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by gaoshan 4y ago
I've been in China, on and off, since 1996. Not living there full time but spending a month or two at a go. If I were to draw a graph of my own sense of optimism about where China was headed it would be a strong upward curve from the s
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by gaoshan 4y ago
I've been making this argument for many, many years and it's interesting to see the tide turning from "What are you, an idiot? Some kind of communist?!" to "<specific edge case that applies to someone they know w
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by gaoshan 4y ago
This is a mish mash of your own sort of misinformation. You mention politically left leaning, left and center media outlets yet completely leave out right wing outlets that are inarguably (at least from any logical and fact based perspectiv
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by gaoshan 4y ago
When rent gets like this (very high and controlled by a cartel as appears to be the case here) then there needs to be a remedy and the free market isn't going to be it. If the subject were some luxury good that was being impacted it wo
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by gaoshan 4y ago
I've spent time living in China and where I was they had these fantastic protected bike lanes. They were double wide lanes that had an island (with a decorative but still robust and functional metal barrier down the center and attracti
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by gaoshan 4y ago
The train that was carrying all of this passed through Cleveland, Ohio, just prior to this accident. Imagine the fallout if this had happened around a population of hundreds of thousands of people?
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by gaoshan 4y ago
That's fair and good to know. Not like we are going to jump ship as it would be very expensive but we should probably come up with at least a migration plan in case the worst happens some day.
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by gaoshan 4y ago
We are heavily invested in Twilio. Should probably be paying more attention to potential alternatives.
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by gaoshan 4y ago
We use Teams long term and would give quite a bit to be able to use Slack. At least it's a great tool to focus our negative energies on, lol.
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by gaoshan 4y ago
I'm an older developer and I do feel much of the pain of what you are talking about, especially with regard to frameworks/libs getting so abstracted as to be painful to learn and deal with effectively. I realize that many of the p
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by gaoshan 4y ago
I get what OP is saying with something like "... having to be "present" with nothing to actually do but make some some BS stuff to appear busy." and once was in a similar situation for a brief period. What I ended up doi
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by gaoshan 4y ago
Seems more like someone with right wing tendencies took a valid topic, the study and examination of military history, and conflated it with their own disdain for liberal politics. The topic is interesting but in this article it's too e
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by gaoshan 4y ago
I actually enjoy interviewing, mentoring, being involved in discussion of direction and tech and decision making however I despise most of the HR related "paper pushing" tasks and the often pointless seeming rigor around a lot of
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by gaoshan 4y ago
Responding in a pedantic/jaded manner is one way to assert a form of intellectual dominance. For this audience I feel like that sort of dominance is unsurprising.
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by gaoshan 4y ago
The way he behaves is so similar to other super powerful people who know they will not be held accountable. In China Xi Jinping has been carrying out a long running "anti-corruption" campaign and while he does indeed crack down on
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by gaoshan 4y ago
"At what age will he be when this predominantly young staff become concerned that he might “retire or die”?" As an older tech person myself I hate to say it but it won't matter because he's "special". I sincere
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by gaoshan 4y ago
Are they trying to measure cooking apples by the eating apple metric? Because they dunked on some cooking apples that would be a million times better in a pie than any of the highest rated ones.
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by gaoshan 4y ago
He mentions a Yamaha RX-495 and asks "circa late 1990s, I think?". I can confirm that it is. I bought that same model in 1997 or 1998 and still use it for my turntable.
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by gaoshan 4y ago
States cut funding to public schools, costs rise to accommodate those cuts which spills over into every part of the education market. At the same time schools increase spending on non-academic upgrades to appeal to prospective students brin
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by gaoshan 4y ago
Like most everyone else on here I think there is no way Mastodon could possibly take over for Twitter (or anything else). It will never appeal to anyone outside of certain tech circles or very specific niche areas. What I am curious about i
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by gaoshan 4y ago
My first question would be is random internet guy from one of the most likely suspects if this were sabotage? If so, their opinion is probably like many such opinions and based more on projection and defensive posturing than anything else.
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by gaoshan 4y ago
You also get lower quality pickles.
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by gaoshan 4y ago
I was banned from a pro-ccp sub and reported to reddit (and received a warning for this). My comment was literally, "Finding a subreddit like this is like discovering the Upside Down from Stranger Things". That's it. No back
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by gaoshan 4y ago
Reddit has declined so significantly in quality and (in particular) moderation that it's hard to get much out of it. I used it from the very beginning and now overall quality (both posts and comments) is as low as I can recall. Mods ha
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by gaoshan 4y ago
I think the default stance on data collection that we don't necessarily see as "useful data" should be caution. Just because we don't see it doesn't mean much... we are probably missing something (or underestimating
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by gaoshan 4y ago
""U.S. Infrastructure" is some of the best of the world". Is this actually true? I mean, at one point it certainly was but much of that infrastructure is quite aged at this point. Also, compared to the world at large, su
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by gaoshan 4y ago
This is roughly how I always viewed him.
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by gaoshan 4y ago
And the damage is cumulative so the best time to start taking any necessary high blood pressure medication is now.
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Check out fwarnock's reply. They explain exactly this behavior.
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Sadly, and devastatingly for the parent/child relationship, there are such creatures out there. As my dad said when I confronted him about it as an adult with kids of my own, "I guess I wasn't thinking. I couldn't help m

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