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by gerbilly 7y ago
> That makes it sound like there's some kind of natural 'ideal state' for the planet to recover to. If you want to know what the natural state for an area is, ask a native person from a population that has un uninterrupted
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by gerbilly 7y ago
The status quo has unintended side effects.
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The Big Ball of Mud: The world's most popular software architecture(laputan.org)
2 points by gerbilly 7y ago|0 comments
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by gerbilly 7y ago
It certainly does exist. It even exists in Canada for extended coverage like dental and vision. Now why dental is not part of medical coverage is beyond me, but that's another topic.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Sure, i guess, but you have to still pay for it. I don't have to pay anything for my health coverage. And before you say, I do through taxes, my tax rate can be pretty low if I have minimal income, which is often the case when start
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> and a company is a logical place to do that This has several unintended consequences: 1) People stay in jobs they hate just for the insurance. This harms both the company and the individual. 2) It reduces entrepreneurship. In Canada
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> But if the toilet is already dirty, you’re not going to be the one cleaning other people’s pee, so you just add your own and leave. Good analogy, but in code it's more than just disgusting to clean up after others. Changing code
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Facebook uses their data today to target ads. What the data gets used for later by Facebook, the government or organized crime, when it inevitably gets stolen, is anybody's guess.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
It's not just through open source contributions that internet users work for free, either. One example is google translate, which encourages you to correct the suggested translation.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I think this is a false equivalence. His claim is the stronger one in my opinion.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
https://youtu.be/xpAvcGcEc0k?t=235
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Test it on 30-40 kids instead and then get back to us. You sample size is too small :-)
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I see, so I'm doing it wrong you say? But I never said I was using Amazon. I'm using an internal cloud service at my company. It does not offer any managed services. Also when I do use AWS for clients, I _sometimes_ use managed s
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Just what do you want to convince us of anyway? To work hard (presumably for you) or what? We'll get back to you on that...
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> You are 2/3 as productive at 60 hours a week. That's still more productive than not working at all. Not if what you're working on is a false path because you're too tired to notice you made a mistake. What a bumptio
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by gerbilly 7y ago
It would appear that the prefrontal cortex is much less parallel than the rest of the brain. This is why we often get much better task performance when we allow our gut feelings (which come from subconscious parts of the brain) to inform ou
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I use ansible to provision Centos 7 instances, and then I use another playbook to install and configure stuff on them like haproxy, bind 9, etc... This leaves me in complete control and keeps prices low because I only ever use vanilla insta
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Dude, the yaml files I'm writing require good knowledge of the system they are configuring. i deploy all our cloud instances using Ansible (yml files) and I wouldn't have a hope of doing that if I didn't understand the OS I
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I see literally no-one one this site suggesting we go to full communism, if that's what you're implying. Carefully regulated capitalism should do fine. This is obviously not easy to achieve.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Yeah sure. I once worked in the US and in Canada (Connecticut) in the same year. My tax rate was lower in Canada for the same salary.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> many others in the US don't like the idea of subsidizing other people's healthcare for preventable or self-inflicted health complications. Who cares really? It costs a bit more to care for people in dollars and cents, but it
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Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism(outsideonline.com)
148 points by gerbilly 7y ago|264 comments
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by gerbilly 7y ago
The fact that you're bing down voted is beyond me. My wife describes engineers as 'smartdumb'. We're super smart at figuring out technical solutions that enable things like social media, ridesharing and short term rental
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Yeah, but we've heard ad-nauseam about the Gell-Mann effect. I wish there were an equally clever idiom I could trot out when people criticise professions they probably know noting about. Journalism is an incredibly difficult field to w
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A Man is alerted to his undetected cancer by a series of dreams(utne.com)
1 points by gerbilly 7y ago|0 comments
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by gerbilly 7y ago
It's a cognitive psychology term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_(psychology) And 'schemas' aren't just theoretical concepts, they have been validated with reaction time studies that strongly
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by gerbilly 7y ago
People who fly jets are a different breed. My dad witnessed the snowbirds crash at an airshow over lake Ontario. They give boats a cordon that they are supposed to stay out of, but enforcement had become lax, so people would bring their boa
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by gerbilly 7y ago
World models are called 'schemas' in psychology. There is lots of evidence that people process information by fitting it into schemas. There is an interesting tension between 'assimilating' information (taking in inform
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by gerbilly 7y ago
How about Hashicorp nomad? ( https://www.nomadproject.io/ )
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Kubernetes is WebSphere reinvented then, along with all the management complexity and the expensive consultants? Great analogy.

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