DenisM

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by DenisM 6y ago
Do they ever enforce it?
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by DenisM 6y ago
Oh dear. You have falsely ascribed words to the guy and did not even acknowledge it when I brought it to your attention. To the contrary you doubled down: this time you are saying that the editor was indifferent to raised concerns, despite
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by DenisM 6y ago
Well said. infogulch for senate!..?
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by DenisM 6y ago
It’s all well and good until your colleagues start shaming you on Twitter that you failed to denounce xyz. And that’s one of the better situation, too.
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by DenisM 6y ago
Try listening to your parents instead of educating at them.
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by DenisM 6y ago
> he willingly published a piece that he said could be dangerous. That’s rich. No, he did not say that. He said some readers may find it dangerous. It does not mean he himself finds it dangerous.
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by DenisM 6y ago
Only one thing I can add - start thinking if you want to work on cool stuff or make a career. There will be overlap but the two will significantly diverge at some point.
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by DenisM 6y ago
At the lower level I’ve found ActiveMigration from ruby inspirational. Not using ruby but the idea is solid and I have built a similar system for C# and SQL Server. You still need something higher level to oversee the schema, but I didn’t l
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by DenisM 6y ago
So, problem: schema does not accommodate enough use cases. Solution 1: refactor schema Solution 2: abandon schema The truth is that you can’t really abandon schema, it’s just spread through the code base now, and any violation of the schema
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by DenisM 6y ago
Thank you.
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by DenisM 6y ago
In the US it is believed the opposite - more local power structures are easier to influence through local elections. It may not be a huge problem on the scale of Portugal, but as countries get larger things get worse. Imagine the entire EU
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by DenisM 6y ago
You have avoided answering the question you have quoted. It’s an important question.
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by DenisM 6y ago
The world would be a better place if both Russia and Germany kept a lid on the practice of pressuring people into a political stance in the first half of the 20th century. OTOH MLK did not have his followers pressure coworkers - they kept i
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by DenisM 6y ago
Wish I could have a Blackberry-style keyboard for my iPhone, just that I can have the entire screen to see what I just typed. Anyone?
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by DenisM 6y ago
Eavesdropping is illegal in a number of states.
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by DenisM 6y ago
You missed the point. I don't want to take any principled stands. That's not why I came to work.
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by DenisM 6y ago
sky_rw has a good point and the post does not deserve the downvotes. There very well might be a direct connection between the upcoming election and the protests.
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by DenisM 6y ago
Let me offer a counterpoint or two: First, it's not an accident that this happened two months into the COVID lockdowns. Seattle PD seems to be doing much better than 10 years ago, and yet nothing happened back then and we see lots of p
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by DenisM 6y ago
You can easily find yourself dragged into situation where activists at your workplace demand you sign a letter, or else you will be branded <all kinds of crap>. If you depend on these people in any way, you will be in trouble. And it&
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by DenisM 6y ago
Depends on who are your customers, and how easily are they swayed with a twitstorm.
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by DenisM 6y ago
HN is not a uniform group of people speaking with one voice. It's a group of different people with different opinions on different subjects who speak up at different times. It's tempting to personify things that are too complex to
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by DenisM 6y ago
>The only way to do something useful here is to educate people about how wrong they are in supporting Trump. The only way? How about reconsidering your own position and offering people something they would like better?
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by DenisM 6y ago
The right to speak is inseparable from the right to not speak. One doesn't have to explain their decision.
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by DenisM 6y ago
Politics at the workplace should be kept personal. Politics between colleagues should not be done at all .
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by DenisM 6y ago
>However, by Sunday (or maybe early, early Monday morning), the police were using CS gas again at the order of the police chief, Carmen Best. I did not know that. Do you have a reference to back this up?
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by DenisM 6y ago
I actually started with "low-grade ongoing violence" then replaced it with "occasional violence" thinking it better describes the perception in the media as attention to the subject comes and goes. What would you rather
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by DenisM 6y ago
I feel like you're taking my reply out of context. Specifically I was addressing this questions: > Can you tell me what it is that makes these people dangerous and scary, but the similarly armed protestors who showed up at governmen
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by DenisM 6y ago
The police follow orders from their chain of command that goes up to an elected official. You can petition the elected official, occupy their building, grill them in the media, and vote them out if you convince the other citizens. For examp
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by DenisM 6y ago
Can you clarify the timeline? AFAIK the police used tear-gas, then they were ordered to stop by the mayor, then they stopped and switched to other means like mace. Do you know differently?
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by DenisM 6y ago
> like a music festival campground Every generation needs a Woodstock. Burning man is not real enough.

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