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by kentm 7y ago
Other people exercising their rights to speech and freedom of association in response to someone's speech is not an attack on freedom of expression.
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There's often not a clear line separating the professional and the personal, and people in a job can feel uncomfortable with a person who has expressed troubling opinions outside the job. But this is presuming that Stallman's beha
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by kentm 7y ago
Not sure about the S, but the 3’d big screen looks really goofy to me and was a definite factor in my decision to wait for more electric car competition.
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by kentm 7y ago
Frankly, I'm often interested in a conversation but just have trouble keeping the conversation from heading into terminal states. Perhaps thats just because the other party isn't interested.
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by kentm 7y ago
Exactly this. From a consumer perspective, being subject to the US legal system is a big advantage.
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It's a pattern with Elon. He found out Twitter critic's identity and called up their boss to try to get the guy fired. There's pretty credible allegations that he retaliates against whistleblowers as well. Elon Musk is not
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by kentm 7y ago
Interestingly I’ve had the same observations that you’ve had about the work the Spark project has done to work around the JVM. And is also been idly wondering what a native-first distributes data processing framework would look like and how
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by kentm 7y ago
I wonder if thats just the food banks playing cultural norms to their advantage. All being said and done, and equal value cash donation would probably be better for them, as the article outlined, but the real result of asking for cash woul
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by kentm 7y ago
Are lasers at those power levels generally available to the public?
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by kentm 7y ago
I was rather shocked to find that python didn’t have a full-featured crypto library included in its standard lib. The alternatives all ended up being unmaintained or maintained by small groups (which makes trust in the soundness difficult).
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by kentm 8y ago
As a former employee, it’s more that there’s only so much you can do in that situation. I didn’t have any ability to impact the situation other than advocating for good practices, helping people I know manage their careers, and giving trut
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by kentm 8y ago
My remark was more about how often this case is trotted out as setting a concerning precedent. Gawker basically acted like jackasses and blew their own leg off, and Thiel was just there to make sure they didn't miss. It's hard f
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by kentm 8y ago
What Gawker did to Hulk Hogan was illegal and unethical. And when they were told to take the video down by a judge they refused to do so. Gawker lost because they were in the wrong and were destroyed because they refused to just take the L
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by kentm 8y ago
Can't speak for the OP, but saying you are able to live without working is no the same as saying that you won't work. When discussing financial security and financial worries, being able to survive and fulfill all your obligation
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by kentm 8y ago
So let's take it as an assumption that the people that this is for are "fragile software engineers." How would you address that fragility? Certainly, having monetary success does not necessarily address feelings of inadequa
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by kentm 8y ago
I would argue that having tons of dependencies is a problem in and of itself. This has become normal in software development because it’s been made easy to include dependencies, but a lot of the costs and risks are hidden.
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I'm not sure that it would matter much in practice. I don't think anyone really reads the code for their transitive dependencies.
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by kentm 8y ago
In many cases, probably. In other cases, probably not. The fear is that drone strikes lower the bar for how certain you have to be that "action" will have better results, because the practical risks have been substantially lower
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by kentm 8y ago
I have 2 kids and a 1200 sqft house. It’s a good size for many 4-person families
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I agree. I can't say removing the bezel is something that wanted or asked for.
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by kentm 8y ago
I think the first point of your rant is that it’s a misonomer and that’s correct. There’s still a server there. “Serverless” means that you don’t think about or manage individual servers yourself and let your provider abstract it away from
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by kentm 8y ago
Whether something is a riot is often subjective and a lot of security arrangements are made for peaceful protests. After all a peaceful protest may turn into a riot. Or it may remain peaceful.
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by kentm 8y ago
Protesting is a pretty fundamental right and societal value in America though. Cracking down on protests is, in my view, just as authoritarian as what the universities are accused of.
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Its not specific to those examples though. Think of it like a thought experiment: a university literally can't host everyone so there's some criteria by which a guest needs to be judged. In America, a lot of the spots were canc
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by kentm 8y ago
It's mind-boggling that it has to be limited. I meant that in terms of physical space availability, of which there is a finite amount. Theres only so many conference rooms that can house a visiting guest speaker.
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by kentm 8y ago
I like the distinction here. I find the "no platforming" question the most troublesome, because there should be freedom of association and one should not be forced to provide a venue for views that they disagree with. But at the
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by kentm 8y ago
That looks vastly superior to the above, and I'll make an effort to watch it. Thanks for the source. Edit: Ok so first of all, I think I should state that I am not a Marxist. I'm of the liberal persuasion, in that I think free
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by kentm 8y ago
Are neo-marxists not marxists? I talk with actual marxists and not a single one has used this terminology, so this really smells like something made up just so claims like the above can be made. It doesn't seem like a good-faith atte
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Dangerous people are filling the heads of young people with dangerous nonsense. Who are these people? They are what Jordan Peterson calls “the post-modernists:” neo-Marxist professors who dominate our colleges and universities. And here’s
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> If you don't love to learn and to apply the things you have learned the tech industry really isn't for you. Should that be the case though? I'm actually skeptical that a lot of the new things are actually as valuable as

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