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by AFNobody 9y ago
You seem to think I'm rationalizing the morality of the act by pointing out the morality/ethics is really just another thing humans bend on when the incentives change. If you want to argue incentives are fictional because "mo
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Its hit or miss, from experience, in English. I use them heavily for their cheap object storage + backups. But even for cheap, dumb storage situations they sometimes give "interesting" responses to support questions. To be fair, I
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by AFNobody 9y ago
> People aren't "driven to piracy". Piracy's a conscious decision to take what they want without paying for it. Do you believe in psychological studies? Dark UI patterns? Denying these things doesn't make it less
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The hilarious thing is this is going to drive people back to engaging in piracy on various levels (i.e. ripping streaming shows for personal use and/or organized piracy groups). The main reason for piracy's decline is $20/mon
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> Side anecdote, but a number of people at my company were making fun of a candidate who used labels to break out of loops in JS. “Those don’t exist” they joked. I remember thinking, “I thought they did,” but didn’t say anything. The sad
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$12-36K for 12 months fiber. ~$36k in software/equipment costs is probably a safe floor. Lease is toooooooo variable to ballpark. I wouldn't do it with less than $100k on the assumption you are burning money for the first year and
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> Slightly off topic but articles like this make me weep as I look at my infrastructure and think about all the best practices that we by all means should be following, but aren't because of a senior engineer stuck in the 1990&#x27
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I'm not sure what you work on but literally any laptop I'd bring with me while traveling has sensitive materials on them.
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> I would be curious to know what your thoughts on gambling are? Irrespective of any solution, do you feel that leaving the gambling industry unrestrained would not be damaging for society? I don't think it should be unrestrained. B
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> I am more interested in how a position of moderation is in theory attractive, and may even show benefits in controlled situations, but in practice use of substances or mobile games can lead to excessive use (i.e., abuse) and have a net
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> Could this not be said about drugs and alcohol? And while it may indeed be beneficial to use drugs and alcohol in a balanced, well moderated way, the downside risk seems to great to me to be suggesting this to a society. Over half of f
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by AFNobody 9y ago
> I’m not saying that all men differ from all women in the following ways or that these differences are “just.” I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological cause
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by AFNobody 9y ago
> Did Intel ever specifically 100% promise a certain performance in their advertising? Yes. They showcased benchmarks and paid people to benchmark/review their product along similar lines. https://ark.intel.com/produ
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> They acted in good faith. The PR spin and misdirection games isn't in good faith which completely demolishes this line of defense.
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Nope. Just use a VPN/Tor/whatever to create a GitHub account and push commits with nobody@example.com
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That may be the mainstream view but he was considered a Russian tool since 2012 when he started working with RT and had known Russian "friends" working with him at WikiLeaks. I was never a fan of Assange, only the people who took
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> If the vulnerability was embargoed until 1/1/18, does Intel have the right to reference it in a quarterly financial document before then? The embargoes are little more than gentleman agreements and I'm not aware of _anyo
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by AFNobody 9y ago
/r/Churning For some of us, taking VC/marketing money and laughing all the way to the bank is a hobby. I didn't renew my CSR or 3 other cards I had with chase. I walked away with ~$5k in benefits for ~$700. That doesn&#x
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by AFNobody 9y ago
> So more money goes to doctors, who are in the top 10%? https://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillmatthews/2015/01/05/doct... > Medicare, which provides health coverage for seniors, pays doctors, o
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by AFNobody 9y ago
Inflation is not theft. If you genuinely believe that: 1) Please use a deflationary currency (like bitcoin) for all your transactions. 2) Study the impact of deflation on Japan. Or the deflations in the US that almost always coincided with
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by AFNobody 9y ago
1) Public Option for Healthcare 2) National Healthcare Standards that end the balkanization of the healthcare market. 3) Infrastructure maintenance deficits (we've fallen really far behind on that). 4) Basic Research in basically every
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> Fair, although I would say that many positions and teams even, can be toil free (or nearly so). Yes, and top performers try to move into those positions. To be honest, in an engineering focused organization it may be possible that tack
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by AFNobody 9y ago
The first thing that came to mind with that link was: wget -r -nc -p --html-extension -k -np https://landing.google.com/sre/book/ -D google.com; mv ./landing.google.com/sre/* ./; rm -rf ./
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by AFNobody 9y ago
> Isn't that a good thing? If I were running a company, I would want the best people to focus on the things that had that highest impact on the bottom line. If grunt work is all you have, grunts are all you need. That is why its a d
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I agree with you on that last bit as I'm basically a sysadmin/dev that gets stuck maintaining the systems when "top performers" move on to the next project. ;)
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> Perhaps another way to put what I was trying to say is that top performers are constantly looking to maximize the amount of value they're adding, and a day filled with grunt work is seldom that; while a job filled with grunt work
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by AFNobody 9y ago
By grunt work, I mean "low skill" for a software developer / white collar professional with a similar income. I don't mean like, minimum wage data entry type work.
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That is fair. You'll notice the people that consider themselves top performers that responded to this post lean towards moving on rather than doing primarily maintenance work for years on end. I've seen similar sentiments echoed b
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Yet you are arguing grunt work shouldn't exist and the fact it does means you should automate it. This may just be a sore point for me because of the number of times I've had to clean up messes created by people with the "aut

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