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by bhawks 6y ago
I often see the meme that modern technology has made free speech too dangerous. I wonder how has modern technology made censorship safer?
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by bhawks 6y ago
I've seen people hung up on the calling yourself while defining yourself concept. Talking through that often highlighted a mental model of functions where they were sort of almost cut'n'pasting the other function into their c
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by bhawks 6y ago
I actually thought the 10k price tag was extremely reasonable based on the article write up. Yes it's beyond most personal users - but that is not out of the reach of even a small group of people (be it education, maker spaces, or sma
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by bhawks 6y ago
Apple is adamantly opposed to allowing this use case. It doesn't matter who is asking them.
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by bhawks 6y ago
Reducing labor as a goal seems rather odd. Why do you feel people should not have the freedom to work? What would you rather people do instead?
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by bhawks 6y ago
Android makes liberal use of exchanging file descriptors between processes in it's ipc mechanisms. Slightly different use case then what the article discusses but it's an interesting pattern available to multiprocess same host ipc
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by bhawks 6y ago
Would you say the same if the language was c or c++? Yes this is necessitated by some of JS's big warts, but the sheer amount of javascript in existence weights heavily when considering the trade-offs. You cannot ignore HTML/JS if
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by bhawks 6y ago
It seems like you are viewing prison sentences as a 'price' for commiting murder, rape or some other violent crime. As long as you pay the price society must welcome you back with open arms. People will choose who to associate wit
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by bhawks 6y ago
Actions have consequences and after breaking major societal taboos like murder or rape it is very difficult or impossible to repair the damage a person has done to society. I have trouble judging people negatively if they don't want to
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by bhawks 6y ago
PGEs for profit status is kind of derailing tangent in these discussions. There are many successful ownership models for running a utility safely and reliably. PGE has a long term organizational culture in leadership that creates this envir
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by bhawks 6y ago
PGEs own linemen were concerned about wear on these towers. They sent samples from the field to labs for metallurgical analysis. PGEs own scientists estimated that the components would wear out in 100 years. PGE took this information and di
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by bhawks 6y ago
They've been willfully negligent and reckless to the infrastructure they own to service their customers. In this case we're not even talking about tree trimming, we have a 100 year old tower. It's obvious it will fail soon, t
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by bhawks 6y ago
Yes, this happened in an isolated mountain town. Let's set that aside for a moment. PGE demonstrates neglectful behaviours towards all of its infrastructure. It has transmission lines everywhere and has the same general attitude to ma
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by bhawks 6y ago
PGE also was responsible for contaminating the ground water in Hinkley California with millions of gallons of chromium in the the 1960s and then covering it up for 20 years. There is something seriously wrong with PGE and it's attitud
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by bhawks 6y ago
Climate change shouldn't be used as a get out of jail card free card for catastrophic events like this. PGE has a very long track record of neglectful behaviours. From leaking chromium into drinking water in socal, san mateo gas main e
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by bhawks 6y ago
Diversity training and leadership environments seem like 2 separate discussions. Many types of leaders will do diversity training for their organization for various reasons. I too prefer leaders of organizations who have the values you are
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by bhawks 6y ago
From the article: > Sometimes they even implant new stereotypes (for instance, if participants didn’t previously have particular stereotypes for Vietnamese people, or much knowledge about them overall, but were introduced to common stere
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by bhawks 6y ago
I want to work on a diverse team and company. The training commonly in place today seem to hurt that goal and this is backed up by research. However any discussion about this is extremely difficult to have. To be honest it feels like no one
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by bhawks 6y ago
In 20 years I think we can firmly cross #1 off the list. All the others are still open.
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by bhawks 6y ago
How do you demonstrate that one is causing the other? Based on my baised observation of the local UC system I just don't see the types of personalities working there thinking about how to extract the last dime from students. What I do
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by bhawks 6y ago
Actual data showing that nothing significant happened to the tuition trendline on/around 1993: https://usafacts.org/articles/college-tuition-has-increased-... Usafacts.org is a trove of data that is useful to hav
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by bhawks 6y ago
I recommend balancing this perspective with the fact that most users are using your UI to get a small fragment of their job done. Expecting them to spend time to learn and configure your UI is not cost free. Therefore it needs some convinci
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by bhawks 6y ago
The wealth tax as proposed should be concerning to everyone in CA whether they pay the tax or not. It will be the state's 4th largest revenue stream but will be paid for by only 40,000~ people. It will definitely be volatile due to peo
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by bhawks 6y ago
This is more akin to a person knowing the basics of driving a car but not which side of the road to use or what to do at a traffic light. They are a danger to themselves and others, the others in this case being the users of whatever servic
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by bhawks 6y ago
A significant part of the problem is social media technology and our relationship with it. The platforms encourage low effort hot takes and gamify narcissistic tendencies (likes, karma, rts, friends, followers). Nuanced discussion or having
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by bhawks 6y ago
The meme that you can't have a conversation with a person that changes their perspective and ideologies is a false and harmful one. Look at Daryl Davis's amazing work getting over 200 klansmembers to turn away from the klan throug
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by bhawks 6y ago
If you use previous political views as an input into the eminent domain decision I am pretty sure the courts are going to give you a hard time (justifiably so).
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by bhawks 6y ago
Every organization I've encountered with mainframe dependencies has them not because they are a strategic asset but because the economics and risks of removing the mainframe from the system dwarf the expensive costs of the hardware its
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by bhawks 6y ago
The difference is that code generating build actions are necessarily and explicitly called out in build systems - with the opportunity to observe their declared dependencies and sandbox their execution. In circle compiling any cxx file exec
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by bhawks 6y ago
Any code you compile can now execute arbitrary syscalls, shell out to git, interact with the user's terminal, host a web service or whatever else as you build it and then write the results to your final executable code? While most ecos

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