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721.
by seneca 6y ago
> There's literally no context where attributing qualities to people based on their skin color is OK. Strongly disagree. Talking about likelihood of having sickle cell anemia without talking about race would be absurd. This probably
722.
by seneca 6y ago
Indeed. All the flak k8s gets about being overly complex and difficult to manage (maybe rightfully) ought to leveled 5x at Istio.
723.
by seneca 6y ago
That's what Federation in Kubernetes was for, sort of, but it has never really come to fruition. The closest I've seen is Admiralty, but I'm not sure how it actually works out in reality.
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by seneca 6y ago
CAPI is for creating clusters only. It doesn't offer any orchestration.
725.
by seneca 6y ago
> Coronavirus has been a pretty good litmus test for which countries have good governments, and which countries do not... I think it shows the fundamental defectiveness of the system itself Authoritarian states have been able to manage t
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by seneca 6y ago
> Perhaps the idea that convention and precedent is the only thing holding the British system together makes it stronger. This echos the Roman senate during the late Republican period quite strongly. They, like the British, depended on p
727.
by seneca 6y ago
Knowingly breaking guidelines here, with apologies, but why in the world is this downvoted? It's an accurate and timely example.
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by seneca 6y ago
> ... they're really anal about defending their trademark, because that's pretty much all they have left. A quick search turns up reporting Lego as a close second for highest revenue of a toy company worldwide. > Namco Banda
729.
by seneca 6y ago
> I assume you must have concerns for your own physical safety. > I hope that you'll consider those of us who are still hurt by your negligence by choosing your words and presence carefully. This is a clumsy threat and isn't
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by seneca 6y ago
The prospects of low-skill American workers have been devastated by globalization, mass immigration from countries with lower standards of living, the destruction of unions, and the centralization of business into huge corporations. They ha
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by seneca 6y ago
HN, for all of its claims of intellectualism, is pretty unforgiving to any thoughts that don't fit one of a couple of echo chamber themes. I hang around because I think it's important for people (including me) to hear other ideas,
732.
by seneca 6y ago
Indeed. It's startling how much entertainment is actually social engineering. It's worth reading Propaganda by Edward Bernaise if you're interested in better understanding these coordinated approaches. I'm not sure how m
733.
by seneca 6y ago
> But now the wiki-activists can ban conservatives just for saying something conservative, which is what they've really wanted to do all along. Exactly. This is always the point of CoCs that punish offsite behavior and include &quo
734.
by seneca 6y ago
> Jobs are also paid according to the danger they pose Only because it's a function of limiting supply (of willing labor). High danger means fewer people willing to do it, which means it pays more to attract willing candidates. If t
735.
by seneca 6y ago
> diversity prevents groupthink Ideological diversity prevents group think. The modern "diversity and inclusion" movement actually strictly enforced a procrustean ideological homogeneity, ironically. It's probably the bigg
736.
by seneca 6y ago
This isn't the case. The rights we have are naturally ours, by nature of our very existence, and the constitution enumerates them as a mechanism to keep the government from infringing on them. It is very clearly written this way, and t
737.
by seneca 6y ago
Twitter is in an interesting position as a business. They can buy new platforms all they like but I, and many others, will never consider them because they have already poisoned the well when it comes to censorship. I would never consider t
738.
by seneca 6y ago
> If an academic finds a way to create a potent poison, it would be unethical to disseminate that knowledge without an antidote. Why would this be different? Well, that metaphor doesn't apply here. The research shows that something
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by seneca 6y ago
The irony of this being posted on Twitter really takes away from the message they're trying to communicate.
740.
by seneca 6y ago
Your comment and the one you're replying to actually just changed my mind on this topic. Up to now I've had a sort of knee-jerk response of "it's Elastic's software, they can do what they want", but I think you
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by seneca 6y ago
> 6. Don‘t have young kids at home. I disagree. I've got more kids than you do (edit: I misread your post, I'm not clear how many children you have. My apology for the mistake), all at difficult ages including a 1 year old. The
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by seneca 6y ago
> never seemed to be able to state plainly if someone is a Nazi, then GTFO. > Trump, Aug. 14, 2017: As I said on Saturday, we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence. It has no p
743.
by seneca 6y ago
> doing things for good reasons is good and doing them for bad reasons is bad. "Things are justified because I support them or unjustified because I don't support them". This is how children and narcissists think. Reality
744.
by seneca 6y ago
> The problem is that this organic startup is now a enterprise behemoth that can be trusted as much as CCP: Microsoft. Remind me again when MS killed millions of people and committed genocide? I mean, Windows is horrible, but this is a b
745.
by seneca 6y ago
> storm capitol (5 deaths, over 100 injuries) This 5 deaths stat is one of the most mealy mouthed details being repeated. 1 police officer was killed, 1 rioter was killed. 2 people died of health related issues (1 stroke, 1 heart attack)
746.
by seneca 6y ago
> No, the richest and most safe civilization ever existed on the face of the planet is ready to give up on freedom because of TV picture and a bunch of talking heads on TV and Twitter that told them there was an "insurrection"
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by seneca 6y ago
> Raising kids is not hard but somehow we went from village to complete independence. We need to go back to a village mindset. Raising kids IS hard in modern America. Agreed that it doesn't have to be, and that the disintegration of
748.
by seneca 6y ago
> Ahh see. There's your issue. Assuming these people are arguing in good faith. Comments like this add nothing and degrade the conversation. The point of this site is conversation, not muck throwing.
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by seneca 6y ago
I do! Just like a movement to reform electrical engineering would be. That does nothing to make the wider industry inherently political. It also is a much narrower sphere of politics, in that it is about reforming how software is made and t
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by seneca 6y ago
> "Tech isn't political" is itself a political stance. (And a hard to support one, IMO.) Funny how the only people who say this are the people who want to drag politics into everything. Tech is no more inherently political

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