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by beebmam 4y ago
Are you claiming that because the US has the ability to get individual user data in law enforcement investigations, they also have the authority to get all of their user data?
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by beebmam 4y ago
What evidence do you have for this claim? Are you saying the they can request user data arbitrarily?
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by beebmam 4y ago
> Feds are desperately trying to cut off any exits from the mess they've created in the banking system Do you have any evidence to support this large claim? Or do you simply wish for it to be true?
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by beebmam 4y ago
When you say "they are heavily in bed with government", can you articulate what you mean? Are you saying that the US government can compel these companies to take certain actions in the same way that the Chinese government can? Li
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by beebmam 4y ago
There is a big difference. American platforms are not state owned and controlled, they are independently owned and operated by private individuals. TikTok is state owned and state controlled. On top of that, the communist Chinese state has
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by beebmam 4y ago
They're also ruining the functioning of their companies with wave after wave of layoffs.
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by beebmam 4y ago
There is. One of the best ways to do it is through your city, through Civilian Oversight Boards with the ability to suspend or fire officers that harm the public trust in the police force: https://www.nacole.org/community_o
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by beebmam 4y ago
This is a profoundly difficult to read, it hurts me, psychically
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by beebmam 4y ago
> How? It didn't. This is clickbait.
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by beebmam 4y ago
When I read comments like this, I have a hard time understanding how people come to such wide conclusions. You do realize there's an enormous percentage of Americans who do have empathy for those that suffer from their country's a
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by beebmam 4y ago
Are you referring to the Cloudflare service here? Are you familiar what Cloudflare does?
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by beebmam 4y ago
> but it does not seem to be a field that has high barrier of entry Yeah for inferencing, sure. Try designing and training the models. It takes whole organizations to do that effectively.
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by beebmam 4y ago
The coverup of the origins of SARS-CoV-2 is a far worse crime than if it did accidentally leak from a lab. The coverup has done serious harm to our ability to understand how these diseases emerge at large scale in human populations.
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by beebmam 4y ago
The US is regularly engaged in diplomacy with Russia. Our secretary of defense and chairman of the joint chiefs just met with their Russian counterparts. Diplomacy is happening. That doesn't mean peace can be negotiated yet. Unless the
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by beebmam 4y ago
If I was worth ~100 million dollars, I would definitely quit my job AND my family
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by beebmam 4y ago
Given that you have an issue with ads, how do you respond to the fact you can pay $5/month to subscribe to a specific streamer to avoid all ads? Would you prefer if there was a platform-level subscription level which allows you to avoi
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by beebmam 4y ago
Stock options are so fucked. I'll never go back to the startup world without actual compensation.
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by beebmam 4y ago
Until infrastructure fails, for an enormous number of possible reasons. I've seen it happen over and over.
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by beebmam 4y ago
In my experience it's more like 80-90%, given the right prompts. Very little needs to be changed, usually
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by beebmam 4y ago
Same with my experience. Not a fan
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by beebmam 4y ago
I agree. But in my opinion, that's the perfect kind of company to start your software engineer career in.
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by beebmam 4y ago
It is important to keep in mind that the companies are the ones doing the impacting. They don't have to lay people off, they're choosing to.
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by beebmam 4y ago
There's nothing diplomatic about it. It enrages me far more than the truth.
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by beebmam 4y ago
How do you square this statement of yours: > Yellen has just broadcast that FDIC insurance is essentially unlimited, as long as you can threaten wider disruption to the economy. with this quote from the Treasury Dept statement? > &quo
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by beebmam 4y ago
Simply put, I think this kind of attitude is based in economic resentment. There's a whole part of the US that hasn't seen much benefit from the unbelievably successful startup world. I remember when people used to go build someth
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by beebmam 4y ago
Who exactly withdrew $40 billion in a day? Is this public info, or will it be?
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by beebmam 4y ago
Not enough companies use these end-to-end tests you describe!
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by beebmam 4y ago
I find that most of my development time in my career is spent getting that glue in place! Seems like we need a better way to glue things together and make sure that glue doesn't make a mess of things. Maybe AI can help with this
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by beebmam 4y ago
Except instead of just leaving, the pizza guy sues you and the state takes your gold bars under your bed and sells it to pay the pizza guy. Not saying this is a bad or good thing.
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by beebmam 4y ago
Well, I'm pretty sure all credible banks in the US are all insured (both explicitly with FDIC and implicitly far beyond that) by the US government. That's a pretty big thing

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