phd514

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by phd514 2y ago
Fair question and I don't think there are easy answers to the problem. I think the actions you suggest tend to result in a market environment like Europe's where there are more regulations but businesses are generally less competi
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by phd514 2y ago
I work for a mid-sized, publicly-traded tech company that has been inching towards profitability but the last couple quarterly earnings results have been disappointing (and rank-and-file bonuses were slashed to 25% of target) and the compan
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by phd514 3y ago
Maybe get out more? I know _lots_ of people for whom this is true and who take multi-day road trips rather than deal with air travel. I routinely flew for business before 9/11 and would typically show up about 15 minutes before boardin
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by phd514 3y ago
Unfortunately, Benedict is conflating fundamentalism with literalism here. It's a common mistake (and "fundamentalist" has become essentially an epithet) although one that I am surprised to hear from someone as otherwise erud
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by phd514 3y ago
> We did fine for a century without any of that. Did we? I think there's an overly-romanticized view of late 19th and early 20th century immigration to the US. Go to Ellis Island and look at the receiving facilities there where pros
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by phd514 4y ago
I commend you on your careful consideration of the costs and potential benefits of various college choices. I didn't think that far ahead when I was 18 and unfortunately for many high school students, that choice can have a pretty sign
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Silicon Valley's Secret Christians(wsj.com)
8 points by phd514 5y ago|5 comments
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by phd514 5y ago
There's a huge difference between The Chosen and LToC -- while both may present a "gritty" and imaginative narrative including fictionalized accounts that are not canon, The Chosen does it in a way that does not contradict an
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by phd514 5y ago
How is disappearing someone in order to intimidate them into operating "on a short leash" anything other than plain evil?
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by phd514 5y ago
> our Puritan values run deep The Puritans drank plenty. I suspect that many such misconceptions about them are derived from HL Mencken's (wildly inaccurate) quip that "Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone somewhere may
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by phd514 5y ago
Yes, others can contribute, but significant feature development on large-scale OSS projects tends to be driven by developers paid to work on the project full-time and coordinated by an organized steering committee with clear governance (or
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by phd514 5y ago
From the announcement: "You should consider the initial code to be at an alpha stage — it is not complete, not thoroughly tested, and not suitable for production use. We are planning to release a beta in the next few weeks, and expect
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by phd514 5y ago
I think it's helpful to point out that the Bible contains a variety of types of literature including historical narrative, poetry, etc., some of which uses figurative language that is not intended to be taken literally. We all understa
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by phd514 5y ago
I'm not sure where you're getting some of these ideas. Paul was very much a Jew. He trained under Gamaliel, one of the most prominent Jewish rabbis of the time. He did also have Roman citizenship, but those two things were not mu
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by phd514 5y ago
I've come to a similar place after doing graduate work in Christian theology. The theology, philosophy, and literature of the Bible is the most-studied of any book in the last two millennia and pretty much any question or objection tha
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by phd514 5y ago
Translations are usually done directly from the original language into the target language. The study of early Hebrew and Aramaic and Koine Greek remains an active field and there are lots of people who can read those languages fluently.
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by phd514 6y ago
Case in point -- an AWS enhancement to PostgreSQL's connection pooler that could have been released as OSS with essentially no impact on RDS Postgres and yet: https://github.com/awslabs/pgbouncer-rr-patch/issu
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by phd514 6y ago
AWS, Google, and MSFT are among the top sponsors of OSI*. They are not neutral arbiters in the OSS space. [0] https://opensource.org/sponsors
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by phd514 6y ago
Core authentication and security features in Elasticsearch have been free and not Enterprise features since last May: https://www.elastic.co/blog/security-for-elasticsearch-is-no...
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by phd514 6y ago
The FCC has obscenity regulations for broadcast TV in the US under the idea that the broadcast spectrum is owned by the people. Cable television has no such restrictions. That rationale holds up a lot less now than it did in the early days
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by phd514 6y ago
The expenses involved in the response to the pandemic aren't in any state's budget. All the states are going to petition the federal government for aid and the Fed is going to print money to cover it. In other words, we're al
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by phd514 6y ago
The state tax rate in NY has nothing to do with this response (that seems quite good) to the COVID-19 pandemic. The labs that will be performing these extra tests are private labs, not labs funded by NY state taxes. I wish people could sepa
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by phd514 7y ago
> There's some nice discussion to be had there about Calvinism and the general relationship between religion and the attitude towards individual achievement. I don't know where the idea that Calvinism links individual achieveme
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by phd514 7y ago
On the engineering compensation factor, I interviewed with BAMTech (the successor to MLB [Major League Baseball] Advanced Media and the underlying video streaming platform for Disney) a few years ago. Their comp was considerably lower than
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by phd514 7y ago
Well, it was nearly 20 years ago and with SoX and all the other regulations, the fintech industry now is essentially unrecognizable from what it was then. I worked for a bulge-bracket investment bank whose business today is dramatically dif
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by phd514 7y ago
No. And, thankfully, I had not early-exercised any of my options, either.
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by phd514 7y ago
I was ~1.5 years out of college and at a small dot-com with a niche SaaS at the time. I distinctly remember 9/11 and the chill that came over our office that day. That passed in time, but our economic prospects never recovered. I used
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by phd514 7y ago
There's been no license change. For years, Elastic has had a set of commercially-licensed features on top of Apache2-licensed Elasticsearch. Within the last year or two, they made those commercially-licensed features source-available.
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by phd514 7y ago
I don't see them on Home Depot's website any more, but they weren't pre-drilled, pre-hung, pre-primed, or mortised for hinges, none of which matter for desk tops, but perhaps that's why they were that cheap. I thought ab
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by phd514 7y ago
At least where I live, solid core slab doors are $40 at Home Depot. You could almost certainly build a desk top from lumber that would be cheaper, but not by a significant margin.

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