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by rolandog 1y ago
Interesting article. I personally side with the opponents in this regard: > But opponents argue it's being used as a cheaper alternative to providing adequate social or medical support. I personally think that all attempts should b
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by rolandog 1y ago
Huh, wow. Reading the Wikipedia page [0], I had forgotten about the term "direction via indirection"; seems to me like the first documented case of a dog whistle. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_on
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by rolandog 1y ago
I think you are right — definitionwise. But I think you're not thinking about the impacts it can have when grossly misused as I hinted, and how this might be one tool in the cruelty toolbelt of oppressive regimes. By targeting their s
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by rolandog 1y ago
I read your comment and it strikes me as a cautionary tale that can be used by bad people to justify or push for eugenics: "they took him; they said he developed Alzheimer's" . As we're currently seeing happen: whatever
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by rolandog 1y ago
Yes! Finally a comment addressing the article. I think it would be nice to explore what the hardware would end up looking like if people had optimized it to mainly run Lisp, FORTRAN, Go, etc. Would it have been better, faster, cheaper, mo
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by rolandog 1y ago
Yeah, I'm wondering if the Nobel Peace prize has anything to do with peace for people, or for her neoliberalism stance of protection of the free market that would usher peace for the business interests of oil companies [0]. I must conf
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by rolandog 1y ago
Completely agree... though I wouldn't underestimate them: Their main strength, I'd argue, comes from their very successful use of the Firehose Of Falsehood (effectively managing to make the US self-own itself by turbocharging neol
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by rolandog 1y ago
I kind of view the lack of gifs as something positive? Like, it forces one to use actual words and think out a response. Plus, you're not leaking all the tracking associated with those widgets. However, I understand that people have c
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by rolandog 1y ago
Just yesterday I was talking with some friends about the disaster that neoliberalism has been. I see billionaires as "water-balloon" (wealth) hoarders, and I see taxes on the rich as thorns on bushes. If the politicians ever want
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by rolandog 1y ago
With WiFi even being able to detect our heartbeats [0], we'll get to enjoy dynamic pricing on our insurance on a second-by-second basis! Remember kids, if the invasive tracking is done by the government and a couple of companies, the
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by rolandog 1y ago
> I still feel this is different. We're just handing it to them. I think you are right to be worried, and I think you are correct that it is different: IIRC, there were some Kremlin leaks some years ago indicating they knew how to &
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by rolandog 1y ago
Yes, agreed. Though that's what I meant by "in part": when you read the threads, they derail when Kent takes potshots at other filesystems ... whose developers were CC'd in the mailing list. To be honest, some of those
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by rolandog 1y ago
The author does have a point; the whole BcacheFS drama was in part because of comments that criticized other filesystem's design (granted, the straw that broke the camel's back where comments alluding to a developer needing to get
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by rolandog 1y ago
I'm one of those that tries to jokingly correct the proponents of an often touted phrase by retorting "If it doesn't kill you, it makes you stranger ".
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by rolandog 1y ago
Agreed. I don't particularly feel inclined to watch millionaires kick a ball around. What irks me are the grown, drunk people that get infected with hatred towards the other team and its fans.
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by rolandog 1y ago
I know! Greedflation is out of control. That used to be the cost of decently prized intercontinental plane tickets 6 years ago (not the cheapest!).
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by rolandog 1y ago
He's a polymath's polymath. A true renaissance man in the best possible meaning of the word.
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by rolandog 1y ago
That's quite interesting. How would one go about making one's app or services suspend/resume friendly? Are there well-known good practices?... Or, do they need to be rediscovered as they are perhaps proprietary know-how?
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by rolandog 1y ago
Also may need to handle special cases where entry is truncated so you get incomplete opening/closing pairs (i.e. quirks mode for log parsing?)
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by rolandog 1y ago
Beautiful and clean website (loads well without JS and fonts); not sure why some people are reacting negatively to some poetry... I swear, HN crowd can be often worse than Mean Girls. About Artanis itself... It looks really cool! Scheme is
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by rolandog 1y ago
> Are we simply getting old and bitter? It depends, maybe 20 years ago — a couple of years after the dot com bubble — we thought we were not gonna repeat the same mistakes as we did before, and I do believe we blindly drank the kool-aid
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by rolandog 1y ago
I wonder if the Solid protocol might be helpful here? [0] I must confess I haven't toyed with it so far, but I am looking for an excuse to try it out. [0]: https://solidproject.org/
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by rolandog 1y ago
> If you buy a house for $400k, and suddenly it is worth $300k, you don't need to be "bailed out" for your purchase decision. You should have been certain that the house was worth $400k to you at the time of purchase. Othe
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by rolandog 1y ago
> It does not scale. It scales pretty well; but we have let our guard down and naïvely thought the problems would sort themselves out by virtue of voting. We "live in a society", that means casting a vote on a paper ballot won
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by rolandog 1y ago
I'm of the opinion that our failure (as a society) to prevent this type of attrition of democracy — death by a thousand papercuts — will be lead to catastrophic tipping points. As a ChemEng, I can't help but compare the current co
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by rolandog 1y ago
Let's not shift the burden of proof so irresponsibly. We've all seen the bad faith actors that questioned, for example, studies on the efficacy of wearing masks in reducing chance of transmission of airborne diseases because the s
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by rolandog 1y ago
I don't agree; portraying it as an opinion has the risk of continuing to erode the world with moral relativism. The tech — despite being sometimes impresaive — is objectively inefficient, expensive, and harmful to the environment (exce
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by rolandog 1y ago
> what's the best way to burn down the Louvre. "There are two schools of thought, you see..." Joking aside, I think that's a very valid point; not sure what would be the nonreligious term for the amorality of "si
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by rolandog 1y ago
Love the idea! Congrats on launching and being #couplegoals!
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by rolandog 1y ago
Good opportunity for Swipe-right-on-Dev's-wife v2.0!

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