devdas

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by devdas 7y ago
Or you know, things like unions.
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by devdas 7y ago
This is what unions are good for.
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by devdas 7y ago
Lack of water leads to breakdown in civil society, which can end up in civil war. Also, India, Pakistan and China all depend on the Himalayan glaciers for water. With global warming, those glaciers are melting down, and there is likely to b
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by devdas 7y ago
That's code destroying data. Losing data is bad for the business. A random box had software crashing? Just replace the box.
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by devdas 7y ago
IT security people also have different incentives. If developers got bonuses for uptime while being compliant with all security policy requirements, while security and operations got bonuses based on features reliably delivered, you would h
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by devdas 7y ago
Such as?
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by devdas 7y ago
Medallions protect against the negative of there being too many taxis, causing congestion and revenue loss for drivers, which would lead to more dangerous driving and poorly maintained vehicles.
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by devdas 7y ago
Only if you can price a ticket as a fraction of the net worth of people.
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by devdas 7y ago
It was a more subtle way of restricting immigration from "undesirable" countries. https://scholars.org/brief/how-legacies-racism-persist-us-im... US immigration law has always been racist.
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by devdas 7y ago
It's not limited to the financial situation. You also need a social network, and growing that network takes time.
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by devdas 7y ago
Wolves. You would get wolves.
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by devdas 7y ago
There are incentives. Smaller for US and European corporations, higher for Indian ones.
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by devdas 7y ago
There is no root cause. https://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/02/10/each-necessary-but-on... https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/02/10/how-complex-systems-fail... http://web.mi
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by devdas 7y ago
They absolutely are values. Just not good ones.
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by devdas 7y ago
Erm, that makes things worse in Pakistan. You do not want to destabilise an already unstable nuclear power.
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by devdas 7y ago
Which will fuck up river ecologies :(
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by devdas 7y ago
Nope. Chai is just tea. Spices may be added for regional defaults, but you can also get normal milky tea.
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by devdas 7y ago
Not all people are equal in the carbon equation. Per capita consumption mattes.
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by devdas 7y ago
The same goes for people in India working with US workers though.
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by devdas 8y ago
A downside to believing that you invented the concept of measuring time.
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by devdas 8y ago
The dominant trait was rich, well connected parents?
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by devdas 8y ago
Unless it was specified for what purpose the email was obtained, consent isn't established.
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by devdas 8y ago
That's a question of scale. A drop of sewage in a barrel of wine or a cup of sewage in a barrel of wine have the same effect.
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by devdas 8y ago
NAT elimination will indeed allow arbitrary devices to communicate with each other. Whether they do so will depend on the end users. Stateful packet filters will still be necessary, but those would be end user configurable. Keep in mind tha
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by devdas 8y ago
Consent.
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by devdas 8y ago
It's unsolicited bulk email, and bulk is generally > 10 or so for most people, > 1 if you are strict.
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by devdas 8y ago
But you would have far fewer connections behind the IPv6 - IPv4 NAT. Then the performance problems are limited to sites without IPv6.
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by devdas 8y ago
.local?
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by devdas 8y ago
NATs break end to end. This might be acceptable in a HTTP(s) only world though. Of course, some people aren't only using the Internet for browsing. The Internet of things will end up needing unique endpoints, and NAT does not play will
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by devdas 8y ago
It would be interesting to include all private/parental expenditure on children in the cost of schooling as well.

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