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by macintux 2y ago
So I'd prefer to give a good person the power to do good things by pardoning those worthy of liberty, and a bad person the power to make their corruption evident for the world to see.
872.
by macintux 2y ago
The authority to pardon is one of the most direct indicators we have for the moral character of an executive.
873.
by macintux 2y ago
Reality continues its convergence with The Onion .
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by macintux 2y ago
Dealing with power at that scale, arranging your own ISPs, seems a bit beyond your normal colocation project, but I haven’t bee in the data center space in a very long time.
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by macintux 2y ago
If you aren’t already familiar, Clayton Christensen’s theories on this, on innovation and disruption, are widely praised. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Christensen
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by macintux 2y ago
A fair bit of discussion from a year ago: https://lobste.rs/s/r8vitn/misty_programing_language_from_cr... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38820305 There are a few older discussions on HN, but
877.
by macintux 2y ago
The nice thing about git, from my perspective, is that if your entire hosted service vanishes, you can still reconstruct what you need from your users’ working directories. All of the important branches should be there. Somewhere. And any i
878.
by macintux 2y ago
As someone who’s not participating in the discussion, can you elaborate? “No it isn’t” is an unhelpful response without any explanation whatsoever.
879.
by macintux 2y ago
How do you game the color of your skin? How long does it take to game your accent in a second or third language?
880.
by macintux 2y ago
The best, most entertaining book I've ever read on C covered that (unless I'm misremembering, but I doubt it): Expert C Programming . https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198207.Expert_C_Programm...
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by macintux 2y ago
Of course it was possible, but the incentives have changed. Now anyone can use the accumulated knowledge of the world to build something new, so more independent actors are doing so, often very badly.
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by macintux 2y ago
Your verbs, “sue” and “win”, are separated by ~16 words of flowery language. It’s not surprising that people gave up partway through and reacted to just the first verb.
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by macintux 2y ago
Most, perhaps, but I have no clue.
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by macintux 2y ago
I ran into this a couple of different ways growing up. As with Toronto, on some FM radios I could catch a local Indianapolis TV station. Don’t remember which station off-hand. More concerning, on my boombox, I discovered that could pick up
885.
by macintux 2y ago
You've reminded me of how intensely frustrating it was to be a fan of a TV show pre-WWW and pre-streaming, when networks would shuffle shows between different days and times, trying to find the perfect lineup (or trying to accelerate t
886.
by macintux 2y ago
Any chance that non-tradition is related to loss of the Thresher?
887.
by macintux 2y ago
Thanks for the clarification.
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by macintux 2y ago
Why are over 1/3rd of US states on your remote work blacklist? When I asked your virtual recruiting assistant why my state was on the list, the response: “Great! Take a look at the 3 recommended positions I found for you.”
889.
by macintux 2y ago
I have a very old, very fuzzy memory of someone telling a story about sending a completely meaningless, “encrypted” (garbage) snail mail letter to somewhere in the Soviet Union. Despite taking great precautions to obscure their identity, th
890.
by macintux 2y ago
~20 years ago I worked for a small IT/hosting firm, and the vast majority of our hostile traffic came from APNIC addresses. I seriously considered blocking all of it, but I don’t think I ever pulled the trigger.
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by macintux 2y ago
That’s where I ended up as well. Boring but clean.
892.
by macintux 2y ago
There are doubts about Melania’s immigration status. She may have worked under the wrong visa and lied about it when filing for naturalization, which would make her an illegal immigrant as well.
893.
by macintux 2y ago
> It has consistently been about illegal immigration. Not Trump. He’s been opposed to immigration from the ‘wrong” countries, regardless of legality.
894.
by macintux 2y ago
That is intensely depressing. Amazing that electing a black man to the presidency triggered such a long-lasting, powerful backlash.
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by macintux 2y ago
> ...but not one he or his supporters actually care about because they couldn’t give a fig about Ukraine. His supporters absolutely would give a fig about Ukraine if Trump hadn't spent years sabotaging the GOP's historical po
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by macintux 2y ago
Can we at least agree that for better or worse, train stations are typically smaller, faster to navigate, and missing significant security bottlenecks that cause significant delays in accessing airplanes?
897.
by macintux 2y ago
That’s a recurring theme on HN. The site prefers the original title, and not every blog post has a title that adequately prepares one for the contents, especially since many blogs have a recurring theme.
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by macintux 2y ago
A little information: https://www.patreon.com/admiral_cloudberg/about
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by macintux 2y ago
I nearly collapsed while moving my CRT out of the house. I have no recollection of the size, but putting it on my shoulder by myself was a terrible idea, and I’m very lucky I didn’t injure myself. Nothing could persuade me to voluntarily go
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by macintux 2y ago
Interesting. Where does one find a writing coach?

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