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by __jal 7y ago
Amazon has been feeling downmarket for a long time. * You can't trust them for entire categories of products. * You can't trust them, period, about pricing. The amount of effort they've spent ensuring comparison between very
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by __jal 7y ago
I don't consider that nice-to-have. That is essential. If you do not regularly test restoring, you do not know if you have backups. I normally overstate this just a little for effect, "If you don't test your backups you don&#
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by __jal 7y ago
There is a huge gulf between wanting your customers to pay what they owe you and this sort of "audit". I make a serious point of doing what I can to steer my employers away from any outfit that believes adversarial relations with
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by __jal 7y ago
On the other hand, Google has a growing problem with map spam precisely because they accept user submissions. Choose your poison.
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by __jal 7y ago
The hate for Oracle is more about Oracle. Their tech has always been weak, their sales force rabid jerks who manage to be even more annoying that IBM's, and they have always taken an adversarial stance towards their own customers. The
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by __jal 7y ago
"Only shareholders matter" has been gospel for about a generation. And I do think that attitude is responsible for a lot that is wrong with the US. But it is, I think, fair to note that corporations are not responsible for making
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by __jal 7y ago
What I hate about the rush to subscriptions is the addition of cloud elements where they are not needed. A great example of this is a little addition I've been using to Mail.app, called MailTags[1]. I've been using it for years, r
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by __jal 7y ago
> or (as I suspect) you find them too valuable to dismiss entirely quarantine You are wrong. I block the known IP blocks of the big surveillance shops and a lot of the small ones[1]. > sour grapes that a mediocre employee at one of t
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by __jal 7y ago
> You have no right to use my website Of course. > Recaptcha is simply part of this negotiation. It is only a negotiation if I know it is there.
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by __jal 7y ago
> It’s nonetheless a shame that it’s so universally misunderstood how ad-supported megacorps make their money that even highly sophisticated users of the web still talk about the value of personal data (source: I ran Facebook’s ads backe
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by __jal 7y ago
> If you need JS to run the site ... Then I move on. Those dorky little crapware widgets are basically never worth looking at in any case, and I do take that sort of strategic tooling decision as a signal that I probably don't want
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by __jal 7y ago
Given that the snark is the entire point, it isn't clear to me what you wish others to do with that information. I don't like lots of things on the internet, too.
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by __jal 7y ago
See also a similar, disturbingly common attitude about acetaminophen/opiate combinations. I've heard an RN say the problem is that it doesn't ruin junkies' livers fast enough.
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by __jal 7y ago
P2P will stay irrelevant insofar that we don't fix networking to make it easy again. And we really want it to be, for values of "we" that != carriers. NAT and related IPv4 hacks hand a great deal of power to people who want t
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by __jal 7y ago
Exactly - ZFS offers everything on the bullet list.
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by __jal 7y ago
There were nicely branded jailbreaks for the iPhone well before Heartbleed.
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by __jal 7y ago
> It's such a good idea that the US government decided you were right decades ago. Perhaps, but it is hardly a universal belief that they have the balance right. It is hard to pick a starting point to get in to this discussion, beca
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by __jal 7y ago
And their accuracy remains.. let's say "unchallenged".
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by __jal 7y ago
This is very common thinking - people seem to equate the first discussion of a concept with "discovery" with "the important stuff". If that line of thought were consistent, it would credit Babbage, or maybe Turing, as th
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by __jal 7y ago
> I’m not sure how an atheistic population could resist the forces of selfishness and tribalism First you're going to have to explain how religious populations avoid those. Hint: they don't.
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by __jal 7y ago
For anyone interested, I highly recommend _Theory of the Leisure Class_, in which Veblen developed the notion: http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/LCS/theoryleisureclass.pdf
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by __jal 7y ago
Sounds like you don't phone screen. I've screened people like you describe, but the only time I've interviewed them face-to-face was when they didn't have a technical phone screen for whatever reason. FWIW, one of the wa
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by __jal 7y ago
They also selling bonds, after a $20B stock buyback.
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by __jal 7y ago
No, the point is control. You have no idea what I need.
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by __jal 7y ago
Any application that doesn't allow me to stop something from being annoying, will be stopped from being annoying by being uninstalled. If browsers made it such that I couldn't not stop .gif animations (or playing video, or...), I
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by __jal 7y ago
...Which sounds like a management problem.
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by __jal 7y ago
If you trust Amazon to know your risk profile better than your security people, you have a management problem of some sort.
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by __jal 7y ago
> Wouldnt data collection become meaningless? Data is used for more than advertising. These data silos are enormous blackmail machines waiting to be activated. There is tons of evidence of crime, adultery, extortion, and all the other fu
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by __jal 7y ago
Yep. This is why you never click on ads, period.
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by __jal 7y ago
Compression may or may not be worse with ZFS defaults, but performance will almost certainly be _better_ with the default ZFS compression settings than an uncompressed filesystem. You're trading a small amount of CPU for IO, and that&#

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