Kalium

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by Kalium 6y ago
> Sure, lets pipe user feedback directly into GitHub issues. Good luck with that if you have a hundred issues a day. Given the garbage-grade issues I have often seen from professional engineers, this sounds like a complete nightmare.
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by Kalium 6y ago
A reasonable number of upper-middle-class American professionals have that kind of money. Maybe not always in cash, but it's far from an implausible amount. I would go so far as to guess that a sizable number of users on this very webs
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by Kalium 6y ago
Makes sense. Horses and cows get much larger than humans!
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by Kalium 6y ago
Tend to be, but it's not that rare for someone to have a dog that's a hundred pounds and five feet long. That's in the range for an adult human.
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by Kalium 6y ago
I think it starts by treating them with respect and engaging with them as human beings with their own minds, thoughts, fears, and concerns. If you approach it through the lens of "How do I get X group to sign up to Y platform", pe
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by Kalium 6y ago
> There should be an economy of downcycling that allows for more affordable stuff, too. I just don't think that IKEA is that. You're absolutely right! There often this. This is rarely anywhere near the IKEA price point, though.
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by Kalium 6y ago
An interesting proposition! In 2008, I was on my own for the first time. I had to furnish my first apartment into livability. A family friend gave me a $300 gift card to IKEA. That gift got me a fully functional one-bedroom apartment that I
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by Kalium 6y ago
> I never understood why people hate IKEA. Yes it's cheap. Yes it doesn't last a lifetime. Yes it needs a lot of wood. Yes it's highly optimized. It's mass production without the opportunity to posture about your mea
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by Kalium 6y ago
From limited exposure, these codebases are often in truly awful shape. They've endured years or decades of having been hacked up just enough to finish someone's thesis or dissertation with no concern at all towards maintenance. It
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by Kalium 6y ago
If you support change, but only in a particular way that's unavailable, then do you really support change? Or have you found a way to gesture in the direction of change while being content with the status quo? Does this distinction hav
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by Kalium 6y ago
This is a pretty important point. That AWS can make something a big business does not mean a small startup could have done the same without AWS.
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by Kalium 6y ago
Yes, but they're only places where people don't want to move into given a choice. Generally such places get worse for the residents over time, eventually becoming slums.
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by Kalium 6y ago
> Now of course, relaxing zoning is important and necessary, you can't have a city with single family housing. It's just not a sustainable solution. Much of SF's voters see this as the greatest of heresies. The honest and
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by Kalium 6y ago
> Perhaps, but in my personal case, I think it was the opposite. I experienced this in an environment that is highly favorable to private, market-rate high-rise housing development. A great many people would characterize SF as highly fav
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by Kalium 6y ago
You're absolutely right! Participating in local governance does not inherently making a person crazy, selfish, or racist. I do think it's perhaps possible that in some cases people participating in local governance might advance a
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by Kalium 6y ago
Oh, I'm well aware that I participate in how it changes. My neighborhood also changes due to forces around it, around the city, the county, and so on. My point is merely that change in a neighborhood is a natural and normal thing. A gr
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by Kalium 6y ago
> Guess what - you're not owed anything. Right on! Nobody here is owed anything. New residents are not owed the right to reshape things arbitrarily. Neither are incumbent residents owed an enduring hammerlock on the future of a pl
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by Kalium 6y ago
It's perhaps worth considering these as forces to be balanced, rather than one extreme or the other being maximally desirable. Market rate neighborhoods with ever-increasing rent bring dynamism and are often an entry point into a city
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by Kalium 6y ago
My neighborhood did not stop changing when I moved in. I don't see why it should stop because someone else moved in. A neighborhood is not a fixed, static thing. I understand that this is an unusual, uncommon, and perhaps even uniquely
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by Kalium 6y ago
If all the housing you're accustomed to was shoddily built more than seven decades ago and indifferently maintained since, then quartz countertops and generic Whirlpool dishwashers probably seem like an unfathomable level of luxury. As
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by Kalium 6y ago
As things seem worse, the whiskey budget per person grows.
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by Kalium 6y ago
> How large is the security team? More importantly, how big is their whiskey budget? It's not the greatest proxy, but how regularly your security team drinks is a not-terrible way to gauge how much trouble your org is going to be in
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by Kalium 6y ago
I think the key distinction here is that Muzzey used ContentID responsibly. What bothers a lot of people is when ContentID is hooked to a nastygrambot. It helps that Muzzey is in a position to make enforcement decisions and is doing his bes
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by Kalium 6y ago
If memory serves, Apple did precisely this with FileVault for a very long time. Google did the same thing with encryption on phones. It was all quite thoroughly optional and all the warnings were thoroughly clear. People can, will, do, and
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by Kalium 6y ago
A lot of people have CAs controlled by various countries in their browsers by default. It was big news when CNNIC was dropped from Firefox and Chrome in 2015.
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by Kalium 6y ago
Ahh, but it's never really been about where a particular thing arose, has it? Few people think wine or cheese were invented in the EU. It's about where they have taken on a distinct form and become essential to the culture. I fear
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by Kalium 6y ago
> As a French person, I can't help but feel like there's some sort of personal attack happening there. Wine and airplanes? Hey, I think you guys forgot to tax cheese and sarcasm while you're at it! Unless it comes from the
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by Kalium 6y ago
You're absolutely right. That said, I think companies also have to consider the saleability of privacy features. How many Echos would you, personally, buy if they had a mechanical switch? How many people do you think would make the sam
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by Kalium 6y ago
> I don't see how this is any different from Valve "reinventing" SSL by using RSA. What Valve is doing is layering cryptography to make it possible to do access control more granular than a pure binary. What you are propos
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by Kalium 6y ago
> how does one go about and build a profitable and steady company with good talent without getting yanked into this cycle? One approach might be to build a business by cleverly leveraging the value of competitively paid software engineer

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