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by WoahNoun 5y ago
He is a bigot because he holds bigoted opinions about members of the LGBTQ community.
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
There are centuries (millennia?) of philosophical thought on ethics and morality that is disconnected from religion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
What I pasted is a response to the question about a bigoted professor at Princeton. >Robert George is an example of someone you’ve praised publicly, who has deeply held, well-considered viewpoints that I think would be hard for some stud
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
Interesting interview. Lot of good points. My biggest disagreement is this one point: >In some ways, I feel like Robby is an easy case. However profoundly I may disagree with him, he’s really good about being respectful to other people i
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
Prime video only exists because of the incremental prime sign-ups, prime renewals, and prime spending money on physical retail. It's all they care about.
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
When do you think their physical books category was profitable? Because their earnings filings from 2000-2007 certainly suggest that they were making a boatload of money on books. Their Media segment was making a ton of money while their EG
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
You make a lot of claims in this thread about Amazon's e-commerce profitability, but I don't think you understand their e-commerce business at all. Physical ecommerce was massively profitable and paid for all the losses on the dig
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
This isn't an accurate view of Amazon's current position in physical ecommerce. They always planned for each unprofitable line to become profitable as it matured. Amazon's doesn't have many loss leaders in physical ecomm
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
This is a myopic view. Amazon's physical retail has been amazingly profitable for a long time. And when you go into the oldest categories of physical retail (books, electronics, baby, fashion, etc), they were each massively unprofitabl
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
The non-taxation side of that argument is that Bezos can invest better than I can and he can leverage those investments more than I can due to the technology that exists within the company,
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
My first major programming project was in high school circa 2005. A basic graphing calculator written in JAVA with Spring and all the UI elements made in MS Paint. I wish I still had that code.
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
The article even explicitly says "modern image" in the title. Those paintings posted below are certainly not the "modern image" of Santa in the US.
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
What are you trying to imply with that last hashtag?
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
It is neither obscure nor domain specific. Unless you consider all of sports to be domain specific.
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
> 2021-12-03 08:42: Jordy tweets and deletes about “read arbitrary files on the host, no authentication needed” (Editor’s note: We were not aware of this until 2021-12-07.) Doesn't quite sound like an "ethical hacker" to m
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
>GCP was not a productization of their existing infrastructure Neither was AWS.
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
Yea this confuses me too. Many advertisements have made me aware of things that I would be interested in but didn't know about. Marketing and advertising can be valuable to those on the receiving end.
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
For example, the text advertisements on the side of Advent of Code. It wouldn't feel right to block those.
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
When he was actively CEO, he had an entire team devoted to sorting through those emails. They would filter the obvious spam and send the genuine customer complaints directly to him. Which usually led to the infamous question mark emails and
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
It wouldn't help El Salvadore. But it would prevent the future fallout from spreading to other markets.
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
>The price of bitcoin seesawed later Saturday after El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, whose country adopted bitcoin as a national currency in September, said in a Twitter post that the country had bought 150 coins for an average of $48
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
This problem also exists in manufacturing. If you make 1,000,000 widgets and randomly sample 1,000 for quality control, how can you be sure if your processes are reliable if all of the samples pass inspection. Luckily with most physical pro
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
Well this isn't true at all. I'm shocked anyone would upvote this nonsense.
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
I usually use AoC with some specific goals or limitation in mind to teach myself. The problems will not require OOP, but if you force yourself to solve each problem using OOP... Last year I did typescript and tried to really focus in on the
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
Self-hosting has a cost as well. Not sure why you are comparing a free-tier to a non-free option.
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
It my not be FP, but I imagine it will be heavily type dependent and Haskell has one of the best type systems of any programming language.
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
This is also my experience. Resume is just a filter to starting the next round of a rather rigorous interview process. If I'm doing a technical interview, I just want to see how you think through the questions. If it's non-technic
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
It's basic math. If you are 20% of the industry right now and stay the same size while the industry grows 10x, you become 2% of the industry and a essentially a non-factor. You've yahoo'd yourself.
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
You should have negotiated for equity. That's where all the real money is. RSUs/ISOs/NSOs whatever. If you were CTO of a revenue generating project and didn't get a % of the business, that is what you did wrong.
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
If your brand is a registered trademark, you can have google stop your competitors from referencing it in search ad copy. https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/6118?hl=en

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