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by zapita 8y ago
I generally approve of Yimbi, but eliminating prop 13 is not something they have the influence or the scale to accomplish on their own, or even to lead in a credible way - not even close. California is very large, and prop13 is very popular
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by zapita 8y ago
Companies do this all the time with their regional offices and factories. Usually they milk the city for subsidies and tax breaks while dangling the promise of job creation and trickle-down revitalization of local businesses. Then when the
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by zapita 8y ago
> It was their usual collaborative process: One idea would lead to another, then another, then another. One gag would piggyback onto something else. Everyone contributed, and all agreed to not take sole credit for anything. I wish coll
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by zapita 8y ago
I understand you personally don’t want to engage in what you consider politics at work. I don’t think anyone here has a problem with that. But you seem to feel like other people are forcing you to say or do political things. I don’t unders
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by zapita 8y ago
In way of a reply, I will juxtapose two quotes from your post above. I think it preserves context, but please tell me if you think I left out something important. Quote 1: > This line of reasoning is implicitely making the false equalen
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by zapita 8y ago
Here is a prominent Japanese American, George Takei, who was interned in the 40s, drawing from his experience to complain about contemporary US policy on behalf of other groups . https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/06/
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by zapita 8y ago
I can’t agree enough with your comment. The act of defining what and isn’t “political” - is itself a political act. It used to be unacceptably “political” in the majority of Anerican businesses to be against racial segregation. Now it’s the
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by zapita 8y ago
> writing everything twice—when your DBMS is already writing everything twice—is a rather silly way to choose to go about solving your problems The GP specifically said the DBMS journal does not write everything: it writes as little
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Facebook is being eclipsed by its youthful rival Snapchat(theguardian.com)
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Very interesting to see Greg’s perspective on upstream LTS kernels vs. what he calls “traditional” distributions with their own downstream LTS, like RHEL, Centos, Ubuntu-LTS etc. Are there any good providers of enterprise-grade support for
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by zapita 8y ago
When it comes to open-source compliance, I would say RHEL follows the letter of the law but not its spirit. Although the source is available, and I’m sure it’s licensed in a way that meets OSI’s technical definition... it’s unreasonably har
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by zapita 8y ago
Redis remains open-source. RedisLabs is using a “hybrid” license for its enterprise add-one, with some properties of open-source but not all. So you can use the source, modify it for yourself or for others. But if you want to make money fro
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by zapita 8y ago
> For that matter, calling volunteer work "antiquated" is... A bit cynical, to say the least. I emphatically did not say that volunteer work is antiquated! I myself do plenty of it - but I also acknowledge that I’m privileg
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by zapita 8y ago
Thank you for a very thoughtful and insightful post. I think you very eloquently described an important dynamic that plays out in open-source when a project takes off. I think it’s really worth investing time in studying this problem and lo
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by zapita 8y ago
> But the talk of a 40 year old model not being sustainable is pretty funny. It’s not the open-source model I called unsustainable, but a particular response to new forms of open-source monetization. At any rate, the current model - of
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by zapita 8y ago
> Of the people I know who have had excellent career paths in software/computing none have a track record of open source contributions. Right, that’s how they built their career in the past . All things being equal, it will becom
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by zapita 8y ago
All open-source contributors are certainly not volunteers! Open-source contributors come in all shapes and sizes, and how much they get paid for it has no incidence on the quality or authenticity of their work. It does, however, have a huge
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by zapita 8y ago
> It's not a marketplace, it's a public library. That’s the problem: we all take this particular public library for granted, but there isn’t a sustainable model for paying the librarians. Then a librarian tries a creative way
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by zapita 8y ago
No they’re not, because it’s increasingly expected of developers to have a track record of open-source contributions if they want to move up into the higher tiers of their profession. That amplifies inequalities in the field between: 1) the
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by zapita 8y ago
I disagree that they’re “just doing the open core model”. Open Core typically is fully proprietary and provides no source access. The least proprietary open core product I can think of is RHEL, and the source they provide is heavily cripple
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by zapita 8y ago
> That's not to say that there aren't ways to monetize open source products, just that doing it as an afterthought isn't one of them. Says who? You are entitled to your opinion on the matter, but this is a very contested
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by zapita 8y ago
> there have been a series of primarily commercial OSS projects like Redis and ElasticSearch that have gained a fair bit of traction. They really aren't grass roots efforts I think that's very unfair. Both Redis and ElasticSe
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by zapita 8y ago
I 100% agree, and it's disheartening to see so many voices here ignore this reality. It's like there's more passion for the ideal of open-source than for the reality of how open-source practitioners actually struggle to make
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by zapita 8y ago
> wearing open source's uniform without making open source's sacrifices. That’s an oddly... militaristic way of putting it. Are you sure you haven’t been watching too much Game of Thrones? Your version of open-source sounds l
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by zapita 8y ago
I understand the rationale for filing this issue, although I personally disagree with it... Docker for Mac is great freeware, and I don’t mind logging into Steam and Mac Store for my other apps, so I don’t have an issue with doing the same
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by zapita 8y ago
I haven't expressed an opinion either way - I'm just quoting what the linked article says.
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by zapita 8y ago
So are you saying it's not the spirit and letter of the Fair Housing Act to forbid discrimination? Or are you saying that HUD is not arguing that Facebook enables illegal discrimination on their platform?
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by zapita 8y ago
> The spirit of the law is to prohibit public racial propaganda. The spirit of the law is NOT about hunting down private biases. I have no idea what you’re talking about with the “propaganda”, but everything you need to know is right t
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Urban-Farming Startups Tackle a Problem Crop(wsj.com)
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by zapita 8y ago
It was too late to delete or edit my comment, so I made a second reply which hopefully does not break the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17747043

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