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1. 2701.▲
   by pas 4y ago

   > Big corporation X can now run up lawyer cost that you have to pay if you lose This is very much a consequence of the adversarial and very procedural (and costly) common law system as implemented in the US. There's nothing stopping
2. 2702.▲
   by pas 4y ago

   Isn't RocksDB a fork (reimplementation) of LevelDB? :o
3. 2703.▲
   by pas 4y ago

   > Small plots of land are on average far more productive per acre than large mono cropping plantations. the bottleneck is not exactly land, but cost, manpower, etc. that's why industrial farming dominates the food and feedstock sect
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   by pas 4y ago

   could you link to that pointing out? which parts don't stack up? the 12+ hour wait times, the hospital occupancy, the discharge rate, the aging population and the slashed spending are all seem to be hard numbers (dare I say facts?) ...
5. 2705.▲
   by pas 4y ago

   the 12+ hour wait times, the hospital occupancy, the aging population and slashed social spending are all hard data. if you want just ignore everything about the excess mortality, and you'll still get the same picture, it's not go
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   by pas 4y ago

   While this is a very popular cynical view, it simply doesn't explain much. Corporations would like many many things that are not happening, because certain groups of people want otherwise. (Eg. cheap immigrant labor, less restriction o
7. 2707.▲
   by pas 4y ago

   unfortunately consumer protection is basically nonexistent in the US. (besides a lot of reporting requirements, that should be streamlined and automatic anyway.)
8. 2708.▲
   by pas 4y ago

   Well, it's really not straightforward to know what would be the outcome of such a lawsuit. Google's ToS is one thing but the main point is that random user uploading family photos is not a protected group, so Google refusing servi
9. 2709.▲
   by pas 4y ago

   or, probably millions of families with a small kid. not everybody sleeps in pajamas. also, while we might find it unwise to make a video, but also we were not there.
10. 2710.▲
    by pas 4y ago

    > Reporting the images to law enforcement is good. citation needed. do these CSAM scanning things actually help reduce kid exploitation? and if they do, is this the best use of our resources?
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    by pas 4y ago

    there are many reasons to reduce harm. there are absolutely no reason to ban it, because that only causes more harm. somehow many people on Earth have a remarkable resistance to nuance.
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    by pas 4y ago

    > 1TB storage box hah, we're a hetzner costumer for .. years now, but I had no idea they have this :D https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box so you can connect the NextCloud to the storage account? which
13. 2713.▲
    by pas 4y ago

    The top 100 websites are all big enough to experiment. Only Google cared enough to push for new shiny and fancy standards though.
14. 2714.▲
    by pas 4y ago

    but RFCs are written using "git". https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url1=draft-ietf-tcpm-rfc793bis-... sure, maybe IETF uses their homegrown version, but - for example - TC39 uses GitHub https://github.com&#
15. 2715.▲
    by pas 4y ago

    Yes, it's common. Usually each country has their own cottage industry of providers that mitigate this problem. (By git-ifying the text of legislation.)
16. 2716.▲
    by pas 4y ago

    > Why aren't we using a bit more modern techniques now, ... because those in power don't care, this problem doesn't really affect them, they don't know about potential solutions (too old and/or not programmers),
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    by pas 4y ago

    > Google algo updates have revenue as one of the core metrics. While this is almost trivially true based on what we know of (the world, big tech companies, Google in particular, etc), do we have direct supporting evidence for this?
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    by pas 4y ago

    I have no problem with that if it can also read my mind and serve up what I need. Until then, I want the option to correct their generous recommendations.
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    by pas 4y ago

    We could do the immunity building by yearly shots (that contain 100+ strains). It doesn't have to suck.
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    by pas 4y ago

    So I've written an example in a comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32507364 , but to try to emphasize the difference between waterfall and, um, non-waterfall is that historically (as far as I know) the s
21. 2721.▲
    by pas 4y ago

    [citation needed] A tax was established, yes, but was it reasonable to do so (was it reasonable to expect that it will do much) and did it do anything? It seems the answers are no to both those questions. I think it's a good signaling
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    by pas 4y ago

    It makes sense to estimate R&D, it also makes sense to have limits. (Eg. some startup wants to solve global fidgeting, they raise a lot of money, and they have 3-4 ideas, so they allocate half of their money and one year on their best i
23. 2723.▲
    by pas 4y ago

    But most part of work that got funding is trivial. Frontend, backend, CRM, backoffice, data this, data that, ETL, audit, backup, devops, cache, mobile, blablabla. Usually what's not trivial is how much to build and when (which is produ
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    by pas 4y ago

    Vacancy rates are low, investors don't just sit on the units.
25. 2725.▲
    by pas 4y ago

    IRL meetings are definitely important. Both for workshops, design and planning sessions, and least but even more importantly for social get togethers.
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    by pas 4y ago

    Sure, you might want to look into bcache or bcachefs.
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    by pas 4y ago

    there are different thoughs on this, but .. the team should not pick a task until it's clear what to do and until it's broken down into something that they think/agree can be delivered in one iteration. this is usually called
28. 2728.▲
    by pas 4y ago

    sprints deadlines are like milestones. the mantra of strive to deliver something in each sprint helps to prevent the failure mode when a year goes by and everything is in 85% readiness, but the last 15% will need another year (or more!)
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    by pas 4y ago

    wasn't it delivered with the principles? individuals before process? guys talking to each other informally and adding features they found useful (feedback from users, delivering value quickly)
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    by pas 4y ago

    estimation. you can look back over the previous sprints and see how much on average has been done in one. then you do reference class estimation of the incoming tasks. (story points are used for this.)