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by redserk 2y ago
The US is a very odd choice to pick for free speech rights. It has had a terrible track record regarding free speech, especially throughout most of the 20th century. Try advocating for communism from the 20s-80s or for the rights of black
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by redserk 2y ago
I'd suggest you consider reading the laws that Congress has passed to create agencies. Congress already does this. Congress does not simply write "This bill establishes the Department of Slinky Tossing" and lets the Executive
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by redserk 2y ago
That's nowhere close to what the article is claiming, can you cite anything backing this assertion?
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by redserk 2y ago
If I were a betting man, I would bet more people would lose overleveraged mortgages on their Airbnb properties before Airbnb gets a jolt from people in unstable housing situations.
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by redserk 2y ago
Have you been paying attention to Google’s moves the last few years or are you just here to blast Apple? They’re not the forever-open platform you’re purporting them to be. Look at the increasing push for device attestation via SafetyNet or
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by redserk 2y ago
I don’t understand the pompous hostility here. Choosing a default that requires less effort to verify the security of is never a bad idea, especially if you know the limitations of the people at place you’re in. It isn’t worth teaching ever
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by redserk 2y ago
Rational Clearcase is a disaster but you could do merges. The fun/frustrating part was getting branching and "views" correct. I worked at an organization on this side of the century where it was one person's full-time jo
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by redserk 2y ago
Too late to edit, but: "boy who cried wild" -> "boy who cried wolf"
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by redserk 2y ago
Or you have a nice bucket of RSUs that have been jumping in value and figure it’s just another project to pass time.
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by redserk 2y ago
Sure, just swap the economic indicators people are concerned about. The reporting on the concern of a collapse appear nothing more than “Madlibs” except the words you can’t fill the blank in are “and this is why China’s economic model has f
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by redserk 2y ago
We’ve had articles on China’s impending financial collapse for over two decades at this point. So call me skeptical. I wonder if this is because the US tends to take a hands-off approach until it’s too late, usually prompting an overcorrect
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by redserk 2y ago
This is a beta release. The classification of "beta", in many release cycles, indicates pre-release software or software that should not be considered a finished product. Often, this is used to gauge interest, determine usability
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by redserk 2y ago
I completely disagree with the idea that merely indexing a site needs to now become pay-to-play. This seems like it ultimately leads into threats weaponizing the CFAA unless someone pays up.
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by redserk 2y ago
My apologies if I misinterpreted. I assumed it was tied together with this: > When I worked in defense contracting people loved trotting out stuff like "the work is stable", "you can't get fired from a government job&
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by redserk 2y ago
Defense contracting is not a government job. You work for a private organization that provides services to the government. Big difference.
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HP Quality Center showed me what truly awful SDLC software looks like.
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by redserk 2y ago
Jira is a lot better than a huge number of software it replaced. My big complaint is Jira is that it’s too flexible. Way too easy for micromanagement to seep in to solve a problem with “just one more field” or one more ticket state.
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by redserk 2y ago
If it's a niche enough app, the payment is likely more of a tip jar instead of a full-blown business venture. I pay for a few very niche calculator apps that I wouldn't even be able to find 20 people interested without putting in
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by redserk 2y ago
I doubt any conventional web user knows or cares that “.me” is a ccTLD, or that it’s even related to Montenegro. If anything the reaction is “you don’t need a .com!?”
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by redserk 2y ago
And yet, this is baked into climate change models if you’ve been paying attention. Unfortunately, yes, even after we hit a plateau of emissions, we’re going to see effects. The important bit is that, yes, we are seeing changes, and yes, we
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by redserk 2y ago
The article was written in 2019 before a number of extraordinarily significant events with major climate policy impacts: - a noticeable and rapid dip in emissions has proven to be viable due to COVID lockdowns - Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
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by redserk 2y ago
This isn’t a substantive argument at all and feels very low-effort knee-jerk for this forum. How is it worse?
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by redserk 2y ago
Apple seems to have made the economics work out well with devices alone. You don’t even have to touch their services revenue to consider ongoing iOS development a significantly successful return on their investment.
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by redserk 2y ago
Law enforcement is incredibly difficult, especially with the number and types of laws on the books. You want multiple different law enforcement agencies so they can specialize based on the field of law they are in. Currency counterfeiting i
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by redserk 2y ago
Lines of code is irrelevant. Docker is important because: 1) it made a convenient process to build a “system” image of sorts, upload it, download it, and run it. 2) (the important bit!) Enough people adopted this process for it to become ba
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by redserk 2y ago
> The agency identified about 1,600 taxpayers with more than $1 million in income and more than $250,000 in tax debt. To date, more than $1 billion has been recovered from those individuals, and the effort is ongoing. This is about indiv
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by redserk 2y ago
In my experience, Apple hardware has been quite stable for over a decade. While I think the stability makes it easier to stay on old devices, I'm not sure I agree that it's the primary driver. I love Apple's ecosystem. The de
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by redserk 2y ago
It's wild looking at the impacts of the 2008 financial crisis, too. I'm having a difficult time finding a more recent chart, but a number of states cut higher ed spending drastically[1] just last decade. https://www.cbp
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by redserk 2y ago
This seems like an edge case though. Unless this is the actual-norm, why optimize for something happening infrequently? There is no 100.000% perfect solution, but a 99.9995% one isn't terrible.
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by redserk 2y ago
Can’t forget that all of our retirement is invested in ensuring this number only goes up, too. Even when it goes against our interests.

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