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by kbenson 5y ago
How is that any different than some fiefdom ruled over by some noble? The whole point of democracy and elective government is that you can't rely on a system like that to be consistently good, whether it's the Duke's son squ
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by kbenson 5y ago
> 95% only seems reasonable for thumbs up / thumbs down style rating systems. Maybe for average of ratings, not for average of all things that could be rated, whether rated or not. Those are very different things.
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by kbenson 5y ago
Poe's law is in full effect, so I'll just leave this here. https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/...
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by kbenson 5y ago
This is what I use, and honestly it (and other systems like it) is the only thing that allows some conversations to progress if someone doesn't reply for hours or a day, depending on how much I've been commenting. I've had a
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by kbenson 5y ago
> Also it is no longer power that metes out punishment There are different types of power, and what I think we're seeing is that whip traditionally those different types of power have rested in the same individuals, that's not
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by kbenson 5y ago
Given my own experience with 3.5" floppies in the past often yielded lifetimes in single digit months, I would say any estimate of years needs to have a very large error margin, and you need to use RAIF.
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by kbenson 5y ago
If you haven't accounted for the fact that there is absolutely no way to guarantee the client has just disappeared, all you've don't is build a system on bad assumptions. A client browser can crash, the computer can lose powe
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by kbenson 5y ago
I don't disagree that they don't fix the problem entirely, nor that they don't address the core problem of housing affordability. I don't think they're useless though. They affect what many people see as an unfair
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by kbenson 5y ago
> None of these things will matter one whit to housing affordability. > "Helps in some way" is alright except that "helps in some way" has been sold for the last 6 years, politically, as, "this is the reason y
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by kbenson 5y ago
You pick your battles, as perfect is the enemy of good. That other problems exist is not a valid reason to prevent fixing something if that fix actually helps in some way.
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by kbenson 5y ago
> You're fighting scarcity. No, they're fighting market inefficiency. A free market requires accurate and timely information to be efficient. This is literally people putting constraints on the market for what they are sellin
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by kbenson 5y ago
In the absence of larger issues, maybe. What if you're one of very few minorities or women working at the company, and the issues seems to stem from issues that shouldn't be issues? That seems more like a company problem and not
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by kbenson 5y ago
> I do have a problem in that this drive-by dismissal of mine is getting attention when what I was excited about in another comment goes ignored. =\ Isn't that explained by the GP's point? Some things are much easier to engage
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by kbenson 5y ago
> a badge is trivial to fake. Yes, but in certain situations is very unlikely to be present. It's not a great way to verify an officer of the law, but it's better than nothing, and lack of it is a good indication that someone
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by kbenson 5y ago
The solution to that is having a well defined and understood mechanism to verify the police departments that the departments can easily be referred to (or look up themselves in advance) to fall back on. For example, in the U.S. E911 service
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by kbenson 5y ago
I was really referring to the part of your comment about the NSA's ability to intercept the hardware. It's true that any any software that allows auto-updating can be used to load arbitrary code onto a system, limited only by what
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by kbenson 5y ago
> So can microsoft, adobe, google, etc. Even without them, NSA can intercept the hardware and put their software on those boxes... Those companies often actually have people scan the hardware they receive to check for alterations. There
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by kbenson 5y ago
When you start dealing with hundreds of servers or more (perhaps it starts earlier at the high tens), you start looking at all things as trade-offs, and doing so yields interesting insights that aren't necessarily obvious when you&#x
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by kbenson 5y ago
> walking down this street with a bunch of phones in a wagon They could always be thrown in the back of a car, and you can drive slowly down the street, possibly jumping from parked spots on the side if there's light traffic you wou
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by kbenson 5y ago
I subscribe to the idea that people become more conservative as they get older because they've seen all the times change has resulted in worse outcomes, and have lost faith that change will result in something better, so would rather s
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by kbenson 5y ago
It's surprising how often that movie comes up, especially given how it's often accompanied by a note that it's not good. I suspect it's hit a pseudo-cult classic film status. The last few times I've seen it mentio
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by kbenson 5y ago
I assume a lot of this is org controlled and has toggles to allow or disallow certain things, because for our AD environment when they started recommending Windows Authenticator for MFA the first thing I did was test that it works if I just
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by kbenson 5y ago
I think most the original techbros are in management now. I always assumed the label was derived from the huge influx of people into CS in the late 90's and very early 2000's because of the dot-com boom. I know there were a lot o
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by kbenson 5y ago
The area between thinking others are "absolutely not cheating" and "definitely cheating" is huge, and where most online gamers end up spending their time. Absolutely cheating is not a problem, because most games allow y
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by kbenson 5y ago
> This has absolutely nothing to do with someone not wanting to talk to someone else. It has everything to do with some third party having the power to decide whether the other two may communicate. They have that power specifically peopl
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by kbenson 5y ago
This is just the internet moving to match the real world. In the real world, reputation matters and some people don't want to talk to you unless someone can vouch for you. For areas where the general public needs to interact, third p
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by kbenson 5y ago
At some point you have to figure out how to make the best tasting lemon drink you can out of the lemons you have. Making sure the rich don't get the money is less important to me than making sure the poor and less than rich actually g
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by kbenson 5y ago
I also feel like my comprehension of physical reading material was better, but it's been a while sine I actually used physical material for learning, so it could also just be my brain is worse at retaining information in my old age. D
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by kbenson 5y ago
> How would the government have capacity to do this? It's much easier to just ... I don't find the argument that "it's hard to track and manage that" valid or compelling for an organization which includes the IRS
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by kbenson 5y ago
Paying mortgages, or a percentage thereof, for people? If it's considered an interest free loan on which the people would pay back in their taxes or on any sale of the home initiated by the owner or as inheritance fees, possibly with

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