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by afarrell 4y ago
But not at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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by afarrell 4y ago
> Did you forget what you fought about in 1776? Not having our views represented in parliament whilst having our taxes decreased to bail out the British East India Company.
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by afarrell 4y ago
If a naked man started playing “god save the king” on a vuvuzela? Yes, I think he would be.
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It is because humans have an irrational tendency towards sycophancy. This was true throughout both the Obama and Trump administrations and before them. Better to direct that impulse towards a dignified institution that does nothing but attr
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by afarrell 4y ago
It would be great if the US navy had floating nuclear power plants that they were willing to sail into Helsinki, Bremerhaven, or Portsmouth to provide additional power to our allies during this winter.
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by afarrell 4y ago
How are you defining corruption here?
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The right to free speech also imposes an unenforced responsibility to use that speech wisely. The internet and smartphones enabled people to easily and quickly: - Send true threats to people, which were always illegal. - Publish things that
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by afarrell 4y ago
Lobbying is explicitly protected by the 1st amendment to the constitution. The validity of a contract where a company, person, or community action group pays someone to lobby on their behalf is not.
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by afarrell 4y ago
At the root of that problem is this: 1. If you organize a team behind a goal and persist in focusing on it, you are more likely to succeed than someone who does not allocate their attention thusly. 2. If you do the above, you need a way to
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by afarrell 4y ago
Indeed. It is just something someone said once, not necessarily wise to reach other conclusions from.
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It is also possible to arrive safely at your destination via reckless driving.
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However if the satyrical speaker did not believe that they had a duty of care to the truth, then it is bullshit[1]. [1] Prof. Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit. http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_o
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by afarrell 4y ago
That plus "Receiving gratitude has an outsized impact on other's mental health."
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And who believes that his colleagues’ health is their responsibility to the point of trying to change the culture.
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Plenty of internet commenters discuss it.
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This is either sloppy exaggeration or assuming a level of stupidity on manager’s part which goes beyond the bounds of hanlon’s razor. It is especially clear when you notice that > There are a TON of companies hiring remote/WFH so at
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by afarrell 4y ago
Burnout is caused by lack of community. If they fail to create at least some sense of community, they end up hearing stories of employees burning out or just getting really jumpy and distrustful. These stories stick in their mind and they f
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by afarrell 4y ago
> they will buy all the fab capacity at TSMC What would motivate TSMC to choose to only have 1 customer? TSMC is known as "huguo shenshan" or “magic mountain that protects the nation”. What would motivate TSMC to choose to have
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by afarrell 4y ago
Good question https://aws.amazon.com/pm/ec2-graviton/ is an indication that Amazon cares about linux support for the arm64 architecture. So the question is how much variance there is to the M1 relative to that.
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It is more important to: 1. Have a sense of proportion. 2. Respect people's work-life boundaries.
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US federal government putting the thumb on the scale is not new. It has been happening ever since the officers who survived being under-supplied in valley forge got access to power. https://www.nps.gov/pagr/learn/h
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by afarrell 4y ago
Postgres
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Not if one of the people who would do that is currently on a boat in Lake Winnipesaukee. Not if {insert 20 other sources of complexity that exist in the real world}.
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Is the argument "Typescript should be improved" or "We should allocate enough time/money from other things to improve Typescript"? The former is vacuously true once you know it is an option. Everything would be bett
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Different people/teams have ownership of different areas. They decide their responsiveness based on the their responsibilities and the agreements they have with the people that rely on them to fulfill those responsibilities. We are car
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> my personal theory is that people don’t care Apathy and exhaustion are extremely difficult to tell apart. It is also possible that many people, especially in the medical sector are burnt out.
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by afarrell 4y ago
It is more like "right makes might" -- The belief that people who act rightly will become stronger and therefore strength is a sign of moral rectitude.
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A thing I have learned is that sometimes relationships rely upon facts -- or at least a shared view of facts. If the relationship includes you bearing responsibility for something, being factually correct about details within that sphere of
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By reaching out to a few people I know who are far more competent than I am.
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by afarrell 4y ago
But can your team succeed without having people who: 1. Are motivated by the sort of curiosity that would frustrate them if they were blocked from knowing about k8s 2. Are motivated by the sense of responsibility that would unnerve them if

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