ethbr0

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by ethbr0 4y ago
There is no effective pandemic response that respects individual rights, as we currently expect them. Too many people, too interconnected of a world. Better to go ahead and admit that if the shit hits the fan (SARS-CoV-2 being far from how
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Some people want to be the king of the world: some people just want to live like a king. ;)
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by ethbr0 4y ago
It's a fascinating subject, precisely because the exercise of sailing was so highly developed (due to both the length of its history and functional importance) and then... effectively disappeared. The mind boggles imagining the number
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Windows Phone 7: 2010 HTC Dream: 2008 There's a reason Microsoft completely ditched Windows Mobile, because it was never in the post-iPhone fight.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Point. At some point post-launch, you've got to appraise the situation and come up with a scenario where you win. Windows Phone started too far behind, and the only scenario where it caught up was "Everyone stops making Android ph
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Say what you want about Microsoft, but they executed with XBox and continued pouring money into it, because they knew its potential as a foothold in the living room was larger than its near-term revenue.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
> has not made a significant effort to dominate in this field It's almost like Google is not immune to the fate of being a massive company. And just like prior large, market dominating firms (IBM / Microsoft / Intel), ma
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Ha! "Joining from a single click in my calendar view" has a 50/50 chance of working, seemingly dependant on if MS' SSO is correctly sync'd behind the scenes when I click.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
GPTalloc: "Why worry about your own memory?"
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by ethbr0 4y ago
> Why not do that for police and judge positions too? Because police and judge positions require specialized skill sets and training, and both have access to the force of government, which would seem to merit a higher minimum bar of pr
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by ethbr0 4y ago
> But who is going to give up their career to be a citizen watcher for just a few years? A Citizen . Rights and responsibilities , etc. > Likewise, random selection may not yield a cohort with the correct capacity to properly adm
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by ethbr0 4y ago
At least in Congress and many executive positions, they are neither term-limited nor randomly selected.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
> Congress itself is THE delegate to assigning the President of the Executive Subject to the certification only procedure outlined in the Constitution, as was recently vividly demonstrated. (Originally, under Article II, Section 1, Cla
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by ethbr0 4y ago
That's why you have limited terms of service and randomly turn over membership.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Why not randomly? And that's randomly without jury strikes. There's a reason corporate and government interests have tried to keep more and more matters out of a jury trial -- the outcomes are unpredictable. Which is exactly as
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by ethbr0 4y ago
I'd ask a slightly different set of questions: (1) "Is it good for {country} if {country's corrupt leaders} are able to bank elsewhere?" (2) "Is it good for {bank elsewhere country} if they accept corrupt money?&quo
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by ethbr0 4y ago
The 2008 crisis was directly caused by human greed, at all levels, and failing to be reigned in by regulatory bodies. It's unreasonable to blame one source for something that metastisized over years, involving most parties in the finan
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by ethbr0 4y ago
As separation of concerns, this sounds reasonable and efficient: why should it be the financial sector's job to weigh whether someone is good or bad? Better to make finance focus on ensuring there are quality, documented links where le
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by ethbr0 4y ago
From first approximation, there are 2 major questions to initiating a conflict. 1. Will I be able to stay in power? (Related: Will my populace support this war? Will my economy keep functioning?) 2. Will I end the conflict with more power &
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Parent is presumably talking about recent comments by Gen. Mike Minihan (Air Mobility Command). IMHO, people/news are blowing it out of proportion. If the boss of FedEx said we're going to end up in a war with China, how much does
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by ethbr0 4y ago
No doubt? They're the only satellite internet company with surplus rockets that they need to burn. Customer volume for Starlink is arguably more valuable to SpaceX than profit per customer.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
It seems like the ultimate decision is whether someone eats it and says "That isn't (naan|kulcha|other)." Which probably depends on how their family made it, as much as any recipe.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
The question seems partly "What is the difference in recipes?" and partly "How are these words currently used?" In the American eastern seaboard, the closest we probably have is the continuum of cornbreads, where the sam
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by ethbr0 4y ago
Thanks for taking the time to type that out! It's fascinating how many "bread type" things there are in the category, and how regionally specific details of each can be. I'll have to pay more attention and try options ne
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by ethbr0 4y ago
It's important to remember all history for exactly this reason though! I.e. "Here's a thing we tried, and exactly how it went wrong"
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by ethbr0 4y ago
What's the difference between kulcha and naan? At first glance, it looks like kulcha is heartier and thicker?
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by ethbr0 4y ago
What a life! > His father sued him for a greater share of the family wealth. His aunt sued him. Eventually the ranks of litigants would swell to several thousand descendants of the seven previous nizams. Then, in 1971, the Indian govern
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by ethbr0 4y ago
We're well into a relaxed-determinism future.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
That could have been done easily and better with an autocracy.
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by ethbr0 4y ago
My general experience has been settings < registry << group policy. Microsoft will update settings in an update at a PM's whim. They may break registry key bindings due to code changes. But they generally don't break gpo

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