all_blue_chucks

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by all_blue_chucks 9y ago
Oracle bought PeopleSoft. Oracle HR is PeopleSoft.
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by all_blue_chucks 9y ago
BCH, it should be noted, has nothing to do with Bitcoin other than appropriating the name...
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by all_blue_chucks 9y ago
Call me with AMD launches something that supports extended ISA.
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by all_blue_chucks 9y ago
California is also losing residents by discouraging migration via high taxes. For example, I had two job offers: one in California and one in Washington. Since this was a $200k+ job, that income tax in CA would have cost me $40 grand per ye
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by all_blue_chucks 9y ago
A programmer with 20 years of experience would be making $250k - $350k in Seattle.
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by all_blue_chucks 9y ago
This is probably because most American's exposure to unions is the teacher's union, and the teacher's union promotes based on tenure, not merit.
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by all_blue_chucks 9y ago
Is it an HMO? Because those can bankrupt you if you go out of network...
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by all_blue_chucks 9y ago
The biggest factors in economic productivity are labor and technology (aka efficiency). Labor growth may be slowing, but technology growth is accelerating.
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by all_blue_chucks 9y ago
Care to explain? How is an OS update insufficient?
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by all_blue_chucks 9y ago
It wouldn't be hard to start a company that builds a radio that buffers every reasonably-strong signal for instant switching...
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by all_blue_chucks 9y ago
Have you considered that your grandma might be blackholing IPv6 packets to a raspberry pi in order to have an excuse to call you?
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by all_blue_chucks 9y ago
People who take cold showers are just as sick, but call off work less? Maybe it's because the misery from the cold water masks the misery from the illness?
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by all_blue_chucks 9y ago
Amazon is actually obsessed with NOT becoming Sears. Internally, companies like Sears are referred to as "Day 2 companies." Day 2 companies are trying to maintain the status quo. Day 1 companies, like Amazon, are constantly trying
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by all_blue_chucks 9y ago
All the linux commands I need I can find in windows-native format using scoop.sh. No filesystem trickery needed.
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by all_blue_chucks 9y ago
Are you lost? This is a site full of software industry types. Everyone here is either "rich" already or trying to be...
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by all_blue_chucks 9y ago
The major factor that isn't mentioned: state income tax. Washington has no income tax. It's no small coincidence that it has so many billionaires living there. But Seattle is trying to impose a 2.5% income tax on high earners. Thi
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by all_blue_chucks 9y ago
No, they are not required to do that. Many choose to do that to avoid the appearance of insider trading, though.
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by all_blue_chucks 9y ago
https://genos.co/sequencing.html
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by all_blue_chucks 9y ago
This has been going on forever. It is a natural consequence of free people acting in their own best interests. Giving an employer $1Bn in tax breaks knowing you will get more than $10Bn in increased tax revenue is good for the government an
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by all_blue_chucks 9y ago
If they aren't offering Whole Exome Sequencing at this point, they're no longer a leader; they are far behind the industry.
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People don't usually inject it inside the blood/brain barrier...
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by all_blue_chucks 9y ago
Encrypt it then egress using a CDN.
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by all_blue_chucks 9y ago
Can you fail out of this program? If not, the degree is worthless. If so, the program wastes all the money it spent educating you. The incentives at play here seem a bit out of whack...
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by all_blue_chucks 9y ago
The bottleneck likely isn't I/O. My guess is it's RAM. RAM ain't cheap.
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by all_blue_chucks 9y ago
> it was started by a few folks from Google who worked on Spanner and other related tech Patent lawsuit waiting to happen? SCO Linux all over again?
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by all_blue_chucks 10y ago
Treating every cause is better than treating every symptom. But that is not practical. Be kind. Don't force people with not-yet-cured causes of pain to suffer.
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by all_blue_chucks 10y ago
It was a spear-phishing attack. The only way to protect against that is to ban email.
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by all_blue_chucks 10y ago
As Bezos said, contrarians are rarely right. But rare does not mean always.