whatthesmack

> the J6 rioters that broke into the capital

I would encourage you to learn more about that day. Most people that were charged did not go into the building. And the few that did were literally waved in by police, including many being escorted around inside by police.

> exploits loopholes in the law

This is a very interesting way of saying "following the law."

It's also unprecedented that a current president's administration would collude to charge the primary opposition of it in a presidential election across multiple jurisdictions, including with an unlawful special counsel appointment, yet here we are.

To note, the president was only an active participant insofar as he asked people to remain calm and peaceful.

Are you sure that doesn't apply both ways?

> "its celebration of stupidity"

A large number of voters seem to think it works.

> “exert your second amendment rights”

The second amendment is a prohibition on the government, so it is not a right to be exerted, but rather a natural right that is not to be inhibited.

> [...] when a squad armed with M16s, grenade launchers, body armor, and night vision goggles shows up to your door?

Guerrilla warfare has proven time after time that you should not assume the larger-numbered, better-equipped party will automatically win this type of scenario.

I had to scroll past too many "free speech" takes to finally get to this well-thought analysis of the saga.

It has nothing to do with free speech. The US was always going to wind up owning TikTok and influencing speech on the platform. The key issue was price, which is affected by leverage. The strict top-down, centralized control ideals behind CCP/ByteDance/TikTok (they're all the same) were once again outdone by the aforementioned "powers that be".

It does seem a bit ridiculous, doesn't it?

However, you're describing what the "basket of deplorables[0]" and half of America have experienced for the last 3+ years: tilted views on all major social media platforms in concert with the federal government as exposed in the Twitter Files[1].

[0] https://time.com/4486502/hillary-clinton-basket-of-deplorabl...

[1] https://twitterfiles.substack.com

It's not empathy when a person is passed over for a role because of their skin color due to unwritten HR policies, and people using the word "woke" are generally referencing the unethical and illegal aspects of such policies.

The people who claim to be "actually qualified" are the same people who run (ran?) the show at the NIH that have been actively covering up their own opinion that the lab leak of the research they were funding is the most likely source of COVID-19.

> The point is that when you control for these factors, a woman with the same title and responsibilities as a man will earn less for the same work.

That can't possibly be true, because in a market economy, the more-expensive workers (men) would be laid off and replaced by less-expensive, equally-capable "same title and responsibilities" workers (women). This doesn't seem to be the case on a grand scale, which means it's more deep/complex than the "men get paid more than women" headline we're all used to seeing.

I think the important element is that terminal.shop's use case (likely SAQ D, likely level 4 or level 3 volumes) allows them to comply with relatively minimal expense and complexity.

Sure, there would be a non-zero time investment required to implement and ensure actual compliance with what is being attested, but it's quite doable for a person or small group of folks with a mix of SDE skills, SRE-like skills, and PCI-DSS experience.

Exactly. For Twitter/X being so irrelevant/toxic/whatever, they sure keep talking about it a lot. Which is fine, because it helps keep it relevant. I see a way broader set of opinions shared there than on any other social media platform. An actual marketplace of ideas in today's day of government-influenced/censored platforms.

GLP-1 agonists have been around for a while. They're just gaining popularity lately, it seems. The first one was approved in the US in 2005 (exenatide).

As great as reducing complexity is, I just don't see how it's possible to avoid implementing a service mesh in a FedRAMP moderate or high impact level environment. You essentially need to implement mTLS to meet SC-8(1), and to implement mTLS at scale, you need something like a service mesh.

Are there other ways of going about this for FedRAMP moderate or high IL?

An interesting reason I became intrigued with Postgres in the early 2000s was the license it was/is distributed under. The situation involved some work for a customer that needed to distribute an RDBMS along with their software. The customer had more apprehension around the GPLv2-licensed MySQL than the BSD-esque PostgreSQL License [0], so we went with Postgres.

I later continued using Postgres in my career after having done quite a variety of benchmarks and came to the conclusion that it, in general, scaled more linearly across additional CPUs than MySQL's InnoDB engine did at the time.

