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by lacker 6y ago
Ah, that's a good point. Much better coverage of this issue is available from Berkeleyside: https://www.berkeleyside.com/2021/02/17/berkeley-may-get-rid... This resolution "could start a process&quo
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by lacker 6y ago
It'll be interesting to see how much of an effect this has. Construction in Berkeley is still extremely difficult. Neighbors have many ways to oppose new construction, and something as simple as adding an extra room to a house can end
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by lacker 6y ago
At that rate and assuming 4tx per second a single Bitcoin transaction consumes 165kWh. A Tesla battery is bit over 50kWh. So let's round that to 3 full charges of Tesla battery. This seems like a roundabout way to analyze efficiency.
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by lacker 6y ago
The Queen can't create legislation, she can restrain it. She is purely a moderating influence in this sense. This isn't really guaranteed to be a "moderating" influence except in the most technical sense. The current q
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by lacker 6y ago
It's a little concerning to see Huawei involved so closely in Rust, given the concerns about them silently including spyware in their products to give access to the Chinese government. I don't think I'm being a total conspira
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by lacker 6y ago
Iran is already blocking Tor. In general, if Signal provides some central way to use Tor together with Signal, the Iranian government can just run it on their machine, and block every IP address that it tries to connect to. Iran can block t
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by lacker 6y ago
I just think it's a bad idea to treat contractors and employees differently. It's crazy to have someone happily doing X hours of work, wishing they could do X+10 hours of work per week, and their boss also wishes they could do X+1
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by lacker 6y ago
Maybe one month you want to work 40 hours a week, the next you want to work 20 hours a week, the next you want to work 40 again. That's quite hard to arrange with a traditional job, but often possible with contract work. Especially whe
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by lacker 6y ago
What I have seen is jobs limited to weird amounts like 29 hours a week. You can't really combine two of those into one 58-hour-a-week position.
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by lacker 6y ago
You have no realistic opportunity to work some where else - either a restriction in your contract or due to the hours that you work I think this part would need to be more specific. A while ago I worked as a low level employee at the Gap
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by lacker 6y ago
That is an unacceptable risk for almost any business so GPL software doesn’t get used. Plenty of companies use Linux... this seems like something people worried about in the 90's but have now generally accepted.
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by lacker 6y ago
I wouldn't use software like that. Imagine you build a company using some software, and it was free until you hit $X in revenue. One day far down the road, your company is doing well and you start to get close to $X. You realize you ha
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by lacker 6y ago
Amazon came in and took a bunch of that money while not giving anything back. Amazon is giving a lot back to the community, though. They are providing a really valuable service when they provide open source software as a service. They are
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by lacker 6y ago
It’s a weird quote to me, because there are no witches. Modern society does ban literal witch hunts, and it doesn’t cause witches to exist.
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by lacker 6y ago
It does have the technical merit of not collapsing so far. A lot of the previous attempts at digital currency collapsed because they had more of a dependency on some quasi trusted intermediate party.
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by lacker 6y ago
When I was in grad school in 1999 studying AI the general consensus was that neural networks didn't work very well, and that you were better off with the more mathematically grounded methods like support vector machines. TD-Gammon was
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by lacker 6y ago
There sure is a lot of different stuff named "xBTC"....
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by lacker 6y ago
One of the best features of cryptocurrency is that other people cannot simply vote to take your money away.
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by lacker 6y ago
We use AWS's ES. And, as far as I'm concerned they already open-source their version. Unfortunately for you, there's a decent chance that AWS freezes their support at a version before this license change, and never offers u
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by lacker 6y ago
You could say the same about the GPL - the practical effect is almost never to make a company release their previously-proprietary source code, the practical effect is to make companies not use it in the first place. Which is fine, as long
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by lacker 6y ago
I'm glad that the SSPL is becoming more of a standard for this sort of "open source minus AWS" software. One of the benefits of standard open source licenses is that it's easier for companies to give blanket permission,
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by lacker 6y ago
I'm not a Trump supporter but all this ban wave seems very selective. I just don't see how to make it less selective. The problems here are categories like "inciting violence" which are just not clear-cut. It's no
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by lacker 6y ago
Congress banning some type of speech is specifically what the First Amendment prevents. This is allowed because YouTube's decision is the decision of a private actor. I'm not saying I like YouTube being the arbiter here, I just th
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by lacker 6y ago
That way you lose the people who have the best prospects elsewhere, often your top employees. This way you can pick which 11% you least want to keep.
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by lacker 6y ago
Well yes, that's what "polarizing" means, that everything is pushed towards one of two groups, rather than being allowed to be anything in the middle. That's why it seems to me that Rogan is not polarizing, because his o
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by lacker 6y ago
The SF Chronicle charts are just really well done. For example this page I find to be the most useful one for California-centric coronavirus information: https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/coronavirus-map/
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by lacker 6y ago
Personally I find that Berkeleyside and Oaklandside are full of “personal interest” type stories that are interesting but usually aren’t too important. Some new restaurant opened, a new indie movie is showing. Whereas the SF Chronicle has r
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by lacker 6y ago
Rogan seems like one of the most un-polarizing forces in media right now. He can support Bernie Sanders, a left wing position, and oppose trans rights, a right wing position. Almost everyone else is more pushed into either the left or right
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by lacker 6y ago
The first headline on The Factual right now is “How conservative media stoked baseless election-fraud claims that motivated D.C. rioters”. That is certainly not what the “fairness doctrine” type centrist media sounded like. The whole feed d
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by lacker 6y ago
could have convinced millions more people that they are trying their best to apply policies evenly Twitter is never going to convince everyone that they are being fair, and that isn't their goal here. A better way to think of their t

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