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by zapita 8y ago
(Second take at an answer since my first one took us down the wrong path). I agree that it looks like a rehabilitation program. It just seems like a bad one, because: 1) you shouldn’t have to risk your life to see your family or get time kn
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by zapita 8y ago
That wasn't the intention. I will be more careful.
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by zapita 8y ago
> it's a solution to a problem we don't really have I would add that it's also used to deflect (or in some cases shout down) discussions of mass voter disenfranchisement, which actually exists and undermines US democra
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by zapita 8y ago
Sorry, I don’t follow. What race-based stereotype am I using? And how exactly am I dehumanizing anyone? I think you’re confused about what racism is, and how it works.
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by zapita 8y ago
It’s great that you did all these things. But it doesn’t make your demand any less bizarre and entitled. If your experience made you wise and knowledgeable, by all means, share your wisdom and knowledge with us! So far all I’m seeing from y
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by zapita 8y ago
Ah yes, pointing out the existence of a privilege system built on racism, and a relationship between privilege and entitlement - the hallmarks of casual racism!
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by zapita 8y ago
> Of course it’s very easy to criticize on a forum behind a screen. So tell us how you have personally helped a prisoner combat the extreme power imbalance you observe beyond criticizing existing programs. Yes, it's very easy to c
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by zapita 8y ago
Maybe that's because you're part of a privileged group that doesn't experience discrimination and targeted hate every day? For you, the idea of a segment of society being out to get you is a delusion. For millions of others,
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by zapita 8y ago
> I mean, should there be an equal power balance in prisons...? I think a better question is "should inmates be protected from the risk of abuse created by extreme power imbalance? And if so, where do we draw the line as a society
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by zapita 8y ago
> It's voluntary and gives inmates a chance to [...] Bullshit. Nothing is truly voluntary when you are in a situation of such extreme power imbalance. Other things that are voluntary in name only: pleading guilty because the DA ma
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by zapita 8y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted (or perhaps I am not willing to face the obvious answer...). What you're saying is an objective fact. Both the political intent of re-implementing slavery by other means, and the effect
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by zapita 8y ago
This reminds me of gitguardian.
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by zapita 8y ago
Taiwan’s semiconductor industry is of strategic importance to the US and Europe. For that reason alone I think Taiwan will always enjoy better protection than a relatively unimportant participant in the world economy like Crimea.
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by zapita 8y ago
Ah, I didn’t remember that part of it. Added to my research list, thank you.
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by zapita 8y ago
> For me the canary in the coal mine event was Gulf War 1 when the US went around asking other countries to help pay for our war. On the contrary I would say Gulf War 1 was the last example of the US empire operating as designed: a lar
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by zapita 8y ago
I would argue that, more than anyone else, the US is laying the groundwork for a post-American world order. It has been on that course since the post-9/11 insanity, and the trend has only accelerated since.
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by zapita 8y ago
My personal opinion: in spite of your efforts, this is too easily mistaken for an official Ycombinator service. The name is a problem - it creates trademark confusion. But the orange header at the top is a problem as well, because it mimics
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by zapita 8y ago
YC already relies heavily on alums internally for a first screening of applications. I believe many alums rise to the challenge each time, and invest many hours to review.
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by zapita 8y ago
Tech companies should not use quotas at the time of hiring. HOWEVER they should absolutely use quotas on their upstream pipeline . They should impose those quotas on recruiting firms, and fire those who can’t meet the bar. At some point in
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by zapita 8y ago
> Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor to Android So quietly that they pitched a story about it to Bloomberg.
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by zapita 8y ago
I completely agree that sometimes slowing down the pace of upgrades is the responsible thing to do, especially on mission-critical systems. But Red Hat is not the most authoritative or trustworthy source of information on that topic, becaus
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by zapita 8y ago
This is exactly what I was looking for. I will give it a try on my next project.
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by zapita 8y ago
As I said in another comment, all of the products you listed, plus their Openstack offering which you didn’t mention, add up to 22.4% of their revenue as of their last quarterly report. So using very naive math, that’s an average of 5% of t
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by zapita 8y ago
I said they’re struggling to diversify . RHEL is certainly in every F500 business, and remains a large and profitable operation. But there’s no growth left in RHEL, so they need to diversify. They’ve been trying for years, and don’t have m
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by zapita 8y ago
I’m not dismissing the volume of quality of their contributions. I just don’t think they are so critically needed that Linux and its satellite projects couldn’t quickly recover if they stopped contributing (which was the GP’s question).
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by zapita 8y ago
That makes no sense. They had a few hundred employees because their Linux business was small. Now their Linux business is huge, so they can afford to hire more people. Some of those people are sustaining and growing the core Linux business,
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by zapita 8y ago
Meh. Linux itself doesn’t need Red Hat anymore. Upstream got good enough that you just don’t need to stay on proprietary backports for years and years just to keep your service reliable and secure. These days most of Red Hat’s value add on
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by zapita 8y ago
> The Linux distribution merely is the vehicle and the basis, the actual business is well on top of it though, on another level. Check out what redhat.com and suse.com present on their respective homepages Those homepages are a picture
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by zapita 8y ago
That's such an apples-to-oranges comparison... There is nothing Apple can do to preserve their Chinese user's privacy against their own government. Either they stay in China and allow the government to access their citizen's
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by zapita 8y ago
And most likely you are running those multiple apps on multiple VMs.

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