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by geofft 5y ago
First off, I'm talking about the case where Mastodon instances collectively ban an instance , not a user. It's pretty easy to set up your own Mastodon instance, and in turn, norms and mechanisms have arisen for coordinated bannin
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by geofft 5y ago
Have you never lost a private key? I definitely lost the private key to my original PGP key. And I wouldn't say "nobody can ban you" - quite the opposite, in fact: with Urbit every major network node gets to make its own choi
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by geofft 5y ago
Several of her positions, taken individually, are solidly left-wing. Not every position she has is solidly left-wing; a few are solidly right-wing, in the sense that they would be completely unsurprising coming from Republican legislators.
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by geofft 5y ago
> Solidly left-wing Democrats like Tulsi Gabbard ???
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by geofft 5y ago
Yes, unless you count the ACPI machine language or BPF, but both of these are languages interpreted by the kernel, not languages linked directly to C.
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by geofft 5y ago
The kernel, fortunately, already doesn't want to have a public ABI. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/stable-api-... The primary goal is to write in-tree drivers in Rust, which can still b
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by geofft 5y ago
Maybe here's an analogy: Verisign does something that YC doesn't like, so YC decides they don't trust being on .com anymore and they should move from ycombinator.com to ycombinator.party or something. They set up a web server
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by geofft 5y ago
> Rather than being treated as rare phenomenal outliers, these unicorn companies are a necessity for venture capital funds to be successful. So when a startup takes those venture dollars, they are almost always going for a big exit, or
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by geofft 5y ago
> However, that same community feeling and sense of purpose is what I remember fondest from working at startups. In addition, startups give you access to other capable and driven people that you might create a startup of your own with
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by geofft 5y ago
Dynamic dispatch just means you're calling a function that happens to call another function. You're still calling a function. I don't think "You don't know the implementation" implies you're not calling a
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by geofft 5y ago
Sure, but it's not qualitatively different from many other situations where employees make incompatible demands, is what I'm saying. One employee can say, I want to be allowed to work from home; another can say, I have trouble int
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by geofft 5y ago
> The canonical point of a workplace is to come together to fulfill the aims of the entrepreneurs. Absolutely not, and for a very clear reason: the aims of the entrepreneurs are to make money and reduce costs. My aim, in asking for rai
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by geofft 5y ago
So... how do you get an ENA driver if you don't have one already? I see Amazon provides Linux and FreeBSD drivers at https://github.com/amzn/amzn-drivers - is the answer to start with the the FreeBSD one (because
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by geofft 5y ago
FYI, I also rebuild TensorFlow in-house, hate it, and hate it a bit less now that I've realized that you can get 200+ vCPU machines in the cloud without difficulty these days. It takes about 12 hours on my workstation too, but it takes
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by geofft 5y ago
Sure, but the US is consistently beating France in terms of economic performance. And Silicon Valley itself, home of outspoken employees and CEOs, beats the US as a whole. Why should we sacrifice economic growth in the name of political cor
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by geofft 5y ago
I agree that it would be a political statement (if the statement gets made), but I also think there's a meaningful difference between "We are making this choice because we believe it to be the right choice" and "We are m
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by geofft 5y ago
As a New Yorker, I'd agree with you. My anecdata is that the activists are generally the most productive and engaged employees. Yours, I guess, is otherwise. We should just put this to the test - the activist leave the professional cen
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by geofft 5y ago
This isn't a statement from a big corporation, though. This is a statement from employees of the big corporation (presumably all of whom feel comfortable leaving on a moment's notice) to the corporation. Companies have long kn
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by geofft 5y ago
Oh, I assumed you were talking about sales taxes, which is the most obvious case of a DAO-like organization taking money on every sale, as a percentage of the selling price. Income taxes and capital gains taxes are on your profit , not on
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by geofft 5y ago
Because "the IRS" (not sure which jurisdiction you're in, but here in the US, it's actually the local and state government) is an entity controlled by elections that is obligated to spend its budget in ways decided on by
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by geofft 5y ago
Moreover, how is this not just a form of DRM?
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by geofft 5y ago
The value of a Beeple NFT minted by a random user is exactly what the market chooses to value it as. If it's minted by an agency that helps creators do marketing, and the agency gets the creator to say "Yes, this is a legitimate N
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by geofft 5y ago
Two things. First, in the real world, creators stop getting royalties after the item expires and goes into the public domain, and there's a pretty strong view that the time for that is already too long and the beneficiaries of that lon
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by geofft 5y ago
Is it a conspiracy theory, then, that the US engaged in the premeditated killing of hundreds of thousands of civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, deliberately obliterating an area much wider than the legitimate military targets in those cit
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by geofft 5y ago
Can you explain why I am misusing the phrase? I believe it to be objectively accurate. Again, that phrasing might make people uncomfortable. as I wrote above. I understand that, and I understand why people desire to censor it. But I don&#x2
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by geofft 5y ago
What's the phrasing you'd prefer? "Children were once again murdered in cold blood in Gaza, a metropolis that could be just like Singapore, Tokyo, or Hong Kong given its dense population and prime geographic location, were it
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by geofft 5y ago
> (It wouldn't prove it, because, after all, those keys are public; anyone can know and distribute them.) I don't believe this is true, right? You do a private key operation demonstrating you possess the private key associate
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by geofft 5y ago
That's like saying "There is no meaningful 'miles per tank of gas' for cars. You could spend the whole tank idling or you could go across the Pacific on a single tank (assuming you're being transported on a ferry).&
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by geofft 5y ago
As an anti-free-speech progressive, I'll give you an answer: it's not the dark side of that proposition. It's the dark side of assuming that it's possible to trust corporations to be fair about free speech at all. The
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by geofft 5y ago
How odd, then, that the IGN staff decided to post this article without coming to that realization, and then suddenly came to that realization after an unrelated post by IGN Israel who was very offended at this attack on Israel.

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