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by lokar 2mo ago
Most large firms already use 3rd party tool to lockdown employee computers. Engineers are generally the exception.
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by lokar 2mo ago
We do this in the law all the time. Many here find it imprecise and aesthetically ugly, but it’s how the world works.
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by lokar 2mo ago
The one near my house has a card reader :(
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by lokar 2mo ago
I've always wondered about that. I've suspected the same as you, it's mostly a brand / "ecosystem" thing.
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by lokar 2mo ago
A good rule of thumb I once heard (from Jeff Dean, I think) was that (in a complex system) every 10X you go up in scale you need to re-consider basic design elements, trade-offs, etc, and probably change some of them. It's hard to desi
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by lokar 2mo ago
It's worked before
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by lokar 2mo ago
You can buy really good LED lights. Pretty much everything sold at Home Depot is junk, not just light bulbs.
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by lokar 2mo ago
We are part way there, gas stations are required to provide free air and a gauge to customers buying gas.
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by lokar 2mo ago
It's hard to imagine median driver performance is SoCal being any worse in heavy rain than it already is. I'm not sure the tires matter all that much if you don't alter your driving at all.
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by lokar 2mo ago
And also a dedicated set of tires for the winter, that have studs in them.
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by lokar 2mo ago
When I worked at a big cloud provider the large sites were either within an existing industrial area, or off by themselves with lots of buffer. I visited a few of them. They are loud, but there definitely no homes close enough to hear them
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by lokar 2mo ago
It depends what you are looking for. I find small batch or custom made items from small businesses. Recently a nice wooden piece from a shop in Germany and an address sign for my yard from some place in the Midwest. For some things you do
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by lokar 2mo ago
It would be nice if I could just put a postal code in
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by lokar 2mo ago
You are exhausting. You should probably not go out in public.
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by lokar 2mo ago
I explained, you pretend I did not.
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by lokar 2mo ago
On the basis that they are not entitled to limited liability. It’s an enormous grant from the public. We have every right to add conditions.
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by lokar 2mo ago
And, we have granted them limited liability. Not something anyone, or any group is entitled to. It’s appropriate to condition that special treatment towards our goals.
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by lokar 2mo ago
Public limited liability companies are a creation of law and government. We can make whatever rules we think best benefit society.
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by lokar 2mo ago
A narrower argument would be that (at a huge scale), you should not be able to separate the economic interest in a company from control of the company. The founder can keep control, just don’t sell all of your ownership.
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by lokar 2mo ago
It looks like this does not even include the current disincentive for insurers to treat chronic issues effectively early on. Since people switch insurers so often the odds you will be their “customer” in 5 or 10 years is low, so investing
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by lokar 2mo ago
I’ve always felt like the lack of many complex language features nudges teams to also keep their code simple. There is always two aspects to a language works in practice: how it formally works, and how the community uses it. Go is (was?) s
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by lokar 2mo ago
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_state_(model)
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by lokar 2mo ago
They are valued as if one company will win and get almost the entire market. And that the market will be massive and profitable.
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by lokar 2mo ago
The president, and his supporters in Congress. He could not be doing what he has been doing without them. They share responsibility.
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by lokar 2mo ago
Even if US refineries used light crude, the producers sell to the highest bidder.
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by lokar 2mo ago
I think one could have anticipated the temptation to use it to smooth prices in election years.
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by lokar 2mo ago
And it was not expected to be used that way. It was expected to be used a few times, mostly all of it, for big emergencies. Not to smooth prices in an election year.
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by lokar 2mo ago
On the news they said it was not really meant to be drained and filled many times. Also, not expected to last as long as it has.
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by lokar 2mo ago
People keep saying that, but there are no real confirmed numbers. And an incredibly high incentive to lie.
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by lokar 2mo ago
Or the just read Woit, uh, 20 years ago now, “not even wrong”.

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