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“The World’s Most Dangerous Malware”(eenews.net)
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by HillRat 8y ago
Those are rather lower than what I would expect to pay for top India-based talent (however, I don’t buy on the open market), but not too many sigmas out of expectation. More like five or six devs once you factor in both US salary and benefi
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by HillRat 8y ago
I think there are some practical consequences to his line of thought that bear scrutiny. For Hardin, the base consumptive unit is racial or national; the world can be understood as races (and, within races, differing social classes) competi
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by HillRat 8y ago
That’s the issue, innit? All the extremely cool tech is the prerequisite for the privacy-invading, democracy-busting, user-hostile, ethics-dismissing business model of the company. You can’t disentangle the “cool stuff” from the “bad stuff,
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by HillRat 8y ago
Yeah, it’s the inherent tension between wanting a client that knows they’re in a crisis, and the fact that companies in a crisis might not be able to pay you. Yes, they’re ready to make the hard decisions; no, they might not have the financ
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by HillRat 8y ago
Oh, I’ve seen executive leadership fall for unscrupulous/ignorant consultants pitching a “burn your stack, move everything to the cloud/LCNC/SaaS, and fire your developers” approach. Invariably either the company or the CEO’s
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by HillRat 8y ago
I’m just trying to figure out how an estimate is supposed to cover PMO, design, dev, QA, and deployment for $70K over 6-9 months. That’s ... an unusual cost and time breakdown, to put it mildly.
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by HillRat 8y ago
Eric Meyer’s CSS books for O’Reilly are unsurprisingly exhaustive. For incremental, hands-on work, try using Codepen to slowly work your way through bounded use cases (e.g., set up a pen and just work on styling buttons, or flex layout, or
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by HillRat 8y ago
That was an evolutionary dead end that didn’t persist; since every other browser that followed focused on retrieval and display, not editing, they didn’t need to distinguish between “follow this link” and “open this link for editing.” (To b
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by HillRat 8y ago
DOE also enriched weapons-grade plutonium at the Savannah River (SC) site, built after Hanford and thus somewhat less environmentally catastrophic. It’s still an operating facility, but for tritium, not plutonium.
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by HillRat 8y ago
Great, succinct points. Also worth noting that a different Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors think-tank (of which the Breakthrough Institute is a subsidiary-ish entity) agrees with your economic analysis regarding nuclear power plants start
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by HillRat 8y ago
If you’re doing client work there — and you may not be! —- you’re responsible for the portion of the income earned in that state (you have “nexus,” in the parlance — I’m less sure about merely having presence in a state even if the work isn
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by HillRat 8y ago
Generally, if you’re going to standardize on a single data repository, a traditional RDBMS will be a better fit than a NoSQL solution, unless you really need polymorphic capabilities and have a document-centric conceptual model (such as a C
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by HillRat 8y ago
That makes it worse ; enacting a law intended to be selectively enforced based on the offender is just tyranny with a fig leaf and traduces the principle that one prosecutes the crime, not the criminal. Once you write laws to be used again
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by HillRat 8y ago
In Hollywood that’s ... complex. There’s nothing stopping you from filming a production with non-IATSE (or any other union) labor, but you wouldn’t be able to get union labor or “above the line” union talent (actors, writers, directors, etc
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by HillRat 8y ago
Yeah, but you had to get a Royal charter to create a limited liability company in those days. New York passed the first modern legislation allowing individuals to create LLCs/PLCs; the UK followed suit some decades later.
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by HillRat 8y ago
Nobody performs lobotomies anymore — haven’t since the ‘70s. You’re thinking of corpus callostomies, which sever hemispherical connections in order to limit the spread of epileptic signals. While they prompt fascinating questions regarding
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by HillRat 8y ago
True — I simply added up NASA’s budget in constant dollars through the moon landings for maximum effect, but the Apollo program in isolation would have been less. (Still took an estimated 400,000 personnel to pull it off, though!) To my unt
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by HillRat 8y ago
I, for one, am shocked that these guys couldn’t crowdfund their way to Mars. After all, it only cost NASA (frantically punching numbers into a 4-function desk calculator) $315bn to get to the Moon in current dollars. I mean, that’s only 77x
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by HillRat 8y ago
Technically, you can give money to a federal agency, but (with few exceptions) they in turn have to forward the money to the Treasury for the general fund.
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by HillRat 8y ago
The CDC schedule is designed to minimize the risk of infants contracting preventable diseases during periods when they are highly vulnerable. In addition, clinical research and experience is based on the recommended schedule, so once you’re
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by HillRat 8y ago
A decade ahead of the industry! Was that Hood’s early work at Caltech?
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by HillRat 8y ago
The factual and evidentiary bar for treason is quite deliberately high in the US; in this case, if Trump colluded with the Russian government it would represent a violation of campaign laws (and a scandal of historic proportions!) but (Russ
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by HillRat 8y ago
It arose in the context of maritime shipping, and so was essentially an analogue to floodplain exclusions — i.e., “If you’re going to sail in defiance of a likely sinking or seizure by a hostile power, don’t expect us to make you whole.” It
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by HillRat 8y ago
Aaronson’s “Quantum Computing Since Democritus” is quite good. For hands-on examples, pull down the Microsoft quantum development kit, which includes the Q# programming language and the ability to run programs on a simulated quantum compute
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by HillRat 8y ago
“[Former NSA analyst] Stroud said her background as an intelligence operative made her comfortable with human rights targets as long as they weren’t Americans. “We’re working on behalf of this country’s government, and they have specific in
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by HillRat 8y ago
The article discusses the lengths Huawei went to in order to obtain hardware specifications in order to build a clone. However, Tappy appears to be an incrementally-evolved version of the open-source Tapster robot, making this akin to an au
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by HillRat 8y ago
Plus bad corporate paper is a highly-correlated procyclical problem, which will be extremely not-fun when the economy starts seriously slowing (especially since the government shot their fiscal stimulus arrow with the tax cuts and the Fed i
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by HillRat 8y ago
You could short publicly-traded PE firms with unfavorable profiles, go after companies with bad current ratios and operational cashflow, or just short the market. Dangerous game, though — remember that the market can stay irrational longer
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However, the same scientist characterizes the research as showing that “a little bit of a nudge is going to have an outsized impact” on the Greenland ice pack, which is basically the paradigmatic definition of a “tipping point.” She objects

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