on only the historic
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by jgowdy 6y ago
You're absolutely right. There's a whole subset of people who have declared war on meat. They want to replace meat with a diet desperately low in B12 so you have to supplement to be healthy. They want to replace meat with ingre
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by jgowdy 6y ago
Besides, on the server the real trend I've seen is Alpine. Far less attack surface than CentOS anyway. If your applications work with musl libc, you're in business, and worst case you can install glibc (which packages like OpenJ
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by jgowdy 6y ago
I think you'll find in the modern era / younger generation, running Ubuntu on the server is actually very common. Especially in the cloud. Most usage of CentOS I've seen in newer builds is strictly for hardware that require
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by jgowdy 6y ago
I mean, or you could run Debian or Ubuntu. Why would open-source infrastructure have such a strong desire to run RHEL?
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by jgowdy 6y ago
I'm sorry, are you referring to the Kingdom of Great Britain, a country that doesn't exist anymore, or the United Kingdom, a wholly different structure of government and effectively a different nation?
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by jgowdy 6y ago
Certainly, I'm pretty sure in my comment, I emphasized that it's the very selective seeking of historical justice, most commonly targeting Europe, England, and the United States which impeaches the credibility of the whole exercis
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by jgowdy 6y ago
I want to know how much the Romans stole from Germania. If we're going to track down every historical wrong (as long as it's a European/British/American historical wrong), and see it made right, we need to know how much
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by jgowdy 6y ago
Isn't this moot given that with many BIOS interfaces you can choose your own root authority and not use theirs?

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