ben509

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by ben509 7y ago
> The case Zuck wants to make is that he should be free from the consequences of choosing to take money to distribute lies. The "free from consequences" argument is a thin rationalization for political thuggery. You can't
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The new TLDs are very much selling as a branding thing. How business owners value marketing and branding is very hard to understand. On a practical note, if you are gunning for a promotion, setting up "widget.new" would make for a
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A basic legal doctrine is that "it's better ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be unjustly imprisoned." If anything, prosecutors have been taking your attitude and gaming the system with plea deals, so you're n
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That doesn't mean they're doing it fairly. It just means that people have accepted that certain voices are silenced.
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People not thinking things through, which, yes, means working them out from first principles, are why we have so many stupid and broken laws, policies, regulations, etc. > Yep, exactly the kinds of dickheads you don't want polluting
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This is wrong. He also said issue ads would be blocked.
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Yeah, "political" is a weasel word like "extremist." A view I like isn't political, it's just common sense or settled science, it's the other guy's views that are "political."
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The HTML doesn't represent the classes properly. The LaTeX would take a simpler approach: \begin{spanned} I have yet to read \textit{anything}... \end{spanned} Since there's no Javascript, probably no need for
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> You have the server startup load it. We have to take down a production database to do this? Or do you mean the app server is going to do it, in which case how do you handle different app servers with different versions of the stored pr
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(Disclaimer: you should talk to a CFP for personalized advice.) > What do you mean by “real growth”? Stocks have real growth. It is "real" because your stock is a share of a company whose employees are trying new ideas, teachin
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It's a bit more complicated than just "upload all my stored procedures" in practice. I think we need a version control / deployment system that is designed for databases to make this work. We want it to regard the databa
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> I use bitcoin for long term savings. At least your savings aren't losing to inflation, but this strategy has zero real growth and carries a tremendous amount of unsystematic risk[1]. [1]: https://www.investopedia.com&#x
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Funny thing is, FDIC is insuring you against the bank collapsing, not your bank accounts from theft. I don't think you can even do that, since protecting your deposits against theft is supposed to be the service your bank provides. You
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It's meant to be talking trash online, so you're right to take it with a grain of salt. But I'll stand behind the view that when ideas are being shot down with challenges like "would you stake your career on this" t
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Unions aren't inherently anti-conservative, here's an example of a discussion that identifies specific positive aspects of unions.[1] In particular, that discussion helps us define a "good" union: one that adds value for
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That was my immediate reaction. And it's very common for organizations to assume that we see an email from them or get a phone call or find a website claiming to be them and trust it. It's amazing how hard it is for people to gras
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> I would get asked "will you stake your career on it never happening?" Of course not. "Let's make a bet over whether a customer reports an authenticator app gets hacked before a customer's account without an aut
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And yet tribes and nations that recognize and protect inalienable rights are consistently able to defeat those that assume the strong should have power over the weak. The reason being that individuals living in societies with inalienable ri
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The doctrine for HA is that each AZ should be fully independent, and if you do that, your inter-AZ traffic is relatively minimal. And I think the charges for inter-AZ transfer are to incentivize customers to do that. Of course, to make them
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Oops, you're right. Oh well, it was relevant to the main article.
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But people will reliably fight for it, that's an objective fact.
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AWS is vast. I have no idea what their overall accounting for networking looks like. Even for the tiny service I worked on, it would be tough to guess at what are overall costs were. We actually had an internal bill each month for all the
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His auntie wouldn't exaggerate or leave out details... would she?
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Disclaimer: I worked on an AWS service team. This is, oddly enough, similar to a debate people have about consumers TV or Internet: should pricing be "unlimited" or "a la carte"? AWS is combining all your networking char
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> Let me conclude with a personal quote: > "The most important capacity for Software Engineers is their ability to developer soft skills" Maybe those will get you hired, but attention to detail helps you keep your job.
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> They might just have different moral values. This is why "values" is a terrible word to use to describe morals. Values are subjective things like modesty or frugality. Those are values, because how you dress or spend your mon
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If the Lanham act applies, possibly[1]. This isn't typical false advertising, though, as it's not claiming their service does a thing it doesn't nor is it defaming a competitor, it's lying about interest in the service.
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> How do we know that the log_to_network or route functions are not safe to call at module level? We assume that anything imported from a non-strict module is unsafe, except for certain standard library functions that are known safe. It&
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Yup, the market is a regulatory body.
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It's because E(#offers) = #applications * P(initial_contact) * P(successful_interview | initial_contact) The ~5 companies approach tries to optimize P(ic) and P(si) at the expense of #apps. The 50 approach optimizes only #apps because

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