Alupis

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by Alupis 2y ago
People so very often are quick to look down upon anything using k8s these days, often citing complexity and some hand-wavy statement about "you're not web scale" or similar. These statements are usually accompanied by complex
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by Alupis 2y ago
High rent costs are not something a town/municipality can solve. In a most ways, it's also something a state government cannot solve. "High" rent is relative to the area, and rent is high across the entire country curren
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by Alupis 2y ago
> A right is a power or privilege held by the general public, usually as the result of a constitution, statute, regulation, or judicial precedent[1] Nobody has a "right" to live in SF. If you can afford SF, then nothing is stop
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by Alupis 2y ago
Wikipedia indicates most of these Council Homes were built in the early 1900's - and are not modern construction. An additional average of a around 100 homes total were built per year from the 40's through 1980. So these don'
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by Alupis 2y ago
They have not... and unfortunately this viewpoint is shared by too many these days. Removing the profit-motive from the equation does not magically net increased benefits for everyone. It's usually the opposite in reality... landlords
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by Alupis 2y ago
> The fact that providing people with housing is even seen as an "industry" > It is essential to living a decent life. What troublesome phrasing. "Provide" implies people should get housing for free, and "dece
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by Alupis 2y ago
So, soon Mexico will have explicitly partisan judges that rule not based on law but, instead on whatever is popular and/or will get them re-elected? What could possibly go wrong?
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by Alupis 2y ago
This sounds like a recipe to get a lot of `asdfalsfasfsd` responses...
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by Alupis 2y ago
You're hinting at one of my personal pet peeves - people who make up new road "conventions" then insist everyone else follow them... which usually leads to less-safe situations, exactly like you have described here. This incl
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by Alupis 2y ago
24% is quite significant indeed. It is arguable the 22% caused by open car doors is also negligence on the cyclist's part. Riding that fast and that close to doors that may or may not suddenly open without warning is negligent. It woul
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by Alupis 2y ago
These things also happen to motorcycle riders. The biggest difference is motorcycle riders don't ride in the bike lane until suddenly and without warning they pop into the road lane and ride straight through stop signs and red lights.
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by Alupis 2y ago
A cyclist rides through a red light (as they frequently do) and gets hit by a car - car's problem? I think not.
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by Alupis 2y ago
Cyclists need to do a better job following the conventions and laws of the road. That would, on its own, dramatically increase safety of riders. Cyclists are pretty much the least predictable "vehicle" on the road. Are we a car to
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by Alupis 2y ago
> If Target's website is down for an hour, I'll just wait. >> sit out front and wait for them to open, or are you going to another store? You were asked if the physical store was closed - because that's the analog yo
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by Alupis 2y ago
> if you're a vendor just reselling Alibaba There's an entire ocean between Alibaba flippers and strongly branded products sold first-party by mega-corps. Consider the physical space and walk into a Target or Walmart - how many
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by Alupis 2y ago
> What's the worst thing that happens? You miss out on a small number of purchases, maybe a few customers are gone for good, and the shareholders reap a little less profit this quarter. You build a culture of nobody caring about th
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by Alupis 2y ago
> I'm just going to wait for my preferred vendor By the numbers, most customers are shopping on any particular given ecommerce website for the first time. It's expensive and difficult to gain new customers - and even more diffi
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by Alupis 2y ago
> It's quite literally why branding is so important. Most of the goods you purchase are from brands not owned by the retail website. Pick a hobby and consider the prominent brands, then consider the prominent websites people in that
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by Alupis 2y ago
> That's not the situation most of us are in. From an ecommerce website's perspective - it is exactly the situation most of us are in. Unless you are the manufacturer for your own goods, then you are competing on often-thin mar
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by Alupis 2y ago
> as long as your monopoly on violence remains intact there’s little anyone could do against it. And now people understand why the Second Amendment exists... no?
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by Alupis 2y ago
The obvious difference is no matter how long the county or city takes to reopen that road - you'll go right back to using it because you don't have an alternate choice. For a website - particularly ecommerce websites - you have ma
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by Alupis 2y ago
FTA: > California Governor Gavin Newsom eagerly signed the bill into law, wanting to get some headlines about how he was “protecting the children.” When NetChoice challenged the law, Newsom sent them a very threatening letter, demanding
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Eric Schmidt says Google is losing out to OpenAI and Anthropic because WFH(businessinsider.com)
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by Alupis 2y ago
Yet in this thread the ones who do actually make something people want to buy are villainized because they aren't giving it all away to employees (who are compensated for their time and expertise along the way).
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by Alupis 2y ago
Is it really a duality? Why wouldn't it be legal to get paid in whatever you want... including potatoes or crypto? Most people happen to prefer currency, but nothing should stop you from being compensated for your time and expertise in
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by Alupis 2y ago
Yet somehow it's the ones with computers, earning significantly above average income, writing and reading this now. You can start a company on a library computer...
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by Alupis 2y ago
Seeing how just about everything you did today took place over Http/2/3 then yeah, it is pretty significant.
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by Alupis 2y ago
> You seem to be spinning heavily the contributions of those people, as well as the intentions of the company. The intentions of the company are to benefit the shareholders. Employees are paid for their time and expertise - nothing more.
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by Alupis 2y ago
Journalism... I suppose that's a tall ask these days. Journalists that see their role as being political activists are really just propagandists with a paycheck.
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by Alupis 2y ago
How many boogey boo's can we fit into one article? Project 2025, and rightwing, and environment, and Heritage Foundation, and LGBTQ+, and abortion, and religion - oh my! We can't forget the boogey man himself, Trump! All tied toge

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