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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I explicitly am against the calls to guillotine him. So here, we are in perfect agreement. He's a human being and should be treated with dignity, and he's far from being the very worst out there.
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I was also in the IT field before the dot com bubble burst. You're right that he's done a lot to enable startups, but there were other options before AWS came around. Rackspace, Linode, etc. But I will say this: AWS really has don
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Because there was this period of time where the prevailing wisdom was "be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you emit" to enable computer systems to handle a wider array of cases. Some people still adhere to it.
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Because often times crashes in an app lead to information exfiltration or remote code execution.
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I agree with your general thrust, but I disagree with your conclusion. We need to say when things are wrong. It's vital. And right now what the right in America is doing is wrong. I'm not some absolutist left-winger. I once had a
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I don't care if deadly violence or the threat of deadly violence "throws the political system around" it is completely counterproductive in the long run so long as the people in the system are free to communicate and assemble
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
That is also disgusting. Bezos is still a human. I know I'm replying to each of these replies to me, but it's because I'm so concerned about the divisiveness of the politics we find ourselves in. It doesn't matter if it&
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
This is the same kind of thinking that leads to western states that support black propaganda. No. We do not need this. The grisly outcome that they who would defect should not be death. Economic hardship after months long protests which shu
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I'm highly critical of certain billionaires, Bezos included, but I do not endorse or even tolerate language like "eat the rich" because I still value the humanity of people that I think are presently exploiting a broken polit
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
It's a disgusting practice. I don't care how time-honoured it is. Real people are involved here. Real violence. Real death. Showing someone a guillotine or a gallows or making threats to use deadly violence as part of a political
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I mean, I'm sorry to break this to you but if you're good at data science or complex backend web development it's pretty common. I was making around $225k CAD a year (straight cash, not counting options) at 500px a decade ago
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Well, I appreciate the response. I'm not saying that the difference is huge, just that I've noticed it. The Americans I've worked with seem to get a little bit more done, generally speaking, than the Canadians. Not enough to
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Then why can't I easily purchase a Disney+ subscription? The main thing I don't understand why, as a Canadian aboding in Cyprus, I see: "Sorry, Disney+ is not available in your region" instead of a call for a credit card
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I try to be charitable when I critique an article, so Alex please don't take this comment as a personal attack. I appreciate your writing of this article and your efforts to improve Canada. There are some truths in your article and an
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I mean, I don't trust as a binary. I have continuums of trust from very little to very much. I know that people are capable of privilege escalation and persistence. I've seen it with my own eyes. I know it's unlikely that tha
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Business isn't really all that complicated. It's just opaque and intersects with other things that are complicated, like finance and law. But the man who invented 1-800-GOT-JUNK and plastered the phone number on the side of ever
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
At the very least, yes. But I read something from a former NSA hacker once and he mentioned he replaces his computer and phone every quarter, in addition to a bunch of other paranoid things. I'm not that extreme, but I did replace my c
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I took away another lesson: One of the early developers of Android doesn't replace his phone even after being absolutely certain it had malware. That kinda blows my mind.
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
It takes both. The advantage of speeding up hardware is that it scales to most present and future programs. Though it's a bit of an economic activity. As the hardware gets faster, software developers de-prioritize algorithmic speed in
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
No we're not. About a decade ago I trained a model on Wikipedia which was tuned to classify documents into what branch of knowledge the document could be part of. Then I fed in one of my own blog posts. The second highest ranking conce
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Oh, I'm wrong then. I was under the mistaken impression that he was CEO much more recently than that. Thanks for the correction, it appears that you're completely correct about his leadership. Thanks for updating my view!
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I'm sorry, but their market cap is like 10x in the past decade. Their revenue streams are different now, yes, but they recognized they'd lost the platform with the SaaSification of most things and they wisely moved into other area
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Hence has its place, as do the holes left in theorems that our betters leave for us. These gaps leave ups to leaps of faith at our beginnings and thorough proofs as we mature. When I was a green tutor I would attempt to make every single la
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Well, if you mean CapEx because one needs fewer programmers and a higher AWS bill, then yes I agree with you. But if you mean CapEx because one needs fewer physical computers that they own and a higher AWS bill for computers that they rent,
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Then why do they sometimes not match?
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
The incredibly clickbaity title of this HN post needs to be changed. I would flag the article, but it is actually interesting.
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
This is great! GitHub continues to, somehow, surprise me. One question I do have, however, is whether or not the new homepage[0] which shows where people are when they open a PR actually reveals their present location. In the few samples I
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
> Donations are never fully anonymous Citation / proof needed. There are more than a few Christians that take the words on donating[0] as literally as they can. How could this paper possibly make such a claim when the very way such
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
They way they would ban it if they wanted to ban it would be to get the West to collectively tie its use to economic sanctions and also to specific individuals. Huge fine for use, restricted travel to the US and her allies, and punishing sa
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I mean, as soon as I read through the whitepaper I knew it was going to be valuable at least for a time. My primary reason for selling most of my Bitcoins at $200 a coin was that I thought it was obvious that the US would ban it. I made out

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