samcday

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by samcday 6y ago
Take a moment to consider what you seem to be saying here. You’re essentially pondering if it should be okay for a billionaire industrialist to willingly sacrifice the lives of between 1-50 people. > How low of an IFR would it take befor
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by samcday 6y ago
As an Aussie I grew up on a healthy diet of US exceptionalism propaganda. At some point I came to the realization that the US is an empire in decline. Now, I’m starting to think the US is already a failed state. I’m pretty frightened to be
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by samcday 6y ago
Honestly I don’t really understand the end game of disinformation campaigns like this. It’s one thing to spread propaganda in order to influence elections and get a crooked bureaucrat into power that can enrich some corporate buddies. But i
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How to Enjoy the End of the World(youtube.com)
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by samcday 6y ago
> and also our feelings about Cloudflare attempting to build support in this manner, especially now, during the Corona Virus situation. Weird angle. Unless the RPKI standard is somehow actively encouraging people to violate social distan
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by samcday 6y ago
> So logically speaking, if a large portion of their current activity is already essential goods I think the point is many suspect that is not the case. https://thegrio.com/2020/04/01/amazon-worker-strike-c
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by samcday 6y ago
I can only see it like this. Amazon share price and business activity is surging as a direct result of Covid-19. They need to hire 100,000+ workers to meet the demand. However, the same thing they are profiting from (Covid-19) should also
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by samcday 6y ago
Aw, shucks. I still haven't gotten around to watching that HBO documentary about Elizabeth Holmes. At this rate maybe they'll have already produced something about the backstory of Adam Neumann + WeWork (who will at that point pro
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by samcday 7y ago
> So any management position is exploitation? Being the boss of any manufacturing business is exploitation? In many peoples opinion (including mine), yes. This can all be considered wage slavery. Of course the magnitude and severity vari
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by samcday 7y ago
As an Australian pulling my hair out about our domestic policies w.r.t to fossil fuel exports / consumption, let me just say I would take token gestures and virtue signalling over total ignorance, passivity and inaction, any day of the
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by samcday 7y ago
I mean, if I woke up and read that 500 million mosquitoes were victim to the Australian wildfires, I might not be so sad either. But then you watch a video showing the charred carcasses of many beautiful Australian marsupial and bird specie
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by samcday 7y ago
Not sure if you've seen the following statement from University of Sydney, but they're standing by the estimate: https://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/01/03/a-stateme... In fact, th
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by samcday 7y ago
> Can you just shoot these burglars on sight or do they have to be on your private property for that? No idea about the law, but I would hope you value human life more than a stolen black suitcase.
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by samcday 7y ago
Fun anecdote. I was living/working in San Francisco a couple of years ago. It was 10am on a work day. I was walking towards my office, along Folsom coming from the 101 towards 8th. Out of nowhere a guy just walks up to one of the cars
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by samcday 7y ago
There's a lot of PHP positivity in the comments. I just want to inject some sobering pessimism in here, as someone who has spent the last 6 months using PHP for the $dayjob, and used to do commercial PHP work back in the PHP5 days. PHP
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by samcday 7y ago
Of course you're entitled to your point of view, but dismissing any other perspective on the matter as "crazy" is, well, itself a little bit crazy ;) Putting aside the contract law side of this, philosophically what you'
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by samcday 7y ago
Conundrums like this make my head spin when I try to consider my position on Internet freedoms. On the one hand I believe the Internet should be a truly personalized, private interface for humans all over the world to be able to communicate
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by samcday 7y ago
I'm just wrapping up the work to migrate my company away from Gitlab to Github and this happens. I did it because I figured Github has to have better reliability / uptime than Gitlab. Someone joked that as soon as the migration
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by samcday 7y ago
Kurzgesagt[1] convinced me that space debris will become a real problem if we're not careful. A "Swarm" of fist-sized cubesats whizzing around our planet at a few thousand km/h sounds like a nightmare. [1]: https:/
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by samcday 7y ago
You're curious why they're not retiring a film franchise that consistently pulls in hundreds of millions of dollars of profit with every installment? :)
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by samcday 7y ago
The whole story seems so bizarre. As far as I understand it, some kind of fraudster got caught up in a bunch of his own lies, of which being the inventor of Bitcoin happened to be one. We're only reading about it because "Bitcoin&
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by samcday 7y ago
I only have a shallow understanding of the economic forces at play in the energy market. But it seems to be that we're just not going to be able to disrupt the fossil fuel industries before it's too late. Is there someone who&#x27
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by samcday 7y ago
> 2.b Is the person who wrote the initial version still the main developer? > Our opinion: Developers don't like to inherit code at this stage when apps tend to be big monoliths. It's common that if they do it, they re-facto
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by samcday 7y ago
I'd like to think the simplest explanation to this recent spate of outages is that all the engineers at each org spent too long reading the HN comment thread on the previous company's outage, and didn't notice their own serve
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by samcday 7y ago
You're right, I definitely embellished things more than necessary there. I was just done reading that other article on HN frontpage today regarding what looks like gross negligence @ Boeing and I was all frothy at the mouth ;) I don&#x
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by samcday 7y ago
So here we have a large multinational corporation that has let batteries explode on planes, sold bendy phones that don't really bend so well, and just flat out lied about the capabilities of a phone in a multi-million dollar ad campaig
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by samcday 7y ago
> One thing I'd like to pass by the Rust community is our internal "teleporter" that allows you to borrow an object mutably on one thread and then "teleport" an immutable ref to that object to any other thread us
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by samcday 7y ago
Oh the multi- project stuff is definitely nice. I'm referring to the ability to keep multiple distinct Google accounts logged in.
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by samcday 7y ago
Things like: * filtering traces by services has been broken in App Engine flex environments for more than a year. * copy/pasting identifiers between places is a nightmare * their IAM design is somehow worse than AWS. It’s so impressive
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by samcday 7y ago
Which, IMO, is actually a big problem. AFAIK Amazon are running a lot of actual production loads on AWS. Dogfooding can be extremely valuable, especially if a massive portion of your staff have the same profession as your target market. I&#

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