Phlarp

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by Phlarp 4y ago
>That's very reassuring. I'm sure the CIA has mended its ways and is now staffed and led by boyscouts. They wouldn't do anything like, say, plan to assassinate or kidnap Julian Assange out of an embassy in London. The curr
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by Phlarp 4y ago
"Actually the rolling spy box is a good thing for reasons I'm not able to articulate, but please trust I am very smart."
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Won't someone think of the children? A whole generation of high schoolers deprived of the ability to steal their daddy's luxury sedan and bang their girlfriend in the front seat without the car narcing on them.
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by Phlarp 4y ago
So much worse than that, because they go online and simp for the company after doing it
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Pass that buck on down the line.
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by Phlarp 4y ago
What would you call it if a VC was sending group chats to founders telling them to withdraw from a specific bank? Seems like ringing a bank run bell to me. My understanding is that insider knowledge on the risk literally precipitated the r
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by Phlarp 4y ago
You can't say that right now, I'm not sure anyone can. The government is literally writing a blank check because they don't yet know how much it's going to cost to fix. Everyone seems to be operating under the idea that
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by Phlarp 4y ago
How are these scenarios "use cases" for a mixer and not critical flaws in the underlying system? We're in a thread about a rogue state using the tech to steal money to fund their operations (Chemical attacks in airports, nucl
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Arguments around force projection are certainly going to be popular inside the beltway. At a certain point the deficit does become a national security concern, and announcing to our adversaries that they can exacerbate that timeline with i
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by Phlarp 4y ago
How does a $400,000 missile "miss" it's target? Surely the bulk of that $400,000 is related to targeting and guidance? If it takes a million dollars of ordnance to pop a balloon how are we not completely fucked in any real co
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by Phlarp 4y ago
The US defense industry will absolutely find a way to make the marginal cost of shooting the laser be $200k or more.
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by Phlarp 4y ago
This is nonsense. The rules can and will be easily changed if/when enough miners agree they should change.
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by Phlarp 4y ago
>Doctors are licensed, Plumbers, barbers, Lawyers, what's the issue with people in IT having a standard base of knowledge? It's hard to establish hard standards in an industry that moves as quickly as tech can, but virtually an
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by Phlarp 4y ago
>Plus, being an ex-FAANG is a huge bonus when applying for jobs at "normal" places or starts ups. YMMV on this one, depending on what you consider "normal" companies (non-tech, non-coastal, non-advertising). Plenty of
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by Phlarp 4y ago
So FAANG developers traded long term stability for stock based comp and now that deal turned sour? From a super lame C# dev at a boring company in a flyover state that's never gotten stock comp-- I used to fear a collapse in big tech t
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by Phlarp 4y ago
It's as varied as the work-- Lawyers and Doctors have professional organizations that enforce very strict credentialism, Screen actors have a loose org that enforces a firm "floor" for work conditions without hindering the ab
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by Phlarp 4y ago
SAG has absolutely no trouble raising the standards of the entire industry without any "ceilings" for the highest paid members, nor has it become a credentialism machine like state bar associations or the AMA.
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by Phlarp 4y ago
>I don't think YCombinator is doing brainwashing us or some crazy conspiracy Try posting any kind of substantial critique of a YC company and see what happens to the submission. This site is rather open and shameless about it's
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by Phlarp 4y ago
The reaction I got from previous pithy comments on unionization in past years vs. the reaction I got today from a pithy comment about unionization is absolutely night and day. The volume and pace of upvotes was eye popping and the comments
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by Phlarp 4y ago
I've been making pithy comments about tech bro unionization on the orange site for years now and I know exactly what you're talking about. Anything that even smelled like worker solidarity was shot down with vacuous logic about ho
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Absolutely yes, Gasoline is the most demanded product so their production chains are built around re-processing components into as much additional gasoline as possible. Residual products from oil are a convenient feedstock for plastic but i
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Guess tech workers should have unionized when they had the chance. As if capital was going to let the most powerful group of workers that's ever existed continue to slip their noose
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by Phlarp 4y ago
America is a recently dead empire and you are observing the corpse twitching and going into rigor.
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by Phlarp 4y ago
AI hallucinations are going to be the new database query injection. Saying that real time internet connected fact checking will solve that is every bit as naive as thinking the invention of higher level database abstractions like an ORM wil
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Compared to what? Either you're on contract and they could simply not renew it when the 1/3/6 month timeline is up, or you're an employee and they could simply lay you off without warning on a completely unpredictable an
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by Phlarp 4y ago
On the one hand PagerDuty's hiring process is shitty, but on the other hand the rest of the industry's process for identifying which heads to reduce is worse?
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by Phlarp 4y ago
If you subscribe to this logic then doesn't it follow that you're trying to rehire only 50% "bad" programmers from a pool that is (again by your definition) newly comprised of individuals a previous company recently iden
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by Phlarp 4y ago
For the purposes of this discussion, lets say “the same frequencies the radio operates on”
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Satellite based launch detection would likely suffer. Literally one detection method we use is measuring ionospheric disturbances caused by a rocket punching through the atmosphere. I’d imagine a solar storm is going to A) Destroy the sate
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by Phlarp 4y ago
Yes absolutely. A mass death event on a scale previously unseen. You'll need a bigger gun to threaten the species though. Civilization is fragile, life is resilient

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