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by bhawks 5y ago
The arguments outlined are not particularly strong unless you are already predisposed to not liking Bitcoin (which is fine, not liking a particular security is a perfect reason not to invest in it - however it's a bad reason to bet aga
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by bhawks 5y ago
I think we have to agree to disagree here. Taking away a person's property, freedom, or life for what they choose to ingest and preventing people from voluntarily entering into and being bound by contracts is antisocial by my personal
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by bhawks 5y ago
I've had the opportunity to live in 5 major metropolitan areas in 3 different regions of the US. Every apartment I've live in has had multiple pages of community rules. Sound/noise always had building specific guidelines. Fur
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While I am not going to disagree with you - I do want to share something that took a long time for me to learn about apartment living (going from a middle class upbringing in a small town and being somewhat of an introvert). Make a consciou
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by bhawks 5y ago
You could make a similar argument about playing loud music. Apartments, HOAs and similar communities are free to specify community rules, expectations and consequences in a contract/lease. When a party breaks those conditions then allo
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by bhawks 5y ago
Assuming we can just confiscate every last penny of every billionaire's wealth instantly we would have at best 5 trillion. That is less than the 6.5 trillion the federal government spent in 2021. Not even enough for 1 year of operation
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by bhawks 5y ago
Or you could just sell them your bootleg chips? If you're not providing the certs it is obvious someone has been screwed. If one customer doesn't care why do them a favor by giving them good chips (at a discount) and screwing your
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by bhawks 5y ago
Supply chain companies are usually pretty specialized. Their customers are going to only want chips with the certs. What are you going to do with all those certless real chips? Start manufacturing end user goods? There is high friction and
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by bhawks 5y ago
If you're splitting hairs firecracker (aws) is an offshoot of crosvm from chrome/Google which actually was a greenfield vmm :) anyway memory safe virtualization for the win.
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by bhawks 5y ago
This thread exists because Apple didn't have a single test that creates an indexdb (or releases to users with broken tests) breaking the web and already developed sites. So foisting the blame on webdevs by calling them lazy feels a bit
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by bhawks 5y ago
The traditional posix filesystem is yet another leaky abstraction. Inflexible ACLS and metadata, a horrible and confusing consistency story, an inability to reliably / cleanly rename files, interfaces that are painful to implement perf
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by bhawks 5y ago
None. Lat longs usability isn't the best (people don't like long numbers). But it's failure mode won't send you to Vietnam when you meant a public park in the UK. even if this system is constrained with simple, short, no
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by bhawks 6y ago
Chip shortages have significantly impacted automakers' ability to meet new car demands recently. Lots of chatter about the problem in the stock market community
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by bhawks 6y ago
The sad fact is just how many organizations are so utterly dysfunctional and how many people follow the centipede model without even realizing it.
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by bhawks 6y ago
Waterfall in practice being so horribly bad for software engineering projects is kind of sad because of how low the bar is set. It's 2021 and agile-ists still compare themselves to that dead horse. I'd rather see more rigor being
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by bhawks 6y ago
I understand your sentiment but renting housing comes with significant legal protection for the renter. If the renter can't make their payments it is a long process to evict (no landlord wants to evict). This is a long-term relationshi
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by bhawks 6y ago
Saying things like this makes people think you're a paranoid tin foil hat carrying conspiracy theorist. Extraordinary claims require evidence and so far that evidence is not compelling to get normal people to care.
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by bhawks 6y ago
The lack of real consequences really robs credibility from the next big internet cause (that might really need it). What has happened has played out on a really small scale and it's effect is mildly frustrating to meh. Attributing the
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by bhawks 6y ago
Unpopular opinion: I was pro net neutrality - but I wouldn't have noticed it had been repealed if I was not so plugged into the debate. What has changed for other folks that you can tell? This was 'the sky is falling' level o
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by bhawks 6y ago
One confounding factor is that people don't fail alone (or succeed alone) - at least in anything really interesting. So to really dig into failure it is not enough for an individual to share - the culture around the person needs to sha
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by bhawks 6y ago
To add a perspective outside of high value art - NFTs have an interesting potential to change the virtual goods space ($XX billion dollar industry). Today Fortnite and games like it get major revenue streams via selling special skins, game
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by bhawks 6y ago
It is a bit ironic to take issue with folks not respecting the authoritative, objective definition of privilege as decided upon by academic hierarchy. I say this because the concept of privilege is deeply entwined with postmodernist philoso
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by bhawks 6y ago
Yes the song is vile. However it brings to clear attention how young kids use the platform in unhealthy ways and everyone else profits from it. That is why YT pulled the video from it's platform, there is far worse content on YT. They
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YouTube censors top creator's critique of how kids use its platform(twitter.com)
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by bhawks 6y ago
Although I am there with you in spirit, a global ban is effectively meaningless. It is unenforceable from the start. All the major world powers would continue their research (perhaps slightly less openly) simply from a MAD angle (it is irre
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by bhawks 6y ago
You lost me at 3 - how can having hidden structural problems be a desirable position to be in? Hedge funds entered a crowded trade that has unlimited downside without an exit strategy. They are not naive and although they're obviously
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by bhawks 6y ago
A great app means nothing in the face of treating your users with blatant contempt. RHs told it's users 'you are our product. Do as you are told.' People are not as stupid as they're made out to be and they have some sel
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by bhawks 6y ago
Not to be snarky - but remove the words Bot and Climate from the title - it's cleaner. Twitter as a platform promotes toxic social interaction, tribalism, hot takes, low effort & low impact feel good activism and rage driven mobs.
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by bhawks 6y ago
A common argument around dynamic linking is that it makes security updates easier. This seems like a weak argument as an update could easily introduce new bugs with a security impact as well. Static linking gives a tested, known good execut
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by bhawks 6y ago
This is extremely reasonable especially in light of the fact that cloud providers intentional attempt to lock customers into proprietary apis that are designed to be challenging to migrate across clouds.

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