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by afthonos 7y ago
This is why SRE organizations typically have stringent requirements for stability before accepting a rotation, and will give it back if reliability drops below a certain level. SREs have global responsibility to the system and have a corr
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This addresses only 50% of what SREs contribute. The other 50% is designing the production infrastructure, processes, and tools that facilitate efficient response. Depending on the size of your company, you can of course make do with off-th
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GP is describing Salieri in Amadeus . It is an absolutely correct description of the character.
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If we require people to be perfect, or even consistent, before we consider their ideas and whether they have merit, we are both enshrining ad hominem discussions as the only standard and giving the keys to the world to the most immoral
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by afthonos 7y ago
It’s quite true. A take I found insightful (I think it might have made the top page when it was first posted): https://intelligence.org/2017/10/13/fire-alarm/
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(Sorry, no links, but this is fairly uncontroversial US history:) There was a big debate around the bill of rights. Proponents felt it was essential, because otherwise the government would violate those rights. Opponents either didn’t feel
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by afthonos 7y ago
I wish there was a way to truly be neutral in phrasing. I did not mean to imply this was bad or a lie, but I also didn’t want someone to pop up and say “capitalist lies!” :-)
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The tax system in the US is commonly used to encourage behaviors the state finds desirable and discourage others. Capital gains are taxed lower because of the perception that that money will get reinvested and that investments are good for
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They are not officially counted, but they are often used as an informal indication of strength difference among players.
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Go has points. An opening move is better than another if, given perfect play thereafter, you end up with more points.
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> Such as whether we are unique and special, or that we may also be deterministic automatons and free will doesn't exist. That's only scratching the surface of the implications. The real question arises when we have to decide w
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“if you assume the device is off”? I suppose if you assume the user never puts data on the device, it also becomes easier.
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A known exemption to extradition laws is the death penalty. Being that it is illegal in Europe, European countries will refuse to extradite people accused of capital crimes to the US unless the US government commits to taking the death pena
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That’s what “orthogonal” means, in this context … :-)
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That one looks legit. I’ll still claim I was right because it was … 10 years ago. ;-) To be clear, “patsy” is too harsh a term for what I meant. There is value in diverting the attention of people intending to do harm from real plots to fak
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by afthonos 7y ago
Can’t speak for the UK, but in the US, literally every terrorism prosecution that involved a foiled plot in the past ten years or so has involved the FBI convincing some helpless, directionless loser to do a bad thing and then arresting sai
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by afthonos 7y ago
Then congratulations are in order for the police, who did their jobs, and for Facebook, who secured their system. Less flippantly, here’s the buried follow-up: > “WhatsApp killed the operation,” the official said. The terror suspect is s
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by afthonos 7y ago
> A team of European law-enforcement officials was hot on the trail of a potential terror plot in October, fearing an attack during Christmas season, when their keyhole into a suspect’s phone went dark. There was no terror attack. Why is
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by afthonos 7y ago
I think the technical term would be “oligopsony”.
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> it’s one of many reasons why I also advocate revolution, preferably followed by public executions I feel this man doesn’t understand what he’s asking for. And should the revolution happen, he will be shocked to find himself in an inter
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by afthonos 7y ago
I think western companies avoid them because they seem like little-company names. I see a lot of small businesses named “Quality Plumbing”, “First Rate Contractors” etc. But if they do well, they’ll change their names to “Plumbz” and “Cment
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by afthonos 7y ago
This is a pleasant fiction, isn’t it? A quick look will tell you that the US is far below the Nordic countries in social mobility. For instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility
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It’s the exact same thing, but successful. Part of being “brilliant” is knowing when to apply first principles and when to build on what exists. I put “brilliant” in quotes because unless you can do this consistently, you can also just get
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by afthonos 7y ago
I don’t worry too much about our responsibility to our environment; I leave that for after we have any sort of semi-coherent approach to our responsibility to ourselves . The human species will be destroyed by its own inability to control
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“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” —Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
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Not OP, and not sure what they had in mind, but police departments “lose” data directly in proportion to how damaging it is to them. It would not be very useful in litigation.
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I can come up with a couple alternatives to your explanation: 1. Our current carbon levels haven’t been high long enough for their total effects in temperature to be felt yet, given the size of the system they must affect. 50 years is a bli
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by afthonos 7y ago
My bad. I thought Roma had won.
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Well, a movie they made earned universal acclaim and the Academy Award for best picture last year, and they’re in good shape this year too, so…yes?
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Me: “Questioning the media’s elite-driven narrative” is such a clickbait headline. Also me: “Questioning the law of conservation of energy”—aaah, a headline clearly intended for sophisticates like myself. (The article itself is good; I’m ju

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