ataturk

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by ataturk 9y ago
"Growing up" those shelters were considered around smaller, kiloton and low-megaton sized weaponry. The whole civil defense project fell apart after the 1950s once 100 Megaton hydrogen bombs become the norm. There's no shel
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But they are all big-government statists and they all walk the same way when it comes to invading citizens' privacy. It was a bad law from the start, it will always be a bad law, and it tells you everything you need to know about our
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by ataturk 9y ago
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "healthcare reform," please? We just had healthcare reform and my access to healthcare went down and the price more than doubled. I can't even imagine how brutal a so-called single-pa
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by ataturk 9y ago
You just described how every intelligent person gets scammed everywhere--"I'm too smart to fall for their tricks, I'll know when to sell just at the right time!" No, you won't. Because you don't know the scam,
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by ataturk 9y ago
You're just looking at numbers--that's a mistake. The real "cost" is in the unmeasurable factors of how such a policy would change social behavior. For example, if I'm guaranteed $1K/month, I could take that
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by ataturk 9y ago
The 1998 one was particularly egregious--we were right on the verge of having some decent content in the public domain and wham! It's not that I think everything should be public domain, but the current duration is absurd.
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by ataturk 9y ago
The copyright mess is another example of how corporations have sucked the life out of America. Disney (and others) lobbying for that law is perhaps the definitive example of regulatory capture and how it has an affect on all of us. It mak
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by ataturk 9y ago
First off, I'm not an expert at security, but I do have a background in it and in development of microservices. So fair warning. API keys provide reasonably good security, but there is a reason why companies have moved to OAuth. Usin
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by ataturk 9y ago
Why disclose this now? The incident took place 13 years ago.
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I think the matter is well documented. Wealth is not a zero-sum game. However--you have countries that deliberately hold people down. Everyone wants safety nets and such. That all has a huge effect on individual upward mobility.
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by ataturk 9y ago
Speaking as one, I can tell you that having a couple million takes the edge off of everything in life. You don't sweat buying a house or pretty much any new car anytime you want it. The monthly bills are in the noise as far as concer
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by ataturk 9y ago
I think you're kidding, but just in case not: Communism never did any little guy any favors. I can't even imagine the amount of suffering that would go on for children "raised by professionals" given the amount of docu
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by ataturk 9y ago
The financial crisis has many facets. I was deeply interested in the subject at the and in the ensuing years afterwards. I highly recommend Michael Lewis' books on the subject, especially "The Big Short." The film was decen
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by ataturk 9y ago
It was all hype. All of it. I enjoyed learning about data science, but in the end, there were no jobs I could actually apply for and realistically get. I also don't think they were providing the big wins for the company that would j
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by ataturk 9y ago
It's how totalitarians roll. You can't have upward mobility, you can't have a level playing field where people can take on the state and win with common sense. We need that, but it leaves the autocrats out of a job.
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by ataturk 9y ago
Right now there are hundreds of billions of corporate "profits" sitting offshore that can't be brought back into the US because of tax avoidance. If Congress does something to soften the blow, corporations will re-patriate t
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by ataturk 9y ago
People who work outside generally do not do it in bare skin unless they are idiots (of which we have many, many, many examples). You don't typically see military folks wearing shorts and t-shirts even in the hottest weather unless the
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by ataturk 9y ago
Just like crypto, unless you yourself code and design the thing, you can't trust it at all. This is what we're down to. I don't even trust operating systems anymore unless they are open source. Freaking Windows 10 is spywa
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by ataturk 9y ago
It's "jibe" not "jive" although some people are trying to normalize jive because it sounds better, I guess. Jibe is a nautical term, jive is an inner-city dialect circa 1970s.
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by ataturk 9y ago
Interesting comment. I grew up in a blue-ish collar rust-belt city, was "gifted" (whatever that means) and ended up getting a PhD (no debts, though) that I now arguably don't make money from. Everything you mentioned is very
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by ataturk 9y ago
I've been thinking about some of the same issues but with dentists--all the sites to locate dentists are utter garbage and there are no reliable ratings for dentists. Worse, dentists toe (and I argue, cross) the ethical line when it c
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by ataturk 9y ago
Their suffering may be real, but so is the suffering of absolutely everyone who is nearby! I ended up at a job working with someone with it. Let's just say the only winning move is not to play.
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by ataturk 9y ago
All I'm going to say is that the Internet was so much cooler before the big players destroyed everything about it that made it that way. I worked at an ISP before the consolidation--even with dialup, it was just better. What we have
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by ataturk 9y ago
It seems like by the time they get done working, it's the next day, and then the next, and the next. What is their hourly pay when you break it all down and how much does rent/mortgage cost? Imho, it's not worth it to comma
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by ataturk 9y ago
How many hours a week are these people putting in? As a senior-level developer in the midwest, my pay looks paltry in comparison and yet I bet you I live a much more comfortable lifestyle overall--zero debt, a decent work day in a calm env
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by ataturk 9y ago
I'll never see 400K, not even if I do tons of overtime through my own S-Corp. If you can do that, I'd like to know how. 200K is hard enough and not easy to maintain.
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by ataturk 9y ago
We have "responsible gun laws" from sea to shining sea and they haven't helped much. Background checks are the greatest false sense of security ever invented. The people who call for responsible gun laws really just want gu
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by ataturk 9y ago
Somewhat true, but the kind of work my team does is complex coding around business requirements and it ends up taking two or three of us putting our collective heads together to work out solutions to problems. Looking at previous coding jo
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by ataturk 9y ago
Something has to happen--my commute is only 11 miles but it often takes 40 minutes because of a stupid bridge that has had every social engineering plot applied to it to no avail (HOV lanes with pay-to-use transponders being the latest fash
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by ataturk 9y ago
I kind of think it has more to do with organizations like Facebook vs. some particular technology itself. It's the way corporatists want to control everything in order to create money rivers that flow only to them.

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