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by Zafira 2y ago
It feels like Boeing divested itself of Spirit to try and avoid the responsibilities of having to manufacture various components, but the awful culture was retained at Spirit and probably made worse by the priorities of its private equity o
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by Zafira 2y ago
I think this touches on an interesting question. What obligation do free or open source project maintainers have? Even if a maintainer slaps on a, “I do what I want with this project. I am not responsible for any damages. There is no suppor
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by Zafira 2y ago
I think the general consensus is that Greenspan was an ideologist and effectively a useless Fed chair since he didn’t believe in regulation. The only reason he was probably not ousted was because he had enablers with the added leverage that
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by Zafira 3y ago
How does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD?
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by Zafira 3y ago
At some point Cormen had a page of shame where he would name people who asked him for solutions to some of the problems. I remember it was removed with a note that it was a bit much. Though, I suspect it was pointed out to him that this mad
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by Zafira 3y ago
Disbarment is usually considered a punishment of last resort. That the failure of the attorney to carry out their obligations is so absolute, that it justifies taking away their right to practice law in a given state. There are certainly ot
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by Zafira 3y ago
> [L]awyers are traditionally tech illiterate This is the main reason I think disbarment as the punishment in this specific instance may not be fair. There are people who are unaware of the limitations of these systems and the risk of th
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by Zafira 4y ago
Accenture is Andersen Consulting. It left and changed its name to Accenture because of internal infighting and politics prior to the Enron scandal that took down Andersen entirely.
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by Zafira 4y ago
California cities like Atherton, Woodside, Bradbury, San Marino, etc. are bad metrics to use for anything approaching affordable housing.
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by Zafira 4y ago
I believe this burst of attention at weather APIs is from the impending shutdown of the Dark Sky API.
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by Zafira 4y ago
> Based on the fact that they've gone through several waves of layoffs and nothing significant has broken yet. This logic is just specious. Passing judgment on a large, distributed system based on its continued uptime is a bit like
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by Zafira 4y ago
“The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”—All the President’s Men (1976)
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by Zafira 4y ago
Who is the iPad Pro catering to exactly? I've struggled to figure this out.
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SoftBank wrested back control of Arm China(asia.nikkei.com)
41 points by Zafira 4y ago|4 comments
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by Zafira 4y ago
Discriminatory uses of impartial law is totally a thing, though. Now, then and (likely) forever.
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by Zafira 5y ago
The video is here: A Navigator for Unix -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3oqgJ1r90c
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by Zafira 5y ago
I feel like this would have been a culture clash waiting to happen and I feel like it would drive Google to eventually create some sort of bank subsidiary if this had actually worked out. That said, I can't imagine the customer service
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by Zafira 6y ago
Once upon a time, the American consensus was also generally comfortable with destroying neighborhoods wholesale to build freeways and other infrastructure in the name of progress. Now it takes forever or never for fear of triggering a voter
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by Zafira 6y ago
"The West wrecked the environment and everything else in the process of industrialization, so we [Chinese] are entitled to do it too," is a truly disturbing line and this isn't the first time I've actually heard before.
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by Zafira 6y ago
> Which is also a symbol of the degradation of human intellectual capability in the 21st century. I don't think the human thirst for knowledge is lacking, but the political will, regardless of a project's economic profit, to su
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by Zafira 6y ago
The draft itself also has a not insignificant amount of leaps of faith that are not helpful in the current environment: "Beyond that, the Journal's columnist Kimberly Strassel reviewed a stash of documents..."---this is an op
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by Zafira 6y ago
You can see the failure of American leadership and an inability to engage in global crises in a decisive manner since Vietnam due to our inability to get over our incompetence and total misunderstanding of the political situation during the
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by Zafira 6y ago
One reason for the United States being seen as a good place to do business is because it is consistent. You don't need to worry about being subjected to the whims of a strongman in order to do business in the US; there is supposed to b
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by Zafira 6y ago
The office of the US President has amassed a significant amount of authority over the years, with the general understanding that power must be used responsibly. The current occupant of the office seems to have little regard for the judiciou
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by Zafira 6y ago
Chinese culture remains very authoritarian in a lot of ways. You can see attempts to get out of this, but it's hard. I know people who emigrated from Taiwan before marital law was finally lifted and they were also terrified, even in th
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by Zafira 6y ago
> the US would lose its last bit of moral high ground in China, the spirit of free market and rule by law The US will continue to shed international credibility so long as we Americans continue to engage and enable mainstream discussion
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by Zafira 6y ago
While GE's successes under Welch are suspect at best in my opinion, I was more referring to the legacy of "stack ranking" under Welch's tenure. I've read "At Any Cost: Jack Welch, General Electric, and the Purs
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by Zafira 6y ago
> It used to be in the GE mode of cutting the bottom 5-10% each year. Hasn't it been demonstrated that GE under Jack Welch was basically a massive fraud?
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by Zafira 6y ago
If you look at the CNCF, they now offer Kubernetes certifications. This is worth a lot of money. This is probably one part of what is driving this.
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by Zafira 6y ago
My understanding is that there is a faction in Google that believes that making Kubernetes freely available as it did was a massive strategic mistake on the part of Google[1], tantamount to giving away the crown jewels. With this in mind, m

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