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sirwolfgang | 11 years ago | on: The Billionaires at Burning Man

The whole situation is a mess, and it's made less clear by other camps. While some of the RV fortresses are exclusive houses to the well off, some of them pool the dues in order to pay for public arts and music infrastructure. Patrons are needed at a point to be able to support some of these art camps.

But even these art camps have a flip side. Last year I spent a lot of time helping out and hanging around one of these music camps. I even provided a multimeter which was needed to repair some of the lights. But at the end of the day, after making friends and lending my labor, there was certain internal events and things that were simply off limits to me.

It's true that some of these camps don't actively give or interact with the community, but the when they leave the camp and mingle with the masses they are effectively taking. Burning man is one of the few places in the world that you aren't rejected for who you are, no matter what. So by closing off your camp to others, you are effectively making people feel rejected. Which is much louder out in the dust.

sirwolfgang | 11 years ago | on: Kim Dotcom Stops Xbox and Playstation Attacks

So you're saying that The Washington Post shouldn't have reported on Watergate, with Deep Throat? If you can't trust the people providing the news, then citing sources doesn't change that fact. This is why you have collaborating sources, this is why you vet stories, and this is why you build trust with your readers. They could have linked to their source, and still not NAMED the group. Its the name that gets added to google search, not the sources.

sirwolfgang | 11 years ago | on: Kim Dotcom Stops Xbox and Playstation Attacks

You report it, as news, saying "a hacker group". You don't have to report the name of the group. There's something called "Journalism ethics and standards", that includes stuff like not reporting a victim's name or in a lot of cases not broadcasting the videos terrorist groups send out.

You want to see something scary, start to look at how media coverage affects mass shootings. There is very strong evidence to support the idea that our current media coverage of making these people "famous" increases the deadliness of these events as compared to something like the North Hollywood Shootout.

sirwolfgang | 11 years ago | on: Kim Dotcom Stops Xbox and Playstation Attacks

This kind of stuff is really upsetting. If you don't want people to do this kind of thing, you have to not encourage them. Even if they are all arrested, others will see this. And think, Hey I can get a reward for doing this stuff.

A 10 sec look at their twitter feed will tell you that they are doing this primarily to make a name for themselves. They want to be famous.

Yet what does every single news outlet do? Plaster their groups name all over every story. Even the BBC goes to mention them by name. Which is only going to encourage this behavior.

sirwolfgang | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to address female coworkers getting paid less

And in response to the valuation, they could of changed their math; But in the last two years most economies have had growth, so that value to go up to adjust for growth and inflation. The only real reason I can think of that value going down is much more supply to the work force, which I know isn't that true.

sirwolfgang | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to address female coworkers getting paid less

This is fundamentally one of the biggest cultural changes we have to make. You have to be ok with talking about your personal earning. In a lot of places talking about earnings is more taboo then talking about sex, and sex is generally taboo.

Company culture of not talking about earnings only helps the company. It allows them to pay lowest market value for anyone, under the (often true) hopes that they don't know their value. In short talk about it, and get other people to talk about it.

I would talk with your co-workers get them to open up about what they make, or have the breach subject in the conversation group while the other person can hear. Talk about what you used to make and what you make now. The key if to give everyone more context. Its important to remember that someones value as a person is not their market price.

The more information a person has available, the better the choices they can make.

[$47/hr, 2 years out of college, east coast]

sirwolfgang | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you use Docker in production?

Since we are still waiting for CoreOS + (flynn.io || deis.io) to mature. I modified our existing VMWare VM based approached to setup ubuntu boxes with Docker install. Where I then use fig to manage an application cluster, and supervisor to watch fig.

When its time to update a box, jenkins sshs in calls docker pull to get the latest, then restarts via supervisor. Any one off docker run commands require us to ssh in, but fig provides all the env settings so that I don't have to worry about remembering them. The downtime between upgrades is normally a second or less.

The biggest thing I ran into is that each jenkins builds server can only build and test one container at a time. After each one, we delete all images. The issue is that if you have an image it wont check for a new image. This applies to all underlaying images. We cut the bandwidth by having our own docker registry that acts as our main image source and storage.

sirwolfgang | 11 years ago | on: USBCondom

I feel someone should point out that the iPhone charger uses the data lines to basically ask for the available amperage, and charger faster if the charger is "iPhone compatible". So something like this will still work for iPhone but it will force it to charge much slower then it would otherwise.

> https://learn.adafruit.com/minty-boost/icharging

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