Arainach

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by Arainach 20d ago
If you believe in civil liberties as rights and ideals, your belief shouldn't stop at borders.
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by Arainach 20d ago
Plenty of these exist. The biggest I'm aware of is B&H Photo Video.
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by Arainach 21d ago
Not called out in that study: fault i.e. is this buses causing accidents or drivers hitting buses
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by Arainach 21d ago
When people or companies do bad things, they're bad even if they get away with them. They should absolutely be blamed.
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by Arainach 21d ago
> Thank you for demonstrating my point: "vibrant" streets that switched from productive car lanes to bus/bike lanes are nothing but crime magnets You're intentionally misrepresenting my points. Bus stops on streets w
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by Arainach 21d ago
Blame free works with humans where you assume good intent. It's harmful and dangerous with corporations with a proven history of lying and disregard for human lives and well being. Especially ones with a record of developing and optimi
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by Arainach 21d ago
Agents (and humans) don't know what cleanups are safe or a good idea. They can get stuck in loops when different goals (conciseness, performance, etc.) clash. Their "improvements" can break things unintentionally. Targeted
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by Arainach 22d ago
Not if Quad9 is using DNSSEC, no. What's the specific threat you're envisioning? If it involves Quad9 themselves being malicious, what would DNSSEC on the forwarding prevent? This page explains how all of this works in detail: h
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by Arainach 22d ago
> Seattle and SF did the same. The streets are now horror shows. Citation very much needed. No Seattle street is a "horror show". My best guess is that you're referring to 3rd Ave. It isn't significantly less vibran
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by Arainach 22d ago
On the (literal) one side, two ton death machines trying to run you down and honking if you're not as far to the right as physically possible, safety be damned. On the (literal) other side, people staring at their phones wandering out
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by Arainach 23d ago
An ALPR doesn't know who's driving. You don't need a valid drivers' license to renew a car registration in most areas. In most US cities the cops won't even pull you over if you don't have a license plate, much
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by Arainach 23d ago
If a car owner loses their license, they keep driving without a license. It's also much harder to lose their license. CDLs are much easier to lose and your employer knows if you have one or not, so it's directly tied to your inco
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by Arainach 23d ago
So many things wrong with this, but let's call out one of the most obvious: > But a bus will kill a pedestrian just as easily as a car will, which is why Market Street remains empty of pedestrian traffic No citation, just pure nonse
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by Arainach 23d ago
This still amounts to "don't mix" which is far easier than unmixing once it's happened.
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by Arainach 23d ago
Yes, because the difficulties in separating integrated pieces have nothing to do with a merger. What makes splitting a company out difficult isn't (directly) a financial or paperwork burden - it's that tightly integrated systems a
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by Arainach 23d ago
The world is full of examples of companies that reward people who are more productive in a few hours by letting them go home instead of raising expectations and working them to death, I assume.
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by Arainach 23d ago
PE companies do it with very little regard for if any of the pieces are viable and survive after the fact, so their model isn't one I'd suggest following.
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by Arainach 23d ago
Nothing was skipped - the point is that this is directly analagous to unscrambling an omelet. Separating mixed things is significantly more difficult than mixing them. "The laws says X" doesn't change whether X is possible o
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by Arainach 23d ago
In none of those two cases is what's being proposed "as easy as a merger" - especially since those companies get to take as much time as they want without any court or law-enforced timeline.
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by Arainach 23d ago
"I think that the law should make this happen" without any thought for whether what you're proposing is possible or consistent with the laws of the universe is lazy. This is similar to people who think we should just legislat
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by Arainach 23d ago
Intense focus increases performance right up until the point where burnout or exhaustion causes performance to absolutely collapse.
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by Arainach 23d ago
Physical placement isn't important. Psychologically, it's the same. What it means is that for the entire duration there is someone paying close attention to (and potentially judging) everything I do. No downtime, no zoning out,
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by Arainach 23d ago
This approach doesn't scale. Pair programming once in a while can be incredibly valuable. I am glad to meet with anyone and talk over their code in person, brainstorm designs, run through a debugger together investigating it. But if
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by Arainach 23d ago
> or make it just as easy to unmerge two companies as it is to merge them. [Disclaimer: I work at Google, all words my own and not representative of anyone, etc.] There's no such thing. Let's stick to software since it's
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by Arainach 25d ago
Using a different data store breaks compatibility and dramatically increases the friction to switching to it. jj's superpower is that my usage of it is invisible. Right now I'm working on Github projects in jj where none of the
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by Arainach 25d ago
Git already won through Github, the Linux kernel, and other important projects. Even if you like Mercurial's syntax better (I do) and wish it won (I do), that battle was over many years ago. jj's data store is git. You can use j
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by Arainach 26d ago
I didn't mind naive rating algorithms before statistics and recommendations got so gamified. YouTube and Amazon are some of the very worst. I regularly watch a video or song on YouTube (/Music) and explicitly say "I enjoyed
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by Arainach 26d ago
> There is more to the internet than these 2 companies. Not as much as most people think. A huge percentage of the physical world runs through these platforms - and if you add Twitter it gets even worse. Plenty of groups I follow communi
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by Arainach 28d ago
Every user wants their computer to do things they didn't specific command. You may draw the line differently from random user Bob, but your claim is simply wrong. The *vast* majority of users do want their machine to silently do whatev
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by Arainach 28d ago
> is accurately reciting what this organization says about itself openly Declaring that the State Department's language is "accurately reciting" is equating.

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