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by jgeada 2y ago
Why do people keep (deliberately?) confusing identity with authentication (and authorization)? 1) Identity is not supposed to be a secret, it is merely who you claim to be. It is no more secret than someone's name. Somewhat similar to
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by jgeada 3y ago
Largely they hate agpl because it doesn't enable them to parasite off the work of others for free.
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by jgeada 3y ago
There was a recent discussion right here on HN about "trading trust": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39394990 Basically, many of these companies took decades to reach these positions where they're trust
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by jgeada 3y ago
We measure the worth of a life, for insurance and actuarial purposes, at about $10m (and frequently less). Stealing someone's savings is stealing their life, their time, and in some cases their ability to survive (as we have very few s
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by jgeada 3y ago
Except they do still charge you first before figuring out they won't actually ship you the goods as promised. It is the charging and then not delivering that is the problem.
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by jgeada 3y ago
Management is supposed to be a support role, and it behaves that way in some professions (eg law, medicine). But once you give them control over salaries and budgets, they end up controlling everything else. And management begets more and m
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by jgeada 3y ago
Does anybody keep track how often these ships lose all power? Wasn't that long ago that another massive cargo ship lost power in the Suez, crashed and blocked that channel for a while. Somehow I'd expect that there would be backup
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by jgeada 3y ago
> Most NIMBY difficulties stem from the asymmetric nature of the costs and benefits of a new project: a new apartment building, for instance, will benefit a city overall (slightly lowering housing costs and slightly increasing the size
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by jgeada 3y ago
There is something very fishy in that article: the order of traversal in a hierarchical make should be entirely expressed by dependency rules, not mere existence of a directory. Failure to describe dependencies is a flaw in the creation of
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by jgeada 3y ago
I've designed and shipped more than one multi-million line of code product that had parts in C, C++, Fortran, Python, Tcl, and even some assembly, plus the usual grab bag of open source dependencies. For none of those was anything more
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by jgeada 3y ago
Maybe I'm a dinosaur, but if the product you're building is so complex that it needs such a complex (and Turing complete!) description for how it needs to be built, maybe the problem is that product's architecture. Creating a
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by jgeada 3y ago
Such an American point of view that lies, deception and falsehood have primacy over honest communications and information. People keep discussing theoretical results that truth will win out while ignoring the vast amount of actual data show
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by jgeada 3y ago
Spotify pays nothing to Apple: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/03/the-app-store-spotify...
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by jgeada 3y ago
The liquid fuel rocket motor was only invented 98 years ago ( https://www.nasa.gov/history/95-years-ago-goddards-first-liq... ) Though borderline possible, it is very hard for solid fuel rockets to make it to orbit, and
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by jgeada 3y ago
Reminds me of this cartoon (which I have posted on my office): https://naksecurity.medium.com/the-detriments-of-hero-cultur... This is why in many corporate cultures it pays not to proactively stop a problem that you know h
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by jgeada 3y ago
It is described in many places, including in detail here: https://archive.org/details/cu31924096224799 Some other info here https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/21726/concepts/why-does-c...
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by jgeada 3y ago
A free market on capital intensive industries chooses for efficiency, and efficiency means having single large dominant players at each step in the chain. Free markets create monopolies. Regulations are what prevent monopolies and we'v
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by jgeada 3y ago
True for the US and the UK, where finance is king and Chicago school economists dominate. I've always felt that economists here are the modern equivalent of soothsayers: they tell their patrons what they want to hear, massaged with eno
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by jgeada 3y ago
The death of Moore's Law has been predicted for a couple of decades. Sure, eventually we'll run into the limit, but I'd need strong evidence for such a claim. (and yes, some related semiconductor laws no longer scale. Dennard
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by jgeada 3y ago
They're pretty efficient at moving public money into private hands though, which why there are such persistent lobbies to continue these subsidies. Socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor.
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by jgeada 3y ago
Isn't this the whole point of the "defund the government" approach? Deliberately sabotage the regulatory authorities, then use the fact that they no longer have the expertise and staff as a justification to outsource the regu
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by jgeada 3y ago
That will only happen if we change laws to make boards and executives criminally liable for these types of problems. We need to pierce the corporate veil and directly go after the responsible individuals when they, either directly or by del
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by jgeada 3y ago
I agree with you; but that is a low bar for qualifying Acela as a decent system.
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by jgeada 3y ago
I live in the Northeast, what "decent rail system" are you talking about? Acela takes 3h44m from Boston to New York. Not much faster than the scheduled buses (4h15m) and comparable to driving the distance in your own car (3h55m if
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by jgeada 3y ago
Hard to say whether economically a PhD always makes sense, but it certainly can open doors that are otherwise firmly closed.
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by jgeada 3y ago
> What about gun ownership (oh thats the nerve), its easy to assume things will be better when guns are banned, but what is the actual game theory in the balance of power between a people and their government when the people are stripped
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by jgeada 3y ago
Name a conflict or intervention by the US in that region that has made use of US assets based in Israel. Hint: there aren't any. We instead use assets in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, etc. Using anything based in Israel would c
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by jgeada 3y ago
Sometimes the Onion hits it out the park: "Israel Assures It Doing Everything Possible To Minimize Civilians" https://www.theonion.com/israel-assures-it-doing-everything-...
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by jgeada 3y ago
Most of traffic enforcement seems focused on revenue generation rather than reducing bad driver behavior. By my observation, seems police focus only on the easy to detect excess speed violations on highways: victim has no easy escape, every
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by jgeada 3y ago
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/maryland/driver-hit... https://www.bicycling.com/news/a30607392/group-ride-florida-... https://www.gainesville.com/stor

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