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by aplummer 6y ago
I think travelers might be managed by a more "high touch" quarantining process in most countries to ensure they cannot spread the virus.
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by aplummer 6y ago
I just wanted to say since you seem unsure of yourself a little: You have a really great approach to simple software. Turns out your strengths do include setting up backends for web development! Many self styled experts / People 2 digi
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by aplummer 6y ago
It can’t kill HIV for example.
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by aplummer 6y ago
I think I'd really like Android if all my experiences with it weren't on Samsungs
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by aplummer 6y ago
That’s a really great way to get to emails I’m going to try it
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by aplummer 7y ago
> At this rate, the deaths from draconian government responses will far outweigh the deaths from the Corona virus across all age demographics. A reminder money is a paper money game and in contrast to the 30s, we easily produce more reso
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by aplummer 7y ago
What a bizarrely naive article to completely fail to appreciate the many historical economic benefits from central bank market interventions and investments that wouldn’t be possible with the gold standard...
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by aplummer 7y ago
Couldn't you achieve marginally identical performance with PUSH on HTTP2, plus the independent requests using the same connection? And I do understand the advantage of a single request, but the _tradeoff_ in backend development time do
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by aplummer 7y ago
This is an open question to the comment community, is anyone here making tradeoffs between GraphQL and using HTTP2 for these existing APIs? I'd be really interested to know which way people landed and why.
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by aplummer 7y ago
> No, not just other peoples - that includes my own life too. Glad you don’t get to make that decision on behalf of other people, and those actions are at least illegal in California. I also think it’s nonsense to imply you are putting y
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by aplummer 7y ago
Wow. It’s so selfish to sacrifice other people’s lives for your own delusional paranoia.
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by aplummer 7y ago
> any other restriction on the freedom of movement and freedom of assembly. > clubs and other private properties is off limits. To give you the benefit of the doubt, you don’t mean that you refuse to have temporarily restricted movem
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by aplummer 7y ago
Agreed, some very smart and ruthless people sell packaged tap water
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by aplummer 7y ago
> I believe that these are low-skill content-moderation staff who were hired specifically for their FB contract. I agree it's possible. If there are small consultancies doing the same work that would happen. Accenture would be more
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by aplummer 7y ago
> No. The engagement will be governed by a contract, and those contracts will often require they staff a certain number of people for the engagement - especially if it's a "butts in seats" kind of engagement, which this lo
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by aplummer 7y ago
> One Accenture employee Yeah look easy to hate on Facebook, but Accenture is a big company and can easily send their own staff home to sit on the bench and do business development or just work on another client.
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by aplummer 7y ago
Time in the market not timing the market. - here for future reference
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by aplummer 7y ago
> Health insurance is good enough until surprise they don't want to cover you or you get surprise bills in the mail from the hospital. Constantly amazed this can be a thing in a first world country. Can this actually happen?
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by aplummer 7y ago
No seriously, it’s almost impossible to get via Mexico and into the United States, then straight to the Bay Area, within the incubation period, to the transfer the virus in community without leaving a massive wake of sick people elsewhere.
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by aplummer 7y ago
This makes no sense. How would someone get to the Bay Area from an infection area illegally, via submarine? Facts be facts, irrational xenophobia.
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by aplummer 7y ago
It’s a different calculation Matt is doing. You are calculating the probability of that run happening now. Matt is calculating the expected length of the longest run in 1 million tosses.
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by aplummer 7y ago
But what if they just keep raising money at crazy valuations because it's easy to get and hoard?
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by aplummer 7y ago
The inventor gave the patent away for $1 because it would have been unethical to profit from it. That’s still true.
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by aplummer 7y ago
Seriously what a ridiculous slippery slope argument, have you never been to another near identical democracy with a higher HDI than the USA? People don’t pay for insulin in any of them and yet, society functions just fine.
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by aplummer 7y ago
Solar power in the desert produces power 24/7 by keeping the molten sand hot overnight. It’s also always sunny
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by aplummer 7y ago
Classes of people can be treated differently and be equal before the law. Any person who is a police officer has X different rules for example.
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by aplummer 7y ago
To go down in a long list of things executives said wouldn’t happen, that ended up happening.
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by aplummer 7y ago
You wouldn’t need desalination for this, for example, the great artesian basin is barely tapped.
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by aplummer 7y ago
“ I checked in my refactoring to master” Yikes
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by aplummer 7y ago
> Software engineering just isn't that hard. Tedious yes, but not remotely difficult. I find doing it well constantly really hard.

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