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by Lazare 5y ago
That would help explain how the virus got from the mine to Wuhan; it does not help explain how the virus mutated from a bat virus unable to infect humans to a virus that was extremely good at infecting humans with, so far, no intermediate s
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by Lazare 5y ago
Some techniques of manipulating the virus would leave "fingerprints". Others would not. My understanding is that the sweeping assertions that COVID-19 would show clear signs of being manipulated have been largely debunked. Many ul
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by Lazare 5y ago
There's a bit of a fuzzy overlap between "man made" and "lab leak". Specifically, the lab leak theory more or less assumes that the virus was collected from the mine, taken to Wuhan, and some research and experime
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by Lazare 5y ago
It's a bit disappointing, really. There are people commenting who clearly have no idea what the tool even is , haven't even tried to figure it out, haven't read the other comments already here. I'd really hope for bette
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by Lazare 5y ago
It's pretty easy to get an invite.
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by Lazare 5y ago
Github has every right to do that (subject to the term of their user service agreements and applicable local laws, etc., of course). It'd also cause the utter destruction of their current business model. They do NOT do this, because th
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by Lazare 5y ago
...but Freenode is now behaving maliciously, banning people without good cause, and interfering with tools that open source projects use to coordinate and to provide support for users. Yes, I know, "Freenode is under the control of a m
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by Lazare 5y ago
I meant using it as a cacheing layer, yes. Perhaps not the best example, but still! AWS doesn't care if you try and offload some processing to cheap Hetzner servers; Stripe doesn't care if you offer Paypal as a second option. Appl
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by Lazare 5y ago
Really can't agree more. It's clear that the App Store offers significant value for many vendors, and charging for it is fine . Epic apparently generates $500m of revenue per year from the iPhone, and they're doing so using
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by Lazare 5y ago
DHH's retelling of the incident is less bad than some others made it sound, yes. (Although I wouldn't necessarily assume his account is entirely accurate or includes all relevant context either!) But even taking it entirely at fac
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by Lazare 5y ago
Not the person you asked, but in my view: 1. There's a lot of products and teams out there, and your purchasing decisions help ensure some products and teams stick around and have more resources to keep doing what they're doing, a
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by Lazare 5y ago
Look, there's a pretty plausible story (see, eg, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-esca... ) right now that we, as a society, have spent a significant amount of effort performing research
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by Lazare 5y ago
My engineering org practices blameless postmortems too, and I am an extremely strong advocate of them, but a blameless postmortem is not the same thing as a postmortem that refuses to identify or address root causes. And here, there is so
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by Lazare 5y ago
I don't see a problem here. Apple charges (and is able to charge) a lot for an iPhone in large part because the iPhone gives the purchaser access to the App Store. But they also bundle a payment service into the app store, force deve
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by Lazare 5y ago
That's fair. Although you can bolt auth to the gateway with sessions, too. Perfectly valid design to inspect the request at the gateway, strip off the cookie, look up the session, then attach the session data to the request and forward
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by Lazare 5y ago
A surprisingly small number of dollars per month will give you a Redis instance that will solve your sessions needs for a truly absurd scale. And Redis scales horizontally pretty well too. (I say Redis, but there's many equivalent tool
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by Lazare 5y ago
The point is that you probably don't want a truly stateless backend. What you probably want is to store a small amount of critical state in a very fast, very scalable KVS, allowing most of the backend to be stateless. So much of th
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by Lazare 5y ago
It varies, but a large pizza will generally be 14", 16" or 18". All three sizes seem to be commonly used, although 18" is generally more associated with New York or New York style pizzas; 14" is generally more assoc
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by Lazare 5y ago
Overwatch development has basically stopped; everything is on hold waiting for Overwatch 2. Because they announced Overwatch 2 in 2019, with a strong implication it was already well along the track, and because they announced they were stop
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by Lazare 5y ago
There's also the risk of bad randomness sources and/or bugs. One popular UUID library got a bug report stating: "We are generating about 1M UUID4 a day, and we are getting several hundred collisions a day". And so they w
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by Lazare 5y ago
Yes, the offset is a round decimal number, but I'm not sure why that makes it a very good epoch. The code actually has it as "16 * 10 * 8", but it seems like an obvious optimization would be to hard code it as, yes, 160000000
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by Lazare 5y ago
Well, yes. As I said, it'll be "totally fine". :) The problem is, the submission said "collision-free". This isn't "collision-free", it's "collisions are so unlikely you don't need to w
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by Lazare 5y ago
First, for something like this, the details matter a lot. How many bits of randomness is this, how many bits used for the timestamp, what's the format, why does it yield the advantages claimed, and most of all, how does it provide coll
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by Lazare 5y ago
I disagree. I do disagree with Basecamp's policy, but I certainly wouldn't flag someone for arguing in favour of it. But I'm not sure I'd consider the linked post an argument in favour of it either; that implies that i
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by Lazare 5y ago
I agree with you...except that I don't think this ties in to what's happening at Basecamp at all. I don't think that Basecamp had an issue with "flame wars", I don't think that the company tried (or succeeded)
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by Lazare 5y ago
From one of my other comments: > New Zealand legalised prostitution fully in 2003, and it seems to have had no negative effects. There was a major review 5 years after the law was passed (so 2008). Safety up, crime down, fewer sex worker
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by Lazare 5y ago
1) Yes, but less. 2) It's much easier to protect the victims when they are strictly victims, and not participants in an illegal act. In the US, crackdowns on human trafficking overwhelmingly result in the women being arrested. It&#x2
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by Lazare 5y ago
There's extremely poor data on human trafficking in general, and not even a lot of consensus on what it is . (The legal definition is often at odds with how the phrase is used in popular media.) FWIW, New Zealand legalised prostitutio
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by Lazare 6y ago
FIG stands for Framework Interop Group. At its peak, it was a place for representatives of the major PHP frameworks and libraries to hash out ways for their projects to cooperate more effectively, and some of the standards - such as PSRs 3,
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by Lazare 6y ago
I think Smith's argument is that: 1. We shouldn't use static, arbitrary lines. Going from $7.39 to $7.41 doesn't help much, whereas going from $1.50 to $7.00 helps immensely. An argument over where the single arbitrary static

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