AlexB138

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by AlexB138 5y ago
I'm not sure I would consider being a journalist a high status job anymore. Trust in the press, and the prestige that goes along with it, has been in a nose dive for years. It may just be my own bubble, but even the old guard publicati
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Vista Equity to acquire majority stake in Salesloft at $2.3 bln valuation(reuters.com)
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by AlexB138 5y ago
> I find it amusing how your government treats a whistleblower who is promoting government control over social media, vs the way your government treats a whistleblower who leaks evidence of government spying and abuse. That is because e.
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by AlexB138 5y ago
Well done. A very graceful and transparent announcement. I decided to leave senior leadership and return to IC engineering work last year. I was met with shock and, frankly, negative feedback from my peers. It has been a difficult transitio
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by AlexB138 5y ago
Sure, pointing out a bias is fair, but it needs to be followed with an actual refutation of the idea presented. Just saying "you're wrong because of who you are" doesn't add much.
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by AlexB138 5y ago
This is an ad hominem. He's making a fair point, attacking him personally doesn't improve the conversation.
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by AlexB138 5y ago
It's always obvious that something can't be solved by a startup until it is. That's what "disruption" and "innovation" are.
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by AlexB138 5y ago
From the article: > Note: Each observation represents the median earnings of men of a particular age in a particular year. For example, the 1957 cohort is represented by an Age 25 observation in 1957
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by AlexB138 5y ago
> Is the world getting safer? I think so. Is the risk of large scale war like France is planning for decreasing? I hope s This is very much the feeling people had before World War I. The thought was that the web of alliances Bismarck had
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by AlexB138 6y ago
I'll avoid dating myself by keeping it sufficiently vague, but Open Source Software. Going from the world of closed source, for-profit software to that of FOSS is like night and day. It's more like a 100x improvement. Today's
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by AlexB138 6y ago
> She said: "This spearhead is completely different from everything else we have so we're wondering if it was deposited as part of a ritual or an offering. Something I noticed some time ago: when historians and archeologists do
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by AlexB138 6y ago
> ... proffering alien explanations for "canals" on mars, pulsars, GRBs, and FRBs to name a few For those out there who, like me, don't know these acronyms: GRBs == Gamma-Ray Bursts: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by AlexB138 6y ago
This seems like intentionally misunderstanding a technology in order to make an inflammatory headline. Docker images are versioned, just like any distribution mechanism. Go through indexes for any package mechanism and count how many of the
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by AlexB138 6y ago
Isn't this the same thing Google is doing with Anthos and Azure is doing with Arc? As I understand it, those solutions are both wider in scope than this. I'm not entirely up to date on those, but this seems more like AWS half-hear
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by AlexB138 6y ago
I played with Mmhmm during beta. It's a simpler to use OBS, from what I can tell. It's good for some laughs. They just came out of beta and announced that it would cost $9.99/month. I was pretty shocked to see a recurring fee
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by AlexB138 6y ago
Somewhat related; I have a lesser known disability which is related to dyslexia called dysgraphia[1]. For simplicity sake, I often describe it as "like dyslexia, but for output instead of input". Basically, it makes it very diffic
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by AlexB138 7y ago
Indeed. This is a thought experiment libertarians often suggest. Just substitute "The government should ..." with "We should send men with guns to people's homes in order to ...". A bit hyperbolic maybe, but a usefu
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by AlexB138 7y ago
I also suspect the quality has dropped. It may just be because I'm not too big on sweets, or my palate becoming dull with age, but when I had a bit of Halloween candy recently it all tasted like wax and sugar. Even things that were fav
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by AlexB138 7y ago
Distributive Justice is a central topic of how societies are structured. The idea of fairness is important in pretty much every single culture (but with different ideas of what is fair, obviously). Your ideas of fairness likely just line up
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by AlexB138 7y ago
It exists. One example is called Rocket Lawyer.
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by AlexB138 7y ago
That may be true for you, but it's not universally. Having kids, including a daughter, has made me a lot more cautious of our authoritarian government and what it means for my children's future.
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by AlexB138 7y ago
How is treating people equally "not even close" to complying with those laws? I feel like I'm misreading to your comment, but it seems like treating people equally is exactly the point of those laws.
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by AlexB138 7y ago
I'd suggest reading up on the rise the Bolsheviks in Russia and Mao in China if you want to have some context for what these people are talking about. The Great Courses offers some great lectures on both subjects.
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by AlexB138 7y ago
It seems willfully disingenuous to attribute the growth of the 40s and 50s to high taxes. The growth and the taxes were both due to the most brutal war in all of human history. It was a transformational event for the United States including
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by AlexB138 7y ago
While probably part of it, I don't personally believe that to be a primary cause. America is probably at or near the least racist it has been in its history. I think the entities driving narratives that make people believe racism is ra
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by AlexB138 7y ago
America makes more sense when you consider that Civil Society (as in the third sector) is mostly dead, and what is left is extremely fragmented. There is no cohesion, very little shared culture, and a lot of outright animosity between group
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by AlexB138 7y ago
> My perspective comes from Hannah Arendt and her opinion that goodness demonstrated publicly necessarily becomes corrupted I checked your profile for info to contact you privately to ask, but there wasn't anything, so my apology fo
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by AlexB138 7y ago
I try to have a charitable interpretation of other people's actions, but I can't help but feel like this is the old trick of using "think of the children" to force the leading edge of a wedge on something reprehensible.
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by AlexB138 7y ago
I think a very tiny fraction of people with socialist sympathies get riled up by this, which is exactly the point. This is just another drop in the "engagement via culture war" bucket.
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by AlexB138 7y ago
Then there would be unfilled jobs for firemen, which would increase the wages for firemen, which would prompt more people to move into a career as a firefighter, which would increase the supply of firemen until the jobs willing to pay the n

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