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by notacoward 3y ago
> it's a baseline. Like the postal service or Medicaid I think the interstate highway system might be an even better example. An absolutely essential part of business infrastructure and personal lifestyles, built and maintained larg
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by notacoward 3y ago
> the focus on EVs is a distraction. Indeed. > EVs tend to shed around 20 percent more ... for the same capacity. Isn't it funny how people focus on per-vehicle numbers for one segment? There are more oversized gas-burning pickup
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by notacoward 3y ago
> How could this be considered "federal overstepping"? Because just about anything is considered federal overreach in much of the US. Remember, this country was founded on resistance to a far-off authority. The south got a &q
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by notacoward 3y ago
> are certain police forces without supervision Effectively yes. I forgot to mention the FBI or state equivalents earlier but, as @frankharv already pointed out, they're at least as likely to cover for a rogue police chief as to i
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by notacoward 3y ago
I don't think I've ever heard of a state-level body (in the US) that directly regulates local police agencies. No, voluntary chief-of-police associations don't count. The "blue wall of silence" runs right through th
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by notacoward 3y ago
That's why I'm glad to see "hyper-palatable" gaining currency. "Ultra-processed" has always been a too-ambiguous term that fails to convey what's actually problematic about some foods. It's used to sc
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by notacoward 3y ago
"They're opposite" is the most incorrect statement in this thread. Yes, there is a difference, but the effects can be similar. Either way, market participants are denied a fair price because of their counterparty's domin
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by notacoward 3y ago
You say potato, I say pedant.
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by notacoward 3y ago
What's missing is that they've exhibited monopolistic behavior toward their "supply" side (advertisers) as well. "Tear the economics textbook in half" is a weird way to say "follow exactly what the book sa
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by notacoward 3y ago
> who the hell is buying these houses Sometimes people who make even more than you, or who inherited a significant amount. Most often, though, it's people who already bought and sold at least one other house. And often these categor
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by notacoward 3y ago
It's not just board games BTW. I used to play volleyball a lot . Yes, I played competitively, with strenuous drills during the week and tournaments on the weekends. But I also played pickup, and that was almost entirely social. I&#x27
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by notacoward 3y ago
> Can you explain what you mean here, then? Exactly what it says: the legal system has not caught up. Even in a post-Brandenburg world, the standard is still that the threat must be both explicit and imminent. They're still struggli
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by notacoward 3y ago
I cite an example from 1170 and you pretend I'm claiming it's new? Maybe you should direct your comments to my interlocutor, who claimed not to know the term in 2023. Using "this isn't new" as your standard opening
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by notacoward 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism The term has been well known in public-policy discussions for at least a decade. The basic idea goes back a loooooong time, at least to 1170 when Henry II of England a
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by notacoward 3y ago
This is exactly the "censorship" the right obsesses about. Not the real kind, as in the examples you cited. What they want is the ability to make any claim they want with zero support, and when asked for any "turn the table
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by notacoward 3y ago
As the OP makes pretty clear, the amplification effect of the internet has made the problem worse than it used to be, so "traveled well before" is misleading at best. This asymmetry has been written about many times - as bullshi
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by notacoward 3y ago
How can a capitalist system exist that is not inherently authoritarian? If someone refuses to follow the rules ... you get the idea. The only difference is that they become the authority instead of being punished by it, but the practica
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by notacoward 3y ago
For those who say things like "what about USSR or North Korea": the problem there is/was not the socialism (or communism) but the authoritarianism . They're different axes on the political compass. Authoritarian state s
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by notacoward 3y ago
This gets at where I disagree with Varoufakis (and Zuboff). The rent-seeking dystopia we have is not something "beyond" capitalism, unless one conflates capitalism with free markets - which is and always has been a mistake. The di
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by notacoward 3y ago
> it seemed exceedingly likely to the layman that it would leach out It seemed exceedingly likely to scientists too. I've been reading about the dangers of microwaving stuff in plastic containers, or using plastic wrap in the microw
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by notacoward 3y ago
So, like every other business that's not tech itself? I remember visiting one of the world's biggest advertising companies, prime NYC real estate with a vast marble-and-brass foyer as an additional flex ... then a door leading dow
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by notacoward 3y ago
Yes, everyday people should use their noggins, but there are things that go beyond what those everyday people would expect and anyone who does those things can still be liable. Courts have upheld this "reasonable expectation" stan
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by notacoward 3y ago
It's barely two days since I was saying right here that Google Maps's increasing awfulness had probably contributed to actual deaths. All of the Googlers (and Xooglers and wannabes) commenting here might try to minimize how much t
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by notacoward 3y ago
We need buildings to live in, but not the ones we have . To create places where people can walk or ride to everything they need in their daily life, many existing structures will need to be re-purposed. And it turns out that it's ver
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by notacoward 3y ago
At least I was trying to contribute something besides low-effort snark and insults.
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by notacoward 3y ago
How did that bike get to you? How did the food get to your grocery store before you rode there? (Hint: it's not trains and boats. Go watch the traffic on a highway some time and you'll be disabused of that notion.) How did all o
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by notacoward 3y ago
Thanks! I'm no longer a maintainer, or even working in tech, but still glad to share my experiences if folks might find them useful. I'm Obdurodon most places, @hachyderm.io on Mastodon, if you want to hit me up any time.
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by notacoward 3y ago
There will be mostly two kinds of response to this article. (1) Cars and trucks are evil, get rid of them. (2) Too bad, nothing we can do, get over it. Neither is helpful. We're going to need lots of tires for a long time. Trains don&#
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by notacoward 3y ago
Then again, if you're using file locking on a distributed filesystem at non-trivial scale you're in for a big world of hurt anyway. Source: I was a developer and maintainer of exactly such a beast for over a decade.
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by notacoward 3y ago
Gluster did this about a decade ago, though not in Rust. Actually twice - home-grown NFSv3 and Ganesha-based NFSv4. At Facebook we used the NFSv3 version to run dozens of clusters serving tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands of machines. M

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