ethbr0

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by ethbr0 3y ago
The thing about the whole flat-earth rabbit hole that's always logically confused me is the epistemology problem. If you deny X, and then you carefully deny anything that could prove X... what do you replace it with? F.ex., I get how s
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by ethbr0 3y ago
There is no MAD deterrence to limit advertising: only keeping up with the leader. Once you've figured out how to efficiently kill most people on the planet, you can decrease investment in the endeavor and just keep a finger hovered ove
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I think you're misunderstanding the situation. It is a two lane (same direction) road. The tractor trailer is to your right. There is a car behind you. The tractor trailer begins to merge into your lane. What do you do?
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I mean, to some degree, that's what the US has historically done and can do, as a consequence of being the world trade (and therefore reserve) currency. A side effect of that position is decreased sensitivity (aka inflation) of that cu
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I think it varies according to industry culture. It's anathema to some industries to have that level of openness be the default.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
So you'd slam on your brakes with someone behind you? Instead of accelerating forward?
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Tractor trailer merging into your lane because they didn't see you and someone's behind you.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
One company I worked at had default org-wide GitHub visibility. It made me realize everyone else was using source control completely wrong. Game changer to be able to look at or copy the source for {anything}.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
... security policies changing (shoes on or off?), repeated "ATTENTION, BY IMMEDIATE ORDER OF THE TSA" announcements, people doing dumb things, people being rude, baggage getting lost, flights being overbooked... There's a lo
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I read that airports grate on people because there's an omnipresent chance of something occuring that's completely outside of their control, and that possibility is therefore always in their mind. Nature, for me, is the antithesis
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Salesforce's worst design principle is hiding things people don't have access to. And it cuts to the heart of the agility you're describing -- if I can't know what I'm NOT seeing, then how can I discover I need to
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by ethbr0 3y ago
There's a denominator on that equation too.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Why not both? Obligatory: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eYxwgmACJMY&t=1m26s
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Intel is the poster child that if you want to run a giant business long term -- have independent , well-supported teams that deliver a profitable product on their own... and are insulated from being fucked with by anyone in the management
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by ethbr0 3y ago
My understanding was that the speed of the reaction was dependent on temperature (and probably pressure/gas mix), and the electron flow was a byproduct rather than driver of the chemical reaction. But it seems like you can indeed block
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by ethbr0 3y ago
No need to be piquish. Parent's entitled to their opinion.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Agree to disagree. Submitter was smart enough to measure resistance in their chosen wire, and understand the rough ideas of current limits: that's a hacker in my book. "Here are the things I know" + "Here are the things
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by ethbr0 3y ago
> "You shouldn't use that sort of electricity, you should switch to three-phase." Ha! That made my day. Stack Overflow in a nutshell, with analogy converted to js frameworks.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I think you and parent are reading things into the comment that isn't there. On one axis, there's volume and sophistication of arms. On another axis, there's culpability, righteousness, and what comes after. No requirement to
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Interesting story on that, Robert Nardelli (HD CEO 2000-2007) fired all the ex-tradespeople that Home Depot employed in their stores, because they cost more than younger and less experienced labor. Straight from the GE "How to mortgage
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Who are we to weigh the consequences to the poster of a lack of electricity against risk created by jury rigging? And specifically, to make that choice for them? Caveat hacker.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
High temperature speeds oxidation. Learned as a consequence of blacksmithing. ;) So red hot iron absolutely rusts, you just beat the (brittle) oxidation off as you work the piece.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
It would. I think that's what most people were figuring. And also, assuming it's wrapped but not encased to cabling standards (e.g. there's oxygen between the insulator and wire, but the insulator itself is contiguous and air
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Out of curiosity, does electron flow influence oxidation speed at all? Or is its speed purely a consequence of temperature + environmental gases?
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by ethbr0 3y ago
No, it doesn't. It's a fair comment about external arms supply intensifying conflicts, without apportioning blame.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
No, that's just stack* being their usual dickish selves. "How can I do a thing?" "You shouldn't want to do that thing." Danger/risk is a situation that happens sometimes, but it's never an excuse to d
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by ethbr0 3y ago
> without making internet infrastructure 100% perfect and reliable If this really takes off, I'd expect we'd see a further stratification of ISP offerings with QoS guarantees. Currently, there's little incentive for ISPs
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by ethbr0 3y ago
If by "ripped off", you mean able to acquire a substitutable product for a lower price, that's been a trade consumers always prefer. See: every comment on this article about how XBox's cloud subscription solution is a go
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by ethbr0 3y ago
> Most of history's greatest writers and artists didn't go to college. Citation needed.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Yes, I support tactical racism to decrease the amount of systemic racism. Not sure why, assuming you're also an engineering type, this would be a surprising statement. That's how change works. Anything shy of that (e.g. egalitaria

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