anbop

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by anbop 7y ago
Most of these corporate types have never even held a gun. If FBI guy comes in in a shirt and tie and asks “what’s the file server password” the IT guy says “I don’t have to tell you that.” If the guy is in tactical gear IT guy coughs it up
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by anbop 7y ago
There’s a much worse version of this in an episode of Black Mirror.
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by anbop 7y ago
I agree with you, but what’s the real alternative? The zoo seems like the best thing, given that putting it in jail with its owner is probably unworkable.
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by anbop 7y ago
The owners of the building are sitting in the most enviable position in the economy — just by owning the asset, they will get money in the form of appreciation, from work done by other people. The rent is the cherry on top and they’d rather
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by anbop 7y ago
All prey populations will crash every now and then, humans or none.
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by anbop 7y ago
Doesn’t make sense. Paying beforehand is customary at grocery stores, not at restaurants.
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by anbop 7y ago
I specifically prefer using PayPal. I like going to another site so I don’t have to trust the implementation on the site I’m buying from, and I like having my transaction history in an account that I can sign into. I have turned down many p
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by anbop 7y ago
I fully agree with you and recognize that a person can only become the way I am (and doesn’t necessarily) by growing up in a privileged environment where store owners are always happy to see you and your family and you have never been quest
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by anbop 7y ago
I can say that myself, on hot days, often go into stores, grab a drink, drink the entire thing while doing the rest of my shopping, and pay for the empty bottle when I leave. My wife was horrified when she saw this behavior, and made me sto
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by anbop 7y ago
Hopefully less than human bias. I was in a CVS and a black teenager came in and was vigorously trying to get the cashiers attention. Eventually he was like “YO” and she looked up and he showed her his soda and told her he was bringing it in
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by anbop 7y ago
Very droll, very droll. But US law is that even if your policy has no intended racial bias, if it ends up having one, it’s still illegal. And meat is mainly shoplifted by white women.
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by anbop 7y ago
But that’s a new behavior. How can license plates suddenly become illegal after 100 years, unless there is an “evolving standard of decency” in this regard?
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by anbop 7y ago
I’m not just afraid of this airplane, I’m now afraid of all Boeings. I can’t avoid them entirely (I fly a lot), but definitely find myself preferentially booking travel on flights listed as Airbus.
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by anbop 7y ago
The FAA fucked its reputation in three days, but this was a VERY good thing. It was a completely compromised body for years, and their behavior on the 737 Max is what alerted the world and the public to this fact. If they had grounded immed
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by anbop 7y ago
I doubt I’ll ever fly on a 737 Max again. I already cancelled one work trip because of it. Told my boss, “two have crashed, FAA isn’t doing anything, not risking orphaning my kids for this meeting.” He agreed with my logic.
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by anbop 7y ago
The Constitution isn’t code, so new behaviors can’t be stumbled into like a buffer overflow. There is no national outrage over license plates and everyone seems pretty OK with them so the Court is not going to throw a massive wrench into so
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by anbop 7y ago
Apps with notification permission on my phone: Uber, Apple Pay.
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by anbop 7y ago
It’s a step towards a fully self-sufficient defense industry. Something the US had better learn (especially in infrastructure) if we are at war with China and suddenly nobody in the US can buy any electronics.
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by anbop 8y ago
The official position is “don’t talk about that.”
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by anbop 8y ago
They lie in the sense that they take advantage of the fact that some people do not have the education or intelligence to think about things like asset depreciation, making them absorb these costs without being fully aware of the implication
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by anbop 8y ago
I have seen several laptops with physical slide covers. Didn’t note the brand.
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by anbop 8y ago
But you can pick 50 square miles of the Bay Area they have most of the relevant tech headquarters
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by anbop 8y ago
That’s because massive expected appreciation is baked into SF prices.
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by anbop 8y ago
This is a great example of how to foster an inclusive culture that isn’t at all limited to women and minorities. The things described here will make everyone feel good about the work they do and the people they do it with.
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by anbop 8y ago
It's not any weirder than buying an index fund.
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by anbop 8y ago
Why try so hard to learn something for which you have no aptitude, when you have other valuable skills? A 5 foot 100 pound guy shouldn’t be trying to learn football at the pro level no matter how high the NFL salaries are. Focus on what you
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by anbop 8y ago
Why should someone with a job cleaning toilets be homeless?
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by anbop 8y ago
Well, great code is inefficient if the impact of bad code is minimal. If you are shipping an animated emoji you should be sloppier with your code than if you are building flight control software. Overengineering software is like over-specin
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by anbop 8y ago
Yes, but if not for him, those thousands of people would be creating that value for people other than Facebook stockholders.
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by anbop 8y ago
Looking at the full scope of things here it seems like it would be batshit insane for this guy to resign his professorship (on the economic calculus). Of course if he hates every day at the university it’s different.

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