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by jwolfe 4y ago
Maybe give this a scan, to understand the impact it had had on AWS as of 2015: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/amazon-excerpt.html
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by jwolfe 4y ago
> Obamacare made a great effort to decouple health care insurance and benefits from the employer Did it? There was lots of talk at the time about how you get to keep your private plan. And the actual text of the ACA mandated that large
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by jwolfe 4y ago
The issue is not exposure to hatemail. The issue is exposure to child pornography and videos of people literally dying, all day every day. These are not comparable to the pain of being banned, and therapy is nowhere near sufficient. https:
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by jwolfe 4y ago
It should be noted that this is self-promotion.
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by jwolfe 4y ago
This metaphor also fails, in the existing regulatory framework. If you own a printing press and print something, you are liable for its contents. Twitter, under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, is not liable for content that i
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by jwolfe 4y ago
> If a corporation wants to operate a public space, like a square with a fountain outside an office building, you generally have to follow the law on what speech is allowed in that space. If your square is in the US, you have to allow Na
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by jwolfe 4y ago
I'm not pro-gun and do not own any, but if I had to fire a gun in that instance I sure would prefer my ears to be able to tell me if there were someone else in another room shortly after the fact.
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by jwolfe 4y ago
> The solution is to build more, and the success of Vienna does not come from public intervention but from the added supply. Tokyo is another city with famously cheap housing, and the secret is that they make it easy to build. The other
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by jwolfe 4y ago
And requires centralized exchanges subject to Know Your Customer regulations to get your money out as fiat.
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by jwolfe 5y ago
I suspect it's pretty hard to make the case that the average Rust program is harder to write than the equivalent C program. I suspect it is quite the opposite. The language provides so many tools that didn't exist in the age of C
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by jwolfe 5y ago
The news frequently talks about short staff at hospitals, in my own observations. Is there any evidence supporting vaccine requirements being a larger source of nurse attrition than burnout?
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by jwolfe 5y ago
> Meritocracy does exist and does work, except where it is undermined (i.e. "Equity", or assigning merit based on immutable physical traits like race and gender). Allowing inheritance from one generation to another is an immedi
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by jwolfe 5y ago
Do you care about being around social justice or bringing about social justice? If the former, sure, move to a blue area. If the latter, wouldn't moving to a purple area be more impactful?
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by jwolfe 5y ago
It seems in context that they're saying that you may or may not consider the fact that you worked hard and then were heartily rewarded to mean that you deserved the result. Especially in the context of many many other people working ju
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by jwolfe 5y ago
Couldn't it be as simple as a list of (color, x, y, z) (base64 encoded) in the fragment? URL fragments can get really long. Not sure what you'd need a look up key for.
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by jwolfe 5y ago
Not knowing about the ability of it to do that is not evidence that the ability doesn't exist. You were already trusting them not to do this before, since they had full access to the texts and images as the developer of the app. The de
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by jwolfe 5y ago
Is a big concurrent sharded DB necessarily a "harder problem" when it's provided to you by another team at the company to use? The skills you need just seem different to me. In the large case, the more important skills are go
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by jwolfe 5y ago
Your assumption is doing most of the work here. In my opinion, anything that creates a profit motive for imprisonment and recidivism is an incentive recipe for disaster. So even if justly incarcerated I would probably say no? But regardless
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by jwolfe 5y ago
That article is not about saying it's a solution. It's about saying it merits research, in case it's needed as a result of all of these other efforts being insufficient or poorly managed. Because for all we know, we'll n
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by jwolfe 5y ago
From my understanding, they hold most of that in reserve accounts with the Federal Reserve. But yeah, someone at some point holds some cash. But of the total US money supply (in 2018), physical currency makes up about 11% of the total value
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by jwolfe 5y ago
I have all of my credit cards and bank accounts set to notify (text) me whenever there is any transaction whatsoever. I find that helps with the subscription concerns, as well as confidence in catching fraud/incorrect charges quickly.
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by jwolfe 5y ago
> I already know republican types in rural areas that even want to get the Cybertruck (even if it means looking like one of those rich types). Not entirely on topic, but I'm curious whether their interest will shift to the electric
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by jwolfe 6y ago
Not that gold has a massive magical intrinsic value. That was also arbitrary.
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by jwolfe 6y ago
Agreed. It needs something sexy like a Data Ownership Revolution or something like that.
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by jwolfe 6y ago
Yes. That's their point. So have solar farms. And gas plants. And a nuclear reactor.
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by jwolfe 6y ago
If you get rid of the API it will just happen through malicious Chrome extensions instead. I guess that's an improvement in practical impact. Will the next argument be that browsers shouldn't be extensible, because it's a lia
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by jwolfe 6y ago
Those speeches weren't while she was a public servant. This amounts to an argument that people can't go back and forth between the private and public spheres. To be fair, this is something some people believe, and was very visible
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by jwolfe 6y ago
Similarly, "basic programming" is a spectrum that starts at simple Excel formulas.