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jkaplowitz

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About jkaplowitz

SRE/ops person, some cloud and container experience, getting my bearings as a new people manager, aiming to be a good ally to marginalized groups.

Some current affiliations: Debian, OFTC Some past affiliations: Hopper, Plotly, Etsy, Google, Brown University Other things I like: Germany, Montreal, NYC, board games, tabletop RPGs, languages, law, tax, politics, economics, business, HR

Unless otherwise explicitly stated, I am speaking only for myself, not for any employer or other group.

You can reach me at: jimmy+hn-inquiries@kaplowitz.org

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49171545

    No GitHub at all?

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    Comment #49064388

    Generally yes, unfortunately, with very narrow exceptions. Not all countries follow this rule, but the US does, and it’s certainly not alone in this respect.

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    Comment #49061744

    The GDPR doesn’t allow opt-out consent to count as consent. The only consent it recognizes as valid consent is opt-in. However, since we are discussing the banner that The Guardian…

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    Comment #48738451

    > Platner is. Not sure if you count him as a politician. At minimum he's a politician between now and the end of the Senate election, and of course longer if he wins.

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    Comment #48736834

    > We haven't tried in a generation. Longer than a generation if you include the Congressional stage of the process as part of the attempt - the last time Congress sent an amendment…

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    Comment #48728131

    In other words, give labor the same mobility as capital. Nothing inherently unreasonable about that. Note they say “to seek employment” and “without restrictive border controls”, n…

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    Comment #48654508

    Oh yeah, I'm referring to external launches, not to internal launches.

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    Comment #48650017

    > does Google have strict procedures (and approvals) before launching a product? I worked at Google in the past, most recently ending in early 2015, and can confirm that the answer…

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    Comment #48621816

    Adverbial clauses at the front of a sentence don't always have to have a comma. It's often taught this way to new English language learners or in style guides that want to keep thi…

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    Comment #48610389

    Leaving out that comma is not a grammar mistake. The comma slightly changes the feel of the sentence, but it's not wrong to include or omit it. But yeah, I agree with the other com…

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    Comment #48322792

    If they coupled strict speed limit enforcement with adjusting the legal limit to the speed at which people actually drive plus a tolerance buffer for speedometer variance, properly…

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    Comment #48122253

    > It seems disingenuous to suggest that the choices Trudeau made in his cabinet aren’t still being felt by the LPC and the rest of the country to this day. I agree that would be di…

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    Comment #48120642

    CCP allies paying to attend a fundraiser co-hosted by an MP who was a Conservative until December does not contradict my point about Carney being economically a Progressive Conserv…

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    Comment #48117463

    You do realize that that former Liberal leader Justin Trudeau is not the Liberal leader who is currently pushing this bill, right? Justin Trudeau is now a private citizen with no o…

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    Comment #47713166

    Pretty sure the free limit is 5 GB, at least for personal Microsoft accounts, not zero.

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    Comment #47555547

    That doesn’t disprove him at all: if the average one lasts 200 years and not all last exactly 200, then some will necessarily last more than 200. This is a mathematical consequence…

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    Comment #47522344

    Maybe avatar was meant instead of arbiter?

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    Comment #47403634

    > generally speaking, gambling more than a token sum (say, less than $100) should not be legal exactly because any benefits of gambling is far outweighed by the mountains of extern…

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    Comment #47390362

    Hats off for using "..." in your comment immediately after a valid identifier word and with no comma in between, given the topic of the article.

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    Comment #47358984

    At least if this "Store cookies?" question is implicitly referencing EU regulations, those regulations don't require consent for cookies which are considered essential, including a…

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    Comment #47264926

    Yeah, but the purpose of an encyclopedia like Wikipedia (a tertiary source) is to relatively neutrally summarize the consensus of those who spend the time and effort to analyze and…

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    Comment #47190834

    > Well tweets aren't legally binding There's nothing in general about a tweet that makes it any more or less legally binding than any other public communication, and they certainly…

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    Comment #47190787

    Nobody was advocating for zero AI in the military - certainly not Anthropic. They were fine with all lawful US military use cases except for two: the mass domestic surveillance of …

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    Comment #46713052

    True, I was only arguing against something that you seemed to me to have implied, not anything you outright said.

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    Comment #46708874

    Would the liability shield not generally apply to a foreign entity registered in Germany? Sure there may be special rules for non-compliance with specific tax obligations, but I'm …