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by gred 6y ago
> It's not enough to just have the direction be right. That's a subjective value statement, not an objective fact.
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by gred 6y ago
And vice versa.
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by gred 6y ago
The alternative cynical view (which I subscribe to) is that this small-to-medium amount of pain can sometimes tip the scales in the right direction. There are of course other tools, but they require a bit more dedication: regular donation
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by gred 6y ago
Calling your congressman makes the most sense, IMO. As technologists we have an inclination to jump to the technical workaround, but the workaround should not be needed to begin with.
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by gred 6y ago
"I look forward to refuting your claims in court, recouping my legal costs, and publicizing your misbehavior."
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by gred 6y ago
Agree. I use Firefox for all the usual reasons. I've considered donating to Mozilla in the past, but have always decided not to -- because my impression is that most of that money would be spent on experiments and signaling, not work o
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by gred 6y ago
You should be proud of your ability to extrapolate a pattern from only 3 data points, but ashamed of your ignorance of the other 91 data points ;-) https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://gcemetery.co/
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by gred 6y ago
> We’ve had riots, inaction by mayors, and ridiculous decisions by leaders in large metro areas for the past month. Another factor that is (unexpectedly) making my family reconsider intown living is the school closure decisionmaking. If
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by gred 6y ago
I agree, but I think there's also a bit more to it. Thinking specifically of cloud infrastructure, if you run your systems on infrastructure that is also used by your largest partners and customers, then your outages will tend to coinc
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by gred 7y ago
My approach is to include one or two news sources from the "other team" in my daily news diet. It adds a nice grain of salt for when I read "my team's" news.
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by gred 7y ago
I've wondered the same, given the early Chinese resistance to outside help [1]. However, the Party will always prefer to downplay problems that threaten its grip on power, and this qualifies regardless of any possible lab involvement.
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by gred 7y ago
You haven't seen the Scott's Tots episode of The Office, have you? Seriously though, I didn't have that reaction. We each bring our own individual expression to everything we do, that's not sad or cringey at all. The aut
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by gred 7y ago
Hawaii. Huh. Families haven't been invited to our company Christmas party for the past 7 years.
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by gred 7y ago
I had the same thought. From the article: > Here is my plea: when you build hardware/software, please make it support the primitive, simple case.
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by gred 7y ago
> bound to inaction by charter That's probably too extreme, but I love it as a starting point / baseline!
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by gred 7y ago
I think GP has a point, and I'll illustrate by trying to simply flip the very convenient mirror that you've set up. Please get past the initial emotional response (canards! blasphemy!) and just realize that this is a paragraph tha
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by gred 7y ago
> The odds are overwhelming that there was a lot of material comparable to this ring before and after 1500 BC. "A lot" is a fairly vague quantifier, but I'd wager you're wrong regardless of how you define it. We'
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by gred 7y ago
At least it was clear, efficient and sincere!
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by gred 7y ago
this comment : thought :: soylent : food
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by gred 8y ago
I think the point he's making is that all software licenses (including open source licenses like GPL, MIT, BSD and Apache) are built on copyright law; your rights as the copyright holder are the only thing allowing you to authoritative
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by gred 8y ago
Great question. My own reactions over the past months have been something along the lines of (1) "Not the best execution, but maybe we'll see some positive change..." -> (2) "Cool, looks like things may actually chang
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by gred 8y ago
Some churches in the US also use "debt" in this way during the Lord's prayer (i.e. not referring to financial debts): "And forgive us our debts, just as we also forgive our debtors." (Matt. 6:12)
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by gred 8y ago
> Every comment must be approved by its parent. Design twist: every comment must be approved by the commenter's parent -- father or mother.
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by gred 8y ago
US announces intent to withdraw from international postal rate system: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/411828-us-announ...
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by gred 8y ago
I think this could also be a good idea for phasing out public APIs -- instead of just taking an API offline, start to fail requests early at low probability, ramping the probability up to 100% over the course of a month or so.
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by gred 8y ago
Indeed. These sorts of finds rarely make the news in countries where metal detecting is explicitly and/or effectively against the law -- not because they're not occurring, but because they happen outside of the law and the artifac
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by gred 8y ago
Related? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18385920
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by gred 8y ago
I haven't felt this way since March 25th, 2014. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7469115
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by gred 8y ago
A big factor here seems to be lifetime limits to benefits: > Financial toxicity led Fumiko Chino to co-write a research letter in JAMA Oncology last November. After her husband surpassed his insurance policy's $500,000 lifetime limi
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by gred 8y ago
> A classic tactic is to underfund a thing you don't like, then point to it failing as an excuse for killing it outright. I've seen this assertion made online a few times, but have never seen any actual examples. Are there exam

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