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by splitrocket 9y ago
I'd say this growth curve looks healthy and robust to me: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
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by splitrocket 9y ago
As one former employee said, explaining why he joined the company, it seemed like a “libertarian playground where the best would rise to the top.” But, he said, “I quickly realized that environment also means work becomes a blood sport.”
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by splitrocket 9y ago
You are saying there is a chance a bad actor might abuse a social dynamic in which you are the less powerful participant?
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by splitrocket 9y ago
TL;DR Security risk to utility tradeoff doesn't make sense. Cert acquisition for new domains should be so lightweight that the API should meet most needs. If you hit the rate limit for new subdomains, buy a wildcard cert. Risk: google.
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by splitrocket 9y ago
"Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract arguments inside my head instead of simply paying attention to w
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by splitrocket 9y ago
Blue Ridge Labs @ Robinhood. We have a yearly, paid, 5 month long fellowship in Brooklyn for mid-career engineers, designs, and product managers that combines human centered design and Lean Startup to build tech ventures that fight poverty.
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by splitrocket 9y ago
Why hasn't this happened in conservative states? Why does this virtuous circle (generally speaking, your point about wealth distribution stands) only happen in liberal states?
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by splitrocket 9y ago
It's almost as if certain policies and politics result in increased innovation and employment...
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by splitrocket 9y ago
There has already been an attempted American military coup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
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by splitrocket 9y ago
I am in my phone, traveling. The Wikipedia page is a tremendously short summary, and yes, doesn't go into depth about the implications of duverger's law. I strongly suggest digging into the literature around it, which does bear ou
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by splitrocket 9y ago
Look up Duverger's law. Effectively, in a first past the post electoral system, any vote that isn't for the major party that most closely aligns with your views is a vote that supports the views least aligned with your preference.
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by splitrocket 9y ago
Time to buy a VPN service from a country that's reasonably sane. I'll gladly sacrifice money and latency for privacy.
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by splitrocket 10y ago
Politics assumes a zero sum game. Experts create non-zero sum outcomes. Humans, due to their loss aversion bias, prefer politics to expertise. Thus brexit.
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by splitrocket 10y ago
I wonder if it complies with the treaty banning blinding laser weapons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Wea...
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by splitrocket 10y ago
The scenario you speak of was true for the history of the human race prior to the invention of photography. This is why we have institutions such as newspapers, academia, government etc. institutions that have an authority to inquire into a
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by splitrocket 10y ago
It's not difficult to both read the resolution itself (less than a page): https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-re... And in turn, refer to the regulations to which it refers: https:&#x2F
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by splitrocket 10y ago
The reason you have a computer that fits in your pocket, much less requires its own room with a reinforced floor is due to the NASA space program. On edit: meant for the parent comment, but its parent instead
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by splitrocket 10y ago
Evidence? This is pretty clear case of a total failure to check the credentials of an "expert". Additionally, Fox has a history of similar failures. No other major news network comes even close. http://mashable.com&#x2F
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by splitrocket 10y ago
In the comparison page, it would be great to see how Hasura compares to other PAAS offerings, such as Deis, Flynn, Tsuru, etc. Agreed that built in ACLs and Baas is really fantastic.
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by splitrocket 10y ago
https://labs.robinhood.org/fellowship 5 month, paid fellowship to research, develop, test, and the launch tech products that fight poverty.
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by splitrocket 10y ago
Incorrect. Volunteers are covered under AirBNB's $1 million host insurance. That's certainly not free.
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by splitrocket 10y ago
Lee Atwater, former chairman of the Republican party, on tape, talking about the southern strategy: https://www.thenation.com/article/exclusive-lee-atwaters-inf...
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by splitrocket 10y ago
Perhaps the former chairman of the Republican party can inform you of exactly what the Republican party stands for: https://www.thenation.com/article/exclusive-lee-atwaters-inf...
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by splitrocket 10y ago
I had the exact opposite experience. Ubiquiti works well in a low RF noise environment. We have 1k+ unique SSIDs visible throughout our office and I was having horrific latency spikes, lost connections, etc. with top of the line Ubiquiti eq
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by splitrocket 10y ago
The bit that made the decision for me is managing self healing, highly available postgres in the same infrastructure and tooling as the rest of my deployment. I have yet to see any other PAAS come close to offering HA postgres built in. The
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by splitrocket 10y ago
Flynn's upcoming User/ACL model should cover multi-tenancy AFAIK.
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by splitrocket 10y ago
I run flynn as a local staging/CI service in our networking closet. It allows us to rapidly try out new apps/services in an environment that approaches production on a couple of machines we had lying around super quickly. There ar
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by splitrocket 10y ago
You know, there is no reason you can't volunteer and instantiate the unfuckotron. Complaining is for spectators.
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by splitrocket 10y ago
Amen. We try to do this at Blue Ridge Labs. Our incubator just closed it's applications for 2017. We'll be opening applications for the fellowship, meant for individual engineers, designers, product managers and experts to do the
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by splitrocket 10y ago
Woo-Hoo! This is super exciting! Thanks!

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