Arainach

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by Arainach 1y ago
>A senior dev working on database and a senior dev working on front-end probably shouldn't be compensated the exact same Strong disagree. There is an antipattern I've seen across the entire industry, including big companies th
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by Arainach 1y ago
I largely disagree with this premise. We should be encouraging people to grow, and we should be rewarding them based on something as close to product/customer impact as possible. If someone is an incredible Senior dev who doesn't
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by Arainach 1y ago
Move them to where? Cities large enough to merit an airport generally either have development which has expanded around them or physical features not conducive to development (mountains, lakes, etc.). It's easy to say "just build
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by Arainach 1y ago
>None? Nobody puts airports inside city centers and metro areas don’t just have dense urban housing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_International_Airport It's hard to project growth. Things build right u
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by Arainach 1y ago
It doesn't avoid the delays. I have incredibly fast CFx cards, an incredibly fast card reader, and an incredibly fast CPU in my desktop, but the simple reality is that reading tens (or hundreds) of gigabytes over USB takes a long time
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by Arainach 1y ago
The same financial world whose rationality has led companies[1][3] and economies[2] to ruin over and over? Rational doesn't mean sustainable or wise. [1]: https://bhc3.com/2009/05/11/when-being-rational-k
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by Arainach 1y ago
>and if you are shooting still (and not video) there's really no good reason to ever delete an image off an SD card There are tons of good reasons. When downloading images off the card, software has to read all the files on it - whi
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by Arainach 1y ago
Ethics and legality are independent concepts. A scam is an ethical construct.
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by Arainach 1y ago
James Proud: * Promised an alarm clock that would do a bunch of things * Took $2.5M in funding from Kickstarter * Took another $50M in funding from elsewhere * Delivered a piece of hardware that did essentially none of what was promised. It
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by Arainach 1y ago
> There is no promise of delivered product There absolutely is a promise. Even if you manage to legally find a way to not get sued, taking advantage of the fact that everyone who gave you money believed it was a promise is still scamming
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by Arainach 1y ago
People don't want to have to read manuals and become experts on every task. They want tools to get something done so they can focus their limited time and attention on things they care more about. I'm the kind of person who wants
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by Arainach 1y ago
....so you prefer a "small" government, which history has shown time and time again leads to corporations doing evil en masse, ruining all sorts of lives around them?
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by Arainach 1y ago
>When you read of his private discussions, socially motivated is just about the last thing he was. This isn't true. I cannot recommend Robert Caro's works on LBJ enough. Johnson had plenty of flaws, but he cared deeply about pe
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by Arainach 1y ago
You can't prove a negative. Usage numbers tell the real story. Either people haven't heard of it, or, worse for proponents, they have heard of it and have decided it's not good enough.
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by Arainach 1y ago
LBJ made more progress on social issues than any President with the possible exception of FDR. Certainly dramatically more progress per year in office. Jimmy Carter was also socially motivated. Reagan changed the game, Newt Gingrich destr
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by Arainach 1y ago
It sprung up from capitalist propaganda and intentional sabotage of the government by conservatives. > I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in
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by Arainach 1y ago
"Somehow" we did that back when we believed in a strong federal government working for the benefit of the people. It's no wonder that we lost the ability after decades of anti-government propaganda and regulatory capture.
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by Arainach 1y ago
>but it has enough market share that it can't be completely ignored. This is the Hacker News bubble in action. Most of the world, most of America, most of China, India, etc. haven't even heard of it. They ignore it and they
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by Arainach 1y ago
The threat model of HTTP isn't site owners, it's that anyone else can change the content and you can't tell that it didn't come from the original site. It's not a strawman, it's a real attack that we've se
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by Arainach 1y ago
I don't agree. Lying to other people buying your car to get more money and lying to the government to pay less tax are both unethical for the same reason and are the same sort of person. The odometer says how far the car has gone. Noth
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by Arainach 1y ago
It depends on axle weight, not vehicle weight, and regardless of weight is directly linearly tied to mileage. Road fees aren't just for the damage you're causing - they're for construction, signage, and many other pieces of i
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by Arainach 1y ago
> Also, what about people who live in rural areas and do school runs or work further. Frankly, it's overdue for them to pay their fair share and for the rest of the world to stop subsidizing them. We've been subsidizing cars an
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by Arainach 1y ago
The amount of damage you do to the roads is exactly proportional to how many miles you drive on the roads. Where the roads are doesn't matter. What you're describing is a billing detail - how do ensure the right chunk of those fe
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by Arainach 1y ago
In principle, having road charge be a combination of mileage and axle weight makes an incredible amount of sense - it taxes the factors which contribute to road wear. Unfortunately, these proposals all seem to end up at "let the govern
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by Arainach 1y ago
>Only a business with this as its core competency is capable of the breadth and depth required for this Herculean task. It doesn't have to be a business, and it absolutely should not be. Preventing poisoning of people, animals, and
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by Arainach 1y ago
The response to every new overreach by Trump is "this is just more of what's been going on" when it absolutely is not, it's dramatically different. Today's Republicans are a very different beast from Gerald Ford&#x
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by Arainach 1y ago
I'm more concerned about the effects of this constant "both sides" legitimization of fascism and the constant shift of the Overton window than I am about the effect of pardons.
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by Arainach 1y ago
>about where these single points of failure exist. In general, when you find one you work to fix it, and one of the most common ways to find more is when one of them fails. Having single points of failure and letting them live isn'
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by Arainach 1y ago
Ford at least had the misguided excuse of wanting to put the scandal behind and focus on the future. Trump's pardons include hundreds of literal insurrectionists, promises to pardon in exchange for not testifying against him (witness t
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by Arainach 1y ago
Both of those were very bad, but nothing compared to the raw corruption in Trump's pardons.

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