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by sofixa 2y ago
DARPA I get, morally, but what's your issue with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?
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by sofixa 2y ago
Why more importantly? For an airborne pandemic with very a long incubation period (if memory serves me right up to 2-3 weeks), lack of symptoms in many cases, preventing the spread is the number one priority on the level of a city/loca
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by sofixa 2y ago
> webserver uses go (slow in general) Go isn't slow in general, it's pretty damn fast without getting into the crazy handcraft artisanal stuff with e.g. C/C++. It's, IMO, the perfect balance between speed, features, l
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by sofixa 2y ago
I'm curious about why nobody from Chiquita went to prison for financing a terrorist group. Random Afghans and Iraqis were kidnapped for Guantanamo or outright murdered for less.
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by sofixa 2y ago
On one hand, it's unfair that a country already very rich with natural resources discovers more of them. On the other hand, if there is a country which can be trusted to exploit natural resources in a way that benefits the whole countr
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by sofixa 2y ago
> far as I know, in the US you can politely decline a phone search if you are a US citizen Same with being filmed at the airport. Last time I passed through US airports there were signs that you're monitored and it goes to blah bla
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by sofixa 2y ago
That's probably where Microsoft's "Copilot+ PCs" come in.
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by sofixa 2y ago
> US + Canadian cities just don't do a good job with this for some reason. Conservative, liberal, big, small; downtown cores all over North America are doing very poorly. I wonder if it's all down to the opioid crisis over here
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by sofixa 2y ago
> If you are like "please will <direct report> just quit or leave!?" then just start the process to fire them. > No need to drag out everyones suffering. It's hard firing people but suffering together is always wo
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by sofixa 2y ago
This to an extent true - crime statistics are showing a downward trend in general. However, it cannot be denied that some US cities' downtowns are... not great. I was in San Francisco a year ago, and in Los Angeles a few months ago, an
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by sofixa 2y ago
And supported them until long after the Vietnamese put an end to their genocidal regime. The US, alongside China, voted for the Khmer Rouge to keep the UN seet until 1993 , 14 years after they were removed. Hilariously the Wikipedia arti
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by sofixa 2y ago
> Don’t use it because others force you (WhatsApp). That's probably the worst example you could provide. The only utility of WhatsApp is because others use it. If you want to communicate with those others, that's your one and o
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by sofixa 2y ago
> it is obvious that GDP per-capita has been flatish throughout history by comparison to post Industrial Revolution times precisely because the vast majority of people do not live off subsistence farming, make their own homes, clothing a
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by sofixa 2y ago
> Nvidia or Intel could certainly make a console focused SoC at least as performant as AMD. They certainly cannot, or they would have. Do you think that Sony and Microsoft stay with AMD because they like them or because AMD can deliver w
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by sofixa 2y ago
> For some reason I expected a "not-first-class" experience while using my own hosted runner but that was not the case. It works and behaves exactly as their own runners do. Interesting, I've used GitLab extensively and ho
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by sofixa 2y ago
> which GitHub makes surprisingly easy to do Why surprisingly? Are there any CI/CD, let alone SaaS CI/CD providers, that don't make it easy?
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by sofixa 2y ago
> The Big 3 sell most of their US-made cars in Europe with the only actually notable exception being some members of the F150 series; almost all of the Toyota cars sold in the NA market are US and Canadian made What? First, one of the &q
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by sofixa 2y ago
> I explicitly call the mandates misguided, because the Right Way is to tax what you don't like, eg carbon emissions, and let people figure out by themselves how they want to solve it. Electric cars might be one way. Or moving close
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by sofixa 2y ago
That's nonsense. Siemens (multiple entities of it), Merck, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, DHL, Infineon, Adidas and Puma, Bayer, Rheinmetall, Airbus, Continental, ThyssenKrupp, Bosch, Zeiss. Just a random selection off the top of my head.
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by sofixa 2y ago
Microsoft's complete lack of any security consciousness is genuinely scary. They control so much of the world's personal and enterprise computing it's not even funny. A random selection of serious security incidents from Azur
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by sofixa 2y ago
There is, for instance ESPHome requires to be over HTTPS to be able to flash ESP devices over USB.
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by sofixa 2y ago
> AMD has been making SoCs forever. Why does it take a kick in the teeth from Apple for both Intel and AMD suddenly to wake up and give us performance SoCs, 5 years later What do you mean? AMD has been the market leader in performance So
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by sofixa 2y ago
That's making the wrong assumption that those 25% of customers will just sit idly by. Their migration away won't be easy, but you can bet that all of them have been at least thinking if not acting on contingencies since the acqu
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by sofixa 2y ago
It has real power, it has to approve almost all legislation before it becomes law. It has no initiative and can only act on proposals from the European Commission (for new laws, or repealing old laws, or amending them), which while not dire
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by sofixa 2y ago
I'm really not a fan of Caddy. It tries to be too smart and make things simple for users, which means that the second something goes wrong or you step out of the expected box, you get weird behaviour which is hard to debug. Fun example
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by sofixa 2y ago
Awesome news, another in the line of big recent EU regulations trying to improve consumer rights and acces to fair goods and services.
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by sofixa 2y ago
It is not, it's about "prices are about supply and demand" being put as something entirely independent of access to capital.
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by sofixa 2y ago
> They are more flexible because they are less regulated No, because when your tooth hurts now , or you're bleeding now , or you need to get vaccinated to avoid you getting hepatitis, there's very little choice in the matter.
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by sofixa 2y ago
> SOCIALIZING IS NEVER A GOOD OPTION I mean... do you even knowledge? Words? Logic? Think? Counterpoint number one: transit. Counterpoint number two: utilities. Counterpoint number three: healthcare. In all three of those natural monopol
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by sofixa 2y ago
> What does this mean? Are you saying mortgages are recent? Prices are a function of supply and demand, not of access to capital. Access to capital influences how much money can be spent to satisfy a demand.

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