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by insensible 8y ago
One of my favorite career moments was the time I tossed up a Varnish instance in a different data center than the site it cached, then used grace mode plus DNS Made Easy's failover to get a significant degree of georedundancy. There ha
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by insensible 8y ago
I spot two assumptions in your comment: 1) that families plan the number of children they have, and 2) that this planned number is some number lower than 16. Yours is not the only worldview. And with birth rates plunging worldwide, many now
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by insensible 8y ago
It can be done that way, but there are alternatives. One family I know, the kids actually sometimes quarrel to be allowed to take care of the youngers. In our family, we have "chore points" that are mutually negotiated, and babysi
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by insensible 8y ago
Ask any member of a large, poor family whether they would trade (life improvement costing $XX,XXX) for having fewer children in the family. Life is beautiful and easily beats filthy lucre. It's worth the struggle. People lose sight of
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by insensible 8y ago
You might enjoy reading Greg Young's https://leanpub.com/esversioning , which covers this topic. It covers several strategies, three of which are: * Encrypt it and then throw away the key to forget it * Store private da
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by insensible 8y ago
Can we get the word Chinese capitalized in the HN title?
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by insensible 8y ago
Genuinely curious: how do you manage commitments etc. without a todo list?
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by insensible 8y ago
This being Hacker News, we can talk about it in terms of graphs, right? Let's look at the sociogram when one parent is present. The transition from zero to one is of course world-changing. But at one child, 100% of the connections in t
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by insensible 8y ago
Yes, that first restaurant reservation would have taken me several times as long to complete.
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by insensible 8y ago
I want to hear a Duplex voice giving verbal AT commands.
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by insensible 8y ago
Yes. On a smaller scale, iOS predictive text is helping me learn a new language. Unexpected suggestions become new things to learn about.
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by insensible 8y ago
Economies of scale. The kids work together, play together, teach each other, and parents facilitate (often leading to interesting conversations like the one in the article). It's actually probably a little easier than having 5.
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by insensible 8y ago
It's the former!
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by insensible 8y ago
Dad of 8 here. It makes life so sweet when we acknowledge the child's capacities. Notice it didn't take that much patience...it's almost just a matter of creatively overcoming a language barrier.
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by insensible 8y ago
Asimov's zeroth Law of Robotics: > A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm. Causing data loss from a poorly-trained robot's incorrect call is unacceptable. Fix your bits, Twitter.
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by insensible 8y ago
What I think is brilliant here is that that sort of work can take place separately and provide feedback to these checklists when problems or deficiencies are found. Basically the security checklists are a deliverable that can be iterated on
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by insensible 8y ago
I love the distinction between self-sovereign and administrative identity. Administrative identity is a leaky abstraction of a type that is too precise and binding.
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by insensible 8y ago
We must assume the worst.
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by insensible 8y ago
In this case the naivete is in taking press reports at their word. When Telegram sued, the court proceedings were published by zona.media: https://zona.media/online/2018/03/20/tlgrmvs . I have read them
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by insensible 8y ago
You might consider documenting all this and going to small claims court.
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by insensible 8y ago
I have looked into the Russia/Telegram war thoroughly due to personal interest, and to my knowledge that situation hasn't involved domain fronting. Rather, Russia is blocking by IP and Telegram is hopping to IPs all over the cloud
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by insensible 8y ago
I thought it was 100% objective, straight across. I don't see any barbs or negativity toward Amazon whatsoever, just the facts about that situation and an honest discussion of the facts looking forward.
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by insensible 8y ago
To focus the attention on the role rather than the person, who is clearly just representing the company. It softens it.
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by insensible 8y ago
You're probably citing Joel Salatin (he's the grass farmer in Omnivore's Dilemma). If you enjoy this topic, recommended reading: * Stockman Grass Farmer, a publication for smart graziers who get complexity that Joel now edits
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by insensible 8y ago
Archaea can remediate soil from glyphosate and many other pollutants. It is difficult to produce at scale, but a man named Oppenheimer, a relative of the man who worked on the Manhattan Project, figured out how to package it and transport i
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by insensible 8y ago
You are demonstrating your ignorance of the Precautionary Principle. Hint: it's about tail risks.
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by insensible 8y ago
The permaculture slogan for handling water is "stop, spread, and soak". A contour is at a right angle to runoff, so by digging a swale with a downhill berm you bring it to a halt. And yes, you can deliver water elsewhere by puttin
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by insensible 8y ago
I said "poison" to refer to something that is sold for the purpose of being devastating to many forms of biological life. I and many very smart and well-educated people I know prefer to avoid exposing ourselves to industrial poiso
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by insensible 8y ago
This is one of many reasons why permaculturalists dig swales on contour. You can catch water, erosion, and pollutants uphill, plan a garden just beyond, and your garden benefits from the water catchment soaking the soil without much if any
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by insensible 8y ago
In my locality the legal definition of "weed" is literally anything that isn't a tree, shrub, or cultivated garden. You just have to keep the "weeds", which include grass, below 10 inches. So I planted dutch white c

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