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by avidiax 7mo ago
If you really want to get rid of illegal immigrants, you don't need ICE doing sweeps. Just make them unemployable. Setup an effective employment eligibility system, and require that employers verify the workers in the system before any
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by avidiax 7mo ago
> You might also want to consider how requesting behavior will change when requests are stacked instead of queued. As soon as people have learned that you keep requests in a stack, the correct way to make a request is to make it, wait fo
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by avidiax 7mo ago
That sort of queue is fundamentally different than network queues. The individual bolts are not impatient waiting to be installed. There is no P99 bolt install latency measuring from when the bolt arrives in the factory. You therefore only
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by avidiax 7mo ago
I actually have applied, and I got the offer. And I didn't take it. Because Oracle is known for poor working conditions. Why can Oracle continue to hire good talent despite offering poor working conditions? H1-B. Is it circular? Absolu
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by avidiax 7mo ago
When I give system design interviews, candidates that start adding queues reflexively to the design always do poorly. Queueing is only useful for a few cases, IMO: * The request is expensive to reject. For example, the inputs to the rejecte
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by avidiax 7mo ago
I feel you may be adding your critical sections at too high of a layer (either in the code, or the data structure) if it is severely affecting performance. Look up sharded locks, and totally order them if you must acquire 2 or more at once.
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by avidiax 7mo ago
I agree with the general principle that game theory is a powerful tool for public policy, but the idea of these transferable development rights or "air rights" seems a bit absurd to me. What the government is saying by allowing th
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by avidiax 7mo ago
You also got a connector that supports much more than USB 2.0 speeds. It also supports high power charging, video, thunderbolt, etc. Lightning was a dead-end connector that was only kept around to keep the Made-for-iPhone moat drawbridge up
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by avidiax 7mo ago
Maybe it's a sort of build-quality proxy. Someone bringing 150 "lipstick" single-cell promotional chargers -> bad Someone bringing one phone and one laptop battery pack -> OK If you are limited to two, you are probably
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by avidiax 7mo ago
> ownership is literally the _only_ job that will never be replaced Humans will always be the roots of the ownership graph, but I think AI can be any other node. Start an AI-first hedge fund or private equity firm. The AI makes the decis
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by avidiax 7mo ago
This has curbed somewhat in small cities because of the insurance industry. Turns out that small towns need insurance to cover police malpractice, and those insurers don't like high-risk or overly aggressive police tactics. Turns out t
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by avidiax 7mo ago
All the sound engineers in the world can't fix "don't care" and "want to". A modern US city has the combined problems of cheap construction of residential buildings, with insufficient unit-to-unit and exterior
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by avidiax 7mo ago
Peter Thiel is at least cosplaying a super-villain. Palantir is mass surveillance as a product, including "predictive policing". He's been grooming JD Vance as the next president. He has given lectures about the anti-Christ,
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by avidiax 7mo ago
I've been subscribed to this guy for some time. His work is much more impressive, and IIRC, he either works for a defense contractor or is studying for that. I think there's lots of people talking past each other on this post. The
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by avidiax 7mo ago
How were they mislead? From day one, Social Security was a "new money pays old money" scheme, the one thing that makes it Ponzi-like. To be fair, the boomers got screwed in the 1980's SS reform to pay for their parents (but h
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by avidiax 7mo ago
JBL Tune is what I have. I wouldn't call them amazing, but the USB-C connection is super useful. You never pair, you never charge, you can't lose them, and even if you did, they are cheap. The only real downside is lack of ANC, an
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by avidiax 7mo ago
Yeah, Etymotic headphones were my go-to for probably a decade. Passive noise suppression was wonderful for public transport. The utility has dropped tremendously though, now that headphone jacks have disappeared. Would love to have a pair o
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by avidiax 7mo ago
That strategic helium reserve was from WWI, IIRC. I've heard it claimed that it was a massive oversight to sell that much helium at such a low price. Helium is a non-renewable resource. When it escapes, it just floats off into space. A
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by avidiax 7mo ago
Yeah, and the value of IPv4 address space would plummet, and there would be no reason for any company to own a /8. Clawing back address space would involve a few emails and a few months to get network configs ready.
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by avidiax 7mo ago
It's not that they loaded it up with features, it's that elegance was prized over practicality. Simplifying address space assignment is a huge deal. IPv4+ allows the leaves of the network to adopt IPv4+ when it makes sense for the
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by avidiax 7mo ago
Similar discussion from a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468625 I personally feel that IPv6 is one of the clearest cases of second system syndrome. What we needed was more address bits. What we
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by avidiax 7mo ago
One thing I've wondered about is IR fluorescence photography. I've seen some examples in document forensics where a page that looks blank (or at least the ink is unrecognizably smudged) because of water exposure is completely legi
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by avidiax 7mo ago
I think it runs deeper than that. Customers are overly swayed by the up-front cost of a product or service. They don't want to pay a little more for a product that has good customer service, at least not until that customer service is
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by avidiax 7mo ago
That's even worse. If it's going to be a bot, at least give the advantages of the bot and be somewhat honest about it.
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by avidiax 7mo ago
One hint for the wary: Don't delay feature updates for the maximum allowed in the group policy editor. I couldn't figure out why I was getting forced reboots for updates despite other policies requiring it to ask permission. Turns
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by avidiax 7mo ago
If you like this, you would probably enjoy Princeton Wordnet. They have unfortunately stopped developing it. You can still browse it a bit online with some 3rd party sites: https://en-word.net/
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by avidiax 7mo ago
I highly doubt that there is. I'm just saying that if you can discriminate on drivers based on protected characteristic Y and data suggesting that characteristic Y is more/less dangerous, then you should be able to discriminate on
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by avidiax 7mo ago
Uber is already being sued by male drivers in California: https://onlabor.org/january-25-2026 I think the lawsuits probably make sense. While you can claim that there is a statistical danger, you can make that same claim ab
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by avidiax 7mo ago
One of the things that a CEO drives is vision and innovation. Sundar misses the mark on these things. AI is a good example. Google invented the transformer architecture, but simply published it for its competitors to use. It took a code red
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by avidiax 7mo ago
I'm definitely not, but the lazy method is just to cache the data your customers provide, or curate some data for the countries you are most interested in. That gets around countries that consider their postal code database a licensed

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