MagicWishMonkey

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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
On the way to the airport in Mumbai we were flagged over by a cop and he told us that having luggage on the roof of the car was "illegal" and he issued us a 200 rupee "fine" for it. If we had been running late we might h
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
The whole point is that sort of thing shouldn't be necessary. The government shouldn't have the authority to demand you hand over the contents of your phone/laptop without reasonable suspicion in the first place.
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
The point is guys like Musk need people like us to work and pay taxes to keep the system humming along.
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
It's pretty neat that the Democrats and Republicans have no problem cooperating when it comes to screwing the American people.
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
FCC rulings can be overruled via congress or by the FCC itself in the future. It takes an act of God to overturn a treaty.
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
I've never seen it happen, either, which is why I tend to jump ship every 12-24 months. I really don't understand why companies are so nonchalant about employee retention.
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
The last time this happened to me (in 2011) I was with one of the big consulting firms and the guy in charge of recruiting put up notices everywhere with a job listing for my current position except with a 5-10% higher salary. That being sa
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
So a potential employer can verify your current salary through the government? That's terrible. I don't think employers have that ability here in the states, but I could be wrong.
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
If your company doesn't appreciate enough to pay you market rate unless you explicitly ask for it, you're better off finding a different employer.
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
That's pretty ridiculous. I guess I don't feel bad about being less than honest when asked by a potential employer about my current salary. It's really none of their business.
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
He does what I did in the same situation, spend 5 minutes finding a new job before turning in his 2 week notice. I don't do the "lets re-negotiate my salary" bit, it's up to my employer to keep me at or above market rate
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
It would be one thing if the salary was substantially higher than what you can get elsewhere, but it's not. The other perks sound really nice, but not nice enough to deal with the headache of interviewing there.
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
Eeking out an extra (potential) 2 years in exchange for the mental and physical torture of chemotherapy is not worthwhile for some people, particularly the elderly.
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
"If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with banknotes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coalmines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laiss
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
The point of the article is that no one knows what to do about it, and maybe we should start thinking ahead to plan for crises before they occur.
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
The part that really pissed me off was how they sent emails through my gmail account. They essentially hijacked my account to spam people.
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
weather != climate
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
I had no idea that I granted them permission to send email through my account, I thought I had restricted them to the address book. I made a mistake.
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
LinkedIn screwed me over real good a few weeks back. They sent me an email saying "There are 108 people you might want to connect with", so I click on view all and it shows a giant list of people with checkmarks by their names. Ni
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
My company relocated to San Fran a few months ago, I had to quit because moving there from Dallas made no financial sense. Even with a massive raise my monthly savings would be cut in half (or more), and spending in excess of a million doll
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
Political capital is a finite resource.
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
If you don't know the password to your system it can't be forced out of you. For example, if you have a password algorithm that takes an input value (lets say a website name) and a seed that is stored on your system somewhere (tha
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
That's a bummer, it would be worth buying a new iMac for the screen alone.
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
Woah, do you know if this works with the new retina display iMacs?
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
It would be neat if they could figure out a way to let you use an iMac screen as a secondary monitor for a mbp.
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
Collisions aren't a concern unless you're hashing trillions of records. It's not really a concern for the vast majority of software projects.
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
Are collisions really that much of a concern (other than for security reasons)? IIRC they are still incredibly rare even with older hashing algorithms like MD5.
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
Why do you say they didn't care to use a preexisting algorithm? They claim to be using industry standard encryption, that means they are using existing algorithms that have been vetted and proven to be safe (if properly implemented).
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
If Microsoft is willing to spend millions of dollars and take a huge PR hit to sue you, it's safe to assume that whatever you've built is successful/popular enough to make you very a wealthy man. At that point, who cares?
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by MagicWishMonkey 12y ago
These businesses benefit greatly from our strong economy/infrastructure/judicial system, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect them to favor American workers over foreigners. There's nothing racist about that. I

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