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by com 2y ago
Actually, that’s probably the key insight. A democratic, successful Ukraine (not a guaranteed thing at any point) would be an existential threat to the “Russian World” narrative from Moscow, and upend the regime. Even a partially successful
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by com 2y ago
There are many laws on the books that are ignored or in practice re-interpreted in the ground so that enforcement is only attempted in the most egregious situations. Case in point: the “gedoogbeleid” for soft drugs. Contrary to many people
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by com 2y ago
Reflecting on these words, it’s clear that many people take a “realist” perspective on power in and between human societies, and see no reason at all to strive to create better conditions for all or even most humans. My take: it’s a luxury
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by com 2y ago
Apologies, typo, ICJ -> ICC
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by com 2y ago
I walked past the offices of Medcins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) incidentally across the road from the very good new Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, with posters in the windows imploring “no bombardment of hospitals in Gaza”. Th
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by com 2y ago
Justice has to be declared as an essential principle of human organisation. If the 1984 vision of a boot stamping on a human face forever is going to work out to be true, then so be it. The ICJ is at least holding out against that future. W
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by com 2y ago
The Dutch have a very lackadaisical attitude to law, and at the very same time a very principled cut-off-my-nose-to-spite-my-face rule of law mentality. If I were a senior Israeli or Hamas leader I’d avoid the place for a couple of decades
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by com 2y ago
Except for trams. They never seem to get the blame, however with their braking distance, I suppose it makes sense.
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by com 2y ago
I’ve always thought of the Netherlands as Infrastructire Country, so much of that territory has been significantly altered over the last four or five thousand years that it’s leaked into their world view. Problems can be solved with enough
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by com 2y ago
I’ve worked in engineering businesses, and SaaS scale ups and the “engineering” that gets done by SWEs had little to nothing in common with any of the engineering disciplines I’ve worked in apart from the E in the title. Little comprehensio
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by com 2y ago
There’s a really interesting article that I’d like to read about the “first” - ongoing stakeholder management through the lifecycle of the project, the product and your time there all allow you to ship effectively (as far as the org sees it
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by com 2y ago
802.1ag is a lot more recent, which helps!
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by com 2y ago
Mind boggling. Social programming runs deep.
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by com 2y ago
Totally get it that budgets are tight. But making sure that stuff happens isn’t highly correlated to tech staff or manager salaries. Unless they’re hiring inexperienced high-schoolers, it’s a failure of will and competence in management. A
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by com 2y ago
Lots of people who should have been establishing effective security practices and monitoring and improving it were doing … something … but not that. Total failure of management and governance at TfL and the British Library (which even had a
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by com 2y ago
Hey Bence, this is great. I’ve seen a few cloud exits done pretty badly and part of that was because for those teams and orgs it was something that they’d not really done before. I like the listings of alternative technologies especially. W
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by com 2y ago
It’s really interesting how tech has had a lot of special exemptions from rules that apply to normal businesses, and how these are being rolled back slowly. On the face of it, having a product security obligation doesn’t seem too extreme, s
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by com 2y ago
And, spoiler alert, it’s not good, really!
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by com 2y ago
John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist, regularly makes the point [0] that human evolution has accelerated enormously in the last 50k years. Lactase metabolism is new, in the last 19k years. European skin colours and blue eyes appear to be very
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by com 2y ago
Apparently the researchers are trying to widely disseminate the training for human echo location, but it appears their SEO could be better. I found some academic papers but no “shrink wrap” instruction on how to learn the skill.
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by com 2y ago
Yeah, there’s a bit of a developer experience push going on in erlang world, which is great!
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by com 2y ago
Hard to see them turning this around, it’s a good 10 year program (optimistically) to develop a new aerospace platform like a 737 replacement. I don’t really see it happening. Does Embraer have a program in the works? I like what they build
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by com 2y ago
Nice. The two other relatively common issues I see from time to time with indie hackers are a lack of strong MFA authentication for janky PaaS where it’s not compulsory (leading to destruction of quite a bit of hard work) and never testing
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by com 2y ago
I like the framing here. I’ve been trying to get participants to declare their stakes more clearly up-front, upside and downside, and keeping that more or less updated as discussions and decision-making proceeds. Interestingly, this hasn’t
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by com 2y ago
I didn’t take a sabbatical as a founder, but as a relatively early hire. It was post-IPO but there were some really big hurdles left, and I was leading the tech side of getting over some of them, and an important but background player in qu
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by com 2y ago
Looks great; thanks for the unusually clear security story. During sign up, the terms and conditions link seems to go to your landing page, normally I wouldn’t like it if I couldn’t skim them first. Doing initial spin up, I’m not a Kubernet
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by com 2y ago
Quite happy about this development and that many of the passkey user vault vendors are participating. It’ll be grimly interesting to see the new technical and social engineering attacks that will come very soon to make use of this capabilit
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by com 2y ago
Oh! comp.risks in a website. Amazing!
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by com 2y ago
Great thesis on an interesting topic. I’m always a fan of good model explainability. What did you use to generate the attractive and clear svgs?
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by com 2y ago
This is genuinely an interesting take on both the rise of Trumpism as well as Marxism and the continuing threats to liberal democracy in the modern age. I had studied the Zealots and the Cathars in history class (great high school!) in rela

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