Frost1x

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by Frost1x 6y ago
It is when you call it vacation or paid time off. Call it "work delay credits" or something of that nature. There's an implication from PTO of a different era where you weren't required to makeup work you missed while on
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Time off is one of the greatest scams in the modern economy. Unless you work a position where the time increment of your work is less than the amount of time you take off, ultimately you end up being pushed to do the same amount of work in
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by Frost1x 6y ago
>I suspect many consumers wouldn't like to know that the $1500 iPhone they just bought only has $400 worth of actual parts in. This is neglecting software development, maintenance, new features rolled out, etc. Yes, you're over
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Looks interesting, but based on the privacy policy terms of data usage, transferability, and so forth, I can't in good faith test with real financial data: https://projectifi.io/privacy-policy.html Everytime I see a to
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by Frost1x 6y ago
The US is all about risk, money, and power transfer. Maybe everywhere is but I've only lived in the US. In the case of of CCs, there is an assumption that a certain portion of people will take high interest credit offered by the cards
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by Frost1x 6y ago
I've worked with many data scientists. I've worked with talented scientists (including a nobel laureate), talented engineers, medical doctors of various expertise, many well groomed/credentialed people (Harvard, Yale, MIT, Ca
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Not just the photos but the initial publicity. People remember the beginnings of things if they're broadcasted through mass media. I recall many people claiming this a 'big win' at the time and attributing to the sitting pres
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by Frost1x 6y ago
I always find the dichotomy we have regarding human subject experimentation interesting in the US. We essentially have two ecosystems of human subjects as to what is allowed and isn't: public and privately funded. The contrast is a bit
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by Frost1x 6y ago
I agree. Clean and efficient abstractions (oxymoron?) to handle data management just doesn't exist. ORMs are great until they're not, at which point you do need to understand SQL and idiosyncrasies of the underlying relational dat
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by Frost1x 6y ago
>The US is such an odd country. It's not odd once you understand our culture celebrates and almost worships exploitation of some form or the other. It may be exploitation of science and engineering leading to technological growth th
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by Frost1x 6y ago
The answer to 'when' is likely going to be: after we collect data about user views, sign in rates, return rates, etc. Someone highup wants a money grab but they also want to know roughly how much money there is to grab and how muc
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by Frost1x 6y ago
This was a fun trip down memory lane, lots of nostalgic good-feels. I wasn't aware of either effort and this brought back the sense of an era of computing I once loved. It reminds me how transparent (perhaps moving towards ubiquitous c
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by Frost1x 6y ago
No, clearly not against syphilis , against a variety of other preventable diseases (read the sentence before the excerpt). I'm generalizing that we jump to treatment over prevention in health. In the specific case of syphilis, a con
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by Frost1x 6y ago
>With the risk of contracting a deadly disease falling to almost zero, condoms fell even more out of favor than they already were, says Park. >"If one man is taking PrEP and the other one is virally suppressed, there's no HI
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by Frost1x 6y ago
That's not entirely true: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/151... There's an authentication piece (sec 4) that allows telecos to block calls that are unauthentic in origin.
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by Frost1x 6y ago
From what I've read about the research here, there is something around 1% of the population that regularly answers and interacts with spam calls. Obviously, there's a lower rate for which portion of those follow through and result
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Shopping privatized policy through your wallet/feet just doesn't work. It requires critical mass from consumers and the largest portion of consumers will not, or perhaps are in situations where they cannot, resist with their feet&
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Isn't 'marketing' just 'lobbying' to the general public? It's all a bunch or propoganda and unscrupulous behavior made possible by abusing amassed wealth. I suppose being lobbied has more perks like nice dinner
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by Frost1x 6y ago
The issue with this is that tax code is often used as a proxy to fix all sorts of social problems that lead to inequality. We give tax breaks to subsets of populations who really need them. We also push policy through tax incentives, for ex
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by Frost1x 6y ago
I often wonder if there are points in human understanding where there is an opportunistic amount of existing knowledge, current exploration of knowledge, and sets of ideas floating around that lead to these sorts of surges of shared ideas a
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Depending on what is meant by 'programming,' computer science really grew out of mathematics and occasionally physics departments at colleges in the late 50s and early 60s. Disciplines started establishing CS departments in the US
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by Frost1x 6y ago
I think that's always been a threat. If a large business decides to target an area you develop a system for, you're basically out of luck unless you have some novel IP that's difficult to replicate. You really have to have
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by Frost1x 6y ago
If you want more and more people to checkout of consumerism, removing public restrooms is a great start. It doesn't directly effect me so much (I'm apparently part camel) but indirectly, some loved ones I've traveled with nee
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by Frost1x 6y ago
More than Starbucks alone can or should be forced to provide. Where that number lies I'm not entirely sure, but I imagine interstate commerce and population densities would be a pretty good starting point.
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by Frost1x 6y ago
As someone who has done it for over a decade, in software, it's totally doable providing your org has all the infrastructure and has a culture that successful business requires treating their employees like humans who need to socialize
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by Frost1x 6y ago
And the Hawaii incident was over an official alert system which hit far more than cell phones: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_al... This Twitter incident is a complete joke in comparison. Whi
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by Frost1x 6y ago
I tend not to use these sort of services except for quick hack purposes, which I suppose this is exactly designed for. Unfortunately, those needs vary so widely I can't try to keep track of these sort of services and just Google/
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by Frost1x 6y ago
My thoughts exactly. Load bearing structures tend to be permanent or not frequently changed (on the order of decades). Now someone wants to place a battery in that structure? I hope they develop a mechanism that allows exchange of the batte
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by Frost1x 6y ago
The problem is that responsibility and risk in busienss gets passed down to those that do the actual work. You're not really concerned about your blog going from 2 readers to 1M/day, you're concerned that iff your blog volu
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by Frost1x 6y ago
While I do agree, it's also often incredibly difficult to compare monetarily. Plans vary in coverage and out of pocket expenses significantly combined with the fact you don't know what you will need to use the insurance for, if an

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