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by morelisp 3y ago
I have a team of six people, I don't want two members working opposite hours for a week at a time. If anything that will produce more incidents... The problem with every on-call article is that the best practice for a single team, a co
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by morelisp 3y ago
It needs to be be 150% minimum, otherwise they're just paying the same for >40h.
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What comes after 9FFFF?
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by morelisp 3y ago
Yeah, my car should be tracked by its manufacturer, my cell carrier, my phone, the mapping software in my GPS, the four random apps I gave location permission to and forgot about, the traffic cameras, my neighbor's door cameras, but go
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by morelisp 3y ago
If they can't pay it back, that seems like an awful deal for MS, and a great deal for OpenAI.
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While it's increasingly clear that Lessig's legacy will be as (to borrow a phrase) the internet's own failson, he is far more famous today for CC than Eldred v. Ashcroft.
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But Git certainly obsolesced BitKeeper, both practically and technically.
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> Imagine that some people (with benign intentions) wanted to capitalize White to claim a cultural identity. After all, most whites in the US have lost the distinct European identities their ancestors had. Do you think this movement woul
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by morelisp 3y ago
Also note that to a first approximation zero Americans will be able to tell you what "CVS" stands for; I'm not even sure it stands for anything anymore.
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> Mitchell interprets Tao as the way to serenity, rather than the Way of Heaven. Thanks, this is the best summary I've now got as to why Mitchell's translation never grabbed me.
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by morelisp 3y ago
To use the cliché imagery, all empty vessels contain the same thing but not all are equally potent.
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I'm explicitly not contesting that Heidegger was influenced by Taoism! I said "he definitely was". I'm contesting that you'll find a statement by Heidegger like "my work, as extended by postmodernism to which I
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by morelisp 3y ago
I want to upvote this for its good points about the relationship between Eastern thought and "Eastern thought" in the "West", but man, what is this? > Postmodernism was (according to its progenitor Martin Heidegger...
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by morelisp 3y ago
Is it an in-built preference? I think a robust monism is still a fairly radical position, especially among religious views. For example even the branches of Christianity which tack more materially tend to draw a rigid boundary between creat
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IIRC Smullyan "literally" translates a modern "literal" Chinese translation as "The Tao that can be Taoed is not the true Tao" which I think is a little more accessible without meaningful compromise. (I cribbed
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This isn't a wrong view in an absolute sense (Taoism and Buddhism I suppose "agree more" than say, Taoism and Baha'i - though as soon as you have diverging metaphysics "distance" becomes very hard to characteri
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by morelisp 3y ago
What a disservice. Hogan's writing is, let's say, informal, but it's not really meaningfully lighter on "woo" except in cases where it just refuses to address the text. For someone looking to connect to Western meta
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by morelisp 3y ago
> Why are you and others seemingly eager to dismiss these histories? Because while I admit some part of me would be highly entertained by HN becoming a hotbed of dominionist propaganda, it's probably a net negative for society overa
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by morelisp 3y ago
> It's also famously why John Hancock made his signature comically large. Big or small he knew he was going to die if the fight failed. Also false. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock#cite_ref-FOOTNOTE...
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by morelisp 3y ago
The children vanishing, McKeam and Nelson dying in poverty, Nelson's house being destroyed, Hart dying of "a broken heart". And while not false the gloss of "large plantation owners" is absolutely odious, as another
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by morelisp 3y ago
Like most of the article, this is just false.
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by morelisp 3y ago
Not knowing enough about the thing to know if it's culturally-insensitive is largely what makes it culturally insensitive. You could fix that, but it's easier to stoke random coals on message boards.
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Wealthy people and stores trying to make their customers feel like a wealthy person.
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> how wasteful and silly it is to have someone whose sole job is to press elevator buttons. That doesn't seem like the right cause, since it's the people who seem most concerned with seriousness and economic efficiency who stil
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by morelisp 3y ago
It's "they" because it's people in the past. If you want unions to win new rights today, you'd better start using "we".
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> American unions worked in the industrial age. They’re not a great model today. You're seriously going to contend "unions don't work for knowledge workers today" right after the new WGA contract drops? > their bra
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by morelisp 3y ago
Formal analysis is how you solve equations. If all your problems are equations you're living a very simple life.
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by morelisp 3y ago
No, the dark side of tech culture is that we’re refusing these strict formalizations of our own work environment while basically everything we sell is to do this to other workers, maybe at best one step removed.
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Most people will not get paid more for working more hours.
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by morelisp 3y ago
More like the ASF lost any claim to inherently support good governance with OOo.

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