ElBarto

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by ElBarto 8y ago
Do you think that "belt and road" is a short term plan? Of course not. Building trade routes and railways to span Eurasia is thinking 50 years down the road.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
It has a lot of benefits for China. But as often China is capable of drawing a plan over 50 years and to execute it over that time frame. What they are doing is developing and reshaping global trade routes around China. That's a strate
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by ElBarto 8y ago
SaaS is good for some products but why would I pay a monthly subscription fee for taking notes?
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by ElBarto 8y ago
China is approx. the same size as the USA but with 4 times the population. The US have the more powerful economy today. But given the above, once China is on a development path then it is simply inevitable that it will overtake the US. When
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Time is on China's side. The US can throw a tantrum all they want. They should play a long game. There is no benefit for them in retaliating to hurt the US as long as it does not cause issues in domestic politics. They should focus on
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by ElBarto 8y ago
The standard is the minimum wage.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
It's a very hypocritical way to blame companies for paying minimum wage, which is set by law...
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by ElBarto 8y ago
I don't really know how food stamps work as I'm not in the US. But, having lived in a few different countries, I can tell you that if a loaf of bread costs 50c then left on its own the market will tend to pay only slightly more pe
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by ElBarto 8y ago
"Sanders has introduced a bill designed to force companies such as Amazon to pay their workers higher wages." Instead of picking on Amazon perhaps politicians should look at the actual root cause here. If there are minimum wages l
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by ElBarto 8y ago
They could at least offer free tulip bulbs with every coin.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
It's not only about costs. It's really about hard work to deliver the best for customers. Many online retailers simply do not make efforts to deliver, quite apart from any cost consideration, and then they moan about Amazon. In ad
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Everything is a market. Problems arise when this is ignored and, worse, when rules are created that go against the market. Education, for example, certainly is a market. Demand is high and all parents try to get the best the can for their c
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Free markets make efficient allocations in the sense that resources are allocated to what is in demand and competition forces players to increase their own efficiency. Markets exist no matter what you do. Everything is a market.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
A functioning free market, or at least the best approximation that we can have in practice, requires state intervention. I think this is a crucial point that is too often overlooked. Many people think that "free market" means no i
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by ElBarto 8y ago
A functioning free market is the best system we've come with for capital allocation and benefits to consumers. Even China tends to create competing corporations and to let them compete. In many industries they actually let private play
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Considering how sensitive piece of software browsers are these days, I would think that security should be the priority.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
"If you believe Greg is a bad guy, don't let Greg make signed commits to your system." That's exactly my point.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
China is now Apple's largest market for iPhones. Proof that iPhones do not hinder the Chinese government one bit.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Yes. It is desirable to produce _according to specs_ as efficiently as possible. It isn't desirable to lower specs in order to improve efficiency (for some definition of 'efficiency').
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by ElBarto 8y ago
@danieldk: "No, you do not need to hold a copy of the repository. You only need a known-good hash. Commit signing is a way to vouch that a hash is good." The overhead is such that you are better off holding the repo yourself a la
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by ElBarto 8y ago
@danieldk: "If we compare the hashes of the latest commit two git repositories" Which implies that you hold a copy of the repository, which is therefore the master copy, as opposed to trusting a third party to do that.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
You cannot guarantee the integrity of a repository that is controlled by a third party. You have to trust them.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Sigs are not important if they hold the repository to start with. If the premise is "I don't trust Github" then the only option is not to use Github. And, in any case, sigs do not prevent malicious code changes.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
If you do not trust Github then signed commits will not help since Github physically controls the repository.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
I don't know how github works but I would hope that there are users-based restrictions. "you have to basically trust Github" And that's why entrusting a third party with managing something as critical as your source code
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Proposed code changes should in any case be reviewed, tested, then committed by someone with the right to do so (which should be a restricted right). This is what really prevents malicious code changes.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
I am commenting from a national interests/geostrategic angle. It is amoral almost by definition.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
I am the GP and I didn't suggest that this was adding any sort of pro-human rights influence. Likewise I don't think that Google is really enhancing the "CCP's totalitarian goals". My angle is very much one of realp
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by ElBarto 8y ago
This is China. Search results are censored and people are fully aware of that. This is a storm in a tea cup, but it shows that the US feel increasingly insecure when it comes to China.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
No, the point is that if Google does not work with them then they'll do exactly the same without Google.

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