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altmind··on Belarus referendum approves proposal to renounce non-nuclear status
theres no doubt this was referendum where the votes were not counted. in the prev online-elections the newly elected president got like 3% approval rating.
altmind··on In 1981 Reagan fired all the ATC professionals involved in a union strike
sorry. i'm trying to be eloquent here.

the gov or court was never a part of ATC union negotiation, until they decided that a legal(explicitly legal, defined, upheld in courts) strike was illegal.

what they did to a union who can protest the decision? they formally decertified it.

thats wrong in so many directions, not only in legal system favoring one side, not having a council between the parties, but also ill-defined sharp response, as well as showing that gov dont need any base to dissolve(formally - discertify) any union organization? and all this without formal involvement of the POTUS?

i thought i understood the values and boundaries of local legal system. turns out i'm lost.

altmind··on In 1981 Reagan fired all the ATC professionals involved in a union strike
i was shocked that government decided to intervene into worker/workplace argument and clearly picked the favorite side without even holding a council.

the part you never adressed is that government was not SUPPOSED to EVER get a favorite in a private conflict, part firing employees and banning them from ever serving for any gov posision? not only intent was so outrageous, but the reaction was disproportional, not only affecting more than 10K people, but leaving the whole industry barely hanging.

maybe the time will forget the outcome, but what I and prob the generations to come will never understand - what whas the gov stake in this? why they never tried to have a council with a gov as a mediator and most importantly - what is the value of at-will contracts if mostly works only one way?

altmind··on [dead]
Its important since LON1 houses the London Metal Exchange, the LME had to failover to a different DC, and the failover incurred the trading downtime.

Vultr also seems to be affected https://status.vultr.com/#LHR

Power seems to be slowly brought back

altmind··on Netflix Executive Sentenced to 30 Months for 700K Bribes, Kickbacks from Vendors
It wasn't intentional, the headline was too long to fit.
altmind··on Ask HN: Advice on Colocating Servers?
I won't give you any advice on the feasibility and price, but if you want cheap Colo, HE offers a full cabinet in California for 400/mo. That's a gr deal. In Chicago just a rack without the internet is around 1200
altmind··on Monorepos and Forced Migrations
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24165445
altmind··on $28.50 Beer at LaGuardia Sparks Audit of New York Airport Concession Prices
where does this "no more than 10% from street pricing" come from? i've seen no airport that charges less than +50% for alcohol.
altmind··on Details of yesterday's Bunny CDN outage
fastly RCA is underwhelming - no info on what was the component, what happened and how the situation was tackled.
altmind··on Steve Jobs Emails Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen
To be noted, these companies were later sued in antitrust case regarding these agreements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
altmind··on Stripe have suspended the Flipper One campaign
im surprised the stripe DID happily collect the shipping fees, then only to freeze the money as soon as the vendor decided to use them? do they always work like this - collect as much as possible just to screw the business over? even me, the backer feels screwed, thats MY money, that i want to pay to the project I decided. Who are you to intervene here?
altmind··on The Largest Gypsy Ghetto in Europe – Stolipinovo, Bulgaria (2016)
Have you heard of Luník IX, the largest gypsy ghetto/district in Slovakia?
altmind··on Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro
Because geekbench results are not comparable across the platforms/OS. The scale is not consistent.
altmind··on Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro
GB5 scores are not comparable across different CPU arch. The scale is different.
altmind··on Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro
There're questions about both QB4 and QB5 results not being comparable across different architectures and operating systems. This should be discussed more.
altmind··on President Trump’s Twitter doesn't have 2FA, password “maga2020 ”
its claimed that the previous password was "youarefired", that is also unlikely.
altmind··on Trump's Twitter account hacked after Dutch researcher guessed password?
As the "great hack" is destroying my trust in bloomberg, this article is destroying my trust in the guardian. There's no chance the password was "maga2020!"
altmind··on The survival of the airlines depends on frequent flyer programs
airlines award varying miles multiplier based on the seat class.

its just a gimmick to call their loyalty points "miles", they can call it "tokens" with same success, as they are have no relation to miles whatsoever.

altmind··on Next-Level SSD Performance – Samsung 980 Pro 1TB Review
Tiger Lake mobile cpus have pcie 4. There are already some reviews for these laptops.
altmind··on Transinistria, the Area Between Moldova and Ukraine
it can be a case of a negative selection, when eveybody not wanting a nuclear action were driven outside of the state. the ones who left, were forced to adapt to local propaganda.
altmind··on Logic board with 20 USB3 ports
Cambrionix SyncPad54 USB Hub Offers 56 USB 2.0 Ports https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/09/21/cambrionix-syncpad54...
altmind··on When is it okay for a lawyer to lie? (2018)
> Everyone knows that lawyers are not allowed to lie — to clients, courts or third parties.

What a great point for lose people reading the article; from the first sentence.

altmind··on Powell’s says it won’t sell books on Amazon anymore
What's the best alternative to buy physical books for both customer and publisher?
altmind··on rc.d belongs in libexec, not etc
and /etc/resolv.conf dont belong anywhere as it is runtime settings
altmind··on There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology (2019)
blockchain - the wrong answer to any problem
altmind··on Apple Music on Android asks user's card details to avoid Google's 30% cut
Can confirm, 380 points, 2 hours ago. Position 36. Why?
altmind··on Ask HN: How do you protect your Mailserver from DDoS Attacks?
I never had any problems with DDoS of our email servers. If we have one, we're gonna

1) check that our MTA is up to date 2) check that we got fail2ban rules for POP&SMTP failed logins 3) use a haproxy and ban by subnet/country

altmind··on Revolution in Belarus People are demanding Lukashenko to go home
https://kireev.livejournal.com/1774672.html
altmind··on Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pi
Is there any chance to have remote reset? Getting the control over reset/power pins over the rpi gpio?
altmind··on DDR5 Memory Specification Released
you can already have 128gb per DIMM with DDR4. not sure if its up to spec, but it works usually.

128gb dimms are more than double the price of 64gb dimms, so it not always economically viable unless you need max memory density.

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