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by zapita 7y ago
I agree with your first two paragraphs completely. But your conclusion surprised me and I disagree with it. If the current OSS is funded by oligarchs, and we agree that is not ideal, wouldn’t it make sense to look at how democratic governme
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Possibly because of the followup discussion thread?
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Probably a combination of both.
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If we allocated as much space for scooter storage than we do for car storage, wouldn't scooter parking also be done in officially sanctioned places?
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It's possible to address both in parallel... But the car storage problem should get priority over the scooter storage problem, because it's a much larger problem.
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If we're concerned about using up municipal land for vehicle storage, shouldn't we first address the enormous amount of street space permanently reserved for car storage?
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You're making three assumptions: 1) that anyone who criticizes Assange is automatically an apologist for state-sanctioned crimes; 2) that the good things done by Wikileaks in its early days are entirely thanks to one man, Assange; 3) t
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by zapita 7y ago
Assange perverted the original intent of Wikileaks, and warped it into a tool to serve his own ego and personal vendettas. He absolutely got what he deserved. The quicker we move on from him and his personality cult, the quicker a replaceme
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Iran admits shooting down Ukrainian airliner 'unintentionally'(theguardian.com)
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An independent foundation for Rust makes a lot of sense. No doubt the Linux Foundation will pounce on this opportunity to absorb yet another project into its orbit... I would prefer if Rust steered clear of LF / CNCF if possible. Their
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by zapita 7y ago
I completely agree with you on slack for open-source projects. Especially with Mattermost being so good, there’s no good reason for a project to stick to Slack.
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It's still early, but incredibly exciting. I personally am betting on CUE as the "winner" in this space. Its creator is enormously credible. Most of the other configuration languages in this space are directly inspired by his
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by zapita 7y ago
Two things to note when looking at that list: 1. Bushfires may be more frequent in some parts of Australia than others. So two bushfires of equal size, but occuring in different regions, may not necessarily be equally common. 2. The list on
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Also lots of deflection by blaming tech workers for cost increases.
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They often pay very little property tax, thanks to California prop 13. Long-time property owners are incentivized to just ride the real estate boom with a vacant building that costs them nothing. The city gets almost no tax revenue, and the
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Yes, you will be able to do your work after your chemo, just as well or better. Focus your will and energy on getting better. Go above and beyond what doctors and nurses tell you. Don’t be passive! Ask questions; do your own research; take
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by zapita 7y ago
But would you recommend using Bazel and Go without Gazelle or an equivalent third party?
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Just to be clear, you are willing to say on the record that the Obama campaign and Manaford, a convicted criminal who is known to have worked for a mass murdering autocratic regime as their expert electoral fixer, are “essentially the same”
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by zapita 7y ago
You’re making a false equivalence. The Obama campaign hired savvy analysts and marketers to run a modern web and email campaign. A lot of what they did was pioneer what is now standard in almost every campaign: heavy use of email follow-ups
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Go support is not great either. Bazel can build Go just fine, but you will need to throw away the standard Go tooling and use Bazel instead. There are third-party helpers like Gazelle, but you know you’re in for a bumpy ride when even basic
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by zapita 7y ago
Unfortunately that’s not true. If you look at the thorough reporting of Cambridge Analytica’s operations for example, it shows that their targeting was not based on issues but on psychological profile, which they determined with personality
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by zapita 7y ago
> in five years MS will comfortably be on top and Google Cloud will have rough parity with AWS, but be significantly far behind MSFT. Those are two very bold statements. I think it’s also very unrealistic, but I guess we’ll see!
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by zapita 7y ago
I think that’s right. ECS for example is mature and in my opinion still the most robust and scalable “container-as-a-service” out there. In spite of the kubernetes hype, I suspect that ECS is more successful than any hosted kubernetes hoste
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by zapita 7y ago
Thanks for the heads up, I added an EDIT. Have they stopped the bundling of Azure in renewals also?
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Yes, Google is absolutely the worst of the 3 in enterprise sales. I hope for their sake that Kurian can fix that.
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AWS is unassailable as number one, but Azure is more fragile than they might appear in their #2 position. They use their Office online revenue to boost their numbers (EDIT: apparently they don't do that anymore) , and their utilizatio
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by zapita 7y ago
By "B2B adtech" I mean "sells ads to businesses". This includes not just adsense, but adwords as well. Whether the ad is served on Google's sites or elsewhere, it's a business paying for it. Not that this seman
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by zapita 7y ago
> As you rightly pointed out, there is a significant amount of B2B adtech that gets done at Google B2B adtech is the overwhelming source of revenue. The consumer services you mention exist either a) to entrench the ad business by commo
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Out of curiosity, are you proud of Google’s ad business today and its impact on the world? If you could go back knowing what you know now, would you do it again?
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> Yes, ads are the proximal cause of Google's wealth. But Google is a consumer services company that makes money via the inclusion of ads on some of those services. How do adsense and doubleclick fit in this explanation?

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