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Based on a list of (in part) profane words which includes:

addict africa amateur american angry arab


I assume this is meant as criticism, but to be fair to the list, it classifies 5 out of these 6 as 0, which apparently means {Use as a profanity = unlikely, Use in clean text = likely}, and the 6th one (addict) is a 'maybe' on both scales which seems fair to me: wouldn't a respectful source speak of addiction, addictive substances, people who are addicted, etc.?

From just this short list and a handful of other words I looked at, they seem to have done a reasonable job of classifying them, even if I see other issues such as completeness and what even is the purpose


Maybe it's because of dialects of English I'm less familiar with, but I don't see how these (all classified as "1") are more likely to be profanity than "beaver" (classified as "0")

- abortion

- abuse

- addict

- addicts


I came up with a (lambda? Triangle?) loop a few days ago.

Read until sleepy. Sleep until ready.


It's just a tradeoff. ~20 hours of low wage employment is more than enough to cover a car. Instead they choose to spend those ~20 hours walking/waiting for the bus. Certainly not a trade I would make.


>Oh, and also not factored in: almost every aspect of rural life is heavily subsidized, and I don't just mean direct assistance. I mean literally everything you stare at when you roll through a rural town was subsidized in some way by the federal government, and most of them either don't know or will never admit it.

This is pretty naive. Farmers aren’t subsidized so that farmers have cheap food, they are subsidized so that the city you’re hyping doesn’t riot because they run out of food. Farm subsidies exist for everyone who’s not a farmer.


I'll go against the grain and say that microservices have advantages for small dev teams embedded in non-tech orgs.

1. You get to minimize devops/security/admin work. Really a consequences of using serverless tooling, but you land on a something like a microservices architecture if you do.

2. You get can break out work temporally. This is the big one - when you're a small team supporting multiple products, you often don't have continuity of work. You have one project for a few months, completely unrelated product for another few months. Microservice architectures are easier to build and maintain in that environment.


Watch out for bit rot, though: it is very easy for a startup to come back to one of those microservices six months later and discover the dependencies are borked and it no longer even builds.

Each repo you create is one more set of Dependabot alerts you need to keep on top of.


That’s just a devops failure tho. Nothing to do with microservices. And Renovatebot can batch updates weekly in single PRs if the toil is bad, which really cuts down and makes the load easy to bear.


Microservices minimize devops/security/admin work?

What planet are you living on?


I assume he means building the product out of AWS legos like Lambdas. Stick it all under one account, manage it manually instead of trying to deal with Terraform and it isn't too bad.

Heroku is still way easier, though.


> manage it manually instead of trying to deal with Terraform and it isn't too bad

I'm firmly in team "fuck Terraform" but I'm also in team "read only console access" because otherwise "how did this thing get this way" is insanity


Why do you think the plan is to export every single good? The calculation is clearly on the total import/export balance.


>While there are complicating factors, in general, probabilities add linearly. So for the average woman in the US, who lives for 77 years, she therefore has a 1% chance of being sexually harassed during any 1 year of her life.

Obviously the average survey respondent was not 77 years old, so the math here is wrong. Other assumptions we could make: prepubescent and post-menopausal women are not being sexually harassed at the same rate as women of reproductive age.

I think your point would stand with steelman math, so why strawman it?


Because my 5-year-old daughter has experienced something akin to sexual harassment. Its grim out there, but its far grimmer in Antarctica, and other isolated places where victims have little recourse in the moment [0].

I went out of my way to provide as conservative of numbers as possible, so if that's a strawman, I don't know what to tell you. Even a cursory glance at incomplete statistics [1] on the subject show that the per-year rate of harassment at the peak ages is commensurate with the per-contract (again 4-6 month hitch, so double or triple that rate to get the per-year average) rate of all women in Antarctica.

0. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles... 1. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7485046/


Another way to see that geography is as approaches into Russia. Gdansk borders Kaliningrad, Helsinki and Tallinn straddle St Petersburg.


If your "energy security" is dependent on a belligerent state, you don't have energy security. This was something Trump himself has repeatedly criticized the Europeans for, so if you lead with "Trump was right" follow that thread.


One more prediction: a number of our allies will test domestically built nuclear weapons, including Germany, Poland, and South Korea.


Unlikely. Nuclear independence threatens US hegemony. It won’t be allowed to happen. The US wants Europe stronger, not independent.


The US has no power to stop it anymore. Nuclear non-proliferation relied on America guaranteeing security and coordinating the rest of the world to ostracize any country that didn't play by its rules - that's out the window. Countries that feel immediately threatened will go for the bomb, and other countries will do nothing to interfere so they keep their own options open.

Poland has already announced it's looking to acquire nuclear weapons.


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