[0] PostgreSQL License: https://www.postgresql.org/about/licence/

This is not unregulated capitalism. This is crony capitalism or corruption. It is government regulation that allows a monopoly of large corporations to remain the powerful health insurance companies they are, and ObamaCare gave them even more power.

If this was a free, unregulated market, healthcare in the US would be cheaper.

There's no free market for healthcare in the US. What you mean is crony capitalism and corruption. If there was a free market for healthcare and health insurance in the US, it wouldn't be so expensive.

Sure, if GP is in the US and the European is paying 2-3x the income tax rate & earning half the salary.

What you're bringing up--particularly the actions of the Senators, Representatives, and lawyers--are legitimate and legal avenues to pursue if one disputes election results. Democrats have used those avenues in the past, too. Don't twist that into some grand conspiracy that coincidentally just happened to not work out at all.

> He told the audience to go to the Capitol and "fight like hell"

You're using the quoted part with the first part of your sentence to spread false information. Anybody that reads the full quote and context of the speech [2] knows he wasn't talking about fighting at the Capitol. Biden and Harris have said "fight like hell" many times, but nobody uses their quotes out of context to insinuate advocacy for some theoretical coup.

Everything the President said related to the activities at the Capitol was about keeping it peaceful.

On Jan 6, 2021, the President tweeted:

"Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!" [0]

and

"I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!" [1]

In addition, at the rally prior to the protest at the Capitol, he said:

"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." [2]

> The Jan6 committee found that Trump knew the audience were armed.

Armed with what? Firearms? And how could he know that? Exactly zero protestors at the Capitol were found to have been carrying firearms.

> That's where the insurrection comes in.

"insurrection" | noun | a violent uprising against an authority or government

Surely an actual insurrection would have involved at least one protestor bringing at least one firearm.

> Trump knew he lost the election very early on, but wanted to stay in power nonetheless.

The whole claim that he tried to stay in power is facially absurd. He didn't try to stay in power... he willingly handed over power as evidenced by the fact that there was a peaceful transition of power.

It's fine to disapprove of Trump, but this rambling unproven conspiracy stuff the January 6th Committee did was on a whole new level. Their entire goal was to get Trump disqualified and tarnish his image, no matter where the facts actually led.

[0] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13469041109693153...

[1] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13469127807005777...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-s...

This really rings true! We had an outage that was essentially due to errant use of the keyboard shortcuts and default read-write settings in k9s. "Bye bye super important deployment" is a bit too easy.

I'm right there with you on PostgreSQL's impressiveness... I love it and use it everywhere.

However, having done a decent amount of database performance analysis, there is a very good reason I've seen to use Oracle instead of anything else:

Oracle scales more consistently linearly on the biggest variety of workloads compared to any other RDBMS. Give it more cores and it is the RDBMS most likely to give you more performance no matter what you're doing.

Everybody does. But--speaking from the US perspective--most taxes don't go to those things.

Practically, though, politicians determine how, when, where, and why the money is spent. Just because it sits in a bank they don't directly control doesn't mean they don't determine the fate of those collected taxes.

Can you point me to any studies that show masks filter airborne SARS-CoV-2 in any meaningful way? My understanding is that there are only studies of areas that had mask mandates (or not) and the assumption that such mandates (or not) actually relate to spread, but not actually studies that conclude even N95 masks filter airborne SARS-CoV-2 in any meaningful way.

To add anecdata, I've been seeing the subject behavior on Meraki equipment across various firmware versions. I'm inclined to think this is an Apple-initiated issue.

*BATFE (HN won't let me edit)

BATFE comes in a close second. "Oh no, you might make a suppressor out of that and help save people's hearing! Can't have that without paying $200!"

And unsurprisingly they're some of the best roads on which to drive. Also, I've never been able to drive faster than I have on a toll road in Texas. Also, the idea that the people who use it are the people who pay for it is pretty neat.