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by woooooo 2y ago
How hidden can you keep a test that many thousands of voters take?
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by woooooo 2y ago
Exception, companies like datadog where they're actually operating in several clouds for good business reasons (it's where their customers are).
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by woooooo 2y ago
Any links handy to justify that claim? My impression from headlines was that some massive enterprise M&A was blocked recently but not so much "startup exits". Maybe I missed it though!
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by woooooo 2y ago
If you're making a play with a small chance of huge upside, but a big chance of losing, most people colloquially call that "gambling".
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by woooooo 2y ago
Primarily it's protecting yourself from those weirdos by pre-empting them, though.
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by woooooo 2y ago
They're not saying it's coincidence, they're saying it's herd behavior and groupthink.
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by woooooo 2y ago
I once heard it proposed as an immutable law of nature, been looking for exceptions ever since. None so far.
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by woooooo 2y ago
But is it closer to the CEO's house?
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by woooooo 2y ago
Good reminder to monitor for the actual problem, and not a proxy, if you can. Printer heads being on for 10ms isn't a problem, overheating is. Might have been cost-prohibitive or too complex to add in a thermometer and use that to shu
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by woooooo 2y ago
"Contempt culture" is one way to put it, definitely had some toxic elements, but it was also actual hacker culture. The nice-ification of tech has come with corporatization and has its own downsides.
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by woooooo 2y ago
They built a ton of stuff after those researchers were hired, including original gchat. They stopped being able to build a chat app after different people were hired.
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by woooooo 2y ago
Taking your frickin car is new. A judge made a decision that past jurisprudence applies to towing cars that happen to have cameras nearby, nobody was doing it until that first warrant got signed.
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by woooooo 2y ago
Good point, thanks
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by woooooo 2y ago
Ordering gives you a leader or lock holder, first claimant in the agreed ordering wins. If you're saying "what if everything's down and we never get responses to our leadership bids", then yeah, the data center could bur
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by woooooo 2y ago
They both reduce to a paxos style atomic broadcast, which is in fact possible although the legend is that Leslie Lamport was trying to prove it impossible and accidentally found a way.
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by woooooo 2y ago
It can be both, but I'd say having types for the arguments in your method signature is more "moderate and safe".
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by woooooo 2y ago
Being a moderate, lowest common denominator language does have its own value, though. It's easy to reason about, easy to hire for and easy to pick up if you know other mainstream languages. It's not just the chicken-egg market do
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by woooooo 2y ago
The idea of political manipulation and/or censorship on social media only became a thing after 2016, and even then it took time to ramp up. All of the incumbents were established with network effects long before then, they are very sti
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by woooooo 2y ago
"Might makes right, sit there and take it" might be how the world works in some ways, but it's not exactly a moral cause.
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by woooooo 2y ago
Yes, it's arbitrary, 20 would also make the same point, 0.1 would not. If you're saying "we must censor abhorrent viewpoints for the good of society", I'll just counter that your viewpoints are horrible and must be
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by woooooo 2y ago
Fighting spam and porn are a different category from censoring political viewpoonts with 25%+ adoption.
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by woooooo 2y ago
I suspect that Kafka paid off for linkedin long before the authors left to start a Kafka company. RabbitMQ et al were so hard to scale/operate at volume.
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by woooooo 2y ago
I'm not sure of the exact details but companies aren't afraid to have their paralegal live in the US. As a matter of fact. I think it would be highly unusual for any corporate official, let alone a low-level case handler, to be at
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by woooooo 2y ago
It's true, judges in Brazil are like gods. I worked for a (large, powerful) company where our Brazilian compliance people were 100% outside of Brazil to reduce the risk of them being thrown in jail because a judge wasn't getting a
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by woooooo 2y ago
OP linked to a breakdown of federal spending. I'm not pursuing an angle here, just lending detail.
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by woooooo 2y ago
"Federal spending", I said.
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by woooooo 2y ago
You're blending some very different numbers there, social security and Medicare are huge, while federal spending on transportation is lower and education is a pittance.
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by woooooo 2y ago
There's an interesting good faith discussion in handicapping that possibility. It sounds crazy, but so did Ukraine, and Xi has done some crazy stuff lately. I'm saying that articles like this aren't in good faith. More fear
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by woooooo 2y ago
Once you realize the goal of these articles is to funnel US money into defense spending, they make a lot more sense.
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by woooooo 2y ago
It's state policy on both sides. Cutting China and particularly Huawei off from access to our tech has forced them to develop capacity domestically, at a state and corporate level. Good for tech in an abstract space race kind of way,

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