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by g_sch 5y ago
It looks like they're only trying to claw back a small portion of the overall award to SpaceX ($111m out of $885m), so on its own, this doesn't look like a move to kneecap SpaceX. At least not on the scale of what we see with AWS
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by g_sch 5y ago
This seems like something that would be difficult to do on a mobile device such as an iOS or Android, which trains the user not to think about the filesystem at all. Is there a user-friendly mobile solution for this?
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by g_sch 5y ago
Great point, I'll ask my landlord if I can pay my rent in status this month.
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by g_sch 5y ago
I think the author's point about stealing has more to do with the way low-wage workers are assumed to be criminals by their employers, and have to deal with various invasive security measures their employer requires.
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by g_sch 5y ago
If you're accepting an offer to work for free for a major company, why do you think you'd have enough leverage to negotiate those other things?
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by g_sch 5y ago
One thing I've always struggled with in these "financial planning" products is how to make the numbers make sense on a gut level. My problem is that, after doing some level of "taking charge of my finances" to make
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by g_sch 5y ago
Based on the post, it sounds like there's some data parsing going on (possibly to present the data in a user-friendly way?), and the parsing step uses outdated versions of software (such as ffmpeg) which have well-documented vulnerabil
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by g_sch 5y ago
The problem with being boring while attacking powerful institutions (like LEOs or nation states) is that it only works as long as you're small enough to stay below their radar. After a certain point, the material reality will sink in t
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by g_sch 5y ago
It's a simple order of magnitude calculation. 2^256 is greater than one billion to the eighth power, times 100,000. There are probably several possible ways you could estimate how many different objects a person could distinguish betwe
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by g_sch 5y ago
I've had pretty good experiences with Hired before. Coming out of a product consulting background, I wasn't sure I was going to have the requisite experience to transition to an in-house role, but they found several leads for me a
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by g_sch 5y ago
My point is that, if a country no longer derives its power and wealth from controlling the banking system through military might, rather than freely giving up that power, it's going to flex that military might in other ways to ensure t
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by g_sch 5y ago
I don't really understand this argument. If militaries are part of the embodied infrastructure of a country's banking system, this would imply that replacing the banking system with something decentralized (like cryptocurrency) wo
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by g_sch 5y ago
I know, from watching Signal's development and public writings over the last several years, that their strategy is to bring privacy and security into as many people's lives as possible while matching the UX of the best for-profit
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by g_sch 6y ago
Amman is the largest city in Jordan by some distance _now_, but when it was designated as the capital in 1921, it was much smaller. Its growth has come almost exclusively since then, and as a result of its designation as the captial, it bec
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by g_sch 6y ago
I believe in some cases a capital was moved to a minor but already-existing city. Amman and Madrid are examples of this, so maybe they don't count as "purpose-built".
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by g_sch 6y ago
Madrid, Amman, Naypyitaw, Brasilia, Washington...history is replete with examples of governments who wanted to move out of unruly urban centers and start with a "clean slate".
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by g_sch 6y ago
The reason the OODA loop was useful, though, is because it took a decision-making process that was normally used by individuals and brought it into organizations. It seeks to answer the question: how do we minimize the overhead cost of maki
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by g_sch 6y ago
I definitely agree that 3-9 months (especially at the low end of that range) isn't enough to feel sufficiently rooted somewhere, but one quick thing I would add is that I did all of this while speaking German fluently already, so my ti
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by g_sch 6y ago
I'm interested in a lot of these responses because they don't reflect my experience - I wonder if that's the result of sampling bias (e.g. people with good travel experiences are drawn to this thread) or if I'm the aberr
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by g_sch 6y ago
She called the decision (presumably his) to fire Dr. Gebru "obviously very dumb"
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by g_sch 6y ago
He resigned after they refused to run one of his articles as written. I think this is an important distinction because other journalists have been fired for their speech, but he wasn't one of them.
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by g_sch 6y ago
I use Signal for 1:1 messaging and some small groups, but Telegram is much better for large groups and communities. Admin tools, UX, performance, and discoverability are all far better on Telegram. I'm quite happy to use different tool
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by g_sch 6y ago
I think you are vastly overestimating the significance behind having a "previous CoC violation allegation on [one's] permanent record". Who's keeping, and enforcing on, permanent records of this sort? Every org is going
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by g_sch 6y ago
I was hoping there was going to be some explanation about how the climactic effects of the eruption influenced events elsewhere in the world. The way the article teed up the story of Napoleon's return certainly made me think it was goi
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by g_sch 6y ago
I don't feel like your analogy makes sense here. The fact that there were explosives stored in the Beirut Port for years is exactly the same kind of institutional failure as PG&E failing to maintain their equipment for decades. I
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by g_sch 6y ago
Does the cell network have a single point of failure which could explain these concurrent outages across carriers? I have a (somewhat crude) mental model of how the internet works, so if this were a nationwide internet outage I would at lea
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by g_sch 6y ago
I did this exact calculation and it comes out to 730, exactly like GP said.
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by g_sch 6y ago
I think the author's frustration here is warranted, but it's directed at the wrong part of DoorDash/GrubHub's product strategy. Advertising on competitor listings is a bread and butter marketing strategy that happens eve
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by g_sch 6y ago
I think the idea that workers need "profitable" degrees to work "profitable" jobs isn't as obvious as you think. It used to be said that a college degree was a ticket to a well-paying job. Now, a few decades later,

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