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by dbingham 3y ago
It has a monopoly on certain forms of connection and communication. You could easily say the same thing about telephone companies, that it was "absurd" that they had a monopoly on communication - after all, people communicate in
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by dbingham 3y ago
The problem is that companies that successfully become monopolies like this - especially over critical public functions like communication - shouldn't be allowed to be private. At that point, they've made themselves utilities. Bu
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by dbingham 3y ago
Yes and no. Yes, all terraform does is wrap APIs and you could easily write a Terraform provider for just about anything. But there is a very real difference between "Deploying a server" and "Modifying configuration files on
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by dbingham 3y ago
Infra is defining the servers that should be running. Config is writing configuration files to a running server. Cloud blurs the line, since a lot of cloud offerings are managed where you're really doing both at once when you define t
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by dbingham 3y ago
> In economics, a public good (also referred to as a social good or collective good)[1] is a good that is both non-excludable and non-rivalrous. For such goods, users cannot be barred from accessing or using them for failing to pay for t
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by dbingham 3y ago
I appreciate the letter and trying to work with Hashicorp -- I used to have a ton of respect for Hashicorp. But honestly... at this point... ...just fork it into a foundation. Don't wait for Hashicorp's response. I get wanting
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by dbingham 3y ago
> he simply wasn't that popular I think she's reasonably questioning to what degree that lack of popularity was constructed by the media hammering certain narratives (like the Bernie Bros narrative) that were later shown to be
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by dbingham 3y ago
I mean, I think charging whoever executed the action that resulted in the theft is a reasonable starting point. You would then have to make sure to include a consideration of conspiracy in the case where the owners pressured the manager - j
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by dbingham 3y ago
Yep. If you are a retail worker and your boss withholds $20 from your paycheck, it's not considered criminal theft. It's a civil matter. You have no recourse except civil law. In many states, you have to file a complaint with
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by dbingham 3y ago
I've got a Remarkable 2. I use it primarily for note taking and planning. Sometimes I need to move large chunks of notes around on the screen and reorganize things. The refresh rate becomes a real problem there. Also I often use th
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by dbingham 3y ago
That refresh rate is pretty awesome. ...if that's real, and I'm a little skeptical, I kinda want a remarkable with one of these screens. That would be amazing. The poor refresh rate is one of the few things I don't love ab
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by dbingham 3y ago
The rate of change is what matters here. We are causing the climate to change at a staggering rate. Faster than anything ever seen in nature except during cataclysmic events (massive volcanic eruptions, meteor impacts, etc). The biosphe
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by dbingham 3y ago
Do you need to actively use and defend a trademark to maintain it? And does using and defending "X-box" don't the same as "X"?
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by dbingham 3y ago
Did he do those things? Or did he just slap his name and brand on other people's work in those areas?
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by dbingham 3y ago
Climate impacts are exacerbating the existing migratory trends.
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by dbingham 3y ago
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/21/1189253504/climate-change-mig... I refreshed NPR this morning and it's literally the top story.
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by dbingham 3y ago
I love DO for projects where I don't need control. For my side project, I eventually migrated to AWS after running into a lot of issues with DO. Things like they don't give you the postgres root user on their managed postgres. A
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Show HN: Scientific publishing platform to crowdsource review using reputation(peer-review.io)
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by dbingham 3y ago
I would challenge your assertion that "any sufficiently complex application" will require lazily composed queries. I have worked on quite complex applications that had no such need. Well encapsulated string construction in a Dat
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by dbingham 3y ago
Many of the statistics quoted in your last paragraph are wrong. They are based on the premise that rewilding this land will naturally sequester carbon. That premise is completely contradicted by a study found two links down in the relevant
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by dbingham 3y ago
This is empirically not true. To pick just a handful of obvious counter examples: Bill Gates was comfortablely upper middle class, Steve Jobs comfortablely middle class, both with solid family lives.
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by dbingham 3y ago
This is just one of many, many problems plaguing academic publishing. I've long thought a web platform with a recombination of features borrowed from Github and StackExchange could potentially solve many (maybe most) of those problems
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by dbingham 3y ago
That's not the middle - that's pretty near the beginning (look at your scroll bar). But yeah, the author spends a great deal of time on the question and it's really interesting. I got maybe 20 paragraphs in before I realized
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by dbingham 3y ago
Yeah, Gitlab has had its share of downtime. Github has had shockingly little until the last year or two. These things come and go. Of course, if this continues happening it may be time for the OSS community seriously consider migrating
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by dbingham 3y ago
What is going on over there? Third day in a row is... kind of impressive.
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by dbingham 3y ago
As someone concerned about resource usage on Earth, it seems to me that the absolute last thing a super advanced civilization would do would be the galactic equivalent of strip mining or mountain top removal. I would think a civilization wo
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Show HN: Peer Review Beta – A universal preprint+ platform
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by dbingham 3y ago
The content seems really worthwhile - the web design makes it unreadable. Sure it looks pretty and shiny, but it's brutal on the eyes when you're trying to read it. Which rather defeats the entire purpose.
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by dbingham 4y ago
You don't mean conservative, you mean neo-fascist. The GPT models have been generally happy to expound upon minimizing the size of government and protecting personal liberties. Where they draw the line is when they are asked to deny
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by dbingham 4y ago
Hey Briantakita, I spent quite a bit of time embedded in the Permaculture movement and have heard all these arguments before. I have read all the key Permaculture texts (both volumes of Edible Forest Gardens, Mollison's original Perma

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