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by general_ai 10y ago
It's quite telling that when Obama had summarily banned Iraqi refugees for 6 months in 2011 we have heard nary a peep from the press.
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by general_ai 10y ago
I don't mean just take it for free, that's not going to work. But I don't see why US companies should not receive a modicum of preferential treatment. As things are right now, US spent hundreds of billions of dollars and thou
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by general_ai 10y ago
Do you think US' persistent attempts to depose him that have utterly wrecked his country maybe have anything to do with that? Moreover, do you think if the US helped him undo the damage that sentiment would change? IIRC, he did say tha
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by general_ai 10y ago
Who would you rather get to "keep the oil"? The country that sunk hundreds of billions into first destroying and then rebuilding Iraq, or some other country?
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by general_ai 10y ago
_Any_ debugger has _excellent_ support for working with imperative code. And not everyone uses an IDE, nor should it be a requirement.
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by general_ai 10y ago
"Never had to reboot". Yet every time I start my sparingly used Windows machine the first thing it wants me to do is reboot to install updates, and it's pretty insistent about it.
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by general_ai 10y ago
200 million from 7 countries temporarily suspended. 1.3 billion from the remaining 189 -- unaffected. Tell me again how this is a blanket Muslim ban?
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by general_ai 10y ago
That's just with drones, and I'd say it's a very conservative number. He also funded and armed "moderate opposition" in Syria, al quaeda associted groups (Jabhat al-Nusra and others) there, and helped topple several
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by general_ai 10y ago
But not Muslims from the 189 remaining countries. So maybe it's not, in fact, about Islam per se? Do you think there is such a possibility? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country
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by general_ai 10y ago
Destroy the most radicalized, enforce Syrian law for the rest. There's nobody that can do the job better than the Syrian government (which is more "well versed" in local politics than any White House hack will ever be). That&
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by general_ai 10y ago
Yes, and US government is making changes to this procedure.
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by general_ai 10y ago
Trump stated his intention to stabilize the region. So far he has demonstrated very clearly that he intends to keep his promises. All that needs to happen there is we need to stop arming ISIS, and join forces with Russia and Assad's go
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by general_ai 10y ago
First, it's not a "ban". It's a temporary suspension until new vetting procedures are put in place. Second, it's not "Muslim". Muslims from all other countries (some of them pretty large, e.g. Indonesia an
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by general_ai 10y ago
2 years from now: "we got rid of all the functional bullshit and we're now using ifs and for loops all over the place; reminds us of our fixie bicycles and other aspects of our hipster lifestyle". Over the past two decades I&
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by general_ai 10y ago
Immediate fix by SWE can only be released after it is tested and canaried, so it's not really "immediate" most of the time.
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by general_ai 10y ago
You basically do the shit SREs tell you to do if you want support. I took a service through a PRR, and while it wasn't 100% formal, my SRE peers were able to request improvements to monitoring, fault tolerance and release process, so i
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by general_ai 10y ago
For anything that actually receives significant traffic, runs in a lot of cells, and is under active development, Telebot will call you pretty regularly when you're oncall. But hey, congrats for finding a place you like, that's ex
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by general_ai 10y ago
This has nothing to do with cross platform. Docker is similar to chroot in the sense that you're 100% running Linux. On OS X it runs in a Linux VM.
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by general_ai 10y ago
Even SWEs are oncall. Not as much as SREs, but it's really unavoidable. Someone needs to be there if shit hits the fan.
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by general_ai 10y ago
I think you're over complicating this a bit. Simply put, they first gave their people economic freedoms (and then not all at once) and then started loosening up in terms of political freedoms. If it takes them 50-100 years, so be it. T
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by general_ai 10y ago
It's mostly a matter of chance, TBH. You miss 100% of shots you don't take. It took me two attempts to get in, first time I was being stupid during phone screen so it went no further. I was a SWE, but it's not generally a pro
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by general_ai 10y ago
He can play them against Democrats. In fact I bet he will have to. He owes no allegiance to anyone but people who can re-elect him in 2020 if they think he did a good job. He understands that.
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by general_ai 10y ago
He will get the support through amazing feats of negotiation.
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by general_ai 10y ago
Get hired by Google and you'll be able to check it out. It bears a close resemblance to a Rube Goldberg machine.
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by general_ai 10y ago
Anyone who has ever seen the deployment diagram of Google's ad serving will vouch that Google simply cannot exist without great SREs. If you like both dev ops and software engineering, and have found that your affinity to dev ops makes
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by general_ai 10y ago
I can't believe they're stupid enough to think that Trump is a Republican. He's neither. Both parties shat all over him during his entire campaign, so he owes them not just nothing, but less than nothing, hence the promise to
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by general_ai 10y ago
Methinks if you guys didn't help the Nazis, you'd be treated more humanely immediately post war. I can sorta understand the lack of love the Soviet government would have towards you at the time. At the same time the Baltic republi
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by general_ai 10y ago
Unlikely that it's the TPU. Unless there's a multi billion dollar market for something, Google's official policy is to ignore it.
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by general_ai 10y ago
You "remember" wrong. I actually _was_ there. Neglect and price of oil weren't in any way fatal to a largely self-sufficient country. Complete collapse of all branches of the government was.
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by general_ai 10y ago
As a former Soviet citizen, I fail to see why anyone would care what this clown has to say. No one in Russia cares, for example. He basically ran a superpower into the ground in 6 years flat, from space shuttle to hunger and abject poverty

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