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by Spivak 11mo ago
That wasn't even the GPDR and it did even less for user privacy.
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Fantastic! Shows how long it's been since I've made a VPC by clicking around in the GUI.
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Well yeah, the GPDR was great in theory and a huge win for privacy advocates until it did jack shit in practice. It turned out to have zero teeth and everyone just found ways to keep business as usual while 'complying' with the la
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Yep, a single person contractor business is no more able to work on a home without a license and permit than a giant corporation.
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Two node / even node clusters can work fine. For even n>2 you define a tie breaker node in advance and only the partition connected to that node can make a quorum at 50%. For n=2 going from no quorum to quorum requires both nodes bu
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by Spivak 11mo ago
I am 100% in agreement, they could even make adding endpoints part of the VPC creation wizard.
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by Spivak 11mo ago
The reason to not include the endpoint by default is because VPCs should be secure by default. Everything is denied and unless you explicitly configure access to the Internet, it's unreachable. An attacker who manages to compromise a s
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by Spivak 11mo ago
After this I kinda see why some protesters started wearing the silliest outfits possible. But man oh man going after anyone with means who tries to help people who the government decides looks like an illegal immigrant is hell of an escalat
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Honestly it should be good news because the kids never needed protecting in the first place. If the solution wasn't censorship they would give zero fucks.
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by Spivak 11mo ago
It is, you're right, and it's super weird what happens on the internet when you suggest weed isn't some gateway to enlightenment. I love cannabis, but it's a depressant that increases dopamine, it's not that complic
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Pretend for a minute that this naming scheme was successful, that sales of cars called pre-owned were higher than cars called used. Neither term is deceptive, both accurately describe the situation. What this tells you is that the problem i
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Yes we are responsible for what kids eat, it's why it's all the more maddening we have adults who come up with a menu of how they wished kids ate, made it policy, and take literally no responsibility for the (I think very predict
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by Spivak 11mo ago
This really does keep getting worse, first you were just wasting money for your ideals now you're suggesting we purposely let kids go hungry until they behave in the way you want. We're beyond they just don't happen to like w
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by Spivak 11mo ago
> Stop buying US goods. If only there was a way to make US goods more expensive to discourage their purchase :P
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by Spivak 11mo ago
You're equating asking Siri to call your mom to using a robo-dialer machine.
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by Spivak 11mo ago
I don't understand the problem with your first example. The __init__ method isn't special and B.__init__ is just a function. Your code boils down to: def some_function(obj): obj.prop = 2 class Foo: def __ini
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by Spivak 11mo ago
I'm spoiled by Python's incredibly sane inheritance and I always have to keep in mind that inheritance is a very different beast in other languages.
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by Spivak 11mo ago
It's always a treat when the exact problem I'm describing shows up in the replies. Yes feed them sugar. Children have a significantly heightened sweet tooth until adolescence where it slowly declines and they develop more complex
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Yes but on the internet, at least in the US, asking "Are you 21 Yes/No" with no actual check has been acceptable. Same with all mature content like violence and porn. Someone needs to make a case as for why in 2015 this was p
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by Spivak 11mo ago
I mean don't worry, once there's no more X11 you won't have to switch it into Wayland mode anymore.
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by Spivak 11mo ago
I mean this is the nanny state at its best. Getting in the way of progress because you refuse to meet people, in this case kids, where they actually are. The challenge should be minimizing the amount of waste—cook literally anything where t
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by Spivak 11mo ago
And they might not even be implemented with AI, they were all examples times when you read something no human bothered to write. And I'm expecting the retort will be something to the effect of well they're just translating some so
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by Spivak 11mo ago
You avoided the important part, there is no market for hardware that can play Nintendo Switch games and there is no market for software providers on Nintendo Switch. And they are legally allowed to do that. You can sell appliances that are
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by Spivak 11mo ago
This is every hopium "Stock in Thing You Don't Like Plummeting" article where it's the tiniest little dip at the top of a peak that makes Everest jealous once you zoom out.
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by Spivak 11mo ago
You can't monopolize a market where there is no market. Nintendo can be anticompetitive in the wider games industry, but there is no market for software that runs on a Switch. I didn't say I liked the ruling, just that it's c
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by Spivak 11mo ago
But the ruling is correct. You can't have it both ways, if you invite competition you're not allowed to be anti-competitive. You can be Nintendo, offer a single store, only allow first party hardware, and exercise total control ov
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Hard disagree, I think time has proven that the filibuster (or some process like it) is necessary as a stabilizing effect on democracy. Making legislation easier to block than pass makes it so that small swings in representation, say 51-49
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Yes, this is called malware and isn't the fault of being able to install software on your device. If someone tricks you into handing over the keys to the kingdom, the solution isn't to remove your door.
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by Spivak 11mo ago
It really is so sad to see people get sucked into the alt-right pipeline and not even realize it despite it being so obvious from the outside that it's happening. For all his talk on indoctrination it's weird to suddenly have very
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by Spivak 11mo ago
See this has become a popular quip when talking about AI but it doesn't make any sense. Autogenerated API references are worth their weight in gold despite not being written by a human. Live captioning and transcription in Teams/Z

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