AFNobody

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by AFNobody 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16031849 I'm still kind of amused y'all think you can just magically automate and abstract things perfectly without consequences in all situations.
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by AFNobody 9y ago
That is a fair criticism. :/ I always tended to view "1X" as in "average" and then 10X as in "10X better than average" which I've seen happen in narrow competencies of a specific architecture/sit
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by AFNobody 9y ago
> If you're not being challenged in your job (i.e. doing grunt work), you either need to find a harder job within the company (it might be automating away grunt work), or failing that, a different company. Honestly, the only serious
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by AFNobody 9y ago
> I agree with all of your characterizations. I couldn't spend year after year doing maintenance grunt work. Luckily, I get health benefits through my wife's job so I can jump back and forth between full time and contract work
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by AFNobody 9y ago
> But the truth is that all the infrastructure for surveillance is going to be built anyway, if not by us then by our enemies or private industry. It's better to accept that it is going to be built and use our resources as best we c
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by AFNobody 9y ago
> On the other hand, if you feel you are a top performer and want to work with other top performers, you wouldn't want to work at a place with mediocre developers. This could just be because I'm a mediocre developer (1X) but: 1
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by AFNobody 9y ago
> Is it 0.01%, 0.1% or 1%? Who knows. I said it wasn't common which you are acknowledging. Simply because less some small percentage of people can mange it doesn't make it repeatable.
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by AFNobody 9y ago
> If I visit a site for the first time without any ad blocking enabled, and realize it provides no value, how do I reverse my exposure to those ads? How do I claw back whatever data their tracking scripts collected about me? The exposure
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by AFNobody 9y ago
From the Article: "During this time, they'll charge a small rent to its clients who stay in Trinity Place in order to have a budget covering taxes, insurance, utilities, and general maintenance." Its basically the charity ver
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by AFNobody 9y ago
> If you provide value, people (myself included) will happily pay for it. If it has no value, stop accessing it instead of blocking the ads.
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by AFNobody 9y ago
I'm talking about number of people able to do it rather than the specific individuals who have gotten into that position.
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by AFNobody 9y ago
> Consultants with relatively high rates are not unicorns, any more than lawyers or doctors with high rates are. This is not just repeatable, this is a fairly reasonable career path, much like “work at AppAmaGooBookSoft” is a lucrative b
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by AFNobody 9y ago
> But are you saying there is NO way to improve one's position in life and income? I never stated that was the case. > That, if a path can't be shown repeatedly and reliably in a double-blind clinical study, there is no val
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by AFNobody 9y ago
Please provide literally any evidence you have that the average consultant can reliably and repeatedly generate 5-figures-a-week-individual consultancy. I can already tell you no such evidence exists but if you want to search for it, you ar
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by AFNobody 9y ago
A consultant making 5 figures a week, in practical terms, is a unicorn that is not reliably repeatable. Most people cannot maintain that level of marketing while maintaining an income (as a consultant) effectively. If they could, every prog
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by AFNobody 9y ago
I think the fact you did not rise to the occasion makes my point. You just assume everyone is a Democrat that doesn't agree with you and you can't think of such a list without serious time investment.
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by AFNobody 9y ago
There is stuff they do for cheat/crack detection that involve https is the only thing I can think of.
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by AFNobody 9y ago
> (my karma will likely not survive this) the title should probably read "Mastadon makes the Internet feel like an safe echo chamber again." As someone who is banned from Twitter but not on Mastadon. Eh, I don't think your
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by AFNobody 9y ago
> This is the problem with cyber security: Even if you're the most knowledgeable organization on earth you still fuck it up. Any one person can fuck up any one thing and if it isn't part of your predetermined threat vector anal
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by AFNobody 9y ago
Documentation of open source projects is a great example of the tragedy of the commons.
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by AFNobody 9y ago
Do you happen to know something similar that just targets LAN subnets?
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by AFNobody 9y ago
https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filing/1051157755251 C'mon now, how dumb do we think we are that these are legit comments? > Name of Filer: Barack Obama > Address: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 2050
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President Obama's Fake FCC Comment against his own policy(fcc.gov)
41 points by AFNobody 9y ago|6 comments
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by AFNobody 9y ago
Correct. The OP was very noble but quite misguided. 0) Let it burn was how CA operated until we started fighting fires and building in unsafe spaces and it worked pretty well. The Thomas Fire is a good example of this problem. You can reduc
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by AFNobody 9y ago
> But this is about the words the administration is soliciting from a department for an elaborate marketing document. Someone tell me why, apart from the principles and precedents of it all, any of this matters? Because there is a real d
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by AFNobody 9y ago
> What? The break the internet movement didn't mention that part? That censorship by ISPs was ok under net neutrality? 1) You are in favor of censorship without clear disclosure. 2) You believe its acceptable such censorship should
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by AFNobody 9y ago
I would suggest you could create your own replacement for the sites that offend you. Free market competition exists for websites and there is probably a market for it if you are upset about it.
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by AFNobody 9y ago
> We've already got cellular data service that's much better than the first DSL line my family got. That stranglehold is weaker than you might think. Good luck using 500GB of cellular in a month.
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by AFNobody 9y ago
It isn't two years old. Its been a heavily disputed area of law/regulation since 1996 with various patchworks that served similar functions. From actual regulation, to threatening to regulate if there was too much backlash, to reg
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by AFNobody 9y ago
> I do however find the doom and gloom prognostications around Title II repeal to be incredibly hyperbolic and unhelpful. Fact is, Title II was only introduced in 2015. It's not like repeal in 2017 is going to end the Internet overn

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