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Gaining access to vast quantities of raw information while as the same time losing the addition of analysis by experts, verification of sources and empirical facts, and the context…

You'd imagine if it was very predictable, that long term population projections wouldn't radically swing by billions and decades of trajectory every few years like they do. As far …

fully agree on the failure of the rollout. There's also going to be issues with rolling anything out involving medical treatment into our gutted public health system and fragmented…

kind of the same deal with spooky SQL queries and verifying your where clause with a select first

I've operated by and described the concept of Chesterton's Fence countless times, so that's a great name to learn. It's such a regular thing working with new grads, etc. that they …

If only there was some sort of organization, beholden to the people by democratic election, which was obligated to protect and provide what does not particularly align well with a …

Yeah a lot of these government programs do bear the hallmarks of 40 years of management dependent on people sworn to defund, dismantle and obstruct any efforts to improve or reform…

Germany like many other Europeans would absolutely be considered a socialist country by most US standards (holding no distinction between socialism and social democracy). This is a…

The winning formula that seems to work without fail for personal productivity is crystal meth (not overdose or paranoia/psychosis or permanent heart and brain damage of course). It…

re: societal trust Really feels like we need a massive exercise wherein folks have to repeat back what they heard someone say before responding to it, something they have people do…

That's a clever abuse of data but, though this may come as a surprise to you, very few people actually die by means so traumatic (crushing, incineration, explosion) that it's impos…

The data in SF is pretty clear ( https://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/policy/data-dashboards/ , "District Attorney Actions on Arrests Presented" for example), and as the trend appear…

Weird, I've only encountered the exact opposite.

Seems like for a 'longtermist' something like climate change is such an insignificant blip (and one that will 'inevitably be solved by technology once it becomes a problem ') that …

I mean, they say they're a libertarian (and other libertarians are fake libertarians, which is possibly the most libertarian thing to say) and expressed agreement with the culture …

what a wild single standard

> Subsuming the individual to the social unit is at the heart of the worst excesses of racism, nationalism, etc. If you look for the worst mass crimes in history, you will find thi…

size, vm-itude, etc. aside, i've seen (albeit very high end) laser printers that can render text on paper faster than this scrolls. yikes.

I've never seen a reliable, scaled and coherent k8s operation without at least vault, and often consul as well, so that argument never held any water for me

your description of "grafting in" consul and vault _is_ exactly what it feels like to do that with kubernetes, and it happens rather often. Using industry standard components like …

The thing the 'there's a ready to go helm chart' folks always seem to skim over is that outside of an absolute startup position where you can curlbash to hello world heaven, you wi…

Interesting (well, interesting to me) note on the nfs case, on modern linux, `umount -l` should be able to unmount pretty much anything. You'll often still be left with a pile of p…

weird to see someone unironically bragging about inventing the humblebrag.

There's a huge difference between a "no shaming" culture and a "don't be ashamed" culture. It's critical for people to be able to be open and transparent about their mistakes and t…