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by dannypgh 9y ago
In my opinion, at the root of a lot of these problems is the fact that copyright has moved from being something designed to have a very limited duration and then expire, to something that lasts far more than a lifetime. If copyright still e
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by dannypgh 9y ago
That's not what DNSSEC is. DNSSEC is about signing the data in DNS, not encrypting it in transit. The same metadata analysis is possible.
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by dannypgh 9y ago
Average over what time? Getting grants of AMZN (or GOOG/GOOGL) every year or so for the last ~5 years has worked out pretty well for those of us who have been so fortunate, but if the stock had been flat or moved downward I doubt you&#
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by dannypgh 9y ago
> This, incidentally, blows out of the water the argument made by some feminists that women don't do STEM because of conditioning in nasty patriarchal societies. It does no such thing, because there is no universally agreed upon met
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by dannypgh 10y ago
Does this mean you don't support the individual's right to refuse to work with non-union coworkers? It's not as simple as you think.
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by dannypgh 10y ago
"Text files" are perhaps underspecified (what character set?) but a good fraction of bytes would, by themselves, count as valid text files.
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by dannypgh 10y ago
The benefits of collective bargaining stem from the individual's freedom to withhold their labor. Or are you arguing it's somehow unjust for people to refuse to work with non-union coworkers?
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by dannypgh 10y ago
I don't think this is inherent to the idea of a union. Unions should be democratic (I don't defend unions that don't give a shit about democracy), and tend to be quite concerned with process. If the union wants to support the
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by dannypgh 10y ago
I don't really understand why the idea of union shops bothers people. Freedom also means you can strike, walk-out, or quit your job if you want. Union shops exist because unions have the power to have everyone else walk out if someone
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by dannypgh 10y ago
The claim that nationalism socialism is a type of socialism is dubious. Names are tricky like that. http://www.politicususa.com/2012/09/12/hitler-explains-gop-w...
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by dannypgh 10y ago
Wealth is getting increasingly concentrated in this country, and not into the hands of union workers. I think your description of the role of public spending is misleading at best. I could say, equally (if not more) fairly, that all spendin
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by dannypgh 10y ago
Rape and murder are both crimes where the odds are good you know your assailant. I don't believe the overall rate has much to do with transit. Of course, you admit it may not be rational- but in theory education can ease irrational tho
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by dannypgh 10y ago
65324 zero 44346 one 62245 two 61154 three 26252 four 25534 five 54225 six 53415 seven 24253 eight 43526 nine Of course, if these were your dice rolls, you're pretty unlucky, and should try again. And/or buy a
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by dannypgh 10y ago
SREs with the time and ability (and you don't want to hire those who lack the ability) to do so will automate away whatever operations tasks being a "server janitor" entails. Hence the need of management to ensure they have t
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by dannypgh 10y ago
I've seen several formalized PRR (in a meeting about improving cross-team PRRs for pipeline systems) forms. If you were getting a "random" checklist, the SREs were doing more total work- the work of writing a checklist tailo
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by dannypgh 10y ago
There may be additional penalities/costs for letting it get to the point where a court is involved, but yeah, seems like this falls under "due process of law."
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by dannypgh 10y ago
The first 5 women who are seeking jobs on an all-male oil rig perhaps have a form of bravery that is a couple standard deviations from the median. But if they win their case and help to integrate oil rigs, it seems the next 5 women to seek
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by dannypgh 10y ago
Changing jobs always carries risk - the new company might not be a good fit, and you may not last there very long perhaps for reasons beyond your control. Likewise, there are many jobs - e.g. early startups - where the risk of the company i
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by dannypgh 10y ago
I think the problem is the duo of valuing labor using free market capitalism, and requiring people earn quite a bit of money just to survive, let alone thrive. Finding alternatives won't be easy, but the continuing reduction in demand
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by dannypgh 10y ago
This seems like it plays into a false dichotomy between increasing tech education/training programs and increasing permissive immigration. At the top of the industry- people who are advancing the state of the art- there is significantl
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by dannypgh 10y ago
This is late into his life? Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Bill Cosby both exist, FYI.
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by dannypgh 10y ago
Isn't the default styling of HTML in browsers mostly just due to historical accidents?
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by dannypgh 10y ago
It's not that unrealistic, as long as you have a wide enough definition of "good." I don't think you want to hire someone for an SRE role who doesn't understand algorthims well enough to do detailed analysis of the
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by dannypgh 10y ago
I think it's true that you want everyone to be good at everything- you want engineers writing tests for their own code, you can't just hire software engineers in test and make it their problem. The distinction is practically usefu
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by dannypgh 10y ago
I think you're orders of magnitude off in marginal cost estimates for glacier users. Datacenters are being built out for a small number of commercial users (e.g. Amazon's core business) and the size of modern HDDs would lead me to
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by dannypgh 10y ago
I note that the "incredible" language is from the URL this article originally pointed to, http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-a-tribe-is-fighting... And what they were referring to as incredible is that
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by dannypgh 10y ago
Calling something "incredible" means you are saying it's difficult or impossible to believe. That is very easily not a compliment, depending on context.
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by dannypgh 10y ago
To be clear I agree there's value, I just don't think the value is as high as the other things that could be taught in that time. I think appendices are really a good solution here. Those who are curious can read them- I know I wo
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by dannypgh 10y ago
Am I the only one who thought this article took a condescending tone by referring to this as "incredible?" If a 15 year old white kid in Nebraska built a drone following directions on YouTube to monitor land use around him, I don&
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by dannypgh 10y ago
I strongly believe math should be taught with the science that motivated its development- calculus should be taught with classical mechanics. But I'm less sure the history of science is worthwhile. The problem is opportunity cost. Scho

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