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by cle 5y ago
There’s already a well-established word for a country run by rich elite. Calling the US a “banana republic” is a shocking headline, which I think is the real point. The US economy is not very similar to actual banana republics though. There
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The Java ecosystem has a deeply engrained habit of doing expensive time-consuming things at startup too, like classpath scanning, eager caching and dependency injection, etc. GraalVM has a bunch of tradeoffs…executables can’t be cross-compi
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by cle 5y ago
I'm guessing in reference to this: https://www.scylladb.com/2021/01/17/an-open-letter-to-the-sc...
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by cle 5y ago
> They pulled the lever on the trolley problem, therefore it is their fault, but not pulling is also a choice with damage. Ruining institutional trust by patronizing and lying seems like much worse long-term damage than toughing out a TP
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by cle 5y ago
I think you're misunderstanding my stance here, I'm not arguing that NFTs are always better than other trusted third parties. I don't know enough about their details to make a claim like that. In the terms of what you're
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Every organization is dysfunctional to some degree, a smaller company that is less dysfunctional in the right way can easily beat behemoths. I'm not making any sort of claim about Google's degree of dysfunction.
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They have value because people agree they have value. Trusted third parties (like courts) help people come to that agreement, by providing transparent, objective processes to settle legitimacy and ownership disputes (in the happy case, in t
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by cle 5y ago
There are lots of reasons smaller companies can follow up a behemoth and beat them, such as better timing / market conditions, less dysfunctional organizations, etc.
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by cle 5y ago
> Without reading into the details, I don't think that google arbitrarily examines all user files on Google Drive (and please correct me if I am wrong, but that's what I remember since the last time this discussion was had). Th
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by cle 5y ago
> It does bring results, but I feel there are significant costs; usually difficult to measure. This is my big gripe with the "data-driven cargo cult". It completely disregards the qualitative, and focuses solely on things that
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by cle 5y ago
So browser sandboxing? Is that fundamentally different from native sandboxes like snap, flatpak, et al?
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According to TSMC's chairman, the shortages are mainly due to: - Covid-19 effects on production - US-China trade war - Increased demand due to the pandemic - Increased 5G demand - Increased HPC demand https://asia.nikkei.com
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by cle 5y ago
No, I'm not saying anything about whether vaccines should be mandatory or not. Whatever your beliefs, you should be taking these externalities into account. I think there are reasonable, good faith arguments for both voluntary and invo
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by cle 5y ago
> Shouldn't people have the right to choose what they take? It's not this simple. Not taking a vaccine during a pandemic has negative externalities, since you're increasing the risk of infection and death of those you inte
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ENS is a DNS alternative that is not controlled by ICANN, where ownership of a name is effectively an NFT. Why might you want that? See https://www.eff.org/issues/icann
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by cle 5y ago
I use this occasionally in Emacs with awk-mode to live edit awk programs against a data file: https://github.com/danlamanna/live-awk-mode
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by cle 5y ago
Given the whole outrage over Apple taking advantage of customers' willingness to hand over control of their phones to them, I hope folks can see the parallels here and reject this. At this point Microsoft's strategy around GitHub,
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by cle 5y ago
This is something I struggle with personally, because over the years I've trained my brain to look for weaknesses and reasons to say "no". It drives my wife nuts, because she sees it as being pessimistic about everything. To
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Decentralization doesn't mean isolation and that nobody is cooperating. It's a centrality measure. More decentralized networks have less nodes that hold outsized importance in the network.
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In the sense the parent used it, yes. If a majority of banks and businesses agree to block transactions of a known terrorist, is it collusion or cooperation? I don't see a meaningful distinction at that point, other than the negative c
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If nodes in a network are fully independent and not cooperating, then you don't have a network, you have a bunch of disconnected nodes.
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by cle 5y ago
Individuals always have the freedom of choice. Authoritarian governments only work when people choose to tolerate them. If the Chinese people lose faith in their government, we'll see how effectively it can manage a crisis... In the US
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Intentionally deceiving people is probably not a good strategy for building their trust.
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Totally agree, I was thinking more within the context of mobile phones.
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Unfortunately with SafetyNet, I feel like an investment into Android is also a losing proposition...I can only anticipate being slowly cut off from the Android app ecosystem as more apps onboard with attestation. We've collectively han
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by cle 5y ago
I don't experience any performance problems with lsp-mode, it is very snappy and never gets in my way of going from thought->code. In particular, Go's LSP support is excellent and very fast. I've found these days that the
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This should highlight why some companies have such strict policies about what you can do outside of work. Like it or not, every extracurricular activity is a potential PR risk, especially in the last few years where reputations and trust ca
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That's a plausible hypothesis, but from the information given I can't really conclude that (nor the converse). It's worth investigating her role further to find out.
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Their docs clearly explain the difference and why this implementation exists, and reasons to use (and not use) EASTL: https://eastl.docsforge.com/master/faq/#info2-what-uses-are-...
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Take care of your hands. I went on a crusade to go mouseless a few years ago, and eventually it resulted in RSI from typing so much. Focus on your posture, take breaks, stretch your hands and fingers, get an ergonomic keyboard, etc. An unde

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