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by Nbox9 6y ago
I’m working on a pet theory that the pandemic will cause a brief period of reverse urbanization. These happen sometimes, such as UK during WW2. Long term cities are still a good bet as urbanization has been happening as long as we have re
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Do you believe this effect applies to you? If not, why. If you believe in this effect, and still keep a smartphone, why?
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The virus most likely came from close contact between animals and humans in which humans wanted to consume the animal. Virtually all of the new infectious diseases come from animal to human transmissions, and virtually all of those come fr
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by Nbox9 6y ago
Surely we have the ability, we just don’t operate on the timescale required nor would want to invest the amount of resources required. We make significant manipulations of our own ecosystem accidentally all the time.
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The probationary period seems incredibly stressful for the employee. If I am currently employed I would never switch to a role that uses a probationary period as a significant evaluation step because of the risks of leaving my stable emplo
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> If Facebook completely loses their young demographic network effects it would be very difficult for them to regain them. Facebook has had incredible success at mimicking other companies’ features, and when that fails purchasing major c
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by Nbox9 6y ago
> artificial scarcity Remember, Facebook was running on a PHP backend. Apache spins up an entire _process_ for every HTTP request it receives. Facebook was most likely buying their own hardware. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were ru
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by Nbox9 6y ago
> Facebook was so much more fun when... Wow. It’s been a long time since I thought of Facebook as fun, and at this point it’s been not-fun longer than it’s been fun.
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The Fed provides stability around the USD market. It deploys a wide variety of polices that attempt to manage inflation, deflation, liquidity, and overall confidence in the USD. Without this stability the USD would be significantly less v
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Did you watch the video of him using it? While it’s a very common phrase while speaking Mandarin, and while I do not think this is a fireable offense, the professor could have chosen one of dozens of other examples in his lecture very easi
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by Nbox9 6y ago
I think this is a better sign of your own hygiene than it is the apple product. Perhaps the oils, sweat, etc are more visible on Apple mice, but they are still collected on other items.
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by Nbox9 6y ago
I live in a place where mask rules are not enforced. There is a growing split between places people gather without masks and places people gather with masks. Unless completely unavoidable I only go to places where everyone is wearing a ma
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I’ve meet lots of American roofers in the Deep South and the mountain west. Roofing pays more than the average construction position because of the risks involved and many Americans choose it. It’s also fairly easy to start a roofing comp
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by Nbox9 6y ago
The answer to that question is the answer to the critical question “Can we use solar to help replace oil, natural gas, and coal.” That’s really a different thing that what this article talks about. This article is about how solar can hel
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by Nbox9 6y ago
Good point. The maximum distance the attacker could be would be limited by the act of releasing an insect and the biological limitations of insects (lifespan, travel speed), not by the range of the wireless communication.
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It would be a very hard challenging to build a high resolution image from several low level images. I haven’t heard of any similar work. This is an interesting problem space.
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Imagine releasing the bug near a restricted area. The attacker can hope it gets past security and gain images from inside the restricted area. If it gets caught then the attacker if up to 120M away, which is a good head start.
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Could a cockroach carry both the cockroach control device and the camera? Does the micro camera have enough low light capabilities to be useful in the dark? Are there any animal ethics to be taken into consideration for attempting this ro
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by Nbox9 6y ago
I often wonder if I am hurting my career by not responding to IMs/Emails after 6pm or on the weekends (unless there is a production emergency).
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> the company moved away from the framework without technical justification I think this alone is enough justification to look for a new place to work, but I’m just a job hopping millennial.
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> Innovation is an awful word because it means different things to different people. The word innovation is awesome at dedicating when someone is speaking bullshit. When someone says the word innovation I assume they are a politician, ma
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Large companies have more value than startups, so it takes more time to lose that value. Large companies also have expertise in value preservation and value creation. Startups usually only have expertise in value creation. I’m not sure I 1
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That’s really close to what the article says. It also suggests flexing the feature in Prod, which is a totally valuable thing. The article is mostly about the “Chuck it over the fence” mentality some developers and engineering cultures hav
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by Nbox9 6y ago
If you like Ruby on Rails so much, why don’t you find a job programming Ruby on Rails? There are so many.
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As a software developer I personally refuse to work on HIPAA compliant software, because if there is a HIPAA violation I can be held liable.
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Probably for some operations. This would allow more of the intercepted and decrypted messages to become evidence in court. This would encourage more law enforcement agencies to use more backdoors. IANAL
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I wouldn’t expect a modern pager to operate on the same technology as older pager. Pagers are a thing and they have there uses. I’ve heard of a physical pager being used to symbolize who is “on call”, and a team of engineers will pass the
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by Nbox9 6y ago
I think the purpose of LFS is to serve as an educational tool. In that way having more verbose steps teaches more.
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This isn’t technically true in a lot of ways. Social security is taxed at 12.4% for up to $137,700 in wages, and technically 6.2% come from your paycheck and 6.2% come from the employer. There is Medicare taxes, which could be considered
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> “everything is alive/sentient” Here is a six hour mathematically rigorous lecture by John Conway in which he argues either everything has free will or nothing has free will. I’m not trying to convince you everything is sentient,

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