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by __jal 9y ago
It isn't so much about crapping on the employees as recognizing reality. Nobody wants a piece of Uber for the office managers or designers.
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by __jal 9y ago
That's 600+ cities where suddenly there's a huge incentive to fill it fast. Do advocates of free markets as engines of creation and disruption really have so little faith?
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by __jal 9y ago
I'd hardly describe the food found in NYC Chinatown markets unsanitary, and never felt any reason not to eat them raw they same way I would from BigCoMart - you wash and inspect. If anything, I'd expect fewer golf balls in my food
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by __jal 9y ago
Right, it was only after the patent office was invented that people started inventing things. Before that, nothing of consequence was created by humanity.
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by __jal 9y ago
> Seems like some economic SJW stuff I love how the existence of whiny college students becomes a shorthand excuse to write off anyone who wouldn't be chosen to appear in a Mentos commercial.
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by __jal 9y ago
HN is hardly a monolith of opinion. You'll find many discussions here with people loudly arguing that Uber is a cancer that deserves to end up a smoking crater as a lesson to others. I will help salt the earth. That there are bad actor
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by __jal 9y ago
We'll probably have to wait for the next Bamford book to find out what happened. Given past performance, I would put money on this being replaced by a functionally identical program with a legal hack, and of course a new name. (The new
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by __jal 9y ago
> They just eat, sleep and breath their designs. I think a different verb may apply in this particular case.
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by __jal 9y ago
Putting aside everything else, contracting is very different. I'm was a contractor (independent as well as via a firm I co-started) for a over a decade, and getting fired by a client, as you say, is no big deal. Every business deals wi
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by __jal 9y ago
I'm aware of that, but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to take away from it in this context.
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by __jal 9y ago
For the record, I use 'bullshit' as a technical term[1]. I can imagine why someone might dislike 'clownshow'. Frankly, I find it accurate, or I wouldn't have written it, and I didn't use such terms in the past
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by __jal 9y ago
What specifically do you find incendiary? I'm not using Washington political euphemisms, but I honestly fail to see anything "rabble-rousing, seditious or subversive" about what I've said. I'm calling it like I see
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by __jal 9y ago
> Why would Bitmain shut down their customers' hardware? I'm not them, so I don't know. That sort of mechanism doesn't build itself, though, so I have to imagine they have at least one scenario in mind... Also, reason
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by __jal 9y ago
History. The ZFS folks, back when, were the only folks making much noise about the association between non-ECC RAM and corrupt data landing on disk. The truth is, if you care about the notion that your disk should return the same data that
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by __jal 9y ago
You also won't have to arm-wrestle a feral badger to check your email! This is yuge, because badgers don't have arms. Don't you see what a difference this will make?
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by __jal 9y ago
He's just spewing bullshit to get past the decision becoming final. Engaging on a level of logic with someone who is seeking an outcome and just says whatever they think will support their view. This is about the exercise of power. And
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by __jal 10y ago
This. The free-market fallacy is rife in this discussion, as it is in economics. Unless you and your counterparty exist in a vacuum, there is no such thing as a free market.
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by __jal 10y ago
So otherwise it is wild-west, no legal recourse, right? Do you really believe that?
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by __jal 10y ago
> Uber can't seem to catch a break these days, can they. Maybe if they didn't act like coke-addled frat-boys in Vegas, they'd get better press.
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by __jal 10y ago
So, what terms do you see as enforceable on a private API? If I set up a server to respond to only the people I choose, what restrictions can I make on it in your perfect world?
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by __jal 10y ago
Pretty sure that's meth.
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by __jal 10y ago
Because the risk calculation looks different when one has a bank account that can support one's family while working for free for a x% chance of a payout.
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by __jal 10y ago
People may use Gluster for HPC; I don't know. But it really isn't suited. I run two Gluster clusters for more boring enterprisey reliability. It is still kind of a mess - there are rough edges all over. Log messages make zero sens
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by __jal 10y ago
Why do you find the question relevant?
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by __jal 10y ago
Lots of automation executes on a schedule. If you control time, you can cause something to happen (or not happen) as you like. Use your imagination. Don't forget to combine this with other attacks - if you compromise something your tar
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by __jal 10y ago
A better question is why do other most of the other media firms (including all of the valley tech shops) believe reprinting press releases is journalism?
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by __jal 10y ago
1) That is a false statement. [1] 2) Even if that were true, that is not what happened in this case. 3) Even if that were true, it still does not explain the weird random data leakage. [1] https://support.apple.com/en-us&#x2
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by __jal 10y ago
"We won't sue you", however, is not consideration.
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by __jal 10y ago
> In other words, how could Apple differentiate between "it's my account but not my phone" and "it's my account and it is my phone"? Because the phone in question used that Apple id precisely once, and is no
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by __jal 10y ago
Shit like this is why I don't use anything from them. There are probably 15 or so different accounts for me in their DBs, which I will never even attempt to use again. Life is too short to put up with managing other people's CRM f

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