CamTin

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by CamTin 8y ago
Back in the Dark Ages when people still had pensions and unions, this department was called "Personnel," which was perfectly descriptive and non-humiliating. This is obviously the reason it had to change to something orwellian tha
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by CamTin 8y ago
It's mainly a way to avoid having to pay out unemployment insurance: it provides documentation that you were fired "for cause". Most US companies do it, so you can't ever really count on getting unemployment benefits.
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by CamTin 8y ago
Can you explain what the phrase "book business" means?
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by CamTin 8y ago
Yes, and a federal one.
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by CamTin 8y ago
I'm not an algo trader, but you need the data from both ends of the link to determine if there is a trade you want to make, right? One side or the other is going to need prices from both ends in order to make a trading decision, and pr
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by CamTin 8y ago
Recursive?
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by CamTin 8y ago
"If you're going to be CEO, either of a startup or a large co, you're probably broadly competent or hyper-competent in a handful of areas." Any particular reasoning behind this? Why would this particular specialty (abstr
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by CamTin 8y ago
The reason we can't ever totally satisfy consumer demand is because of marketing itself. As much as the profession likes to pretend it's about informing consumers of available choices in a free market, it is more fundamentally abo
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by CamTin 8y ago
It is fashion-driven, but that's not to say that it ignores what users want. Nobody was asking for bell bottoms or leisure suits either, but people bought millions of them. Customers will say "our site needs a refresh" or &qu
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by CamTin 8y ago
Labor is also a means of turning time into capital. For example, I use my free evenings and weekends from my dayjob to hustle things on the side with the goal of earning capital in order not to need a day job.
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by CamTin 8y ago
I think "70s and 80s" is well within the definition of "before good digital computers could be produced" in the context of many industries. You guys aren't disagreeing.
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by CamTin 8y ago
Can't we just fix TLS to not have this plaintext negotiation component? It clearly isn't necessary, or domain "fronting" couldn't even work.
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by CamTin 9y ago
They've spent the past several years on a massively expensive project to add ONE lane of traffic in each direction, rather than a high-volume mass transit artery like it needs.
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by CamTin 9y ago
Yes, it's easily one of the most compelling language "features" (in quotes because its something more fundamental than that) you can have. Unfortunately, management almost never sees it that way.
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by CamTin 9y ago
The way it works with securities is: I own a stock. You think the price will go down. To make this bet, you borrow the stock from me. You then immediately sell it at the current price. Later, if the stock is down, you can buy it back at the
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by CamTin 9y ago
This is an incredible way of putting it. I'm not sure if I like what it implies, though, but I'll definitely be mulling it over. It's not a perfect analogy to securities shorting, because no one is going to lend you a house t
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by CamTin 9y ago
I'm not sure what the original intent of the 1938 law was, or how it's being abused now, but I did participate in an organization that helped the severely mentally handicapped. The charity provided them with a place to stay (a hou
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by CamTin 9y ago
...which is a goal of management, not labor.
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by CamTin 9y ago
"They can do almost anything they want to within reason and not worry about the financial consequences." No, they need to make the soundest possible investments with that money. Lots of free cash flow is not license to do "an
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by CamTin 9y ago
Palantir is private sector, but they sell to governments.
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by CamTin 9y ago
They also don't see the justice system through the eyes of a non-lawyer. If they did, we would likely see a lot of reforms that tried to simplify the courts and reduce the price of justice for ordinary citizens. As it is, that price is
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by CamTin 9y ago
Legislators and lobbyists are mainly lawyers
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by CamTin 9y ago
Ok so you're assuming 40 years instead of 30. That's where the discrepancy is. Thank you for clarifying.
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by CamTin 9y ago
I can't find a way that $500 per month adds up to "multi-million dollar net worth". Even at a very optimistic 10% return rate, it comes to just over 1.1 million over thirty years. What assumptions are you making in your calcu
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by CamTin 9y ago
You're correct, of course. Updated and fixed.
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by CamTin 9y ago
It is more honest to keep the comparison either between absolute numbers or percentages: 7% of emergency calls made by 0.16% of people 4,288 of 62,763 emergency calls made by 100 people
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by CamTin 9y ago
If you succeed, you have some blood in you, and can work on V2 architecture on some other cloud or in your own cage at a DC. This seems like a good bargain for a business that is validating whether they can make money at all, especially a V
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by CamTin 9y ago
Location: Austin, TX Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Possibly Technologies: Linux Admin (Centos/RHEL/Ubuntu/Apache/HAProxy/MySQL/cPanel/Exim/shell/etc), Python, Javascript/HTML/CSS, C&
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by CamTin 9y ago
But not enough subsidy that they are remotely affordable, hence the outrageous bills foisted upon individuals.
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by CamTin 9y ago
In the US, we essentially do require that they all be profitable or else not exist at all. This is "solved" by just charging you (or your insurance company) tons of money if you actually need to use it. A medical emergency requiri

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