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by valar_m 5y ago
I would argue that the injustice of mass incarceration resulting from inequitable and inconsistently applied drug laws was far more unfortunate and harmful. I say: more legalization, and now.
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by valar_m 6y ago
ATC talks a lot faster than I would have expected. Seems like that would be problematic.
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Crypt of Civilization(en.wikipedia.org)
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by valar_m 6y ago
The power to imprison and seize property is the core free speech issue. If the government can't enforce the law by putting you in prison or seizing your property, the entire issue is moot.
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by valar_m 6y ago
This isn't inviting Section 230 reform, as some are arguing. It's a move to get out ahead of it. From the DOJ's proposed 230 legislation[0]: >>The second category of amendments is aimed at incentivizing platforms to add
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by valar_m 6y ago
>The standard argument is that freedom of speech only applies to governments, but that's based on an outdated assumption. >There's nothing special about governments with regard to freedom of speech except that it has always
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by valar_m 6y ago
I've been doing intermittent fasting for 5 weeks as of today and in that time have lost 22 pounds. I have more energy and have noticed a generally heightened sense of well-being (though perhaps as a result of the weight loss and improv
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by valar_m 6y ago
Christy Lake, chief people officer at Twilio: > “It’s probably not great business practice to pay Bay Area comps in Michigan,” Lake says. And when it comes time to promote, would those employees have the same opportunity to advance as ev
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by valar_m 7y ago
It's not about moving the market, it's about selling a security when you have nonpublic information that it's worth less than its price. That's a crime. And of course the buyer wouldn't have bought it if they had th
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by valar_m 7y ago
When you sell a share of stock, someone else bought it. How is it okay to sell a security to an unsuspecting buyer when you have nonpublic information that you know affects its value?
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by valar_m 7y ago
Navient services federal student loans. They actually tweeted about implementing the change earlier: https://mobile.twitter.com/Navient/status/123857668491329945...
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by valar_m 7y ago
Yes, correct.
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by valar_m 7y ago
>“They moved their headquarters to Boston last year. My hometown. I don’t appreciate when you’re running a scam in my hometown.” >The arrogance of that statement alone discredits his whole argument. What? I had never heard of Citron b
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by valar_m 7y ago
If you use Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey, here's a paste of the quick and dirty script I wrote a long time ago to fix the exact issue you're talking about: https://pastebin.com/QJZSEy2D It does indeed make HN muc
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by valar_m 7y ago
>By contrast, Keybase currently runs all of its mission critical chat applications over Keybase itself. Reminds me of the time Amazon learned that using S3 to host status indicators for S3 is a bad idea if S3 goes down.
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by valar_m 7y ago
I'll be honest, it seems disingenuous to argue that Oracle is immune to disruption in a debate about whether Amazon poses an existential threat, and then later reveal that you were using a specific, hidden meaning of the word -- especi
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by valar_m 7y ago
I have not softened my thesis. For the sake of brevity I assumed that just saying threat was sufficient. > Oracle should be immune to this disruption: the same people are doing the same thing to the same data for the same purpose - so, t
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by valar_m 7y ago
I haven't made any claims about Oracle's claims in the filing. Perhaps they are entirely valid. I don't disagree with anything you've said about the details of the competing services. Perhaps you are entirely correct and
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by valar_m 7y ago
I don't think the issue is how important the cloud is to Oracle. The threat to Oracle is that AWS provides directly comparable database products (RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB) that don't require the licensing fees and (sometimes) hardw
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by valar_m 7y ago
They are direct competitors, as another replied said. Case in point: the Pentagon contract in question. Edit: To expand a bit further: https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/projects/migrate-orac...
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by valar_m 7y ago
They wrote a 50 page filing, apparently, but the issue comes down to this: AWS is an existential threat to Oracle as a going concern.
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by valar_m 8y ago
>> You definitely don't need to form an LLC. I'm still a sole proprietor all this time and it's working out fine. This is bad advice. It has worked out for you so far because, I'm willing to guess, you have not bee
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by valar_m 8y ago
What are you talking about? A private entity controlling the content they permit on their network has nothing to do with Congress restricting freedom of expression.
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by valar_m 8y ago
Fortunately, the law is actually quite sane in this area, so there won't be any engineers going to prison for vehicular manslaughter: Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice. It is of three kinds: (c) Vehi
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by valar_m 8y ago
It seems like that was indeed one of his points -- that perhaps the future now depends on solving problems that do not have objective measures of success: > Our next steps might be far more effective than simple resolutions, which are ea
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by valar_m 8y ago
I don't think his point is to replace Hilbert's list. I think his point is to think about specific problems that are worth the effort to solve. It seems like he made an effort to distinguish his list (and the exercise itself) from
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by valar_m 8y ago
This is patently false.
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by valar_m 8y ago
Do you have another link? Because the article you linked says almost the exact opposite of what you said.
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by valar_m 8y ago
I have worked from home 3-5 days per week for the past 4 years. I think there are two keys to being effective when WFH: 1. Minimizing distractions. Kids, significant others, television, etc. can make it extremely difficult. IMO, there are t
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by valar_m 8y ago
I have no evidence to support it, but this article feels like bought and paid for PR.

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