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by _jal 3y ago
>People should remember the board and CEO for screwing over employees. This is important if you're staying in more or less the same field - many specialties are smaller worlds than you may think. I am somewhat bad with names, so I&#
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I take it you interpret "save money" to mean keep yourself barely fed, clothed and housed, and otherwise consuming the bare minimum so that you can maximize the amount you put away? If not, you might want to loosen your interpreta
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You must be quite certain your government will never break bad.
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> 23andme is little more than a curiosity. If you call criminal convictions "little more", sure. Many people consider that a good thing, but I'm not talking about moral valence or vibes - the point is they are an industry
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> and feel they owe the world something At least for me, this is not true. I owe the world nothing, and I give away most of my code. Motivations can more complex than debt relationships and greed.
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> I will never understand how people desire for revenge negate the bigger picture. It is more that people tend to be extremely selective about when they see that bigger picture. There are lots of smart people rotting in prison who commit
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He aimed too low.
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Please explain how you would forbid these from being serially brought without allowing bad actors to disrupt normal legislative business. "No abortion after 49 days." "No abortion after 50 days." "No hospital shall
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by _jal 3y ago
News stories can and do reveal where rich people live for targeting, reveal security weaknesses at businesses, and encourage copy-cat crimes. Public security vulnerability releases can and do lead to slow-patchers being targeted by criminal
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> Arguably the median student is exactly what public school kinda does fine with today That's pretty much what I meant. It was a descriptive claim, not a normative one. > I feel like people who are active in the education policy
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I completely agree. The first things these people with far more money than capability for introspection miss is that education is not about that next Einstein. It is about integrating the median student. If you want to find diapered brillia
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There are a few 4-way stops in San Francisco, mostly in the financial district. One at 4th & Folsom. In general, I routinely jaywalk here, traffic permitting. If nobody's coming, I just walk. In over 20 years, I've never heard
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> All things considering, I don't think the idea of not providing feedback because of legal liabilities is sound. Imagine you are GC and think about it from a risk/reward standpoint. If you let people give feedback, given enoug
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>"Find people who you think will be contrarian, and have them poke holes in the design" Socializing the design is good advice. Seeking out contrarians is not. It costs you much more to defend particular engineering tradeoffs th
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No, microservices are all about senior management's ability to map applications to people to yell at.
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You can phrase it in whatever way you prefer, but GP's point remains - a fine measured as a percentage of global revenue has been demonstrated to modify huge corporations' behavior. FWIW, I think the EU's recent legal behavio
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> Where is everyone? Get used to it. The emerging model is a virtual vending machine - if what you want isn't there, tough. If the machine breaks, well, sorry about your dollar, maybe it'll work next week. If you want to talk t
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That's funny. I _only_ buy things from Amazon that are not shipped by Amazon. Their logistics are utter garbage for me - part of it is an urban setting with nowhere to leave things, part of it is that they don't give a shit, and l
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> How much business convenience are you willing to squander over these principles I haven't seen such a clear statement of this idea in a very long time[1]. The "principles" you are trading for convenience include control
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Some people seem to believe that all the world's problems are easily solvable if only someone would yell at a lot of other people. To bring this back to HN topics, anyone have tips on trying to suss out that trait in hiring managers du
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Amazon has its own enormous scale, it doesn't need Apple's complicity.
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It is using a dump truck to sugar your coffee.
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Building things you don't need in hopes that you'll need them because things you aren't spending time on will grow to demand them is like hiring an investment manager when you're in debt.
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Yes, but wage-compression is a thing. It is the inverse of minimum wage increases putting upward pressure on incomes above them. That is one reason why solidarity works.
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> Why is the FBI writing stuff like this and publishing it? Violent extremists use a variety of dodges to attempt to avoid accountability for their behavior. You've probably seen examples - it is very common to shout "false fla
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The hilarious thing is that the emergency room mandate has long been used as an excuse for opposing universal coverage. People used to say thing like "nobody in America is dying because they can't go to the hospital," as if t
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My company went fully remote. Moved the office out of SF proper to avoid the Twitter Tax and downsized it, now it can only hold about half the locals, and most days nobody goes in. At the same time, we started hiring without geographic conc
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I'm pretty sure I've had this exact conversation with someone else, except the argument was about 77. Talking Heads somehow manages to get people agree that they're great, but keep them divided about why, exactly.
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> R. U. Serious That's R. U. Sirius, nom de plume for Ken Goffman. Before Mondo 2k, he published High Frontiers, too.
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If you're not cool with it, where are you going to go? Cisco? https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cisco-backdoor-hardcoded-a... Juniper? https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/09&

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