Merovius

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by Merovius 11y ago
> I've been tracking this debate (or, until recently, lack thereof) for years and no one is articulating this well, myself included. Specifically, no one is articulating how this doesn't even make sense from an economics perspe
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by Merovius 11y ago
And in regards to > if these costs are being borne evenly, then it's complete societal waste. that is exactly what is happening . Advertising is the classical real world example for the prisoners dilemma. It is literally the re
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by Merovius 11y ago
Your logic is flawed. Advertisers advertise to increase their share of the whole economy. Every single person could spend exactly the same amount of money and even on exactly the same kind of things as before and advertising would still ma
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by Merovius 11y ago
The more I learn about the US educational system, the more I consider it sucking majorly. I don't know how you can put up with that stuff. I already consider it a source of major social injustice, that here in GER you will only receive
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by Merovius 11y ago
> yet many job advertisements come with increasing requirements. I think you shouldn't really take these at face value. If you can give any justification why you can cross off one or two of these, that should probably be enough to
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by Merovius 11y ago
What I don't understand is, why aren't you getting a degree ? If you acknowledge a degree is important to get hired, why not just get one? At least here in germany it takes you three years to get a degree -- if you can actually
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by Merovius 11y ago
Intelectually honestly: No. Agenda, yes. Hidden? No? It's a very unhidden, open, public agenda, when you lobby for transparency of pay.
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by Merovius 11y ago
I personally don't believe that not rewarding an action counts as "retaliation" for said action. I also believe, based on Xooglers commenting, that there might have been very good reasons to reject the peer bonuses (no, tha
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by Merovius 11y ago
> If Google retaliated against her for sharing salary information, this is illegal, and they need to be punished. Absolutely. Which is why I don't understand why everyone is discussing this. Erica Joy apparently doesn't conside
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by Merovius 11y ago
There is also a difference in e.g. stopping random people on the street and asking if they are willing to participate, or posting an ad online and waiting for people to call, even though both are voluntary.
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by Merovius 11y ago
As far as I know, this only regards base-pay. There is a lot of wiggle-room in terms of bonuses, staffing, space… Apparently a professor in our math-department was expensive enough, that a different position needed to be downgraded to the
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by Merovius 11y ago
> It is funny. Because it's the people who want silence others' free speech who repeat the "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences" meme as justification for their horrible actions. Ugh. "h
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by Merovius 11y ago
If I expect this code to be relevant to my job and their evaluation of it: Sure. Why wouldn't I?
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by Merovius 11y ago
I never understood, why this is a problem. We live in a society of abundance. Tying coverage of living expenses to work done, just leads to people doing pointless work. This is at least the reality in Germany: There aren't enough jobs
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by Merovius 11y ago
Lennart has stated very clearly, that if someone where to propose some other publicly available server, that he would be happy to put that down instead. Also note, that the reporter didn't write "don't use this, we can't
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by Merovius 11y ago
I am sorry if I was unclear in that. My comment (and similar comments in other threads) directly referred to criticism of Lennart for deciding that he doesn't want a vendor zone for systemd. In regards to the DNS server comment: I said
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by Merovius 11y ago
I find it utterly reasonable, to avoid being made responsible for something, that is essentially a test-domain. Imagine, for example, that some domain server in .systemd.ntp.org would stop responding (for pretty much any* reason, includin
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by Merovius 11y ago
Then, I guess, the main Maintainer of pool.ntp.org, who explicitely stated¹ that he agrees with Lennart Poetterings reasoning also hasn't read that? It is a really poor signal how much crap gets flung at the systemd people for this
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by Merovius 11y ago
The defaults on my installation are *.debian.pool.ntp.org. Can you give me an example of an installation with less sensible defaults? edit: Ah, I think I now know where the misunderstanding lies. My "if you don't" refers to &
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by Merovius 11y ago
What other server do you suggest (or do you suggest none, which increases the 70% to 100%)?
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by Merovius 11y ago
> ...to provide a correction to someone saying pools can't be used. Yes. Someone claimed (correctly), that *.pool.ntp.org can't be used. abh ammended that by saying, that however, a vendor zone can be used. I don't think a
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by Merovius 11y ago
That doesn't look at all like a language barrier problem. That looks like Lennart understood perfectly well, that usage of the pool is conditional on registering a vendor pool and that he has perfectly sound reasons not wanting a syste
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by Merovius 11y ago
The maintainer of the NTP pool agreed with Lennarts Reasoning for not registering a vendor pool in the linked bugreport.
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by Merovius 11y ago
> "missing the point" can equally be attributed to someone who disagrees I disagree. In regards to the rest of your comment: Note that the main maintainer of the NTP pool agreed with Lennarts reasoning: https://githu
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by Merovius 11y ago
"configured" as in "./configure". If you build systemd yourself, configure it. If you don't it will come with sensible defaults.
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by Merovius 11y ago
That is not the case, you misread that response. What he rather is saying is: a) > Lennarts reasons for not using *.systemd.pool.ntp.org ("systemd isn't a distribution") makes sense to me. b) > If you kept reading you&#
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by Merovius 11y ago
> They are allowed to use pool, they just have to apply to use them. Which has unclear (non-technical) implications. Which Lennart Poettering doesn't want to tolerate. Which I would consider a valid opinion. > The linked thread h
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by Merovius 11y ago
Google's DNS servers are a product meant for public use, i.e. this use. I think it is entirely reasonable to not run your own public DNS servers as an Open Source software and instead use a well-maintained already existing one that h
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by Merovius 11y ago
No, it is saying "don't build systemd from source unconfigured and then run it in production", which is an entirely reasonable point to make. systemd is meant to be, by self-description, "a toolbox to build an operating
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by Merovius 11y ago
I think a) the snark is unnecessary and b) you are mistaking disagreement with ignorance. From what I read in that issue, he did understand the point pretty well (from a technical standpoint), he just disagrees with the proposed solution (f

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