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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> It is now clear that some are "allowed" to hack the system of others to their advantage but you are "not allowed" to do it against YC. That party will last until the regulators notice...
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
Europe is economically strained right now. Inflation has hit hard, with housing costs skyrocketing even in less expensive countries, and people are being gentrified out of their own cities. Its no time to be buying expensive vanity cars. Pe
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
$60,000 is a sensible use of money because the car company investors want their ever-increasing profits.
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
Also, there seems to be a HA MySQL setup behind it: When you create a db user for a site/app, it creates r/w and read-only users that can be used separately. So in a way, Hetzner does seem to have that managed HA dn service that m
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Managed Servers(hetzner.com)
6 points by dumbledoren 1y ago|2 comments
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
I recently got one of these for a LAMP project and I'm regretting not having done it way before: - They entirely manage the server, including the services running on it; updates, keeping them up etc. - The specs are mouth-watering: 54
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> just a fraction of the total cost if you had to host the highest workload yourself. Like lets say my company gets a very huge spike and lets say I wanted to be prepared for it for all times in baremetal, then I had to had a lot of vaca
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> Then when the people who put this together leave Why should they leave without creating institutional knowledge and educating those who come after them... That is how it was before the 'mainstream tech' and its 'turnover
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
His language may be childish, but he is historically on the spot: There is absolutely no record of any slave 'race' of any Canaanites in Ancient Egypt, no kind of exodus, nor any kind of major event in that time period that could
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> Browsers used to be one of the most critical and insecure software. Everything in the early 2000s was insecure and critical.
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> Ok so what is the specific annual salary you propose for each police officer? That would depend on the CoL in their location and would need to be calculated for every region differently. > And should they have more influence in loca
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> nuking the economy, neutering the Pentagon, trashing public health, isolating the US from tourists and skilled immigrants, walking public education back at least a century, killing the next generation of R&D, murdering rational cli
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> * Police and firefighters in SF make more on average than tech workers. Is that a source of injustice? No. People who perform vital, dangerous jobs for society should be paid their weight in gold. They shouldnt have to worry about anyt
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
He was a Liberation Theologist. People who follow the actual life example of Jesus of Nazareth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_theology
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
The 'cruel' adjective. If capitalism is not cruel, then such a criticism cannot be made against socialism, communism etc. And if one would bring up 'political persecution', capitalism persecutes the politically non-compl
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> Much of the brain power used in American tech was imported. The point still stands. And that makes it even worse - it means that the US not only wasted its own brain power, but a noticeable part of the world's brain power as well.
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> securitized capital markets offer much broader access to loans at attractive terms At the initial phase, when there is the 'Wild West' development stage, yes. After that phase it becomes a scam where value is generated out of
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> This is a matter of value orientation Nah. Its a matter of those 'values' being just posturing in the Angloamerican West. Even if they are committing an actual genocide right now, they have 'better moral standing on huma
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> Americans that lie about their background and then proceed to steal your organization secrets, infect your co-workers and turn your company into a supply chain attack vector - are exactly the same type of the problem. Like the diplomat
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> cruel If the US killing people when they cant pay for healthcare or pushing the homeless outside city centers in the winter to have them freeze to death does not make capitalism 'cruel', then those systems werent cruel either
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> and, yes, this is where a major non-Leninist Communist criticism of Leninism, and its descendants like Stalinism and Maoism, that feature totalitarian control of a command economy by a narrow self-perpetuating party elite stems from. P
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> Americans can choose who they vote for And yet, NOTHING changes. So, what does 'voting for' mean? North Koreans are not able to vote for more than one party, and yet they havent committed any genocide? If every party that Ame
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
Yep. On top of that, it also controls the algorithm. Recently it has been tweaking the algorithm to sell non-relevant keywords to advertisers by making 'exact match' not 'exact' anymore. People have been burning their ad
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> That "sociopathic" profiteering funds the 401(k), IRAs, and pension plans of tens of millions of Americans At the cost of the destruction of the entire rest of the economy, which is coming home to roost right now. People&#x27
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
Hard to understand - why North Koreans being in open source a problem while Americans not? It wasnt North Korea who killed 1 million in Iraq. Its not North Korea who is protecting and arming Israel as it commits genocide. If its because of
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
These megacorps will have so much fun in the upcoming recession. They turned public opinion against them through sociopathic profiteering and then mass layoffs. When the cows come home it won't be fun and games like before.
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> Education is far from elite making, maybe elite in a global sense, but not elite by American standards. Being elected to a position also makes the social circle. It might surprise you that many American politicians are real people with
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
Nope, its just that the current Eu establishment doesnt like how its narrative about the Gaza genocide or the Ukraine War was challenged by including even its own press, so they want control and censorship. The countries that are pushing fo
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> The massive incompetence of the administration is absolutely appalling Huh? The Biden administration kept all of Trump's tariffs and most of his policies. You people don't seem to know that the US establishment is one single
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by dumbledoren 1y ago
> it ignores the fact that new jobs are created precisely when old ones become redundant That did not happen after the electronics revolution changed manufacturing starting in the 1970s. Factories that needed thousands of workers to manu

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