ChemicalWarfare

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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
+1. Totally digging Elm as well. Learning curve is pretty minimal, although I've spent some time "playing around" with Haskell which helped. Love how structured things are and even though Elm is an "in progress" kin
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
Some jobs aren't totally "remote - compatible" no doubt. My take on this is people who actually "develop stuff" or to put it bluntly - get shit done - developers, architects, field consultants, release engineers, et
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
Not the angle of the article but I'll mention this anyway - the jobs are there. With some exceptions, pretty much anyone who doesn't have a job - doesn't want one. There are situations where someone is truly "between job
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> in the real world you won't be allowed anywhere near such a position without having a degree ... yes, most likely they won't hire you for a "Data Scientist" position, but there are related jobs out there you ca
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
Very cool info. I'm not that handy though. My setup is basically an L-shape plywood top with rubberized covering.
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> You probably don't need a $1000 aeron chair... my most productive setup is a self-made workshop desk and a $40 craftsman workshop stool :)
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> I'd say that people mostly do not know what is running in industry well if anyone does know what's out there then HN crowd would be a pretty good suspect in that regard. I personally have done my fair share of consulting
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> That's the thing I don't get, so many people will advocate "fewer regulations", yet are perfectly content with prohibitive tariffs... anything that is completely unregulated or loosely regulated is prone to abus
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> HN seems to venerate startups that fail, which isn't very different from defaulting on a loan (and in many cases these startups are defaulting on loans as they shut down). I don't subscribe to the notion that "bankru
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
Yes plinking is cheap these days, no doubt. I emphasized guns because they are typically the #1 thing that takes precedence over anything house-related unless we're talking some major malfunction that needs to be addressed. And they do
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
Yup, that's a different situation. Ppl I'm talking about don't typically have too much land - we're talking 1-2 acres which we're talking about 2k per acre tops around here unless you're close to some body of w
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
Seems like back in the 60s-70s the thing to do was to get some land not too far (1-1.5hrs driving) from a reasonably sized town where there were jobs, get a trailer and then gradually build a house next to it and move there once it's r
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> it is most likely that blue collar jobs usually don't include great healthcare plans obv anecdotal but my friend who is a skilled tradesman has THE best health insurance through his union that I've ever heard of.
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
The "I don't recognize this transaction" and "the goods were not delivered as promised" chargebacks trigger different resolution flows and if the merchant can prove they are following the procedure they agreed to wh
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
not sure why he's getting downvoted. even the tip of the iceberg that is known to us warrants all sorts of prosecution.
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
This isn't chargeback-type fraud though, also not limited to card-not-present scenarios (the crooks actually print physical "copies" with stolen card info on the magstripe). If someone buys goods/services with a stolen C
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
Not sure where you getting your information from - I've worked with ppl from the Middle East and Eastern Europe and it was taking them years to get their green cards. I know this guy from Lebanon who ended up moving to Canada to work f
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by ChemicalWarfare 9y ago
>> Additionally, young people are socially and politically liberal, while KY voters overwhelmingly elected staunchly anti-LGBT representatives and were strongly in support of Trump. in case you haven't seen "Generation Z&quo
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by ChemicalWarfare 10y ago
... on the flipside though you shouldn't be competing for H1Bs with bodyshops which hopefully will be the case once the dust settles, so in the long run (hopefully) the changes that are being proposed will be beneficial to you.
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by ChemicalWarfare 10y ago
well, they are "worse off" compared to their non-H1B counterparts here but are way better off being here as opposed to staying in India, which is why they are here in the first place.
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by ChemicalWarfare 10y ago
Precheck is a must if you travel often. On the flip side - pre-check lines are sometimes longer then "regular", esp on Monday/Friday mornings when the frequent-flying business crowd is there.
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by ChemicalWarfare 10y ago
>> Whenever I had the misfortune of flying United (an ever rarer occasion as I wizened up to the situation and later to "codeshare" flights), half the gate was at the counter, jockeying for perks and arguing status and privi
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by ChemicalWarfare 10y ago
I would add that one way to gently enforce the stack when the system is getting built from scratch is having a solid end-to-end "POC"/"skeleton"/whatever you want to call it built by a senior architect before t
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by ChemicalWarfare 10y ago
takes will + effort to fight entropy. "your self" in this case is just a manifestation of a physical entropy-prone world that you are dealing with. some of that is pre-programmed or instilled by the circumstance, anything above a
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by ChemicalWarfare 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixation_(population_genetics)
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by ChemicalWarfare 10y ago
if a random mutation in a given specimen doesn't give them an immediate "evolutionary advantage" - what is the fixation mechanism then?
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by ChemicalWarfare 10y ago
you tell me since I don't see how this proves/disproves the "bitcoin is centralized af" statement...
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by ChemicalWarfare 10y ago
If these "3 miners" are controlling the majority of the hashing power - which isn't too far fetched from how the things really are - we're literally talking like 10 physical individuals here - then yes, they get to tell
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by ChemicalWarfare 10y ago
sure, there are things that are obviously "bad" for all of the miners. but the reality isn't as cut-and-dry - there are things that are up for a debate - but with this centralization there is no debate, or rather the debate i
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by ChemicalWarfare 10y ago
Fork and then what? Unless you have formidable percentage of the total hashing power you're dead in the water. But if you do have it and with this bitcoin centralization it's not physically hard to control then you can threaten t

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