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by mperham 6y ago
> differences between races. Race is a social construct, it's not a scientific category. There is only a continuous spectrum of skin tone. If someone is mixed parentage, what "race" are they?
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by mperham 6y ago
I don't think you need to mansplain architecture to the blog post author.
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by mperham 6y ago
If you can network it, the obvious next step is to make a spec racing series and now you've got great marketing for Aston Martin and COVID-friendly entertainment that can be streamed or aired on cable channels.
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by mperham 6y ago
I didn’t say it wasn’t possible, I meant could as in “safe to do so”. Read the package docs, it explicitly says not to do that.
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by mperham 6y ago
The Context package is tricky to use correctly. I got bit because I designed an API that assumed you could embed a Context within a larger struct. Because it's immutable you can't and have to pass it as a value everywhere. It wasn
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by mperham 6y ago
I see you've never been to a City Council meeting. NIMBYs will screech about the most minor change.
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by mperham 6y ago
Apartment buildings and complexes.
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by mperham 6y ago
I'm all for more green in cities but don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Suburban sprawl destroys far more environment. Density stops sprawl. This is net positive for trees and the environment.
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by mperham 6y ago
V2G is very much designed for this scenario: electric cars effectively become a very large battery farm for the grid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-grid
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by mperham 6y ago
California can't print more money, the Fed can.
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by mperham 6y ago
Yeah, to its credit, the article brought it up but then kinda hand waved away "envoy had many more security issues than nginx". Having a huge load of C library dependencies in a user-facing service seems like a bug these days. Par
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by mperham 6y ago
As an Enterprise software vendor myself, I can assure you: everything is negotiable at Dropbox’s scale including very deep discounts.
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by mperham 6y ago
Did you consider using commercial nginx? If so, what made you decide against it?
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by mperham 6y ago
It's kind of strange that the article lists me under "5. support and training". 100% of my income comes from the "4. premium version" model.
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by mperham 6y ago
Easiest is to license it as GPL or AGPL, sell a commercial license.
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by mperham 6y ago
> The voting system in the U.S. hasn't changed Not true at all. The minute the VRA was gutted, there were bills passed in nearly every Republican state to make it harder for PoC to vote. Look at the elections in Atlanta last month f
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by mperham 6y ago
> Companies can't really "rent an office space" for one day a week can they? Not exactly but they could get 1/5 the space and rotate people onsite one day per week.
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by mperham 6y ago
Or remove the video from your Watch History after watching it.
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by mperham 6y ago
Loopholes are so maddening. We need to ensure full lifecycle consideration for all consumer products. If it doesn't decompose within N years, the manufacturer needs to have a recycling solution. The current situation has the free marke
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by mperham 6y ago
> Building new transmission is unbelievably difficult in this age, and I think most of the opportunities for doing so will require repurposing existing, defunct infrastructure. I think this is a very astute observation. Don't undere
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by mperham 6y ago
This strikes me as one step removed from that meme: "I see you complain about modern farming practices and yet still eat. Interesting..."
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by mperham 6y ago
I'd love to hear more detail if you care to open an issue.
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by mperham 6y ago
Sort of EC2/EBS in a local NAS device? Interesting.
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by mperham 6y ago
After a decade at 30%, maybe Apple should reduce the cut? Economies of scale and all that...
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by mperham 6y ago
> They've been building up a drum beat about debt and deficits over the last several decades FTFY
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by mperham 6y ago
I believe this was fixed in openssl 1.1.1 but there are millions of devices still on 1.0.x
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by mperham 6y ago
It's not; they are stating that if you bypass these security checks, you open the machine up to ransomware.
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by mperham 6y ago
The Cybertruck is expected to have outlets. Increasingly relevant with electric lawn equipment, etc. https://electricrevs.com/2019/11/21/tesla-plans-to-innovate-...
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by mperham 6y ago
I blog regularly but typically not about business topics, see my blog home page at https://www.mikeperham.com I appear on various podcasts, e.g. The Changelog, regularly and talk about things there too. I'll be on FounderQ
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by mperham 6y ago
Every system and market is different. You will need to determine if licensing and piracy are significant issues (sometimes they are a good problem to have, it means people are using your tool!) Some languages and ecosystems are harder than

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