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by tootie 3y ago
A panel of judges appointed and confirmed by elected officials. An electoral plurality did want it repealed. And based on current polls, there is not a majority who think it's important enough to change it back. Even if there's an
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by tootie 3y ago
As much as I enjoyed Perl, I also cannot fathom how these kind of languages got so much adoption. For me, productivity is most strongly correlated with IDE support, debuggers and documentation. These are the kind of things Java and C# beat
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by tootie 3y ago
Perl is a Turing-complete language that runs on any platform and has maybe the longest-standing repository of open-source libraries. I haven't seen a benchmark recently, but I'd bet it still outperforms Python or node. But yeah, y
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by tootie 3y ago
> only by accessing my copy You're still taking the perspective of "what if they come after me" which is highly improbable. And not the "what if they can't go after someone who has wronged me". I'm not
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by tootie 3y ago
This was a collaboration with Bellingcat. The same organization that was featured in the Navalny documentary as having found the assassination squad and eliciting a confession.
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by tootie 3y ago
> the unsustainable division in society of and "us" and a "them" Assuming we've zoomed in on the US in particular that division doesn't seem to be increasing except in people's heads. We have more unfil
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by tootie 3y ago
Not to say he's wrong but just to put this on the other side of the coin, having access (via due process) to digital records would also make for extremely powerful law enforcement in the way it was intended. Meaning we'd be able t
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by tootie 3y ago
I think that was a bit oversimplified, the Free File program was problematic in a lot of ways, but it's not like the US government was just sitting on their own free file system that was locked behind a vault. They had to actually make
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by tootie 3y ago
I actually don't believe this anymore. I think that up to the Bush years, you could argue the sides were just taking different paths to achieve the same goals. As bad his policy ended up being, I think Bush and Cheney and their cohort
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by tootie 3y ago
I think it could easily be both. A lot of people who fall into this trap aren't all that wealthy. Certainly not to the degree of being isolated from society unless they choose to be.
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by tootie 3y ago
Didn't Walmart get caught locking people inside their facilities? https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna4146540
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by tootie 3y ago
I think there's a lack of appropriate adjectives for people like Balaji and also Musk or even Marc Andreesen. It's plainly obvious that none of them are actually dumb. These are clearly people with high IQs and active imaginations
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by tootie 3y ago
It's funny that this is the exact opposite of what I said. I said "vote for policy". As it stands one party is at least on the right side of most major policies and one is on the wrong side. You'll never get 100% alignme
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by tootie 3y ago
You can listen to the thing I posted. I think he crystalized really well how unfettered free speech is fundamentally a contradiction. So long as one party's speech can chill the speech of another (ie coordinated harassment or doxxing o
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by tootie 3y ago
I was genuinely excited to see him be the new boss. He's incredibly smart and incisive and really understands internet culture.
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by tootie 3y ago
As with any comedy, they are hits a misses. And probably more misses than hits. But they just keep shooting and people mostly remember the gems.
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by tootie 3y ago
This one just keeps on aging like fine wine.
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by tootie 3y ago
Had no idea Ben Collins had become an executive at whatever this thing is. He was an excellent reporter and a guy who really, really understands how the internet works and how communities flourish or go toxic. He reported a lot about Kiwi F
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by tootie 3y ago
By "they" you mean voters. This policy isn't top priority for very many voters, but the battle lines on this are clear. Trump will overturn (he already did once). Biden will protect it. A vote for Trump is a vote to overturn.
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by tootie 3y ago
Not to be glib, but it's just Democrats. They are not immune from corporate interests, but they are not wholly owned by them. And really, corporate interests are American interests so long as they don't needlessly harm citizens.
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by tootie 3y ago
I guess it's not possible to fuel "hypergrowth" this way, but why not just issue debt? Let the market buy in to your growth with a healthy dividend and reduced risk.
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by tootie 3y ago
True but no company has a vested interest in the democratization of investment. IPOs are purely about getting paydays for founders.
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by tootie 3y ago
My wife observed that in large orgs, headcount is currency. People constantly looking to justify headcount so they can say they have a 10-person org, a 50-person org, a 100-person org. I've seen managers get buy-in to spin up a new dep
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by tootie 3y ago
Apparently it's a PWA. Just go to closingdoors.nyc
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by tootie 3y ago
I use an app called Closing Doors which is just train schedule with some geolocation and it's about perfect. I installed it a few months ago and yet it seems to have vanished from the Play Store?
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by tootie 3y ago
$200/mo is the cost of like 1-4 developer hours/mo depending on where you are.
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by tootie 3y ago
Yeah it's pretty well solved. You can buy players at retail for many years. I'm not sure what products handle this much scale seamlessly but Brightsign is the one I always preferred. I haven't gone past 4 players but it'
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by tootie 3y ago
At that viewing distance the pixels are probably far enough apart to stick your pinky between them. If you're ever close enough to a digital billboard you can ran your hand over it and it's like a bed of nails. LEDs on little stal
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by tootie 3y ago
One of the big wins we get from AWS is that you can do things like load structured data files (csv, parquet) from S3 directly in Redshift using SQL queries. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/t_loa
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by tootie 3y ago
At the same time, I worry about them drifting too far from their core mission. I think Vercel and Netlify kinda went that way and when you look at their suite of features, you just have to ask why would I not just use AWS directly.

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