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by Lazare 5y ago
Synchronization isn't required, actually. The timestamp is there to make the UUIDs roughly k-sortable, and to provide a "namespace" for the random values to reduce collisions. Imagine you had three devices one of which has an
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by Lazare 5y ago
I like using standards, but the advantages of KSUIDs over existing UUIDs has led me to adopt them by default in new (and where possible, existing) projects. I was sort of hoping this would yield something obviously superior to KSUIDs, since
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by Lazare 5y ago
The point, I think, is that we were expecting them not to have an opinion about international affairs, but Blizzard went out of there way to take a pro-CCP position. > don't [...] conscript game companies into fighting idealogical
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by Lazare 5y ago
I think it was irresponsible to hold them, but I can't see any particular reason why they might not be considered valid. And I certainly I don't think Biles's decision is meaningful. Why would it be? It seems entirely incon
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by Lazare 5y ago
100% wrong. From Wikipedia: "On 27 March 2015, Italy's highest court, the Court of Cassation, ruled that Knox and Sollecito were innocent of murder, thereby definitively ending the case. Rather than merely declaring that there wer
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by Lazare 5y ago
Although the top comments TO that top comment seem to be explaining that the top comment is wrong, and it's probably a bad thing. ...I feel like this topic is oddly confusing.
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> where can investigative pieces that take months or years to create fit into that? They don't. The problem is, they don't fit in ANYWHERE. Nobody wants to pay for that, and in fact, nobody ever has. As has been documented ad i
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by Lazare 5y ago
Quite right. Although conversely, if Substack is taking VC cash and throwing it away on advances to unsucessful authors nobody is reading... ...then that also can't explain their success, because that's content nobody is reading
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by Lazare 5y ago
Book authors have been getting advances against future sales for a long, long time, so it's hardly novel. I'm not really following the the concern.
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> The key issue is that people don't want to pay $2/month to twenty different writers. They want to pay $20/month to a single organization which has a hundred writers, also known as a "newspaper". ...actually, I
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by Lazare 5y ago
My experience is: Where I work, we value any signs that a candidate will excel, and open source contributions can be such a signal. If you casually drop the news that you've landed some commits in a library that we're using, that
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by Lazare 5y ago
Okay, let's steelman the argument then. Short selling a company's shares cannot bankrupt the company. Happier? (Again, I say this because there is no theoretical mechanism by which selling stock short can realistically cause bankr
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by Lazare 5y ago
> I honestly don't know how you can believe this. Well, it's actually pretty easy. 1) In theory, it can't happen. 2) And in practice, it doesn't happen. It doesn't get much more cut and dried than that! > If
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by Lazare 5y ago
Fascinating story. Of course, it doesn't make a lot of sense on its face, and many people would say that it's impossible. No doubt you can identify an example of this happening? Even once?
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> Your mistake is assuming predatory short sellers don't exist. In the sense you seem to mean, they literally don't. Short sellers cannot drive companies to bankruptcy. > If people want to pay a premium to not loan out their
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by Lazare 5y ago
If the short sellers are right, the price is going down long term if you lend shares to them or not. (The short sellers may not be able to profit from it as much, but a worthless company will be found out eventually.) If the short sellers
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by Lazare 5y ago
I couldn't possibly disagree more. It's not a problem, it has no real impact, what impact it has is likely net positive, it is not a conflict of interest, and it's impossible to form a coherent argument for why it should be i
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by Lazare 5y ago
Migrating from github: Sure, lots of reasons why you might want to do that. Just being sure you can has value. Migrating to Bitbucket: Uh.... I don't really see any way in which Bitbucket is better than Github. Or, frankly, any other
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by Lazare 5y ago
> Being "Long" in the USD implies general stability of the currency It does not. Many currencies aren't stable at all; people still take long and short positions on them, either as part of an explicit investment thesis, or
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> How can you be “long BTC” By owning BTC, or equivalent economic exposure to owning BTC, ie, you will profit if BTC becomes relatively more valuable, and lose if it becomes relatively less valuable. > it’s a currency not a stock. Yo
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by Lazare 5y ago
I mean...it was intended for everyone to use, and the intended use was to avoid taxes (in this one, very limited context). And professional investors are part of "everyone". So...I mean....it really is the intended use.
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by Lazare 5y ago
1. Network effects 2. Timing The world was ready for a replacement for SVN just at the moment when git hit the scene, and it was just good enough to take over. Mercurial dates to the same era and was just about as good (arguably better), an
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by Lazare 5y ago
A while back I was (very tangentially) involved in an investigation relating to a near-disaster relating to this. https://www.taic.org.nz/inquiry/mo-2007-207 Iron ore is heavy and hard to transport. But at some points
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by Lazare 5y ago
Many reforms will be aggressively resisted. Wet markets are unlikely to be shut down unless they can be plausibly fingered as the source of COVID-19 (and maybe not even then). GoF research has been heavily criticized for years, but it is
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by Lazare 5y ago
The theories seem to be: 1) Zoonotic 2) We have no idea, 3) Lab leak 4) Purposefully created and released bioweapon. What seems to have happened is that there's a large group that have always backed theory 2, but theories 2, 3, and 4
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The good news is, if their workplace policies are anything like their editorial policies, if you don't like it just wait 3 months, they'll have a new one.
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So the director of one lab, hearing about COVID-19, apparently went "oh shit, that could have come from MY lab!" Later, she publicly announced that it's fine, it didn't come from her lab after all, then the lab was shu
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by Lazare 5y ago
Those are good questions, but I think the link I provided gives some decent potential answers. I don't know, and I'm not asserting, that any of this is true. But given what is known about the types of research being done, this d
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Safety incidents happen a lot . > By 1960, hundreds of American scientists and technicians had been hospitalized, victims of the diseases they were trying to weaponize. Charles Armstrong, of the National Institutes of Health, one of the
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> However I don't feel comfortable ruling out alternative scenarios I haven't suggested we should, not do I think that would be wise. We're in the uncomfortable position of having effectively no evidence in favour of any

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