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by _ktx2 4y ago
That nailed what I wanted to know. Thanks!
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by _ktx2 4y ago
> Despite executing well over the last eight quarters, sustaining high growth and dramatically improving operating margins, there is more to do to secure PagerDuty’s future. This pattern of laying people off for short term gains is for t
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by _ktx2 4y ago
On my credit card I've reported fraud and been reimbursed immediately. On my debit card there's a lot more hassle. I can stop a transaction and I can report the fraud, but it takes a long time to resolve (usually weeks). They&#x27
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by _ktx2 4y ago
I mean, it's not unreasonable. If employees can't do it, why can Andy?
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by _ktx2 4y ago
Before I left Reddit we had a bunch of self-assigned Progressives on an overtly liberal subreddit (the kind where you tag your ideology with flair) brigade a Jewish person for simply existing. That spawned a lot of conversations where I saw
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by _ktx2 4y ago
> Will people forget about me if I am not on the internet? I dropped off the internet while I was in the military and deployed, the answer is yes. That said, I'd like to turn this on its head. It's normal for friends to go out
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by _ktx2 4y ago
> I’m just being realistic here: that is not possible. The human population dispersing from cities and suburbs doesn’t make physical sense. You wouldn’t live in a rural area anymore if Manhattan decided to move out and go out to towns li
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by _ktx2 4y ago
In short, equity. In longer form, a lot of people don't have the chance to leave their towns and that is in part due to opportunity, another way of looking at it is that extracting people out of their communities and consolidating them
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by _ktx2 4y ago
CEOs will sit on several boards and run a company. I don't see what's so special about the engineer that does it. Is a CEO not an employee?
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by _ktx2 4y ago
> But thankfully we don't live in a libertarian utopia where owning all the land means that you automatically run the world Not a libertarian anymore, but this sentiment has nothing to do with libertarianism. You also can't rec
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by _ktx2 4y ago
> I'll boil it down to just a couple of sentences: It's a democratic problem that 99% of all public discourse is subject to veto and policy from advertisers and payment processers, and the drive to maximize income from these. Y
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by _ktx2 4y ago
> At what point are you just re-inventing what Ansible already does if you're going down the DSL path For one, YAML can only emulate one kind of DSL: a declarative language. You have no advanced operations on top of YAML without usi
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by _ktx2 4y ago
Just saying I share your viewpoint. I continue to wear my mask and get vaccines. We really have very little idea how continued exposure, despite vaccines, will go.
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by _ktx2 4y ago
Does SourceHut still have an aversion to Kubernetes and Docker? Last year I was trying to setup SourceHut on my home infra (which is Docker/SystemD based, but was Kubernetes based) and I was told I'd be banned if I asked about it,
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by _ktx2 4y ago
I asked for links. I've never bought something like a drill or battery operated saw that didn't come with a battery. Did they come with drill bits or a blade? Not always, but I think a customer can expect a battery and a way to ch
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by _ktx2 4y ago
The most troubling thing, that is somewhat observable in today's threads, is that ostracizing sex work is almost entirely normalized. People favor legal structures analogous to Don't Ask Don't Tell. This tees up a system of c
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by _ktx2 4y ago
Being a senior engineer is weird when looking retrospectively. I remember being a junior and experiencing what the author is talking about with respect to puzzlingly staring at my seniors when they could answer obscure questions. Now I do i
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by _ktx2 4y ago
I would call it vigilantism which is a type of definitional terrorism. People in the US don't like that word, but there's a good many things that are terrorism that we don't call such. At the end of the day, violence with p
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by _ktx2 4y ago
Recreating your post after it was flagged and dead is classless. I'm surprised someone did this so brazenly. I'm not going to respond to all of the points that you raised that I think are false or misleading, but I'll respond
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by _ktx2 4y ago
Personally, I'm not too keen on either of your takes. I do remember Trump getting an unusual amount of attention, but it was mainly because the media was mocking the idea of him running. Whether this had the Streisand effect I think
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by _ktx2 4y ago
One thing to recognize is that HN has had an influx of new users that are pretty right wing, at times using veiled far right speech. Years ago, it was filled with people who had stock very left wing (at times ridiculous) views that I wouldn
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by _ktx2 4y ago
As the author said, they're not reading this but I couldn't help but try to verify what they're saying is their truth: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=behnamoh Edit: Actually, just filtering for t
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by _ktx2 4y ago
Just taking a step back here, I'm willing to bet OP and some of the other folks replying (like here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32338845 ) are just fulfilling predictions made here: https://spectrum
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by _ktx2 4y ago
Yes, if I was commenting on a project or company that I had self-interest in (eg: reputational, monetary, etc) then I would add a disclaimer like everyone else here does. If you're writing messaging systems and working on cryptocurrenc
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by _ktx2 4y ago
> How heavenly it might be if only every paid employee (and potentially, compensated advocate) of big tech, big copyright, big nation-state, big regulation, and big ideologies – as they pile-on the votes & comments here & elsewhe
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by _ktx2 4y ago
As I've now learned, you used to work for the Internet Archive. You should probably start your statements with that. > If you've taken no self-help measures to limit access... robots.txt was a nice self-help measure. > ... t
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by _ktx2 4y ago
> Wait, why are books, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, pamphlets, & flyers a bad faith analogy? Because they're comparing an individuals blog or Twitter profile to those things, of which they are not analogous. Not to ment
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by _ktx2 4y ago
There is an overlap in the two. Copyright can be used as a defense against folk who believe, "Everything on the internet not behind authentication is commons". Often these folks point to books, magazines, etc in reference to their
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by _ktx2 4y ago
You are right, regulation is what solves this for good
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by _ktx2 4y ago
Could be! However, making a direct attack on individual privacy should never have been an option. To make matters worse, the logic of, "We did this to government and military websites, so now we're going to roll it out everywhere&

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