MBlume

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by MBlume 11y ago
Anybody can push a commit to a git repo with Linus Torvalds name and e-mail on it. With GPG signing, they can verify that the claimed author signed off on the commit.
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by MBlume 11y ago
If everyone on your team actually knows how to use git, much better to let them rebase their commits and mark out a series of clean, atomic commits which introduce the feature you're reviewing. If you have people who are incompetent at
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by MBlume 11y ago
...isn't this what an IPO is for?
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by MBlume 11y ago
> You will need to swamp SFBA with housing (tens of thousands of new units a year) in order to drive down market prices. Ok, when do we start?
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by MBlume 11y ago
As a friend of many of the people in the original thread, I find it hilarious that the New Republic assumes they're all 'teens', especially when one has an icon in which he's holding his child.
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by MBlume 11y ago
If you use StartSSL, and then down the line they go well and truly rogue, browser vendors will have to consider ceasing to trust StartSSL in future releases. If your site is popular, it will be one more reason for them not to do that, which
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by MBlume 11y ago
The argument about exposure is a general argument against home ownership. If you own a home in Detroit and work for Ford, you are doubly exposed to the region's financial health. If you live in Houston and work for an oil company you
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by MBlume 11y ago
Ok, then the plan is start a world-beating company which monopolizes its (rapidly growing) market, then retire and start a non-profit.
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by MBlume 11y ago
Because we live in a fallen world.
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by MBlume 11y ago
It sounds to me like this will not work if I actually power down my device before the attacker gets their hands on it, is that correct? (I tend to power down my phone before going through TSA lines, for example)
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by MBlume 11y ago
Um. As a programmer I am in the job-destruction business. I think a society with fewer jobs and more automation can be a better society for everyone provided we simultaneously shift in the direction of more of a social safety net for the
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by MBlume 11y ago
> No leftie is arguing or longing for any of these policies. What we're looking for is just more equality in economic opportunities and esp capital and that distribution of capital to be more fair across all the classes and not to b
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by MBlume 11y ago
Which of the people you know personally do you think deserve death?
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by MBlume 11y ago
I'm confused about why you think I thought he was
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by MBlume 11y ago
So pg predicts that hackers are going to hate Java. Hackers mostly hate Java. Because of this, pg predicts Java will be unsuccessful. Java's actually pretty successful. This is kind of sobering. Possibly we overestimate the social infl
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by MBlume 11y ago
If you look at the history of human evolution, this doesn't make sense. Evolution was very very slowly increasing human intelligence by, e.g., making our skulls bigger. Then we got to the point where we could use language/transmit
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by MBlume 11y ago
This...sounds incredibly naive? They seem to think that AI risk comes from Bad People doing AI? There's not one mention given to the possibility of well-intentioned people destroying the world by accident.
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by MBlume 11y ago
Would it make sense to pin the relevant post to the top of the page when HN does a Black Bar tribute?
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by MBlume 11y ago
Yes, this. I've often thought that in terms of long-term strategy, pro-housing groups should focus on getting rental housing built, and leave owner-occupied condos alone.
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by MBlume 11y ago
I think this is poorly written. I don't object to him calling it "command-line bullshittery" in his title, but doing it over and over again in the article is excessive. We get it. You don't like it. You aren't going
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by MBlume 11y ago
At risk of reductio ad hitlerum -- at the time Jefferson wrote the quote given in the article, the wisdom of the rural folk was that slavery was awesome and should continue forever. It was the out-of-touch urban interlopers who thought it s
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by MBlume 11y ago
> Lawn reformists are generally proponents of converting yards over to less resource intensive alternatives like drought tolerant plants or native plants species. Or we could just build the houses closer together in the first place.
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by MBlume 11y ago
Sure, but on the other hand, downloading a tarball for every minor release means you're redownloading a lot of code. Depending on how much churn there is, you may save bandwidth in the long run by keeping a clone and updating as you go
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by MBlume 11y ago
Ew.
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by MBlume 11y ago
The post doesn't indicate whether residents will be paid like PhD students or like Google employees.
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by MBlume 11y ago
Entrepreneur? I've never seen this used before either.
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by MBlume 11y ago
> in the absence of proper congestion pricing for cars on the road So, when do we institute congestion pricing?
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If we get no change except surge pricing, that's at least some improvement
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by MBlume 11y ago
Yeah, you're not wrong. In particular, the fact that the SFMTA isn't cooperating with the part of the program that's just supposed to make paying the tickets easier is kind of damning. I'd like to think that better techn
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by MBlume 11y ago
I get where you're coming from. Police departments enforcing the rules not to better the community they serve but to bring in money to pay their salaries. It pisses me off too. The thing is, free parking fucks up cities[0][1]. It makes

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