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by plandis 7y ago
I know quite a few fairly liberal people who moved explicitly because they wanted to do this. To a lot of people in my social circle, it seems inherently unfair that at a federal level your vote counts for more in a lot of conservative rura
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by plandis 7y ago
Funny enough I just got an email from YoutubeTV last week basically saying the following: Effective immediately and without warning, YoutubeTV will not have a dedicated channel for Seattle Sounders games (the whole reason I got YoutubeTV wa
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by plandis 7y ago
I’m personally not excited for banks to come up with crappy, less secure versions of Apple Pay, to be honest.
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by plandis 7y ago
Maybe in an ideal world. In reality however the world is hardly meritocratic.
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by plandis 7y ago
It’s unclear to me but this sounds like: 1. EU members signed contracts with Microsoft 2. EU changed the law 3. Contracts are not following the law. Seems like a great way to have your cake and eat it too. Don’t like the contracts? Change t
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by plandis 7y ago
Perhaps but the harm is vastly different in scale. Private banning of speech doesn’t prevent the individual from stating those claims elsewhere. Government mandated banning of speech does prevent that speech from being used elsewhere.
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by plandis 7y ago
What speech is the NBA censoring? The commissioner came out in favor of free speech. The GM has not been fired. On the other hand, the Chinese government has stepped in to block the NBA because of the NBAs stance on free speech of players,
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by plandis 7y ago
The difference is that the US government didn’t dictate that Jones be removed.
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by plandis 7y ago
“Mind your own business” the Chinese say while simultaneously getting upset when an individual in their individual capacity says something on an American website banned in China. Is irony not a thing in China?
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by plandis 7y ago
You can’t upset the voters or they won’t vote into office people who have strong climate agendas. For example, banning plastic straws does basically nothing environmentally but upsets people who will then think twice about voting for someon
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by plandis 7y ago
I’ve generally found that forcing people to dedicate time to read and discuss a design is more fruitful than a google doc
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by plandis 7y ago
The article linked does, yes. The paper the article is based on (linked in the article) has a proof for worst case load if you’re interested in the details. Edit: Link to paper http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/post
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by plandis 7y ago
Adding hysteresis definitely helps to stabilize issues like this. Using rolling windows or exponentially decayed weighting has worked out well in my experience. In general, it seems like load based routing can be quite perfidious if you get
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by plandis 7y ago
Another good strategy for load balancing/sharding that always strikes me as simple but also devilishly cleaver is random pick two: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2012/01/17/two-random.html
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by plandis 7y ago
That seems like a good way to build trust with citizens outside of China. I believe that a wide portion of people in Western Europe and the US are distrustful of the Chinese government so excluding those individuals is a positive.
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by plandis 7y ago
Do you have any proof that: 1.) The US is imprisoning people who speak out against bad things happening in the US? 2.) Any proof of citizens being forced into re-education facilities?
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by plandis 7y ago
It’s not free then, you work in exchange for tuition.
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by plandis 7y ago
Being the exception to the rule doesn’t mean it’s common or the best way into a particular field though.
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by plandis 7y ago
It was taught in school when I was growing up in Ohio in the 90s. The US government even paid reparations to those or decedents of those affected. I think we can both agree, regardless, that we should be working towards improving our countr
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by plandis 7y ago
I’d actually argue that it’s perhaps great that the abstractions work well enough for someone to not know networking to be productive in web development.
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by plandis 7y ago
I don’t know if I’d call either party an enemy but I see your point.
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by plandis 7y ago
That whole book is fascinating!
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by plandis 7y ago
It’s entirely possible I’m being naive about this I think that’s a fair criticism. I do also think that it’s equally naive to attempt to block any single company from developing this technology. As long as there is profits to be made compan
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by plandis 7y ago
> Amazon/WaPo Amazon doesn’t own the Washington Post.
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by plandis 7y ago
The US law enforcement doesn’t typically have jurisdiction over the military. However internally the rights abuses at Guantanamo were investigated, people were tried in court-marshall and convicted. The Mai Lai Massacre in Vietnam was prose
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by plandis 7y ago
In my mind selling facial recognition seems no different than selling a hammer. It’s amoral, it can be used for good or bad. Id much rather see laws to limit when and how the technology can be applied.
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by plandis 7y ago
Is it arguable? Is there data that shows a strong correlation between health issues in US patients and the cosmetics they use?
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by plandis 7y ago
Im all ears to be convinced this won’t be a proxy almost exclusively for race.
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by plandis 7y ago
Neither does Sweden and what the US is charging Assange with wouldn’t warrant the death penalty anyways.
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by plandis 7y ago
So we are in the “extend” phase of Microsoft’s standard strategy? Can’t see how Microsoft replacing Maven is a good thing.

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