nateabele

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by nateabele 9mo ago
How many arrests does it take to chill free speech?
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by nateabele 2y ago
Push it! I can happily pick up the torch on everything except the PCB design.
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by nateabele 3y ago
I wonder how many different federal and state bureaucracies govern the manufacture & operation of commercial aircraft. All it would take is for one of them to require senior leadership to take a certain number of flights (per year, let&
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by nateabele 3y ago
Two nodes, and either two edges with one arrow each, or one edge with two arrows. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by nateabele 3y ago
That's the hypothetical half of the equation. The tangible, measurable half is how many people the FDA has killed by denying access to life-saving treatments. A number of studies[0] have been conducted on this topic. [0] https:/&
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by nateabele 3y ago
Indeed. Never mind the fact that all transactions take place on an immutable public ledger that’s available forever…
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by nateabele 3y ago
> The drop in price has a great deal to do with improving technology not simply competition driving down prices And this improved technology was an inevitable, foregone conclusion? People make arguments like this as if it was some pass
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by nateabele 3y ago
Sure, but the point is, a halfway decent type system will eliminate whole classes of errors—consequently eliminating whole swaths of things you would ever need to write tests for. What's more, though, is that a good type system will
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by nateabele 3y ago
For whatever it's worth to you, I don't think of myself as easily impressed. I saw Ted give that demo at a small conference around 10 years ago. I was impressed. Whatever part you played in that, well done, and thank you. I got to
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by nateabele 3y ago
> I've worked at a number of financial institutions including two banks. I spent 5 years in fintech and touched over a dozen financial institutions. You're not thinking creatively enough. Plus everyone has to do KYC/AM
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by nateabele 3y ago
Things this article fails to address: 1) That AML creates a massive honeypot of data for hackers, housed at institutions which historically have structural challenges with technology investment 2) The real, material downsides felt by non-cr
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by nateabele 3y ago
This is Hacker News. Please keep your religion out of the comments.
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by nateabele 3y ago
This is the blog post I want to read. What’s your setup for that?
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by nateabele 3y ago
It’s germane in the sense that what you’re arguing against is a rounding error by comparison, consequently, not a material argument against cash-based money laundering in any meaningful sense.
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by nateabele 3y ago
The real cop-out is that HSBC and friends launder more money for terrorists and human traffickers on a bad day than your typical local racket does in a year, and they only ever receive a token fine and slap on the wrist.
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by nateabele 3y ago
The answer is simple: identity. Insecurity comes when we find our identity in our work and our ability to do it—but our value as people does not and could never derive from it. Think of it this way: do your friends or family care about you
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by nateabele 3y ago
On the other hand, 150k is an astronomical sum for most people on the planet—and no one is being forced into accepting that as a market rate, or even living in a high-rent city, particularly post-COVID. I still don’t understand this idea th
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by nateabele 3y ago
Yeah, I like this and other similar suggestions. Either generic task-related icons, or if you're going to personify them in some way, use bots or something similar. Some friends run a platform called Transloadit, and they used to use l
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by nateabele 3y ago
I was ready to install it when I clicked the link, until I saw the persona thing. Feels super bizarre and it's a huge turn-off. I dunno, maybe it's just me.
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by nateabele 3y ago
> One of the main roles of government is to step in where markets fail. Because that's worked out great so far? In every case I can think of, the government (usually because it's already captured) only ever serves to further
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by nateabele 3y ago
It's not you. K8s' design is terrible: the combinatorial explosion of nouns to learn is specifically because the abstractions are bad. It's quintessential of an industry that self-selects for high comfort with complexity.
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by nateabele 3y ago
> I should know — it's been my livelihood since I graduated from college in late 2019. Yeah... no comment.
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by nateabele 3y ago
The real mind-hack is that people believe it's exclusively one or the other, and argue vociferously against the other side. George Orwell once wrote of the Spanish Civil War: "Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever corr
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by nateabele 3y ago
So, that's accurate, but doesn't correspond to the situation. At all. 'Escape hatches' are definitionally exceptions to the rules, whereas effects in React are standard practice.
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by nateabele 3y ago
Yes—and for many reasons, of which this is a teardrop in the ocean.
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by nateabele 4y ago
This is where WASI (WebAssembly System Interface) comes in.
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by nateabele 4y ago
> And for just that give up all the freedom docker runtimes give us? Constraints give you freedom because they allow you to make guarantees. Checksums, reliable test suites, and good software abstractions are all examples. > I don’
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by nateabele 4y ago
> Hope this makes sense and that I understood your point accurately! I'm happy to hear all of that and, yes, I believe you did. > Docker [...] is singularly focused on the development experience, i.e. the inner loop of code&#x
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by nateabele 4y ago
Hey Tim, I appreciate your willingness to engage. What I'm getting at is a bit more pointed. In terms of composability, Docker and WASM are opposites: Docker requires a stand-alone runtime, and an orchestration layer, etc., whereas a
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by nateabele 4y ago
Apologies in advance for a bit of a rant, but I sincerely hope the tools growing up around WASM significantly diminish the need for Docker. As an industry, we're so bad at isolation that we have to put a computer (container) inside a c

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