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Population Estimates Show Aging Across Race Groups Differs(census.gov)
2 points by zapita 7y ago|0 comments
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by zapita 7y ago
You write very confidently, but don’t seem to have a good grasp of this topic, so I’ll give you a few pointers. First, don’t use yearly growth rates when discussing long-term trends. The data is too noisy. Ten year averages should be your m
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by zapita 7y ago
> What makes you think the gap is compounding? Is that fact-based, or feelings-based? What a strange way to engage in a debate. I already explained why I think the gap is compounding. Feel free to offer a constructive rebuttal if you d
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by zapita 7y ago
As pygy_ explained above, colonialism has morphed into "neocolonialism through private corporations and puppet governments". That is a symptom of the widening gap in power between former colonies and former colonizers. That gap is
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by zapita 7y ago
> So no, no one has been "permanently crippled by colonization" Your post is quite long, but none of it actually supports this conclusion, or even mentions colonization at all.
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by zapita 7y ago
Third world countries have already financed the draining of European swamps. It’s the wealth stolen in Asia, Africa and America that made those public works projects possible in the first place. The reason former colonies haven’t been able
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by zapita 7y ago
Actually all it takes is for one group to make the assumption you just made.
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by zapita 7y ago
I agree that libertarianism is ignorant at best. But your example of the French Revolution detracts from your argument, because that occurred in the context of a strong monarchist government, not a libertarian dystopia.
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by zapita 7y ago
We’re discussing it right now... I’m referring to the concept of “invoicing open-source” which you describe as “new and innovative”. I’m arguing that it’s not. It’s a variation of the support and custom development model which is already ve
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by zapita 7y ago
You’re being downvoted because your claim that white men are victims of discrimination is ridiculous and not worth debating.
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by zapita 7y ago
Invoicing support, maintenance and custom development of open-source software is a more established practice than patreon-style donations to open-source developers.
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by zapita 7y ago
> If you want to get paid as a video creator, you better not leave Youtube either That is of course Youtube's message to creators. But platform-neutral competitors like Patreon are keeping them in check. I hope the same thing happ
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by zapita 7y ago
> It definitely makes it much harder for the few remaining competitors but also benefits the far greater number of users. It only benefits users in the short term. The consequences of monopoly catch up with all of us, eventually.
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by zapita 7y ago
VC funding has nothing to do with it. It’s an argument against the business practice of leveraging monopoly in one market to subsidize selling at a loss in other markets to kill off competition before it can even emerge. That is what Micros
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by zapita 7y ago
Replying to myself with a different perspective... On the other hand, from Github’s point of view it just makes sense to do this. And in a way, it raises the bar for dedicated providers of open-source sponsorships. If they can’t provide som
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by zapita 7y ago
I’m glad open-source maintainers will get one more way to get paid... But it feels wrong to lock this into a git hosting platform. Maintainer payment is important enough to be a first-class product, open and accessible to all... instead it’
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by zapita 7y ago
I think the main reason Facebook is under more scrutiny than Twitter is that they are so much more influential, and therefore more dangerous. Between facebook.com, Instagram, and the tentacular reach of Facebook connect, they have the abili
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by zapita 7y ago
Didn’t you mention elsewhere in this thread that Suse and Red Hat patched Docker, not just to backport fixes but to add features which upstream explicitly didn’t want merged? Surely Docker has a registered trademark. So following your reaso
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by zapita 7y ago
Of course companies patch open-source software for their own use. But they either don’t distribute it, or they do so under a different trademark. Just to focus on your own examples: - Github patches Linux for their own private use. They do
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The solution is to either 1) patch it and rename your fork completely, or 2) ship upstream unmodified and use the same contribution process as everyone else to get patches in. That is how everyone else does it. Only distributions are someho
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by zapita 7y ago
All these problems are very easy to solve. Suse and Red Hat could stop trying to have it both ways: either you get the flexibility of a fork, or you get the brand recognition of the upstream project. But you want both - the upstream brand t
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by zapita 7y ago
It's a matter of prioritization and due process. Sure, mandatory ubiquitous face recognition at all levels of society might reduce crime. By how much? At what cost to our society? What are the alternatives we could pursue instead to
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by zapita 7y ago
I used Mercurial exclusively for a long time. I reluctantly switched to Git when it became obvious Github was the place to be if you wanted your open-source project to get any attention. I think the way forward for Mercurial would be to bec
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by zapita 7y ago
That, and tampering with voting infrastructure to alter the results. There is a growing body of evidence that the GRU has actually hacked the election in the most literal sense, using the detailed polling data supplied by Manafort and as a
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by zapita 7y ago
That is a common belief, and a regular Google PR talking point, but it’s incorrect. Kubernetes is only vaguely inspired by Borg, and was created by different people, using different technology, endeavoring to solve a different problem. In f
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by zapita 7y ago
I agree that Docker took too long to embrace Kubernetes once it was obvious it had more momentum than all other orchestration projects combined. But nickstinemates suggests that Docker could have and should have “collaborated” much sooner t
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by zapita 7y ago
Wasn’t Kubernetes introduced at Dockercon, and entirely built around Docker from day one? Seems like a pretty close collaboration to me. What kind of collaboration could have taken place beyond that?
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Docker buildx: extended build capabilities with BuildKit(github.com)
2 points by zapita 7y ago|0 comments
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by zapita 8y ago
> If you factor in local sales taxes in the US, that 10% difference shrinks or even disappears pretty fast. If you factor in sales tax on the US side, you also have to factor in VAT on the EU side, since they are equivalent. So that 10
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by zapita 8y ago
Thank you for sharing this! I’m curious to learn more about your “mixed feelings” regarding built-in kustomize support in 1.14?

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