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by rclayton 6y ago
And what are the consequences of you getting cancelled? Really? You lose your job? People are fired everyday for silly things or no reason at all. But would you really want to continue working for a company/culture so incapable of
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by rclayton 6y ago
I think that’s the point. “Cancel cultural” has always been around in some form or another when you challenge the cultural norms of some society or institution. The outrage over it now seems silly, particularly when it’s predominantly lib
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by rclayton 6y ago
Great point.
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by rclayton 6y ago
Please explain how I missed it. Or do we just disagree?
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by rclayton 6y ago
That’s actually my point. Overestimating the reach of cancel culture because you live in a liberal enclave.
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by rclayton 6y ago
I don’t know that we can attribute doxing or death threats to “cancel culture”. It’s certainly unjustified outrage. However, it does beg the question what exactly “being cancelled” means.
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by rclayton 6y ago
Have we started killing cancelled people? Who has been “cancelled” anyways? What punishments have they endured? A lost job at a very public position? As someone wisely pointed out, the only person possibly going to be jailed in the #MeTo
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by rclayton 6y ago
Well, elaborate please.
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by rclayton 6y ago
As oisdk points out, I would consider the very real threat of violence different than a celebrity getting their contract cancelled. But that’s an important point to also make. There’s a vast difference between a celebrity being cancelled
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by rclayton 6y ago
I agree. I would like for someone to enumerate all the people who have been “cancelled” and then compare it to those that have been violently attacked.
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by rclayton 6y ago
He had a habit of always making the hero of his narrative the “brave startup founder”.
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by rclayton 6y ago
Think of a single Super Bowl ad. It’s not that much if you think about recurring TV spots.
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by rclayton 6y ago
Ok radical. I served 9 years in the military and no one I worked with was evil. Service members honestly believed they were doing good in the world and many felt some of the wars they were forced to participate in were unjust. Life is wa
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by rclayton 6y ago
There’s not really a European identity like American’s have. You can live in Texas or Idaho, but consider yourself American. I’ve never met a Spaniard, German, or Englishmen consider themselves European first, and their nationality second
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by rclayton 6y ago
First, the pageantry in most sports is not paid primarily by the military. It’s true that military will lend a color guard (those are the service members holding the flag), and will often sponsor sports, but that tends to be only at televi
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by rclayton 6y ago
You sir, have not seen most soldiers.
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by rclayton 6y ago
People need to stop seeing the military as the problem and rather the electorate that votes for politicians that lead us into wars. The military without a war is just a big gun club.
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by rclayton 6y ago
Your attitude (and people with similar) are the problem. If we isolated for four weeks, wore masks, and focused on contact tracing early on, we wouldn’t be in this predicament. But suddenly, we have a whole crop of arm chair doctors and s
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by rclayton 6y ago
My sentiments exactly.
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by rclayton 6y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/us/navy-seals-edward-gall... I’m sorry but that’s not how the Gallagher case went down. To specifically reinforce the point: “ It is an unspoken rule among their teams
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by rclayton 6y ago
That’s a fascinating idea, but in practice I think we Americans have completely messed it up. Some U.S. states like Georgia centralize investigative responsibilities (often when municipalities are too small to budget these services). This
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by rclayton 6y ago
IMHO this article is nonsense. Even the Gallagher example contradicts the premise. The SEALs that reported him basically risked their careers in doing so. The military may have laws/rules to report misconduct, but structurally, units
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by rclayton 6y ago
My sentiment as well.
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by rclayton 6y ago
Did this happen to you?
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by rclayton 6y ago
Communication and cultural differences become significant drags on velocity. Time zone differences exacerbate resolving issues. More importantly, it’s tough communicating technical issues in your non-native language. It’s also hard to bui
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by rclayton 6y ago
I totally get why you are doing this, but I would think DB management and migrations would be really troublesome. Do you have a migration framework to manage migrations across all catalogs?
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by rclayton 6y ago
Hi Kyle! I’ve really enjoyed your work over the years. I was wondering, with all of your testing and experimentation, is there any system that had really impressed you?
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by rclayton 6y ago
We don’t use auto commits with Kafka so it’s not a problem for us. Of course, this does reduce our publishing throughput - though that’s not a problem for us at our current scale. Either way, I’m intrigued by the outbox pattern. As long a
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by rclayton 6y ago
This is a neat pattern, but it honestly just seems like you’re trading where you want the complexity. The outbox pattern would force devs to not use SQL directly for mutations - in so much as they can’t directly modify records like they n
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by rclayton 6y ago
We do this now and make publishing to Kafka a requirement of transaction success, rolling back the DB transaction if publishing fails. The dual write is much more straightforward in my opinion and the pattern works as long as the primary d

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