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New comment by horsemessiah in "GitHub was down"

horsemessiah — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 16:55:49 +0000

Wtf is going on at Github? They're having outages almost every other day.

August had 11 incidents it seems. September already has 3.

https://www.githubstatus.com/history

Constant Outages at GitHub

horsemessiah — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 11:53:54 +0000

It seems lately Github is having constant issues, especially with Actions, Webhooks, and Pull Requests.

How are people handling this? At what point does self hosting become preferable?

https://www.githubstatus.com/history

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37320652

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New comment by horsemessiah in "Hertz, the original meme stock, is turning out to be worthless"

horsemessiah — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 22:04:59 +0000

Americans always love tying things back to attacking China.

New comment by horsemessiah in "Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health"

horsemessiah — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 18:50:05 +0000

You're not wrong, but arresting people for possession doesn't help them either. And I can definitely tell you drugs aren't hard to find as it is.

New comment by horsemessiah in "Absent aid, few US cities will be able to avoid austerity"

horsemessiah — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 22:04:55 +0000

Reaganonmics has been a disaster for my generation.

New comment by horsemessiah in "Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B"

horsemessiah — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 14:31:14 +0000

Another example of capitalism tending towards monopoly.

New comment by horsemessiah in "Trump’s WeChat curbs halted by judge on free speech concerns"

horsemessiah — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 17:00:34 +0000

> no rights This is not true.

> Uyghur genocide This is a lie being spread by far right fundamentalist Adrien Zenz that the U.S. media had eaten up.

New comment by horsemessiah in "Six months in, N95 mask shortages persist"

horsemessiah — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 14:12:07 +0000

This is what is known as "anarchy of production" which is a key feature of capitalism. A global crisis like this is not compatible with our existing economic systems.

New comment by horsemessiah in "The Fed now owns nearly 1/3 of all U.S. mortgages"

horsemessiah — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 13:18:10 +0000

Markets are basically anarchy... there are countless examples of markets inefficiently allocating resources (homes, for one). Not sure I buy this.

New comment by horsemessiah in "Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’"

horsemessiah — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 17:37:45 +0000

Teachers unions are definitely not a net negative...

New comment by horsemessiah in "Why we are suing the Administration"

horsemessiah — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 14:50:54 +0000

The U.S. has 22% of the worlds prisoners, despite only having 4% of the population, if you really wanna talk about prison.

New comment by horsemessiah in "TikTok Inc. vs. U.S. Department of Commerce"

horsemessiah — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 20:23:19 +0000

Could the U.S. govt not subpoena a U.S. company for information, giving them the same power people are worried about China having?

New comment by horsemessiah in "TikTok and the Sorting Hat"

horsemessiah — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 21:47:46 +0000

My father made this argument to me, almost verbatim. It's definitely out there.

New comment by horsemessiah in "Experts recommend Machine Learning books"

horsemessiah — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 22:17:21 +0000

Yup!

New comment by horsemessiah in "TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources"

horsemessiah — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 22:14:33 +0000

Why doesn't the government pass laws preventing this, instead of banning one particular app?

New comment by horsemessiah in "TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources"

horsemessiah — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 22:12:41 +0000

Congress should pass laws in retaliation then, not the President.

New comment by horsemessiah in "TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources"

horsemessiah — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 22:11:14 +0000

The solution would be to pass a law akin to the GDPR then. There is no need to go through executive action.

The U.S. is not supposed to be authoritarian like China is.

New comment by horsemessiah in "Experts recommend Machine Learning books"

horsemessiah — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 13:09:39 +0000

State and Revolution is where I'd recommend people start for ML ;)

New comment by horsemessiah in "Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign"

horsemessiah — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:27:00 +0000

Check out Bolivia, Honduras, and the failed attempt at Venezuela for some more recent examples within the last 15 years.

New comment by horsemessiah in "Resignation Letter"

horsemessiah — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 16:20:16 +0000

This is simply not true. Looking at the three mainstream cable channels (Fox, CNN, MSNBC) Fox hardly ever critical, MSNBC is almost exclusively critical, and CNN is pretty in between. Fox is by far the most popular of these three.

Similarly, the NYTimes and Washington Post are usually pretty critical of Trump (unless he's bombing people, in which case they love him) and the WSJ are somewhere in between.

Then, consider that Americans are increasingly not getting their news from these sources and podcasts, blogs, social media, etc. are becoming the primary source of news for many people.

All this to say, to claim 97% of media is critical of Trump is a wild fantasy of victimhood that has no basis in reality.