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by geofft 5y ago
The US wasn't going to fight it "no matter what." The US was going to fight it if the US government was reasonably capable of doing so, which depended on political support at home, the ability to find allies, and functioning
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by geofft 5y ago
The nature of modern complex organizations like the United States is that no one person is responsible for everything. You can't so much as get $600 checks to every American without the support of a sizable bureaucracy, let alone singl
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by geofft 5y ago
https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/11/22720724/netflix-suspend... Note that " Netflix then suspended Field along with two other employees for trying to attend a director-level meeting they weren’t inv
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by geofft 5y ago
Let me just add - WireGuard is for the crazy ones. It's for misfits. It's for rebels. It's for troublemakers. It's for round pegs in the square holes. It's for people who see things differently. It's for people
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by geofft 5y ago
You're asking if Netflix tolerates engineers not toeing the party line about their product? Have you seen the news last week? :)
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by geofft 5y ago
Wow, that's awesome - 8 had a handful of custom patches and some backports, 11 had only backports, and 17 has nothing. This is kind of the best possible story for a distribution fork!
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by geofft 5y ago
Replace "paid for" with "bought" and the connotation changes entirely. Would you rather buy groceries, or find that the shelves are empty and go to the food bank for the things the rich people in the next neighborhood do
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by geofft 5y ago
They're not working against the company's interests. They may be working against the interests of individuals in management. For public companies like Apple - and arguably for any company larger than a sole proprietorship - those
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by geofft 5y ago
Masks do not restrict breathing. They filter the air you breathe, making breathing easier, if anything. I am asthmatic, and I am sensitive to reduced ability to breathe. Seriously, have you ever worn a mask? (Or maybe by "mask" yo
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by geofft 5y ago
Yes. I've been doing so all week (I just bought a new bicycle, and I wear a mask outside because it offends people and I find it funny), and I have exercised-induced asthma and sweat/overheat very easily. It's been fine. Ma
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by geofft 5y ago
I don't think I agree with you about the scientific evidence of those two positions. Masking children outside in 90-degree weather (especially with cloth masks instead of medical ones) may be ineffective , but it is harmless , modulo
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by geofft 5y ago
I am guessing you're trying to say that "flying by the seat of our pants" is somehow bad. (Maybe you're not and that sentence is just too short for me to understand what you mean, in which case I apologize.) But to expan
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by geofft 5y ago
The point of science is to determine what is true. The entire idea of scientific research relies on the premise that objective truth exists, that causes cause effects, that if a process works a certain way today that it works that way tomor
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by geofft 5y ago
I think this comment is giving an (interesting, IMO) example of the claim "Sometimes transparency encourages bad actors" and not making a value judgment on whether it is worth the tradeoff to limit internal transparency just to ha
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by geofft 5y ago
I'm interpreting the comment above as advocating for the pre-Section 230 world, where as long as you didn't moderate at all, you were shielded from liability. I'm not sure that's good for the world per se (there's a
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by geofft 5y ago
Presumably there are people in the world with a finer-grained view of things than "blue" and "red", such as centrists, people sympathetic to progressive social views but not a fan of progressive economic views, people hu
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by geofft 5y ago
But that's not what it does. Try it. $ git status On branch master No commits yet Untracked files: (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) foo nothing added to
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by geofft 5y ago
Do you want to see people in person specifically or just be more social? As a senior IC, over the last year I've actually become kind of overwhelmed with meetings and Slack rooms because the nature/scope of my work is across so ma
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by geofft 5y ago
I agree with you, but I don't think anyone from Nvidia called it "open source" (I agree that 'dahart incorrectly did so). It's a shame that GitHub allows non-open-source code, but it does, and nothing else about it
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by geofft 5y ago
Aren't lodges, churches, and golf clubs kind of the stereotypical examples of race- and class-exclusionary groups? I suppose it's not exactly a strong set of convictions if you're passively going along with broader social p
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by geofft 5y ago
It doesn't have "blocks" in any meaningful sense, though, largely because it doesn't have mining, because it has no double-spend problem. If two certs get issued for the same site, they're both valid and you want to
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by geofft 5y ago
Read my comment again, please. I specifically said that at no time did the law ask whether anyone intentionally set school boundaries one way or another - just that they were set in a way that had this statistical effect.
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by geofft 5y ago
From the article: > “Part of it is to make sure if you’re a young girl that you can find a police car, fire truck, a periodic table or a dinosaur,” Low said. “And then similarly, if you’re a boy, if you’re more artistic and want to play
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by geofft 5y ago
I'd say ironic, more than hilarious. The libertarian approach absolutely does lead to progressivism because people, broadly defined, want progressivism. You have to take a narrow subset of society for the libertarian approach to be gen
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by geofft 5y ago
I'm a child of immigrants. I grew up watching my non-white parents adopt white mannerisms and cultural norms, join a white church, live in a white neighborhood, etc. in a very racially diverse town because any other choice would put th
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by geofft 5y ago
First, MIT isn't Ivy League, which I don't just mean as a pedantic point about a football league - the Ivy League are all liberal arts schools. MIT is a technology school. It makes sense that there are institutions whose purpose i
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by geofft 5y ago
Fair - but my reading of that page is that it's actually not a commitment to free speech (as the author would see it, at least), it's basically saying that insisting on exercising your right to freedom of expression when you kno
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by geofft 5y ago
Isn't this exactly the world that free speech / pro-liberty advocates want? I don't have any power to fire someone from their job; I'm not their boss. But I do have the right to make my views about them freely known. Tha
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by geofft 5y ago
> MIT buckled, becoming yet another major institution in American life to demonstrate that the commitment to free speech it trumpets on its website The what? I'm an MIT alum and I cannot remember anything about a commitment to fre
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by geofft 5y ago
I grew up in a school district in the deep south that was racially segregated, as found by the court system, until a month before I graduated. This was in 2006. Not last century. The school district didn't, of course, test people by ra

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