ChemicalWarfare

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by ChemicalWarfare 8y ago
>> Here is the hard thing to swallow: Some people are worth more than others. I would add a qualifier here - "in some situations". As human beings per se we all are "worth" the same. When acting in a specific capac
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
in some circles it is considered "cool" to be admixed or foreign. there's also a fair amount of virtue signaling attached to that as well.
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
how far of a distance before the line is drawn? by that logic chimps are also " a group of humans that genetically differ to an unexpected degree from modern humans."
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> We don’t describe speeders as “illegal drivers.” that's not apples to apples. "illegal driver" would be someone who is breaking the law by the very fact of them driving - ppl with no DLs for example. same with illega
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
I'll just pick on the low hanging fruit here: >> Conservative media does a very good job at keeping at least 50% of the country comically uninformed... goes both ways depending on your "camp". it's funny though how
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
debit cards(not to be confused with bank cards) are closer to credit cards than ACH. in some cases - for example "signature debit" vs "pin debit" - just about identical from the flow perspective. which is why you can use
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> but has a delay for clearing... not only is there an ODFI-clearing house - RDFI delay caused by the actual "clearing" process - the whole flow starting from the merchant->payment processor step is a sequence of nightl
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> Bitcoin is supposed to be a currency. not really. it's a "...peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
depends on your definition of "career". there's nothing preventing you from getting to a senior architect/staff engineer/senior consultant etc type level working from home. if your goal is to be an actual manager (n
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
Speaking of backups :) We had a very large mission-critical system that we developed and hosted for a fortune 50 client. Long story short - prod DB with tons of records took a crap, proper RCA was never done I suspected HW failure of some
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
ok, so 4 pools have over 50% of the hashing power, add 4 more pools right under them and you're at >70%. ( https://blockchain.info/pools ). if that's not centralized I don't know what is. the only argument I
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
From my personal experience (which probably has to do with working in industries where incoming data has a wide array of clients who need it ASAP) - the biggest challenge with any distributed DB system is the problem of "reading your
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
Not sure why he's getting downvoted. for a "decentralized" currency bitcoin is quite centralized and is not that hard to control "IRL" so to speak. We're talking like 10 subpoenas/cease and desist orders t
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
NoSQL is a great fit for OLAP-type systems where there's tons of high volume writes, eventual consistency (or BASE in general) is good enough, strict schema is not enforced and the consumer - data scientist or a customer service rep et
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
for me personally the bigger issue is the actual 9-5ish work hours. I'm way more productive later in the day, so if the schedule would allow something like a Noon-4 pm/break/8 pm -midnight type breakdown I'm all for that
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
Well, yea there are scenarios where encryption alone doesn't help, but again it's one of the cornerstones of data safety. Other security measures like restricting data access to a limited set of source ips, masking of the data ret
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>>Encryption is not a panacea. Sure. But it is a good first step, a must really when dealing with sensitive data. Proper encryption at rest, like let's say a 256 bit AES encryption with a symmetric key itself encrypted with a PKI
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> Sugar is 3x as expensive in the US as it is in latin america. Why? We have restrictions on imports, and thus we have to have american companies growing sugar. not sure this example applies to China blocking FB for example. they are
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
Not sure why he's getting downvoted. Unions are only interested in company's existence but even then very often they are willing to see it go to the brink not budging on concessions etc. Not to mention the whole objection to the &
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
there are some pretty notorious organizations out there who did "something good" at some point in the past, but that still doesn't justify bringing them back or endorsing them.
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
Before something like this happens we need to address the costs. There are ridiculous situations where you can pay $X in cash but when using insurance the charge against the policy will be $X*4 or higher. Or the fact that ~half of what your
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
What about sales engineers though? I've never seen them get commissions even though in a vast majority of cases they are the ones doing the heavy lifting of convincing the client's tech team[s] to go with the product/solution
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
Ok, so how about we lower the tax the "american workers" (more like upper middle class) are paying? Get rid of progressive tax system maybe? Fix the situation where the "bottom 50%" aren't paying anything thus makin
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
upvoted. as far as the rural areas vs ACA are concerned - before ACA a lumberjack/construction/handyman/hunting-fishing guide etc type dude could by themselves cheap health insurance that wouldn't break the bank off-seas
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> So you understand that the amount emitted over time is not equal to the amount currently present? I do, but you don't seem to since you came back with an attempt to quantify the "amount emitted over time" my question
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
that's not apples to apples. how much CO2 was naturally emitted in that timeframe? that would be an apples-to-apples comparison.
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> You talk about a 4% yearly excess as if that was a small amount! This analogy would only make sense if somehow this 4% wasn't spent or was spent differently than the rest of the money. Also don't forget we're talkin
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
...except that figure is less than 4%. about 8 gigatons are attributed to humans out of ~220 gigatons injected into the atmosphere overall on a yearly basis. the kicker is - the percentage of CO2 in the overall greenhouse pool is also in th
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
That's not what I asked. If total CO2 in the atmosphere is 100%, what portion of that number is attributed to human activity? Also, CO2 itself - out of all of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - what percentage belongs to CO2?
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> anthropogenic warming is down to the direct heating effect of CO2... OK, let's say this was the case. First question - what percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere is attributed to human activity?

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