> There is not (to the best of my knowledge) a government operated CDN or network backbone which you could make use of in order to avoid such concerns.
The line between private and public gets a bit blurry when talking about edge routing and CDNs. Especially edge routing.
> Patently and objectively false to anyone who read the article. It really makes me wonder what your motivations are for lying so blatantly.
Wrong. He clearly didn’t, because he describes a caricature of a Chinese person, reminiscent of a Fu Manchu type character that is dishonest and untrustworthy. Your motivations were clearly revealed the moment you created a throwaway account my man.
To be honest, it read to me like the ramblings of an unemployed academic who’s struggling to find employment. Academia breeds and welcomes this type of toxic attitude and personality.
The sad part is, this piece is passed off as intellectual, when the author himself didn’t reflect on anything in his time in China. He looks at the Chinese as the “Other”, much like many academics looked at Japan in the 80s as some menacing threat they could never understand.
> There was -- and is -- a failure of public policy here.
It’s very strange that he didn’t criticize elected officials one bit. Instead, he blames some faceless cabal of venture capitalists for being out of touch. Who is trying to divide us here?
The only psychotherapy we need is from plant medicines. DMT and psilocybin are natural plant teachers that can help us through the traumas we go through in our life.
Or maybe Linus isn’t afraid to say what’s on his mind, and that’s why people respect him.
You should try it some time. I know when I started doing it on here, my karma plummeted (real world analogue is “reputation” or social standing). But at least my conscience is clear.
Ok, then why I do only run into this issue on hardware running OS X? This is across machines (I worked at Apple btw, and had to dogfood Mavericks at the time) and across time. Same problem, it was never fixed.
I run Chrome and Slack on Windows and I never have had memory issues. Using Occam’s Razor, it has to be an issue with memory management at the OS level. I’ve also run Chrome and Slack on Linux - 1/10th of the memory footprint. I will write a blogpost in the future about it.
> I know I am and I hope I get one of these newer ones next week. 6 cores and 32 gigs of DDR4 make a lot of a difference.
Even if they provide 64 GB, it will never be enough RAM. OSX is dogshit at memory management, with massive memory leaks. On my work laptop (-1 generation), I have 16 GB. Normal workloads (i.e. not even developer workloads/compilation tasks) consume memory to the point where I’m constantly swapping. Until they fix their shit, I’m not going to buy a new one, nor will I ask my company (I am good friends with IT) to refresh.
A real 100 year VC firm would be a DAO. Maybe they aren’t as forward looking as they’d like to believe. Much respect to Alexis and Garry, though. It’s not easy to go it alone.
> Maybe state corporatist capitalism destroys people and places. Try that.
Hierarchies destroy people and places. The alternative is lack of a hierarchy, which is anarchy. Which are you more comfortable with, typing on your $1000 phone’s keyboard?
A word is simply a shared reference to a concept. The consensus is around whether or not that reference is valid anymore.
Here’s a concrete example: “citizen” meant something completely different 100 years ago. At that time it meant “member of the set of landowners”, which resolved to “white male landowner”. Now the concept of citizen is much different and a lot more contentious.