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by tynpeddler 7y ago
> The reasoning is that it’s similar to a government official holding a meeting, or other such public forum. That has to be open to all comers without viewpoint discrimination. Except this isn't true. There are a number of exceptio
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by tynpeddler 7y ago
I think the legal precedent that Prager U should have targeted was Marsh vs Alabama. In that ruling, the state held that under certain conditions private property could become a public forum. For example, Knight vs Trump basically held tha
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Hearsay rules are quite complicated and there are many instances where it is allowed.
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I think it's pretty clear that the US expects to be treated exactly like they've treated other nations.
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> This is a common trope, but is it really true? While the author above you may have been unfair to the Soviet Union by claiming they made everyone poorer, there's still not much of a defense of socialism. Capitalism has had some s
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by tynpeddler 7y ago
The article does not support the title. Tech companies are hardly mentioned at all. The article devotes the entire length to blaming the city government and lax criminal policies.
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by tynpeddler 7y ago
In large, distributed teams working on very large monoliths, it's pretty easy to end up with conflicting changes. In such monoliths, the testing process also tends to be long. So you run your tests, get a pass, but someone else merge
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by tynpeddler 7y ago
There are two big reasons to go to microservices (note that the exact definition of microservice can vary a lot). 1. Organizational streamlining. If the team working on the monolith becomes to large, then coordinating and pushing out chang
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by tynpeddler 7y ago
They put carts under the wheels.
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My comment was not made in a vacuum. It was intended to address the concern raised by jbeam that emergency situation in healthcare completely preclude the use of market dynamics. My point is that emergencies are only a small part of healt
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by tynpeddler 7y ago
Research suggests that emergency room costs are 7% or less of total healthcare spending in the US (some studies claim it's as low as 2% of total yearly costs). In other words, there's a lot of room for shopping around.
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by tynpeddler 7y ago
> Cerebras hasn’t released MLPerf results or any other independently verifiable apples-to-apples comparisons. Instead the company prefers to let customers try out the CS-1 using their own neural networks and data. > This approach is n
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by tynpeddler 7y ago
At some point we're going to have an entirely new field of study specifically for this situation. I propose the name "Quantitative Philosophy". The goal is to merge AI research, philosophy and law to determine the "cor
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Because their survival is not dependent on their career choice. Tech may pay more, but being a nurse is still perfectly fine. There are also more women entering the MD profession than men, and that pays better than tech, so there's e
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by tynpeddler 7y ago
White collar unions aren't a new phenomenon though they are less known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Professional_Engine... Is there a precedence for contractors unionizing? I'm curious what preve
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by tynpeddler 7y ago
Their argument is much more disturbing than that. They argue that middle to upper class suburban living is subsidized by taxation on people living in high density neighborhoods. These neighborhoods are predominantly populated by the poore
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My point is that this is not unique to fracked wells. Literally any well can have this problem and it's something that wells have to be regularly tested for. If a new technique is developed that allows hydrocarbons to be extracted fr
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Because of flaws in the casing which allows fluids in the well bore to leak outside of it. This exact problem can happen to any well, not just fracked ones.
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by tynpeddler 7y ago
As a former oil field worker and a former scientist, reading articles on fracking is always confusing. Most writers on this topic do not adequately distinguish between drilling, fracking, extraction, maintenance or cleanup. When comparing
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Here's a serious question, what's preventing the pool of public defenders and the DA's from being the same people? Would lawyers in this position be influenced to throw defense cases for the sake of their police and judge bu
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by tynpeddler 7y ago
>The marketing of medicine in inherently unethical because it seeks to override doctors and consumers information-based evaluations, and instead make a choice based on emotional propaganda. This is far to simplistic. It's fairly co
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by tynpeddler 7y ago
I'm always surprised when other people are surprised that flat organizations don't scale. Honestly, unstructured organizations only work in two situations. If the teams is 4 or fewer people, or if you have specifically curated a
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by tynpeddler 7y ago
As always, context matters. The shear scope and scale of China's protectionism, coupled with their flagrant disregard of international norms and aggressive, state sponsored campaign of industrial espionage is simply breathtaking. Chi
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The SEC (before it was neutered) may be a better model. It's a group of hackers that investigates government and industry infrastructure for problems. They can warn parties if they find an issue, and if the issue isn't fixed, th
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by tynpeddler 7y ago
Now you're talking about the ad business, not the search business. In truth, Google isn't a search company, it's a advertising company with a search engine for market research. Once you look at it that way, you realize that
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by tynpeddler 7y ago
Did he change the article? Here's what I saw at the end: >If monetarism goes, then the only peaceful political solution to the crisis will be a massive social Keynesian program like the Green New Deal. If this happens, those who ha
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If it was all so cut and dried as all that, China's own protectionism should have destroyed them.
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Message queues are really cool, but to paraphrase an old joke, "Some people see a distributed systems problem and think, "I know, I'll use a message queue." Now they have otw problems.
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by tynpeddler 7y ago
I was a late comer to software development so my career is relatively short at this point. I have worked for 2 different shops and had wildly different experiences with agile. The first is a fortune 500 company that is not a techy company.
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I have so many questions. How exactly does this tokenization of the cards work? If the token is equivalent to the card, then it doesn't really provide any security since theft of the token would still allow the thief to buy things. Do

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