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by ben509 7y ago
Someone would have to figure out who to call an identity thief, who purchased the goods, who to send the bill collectors after, who to serve for a lawsuit, etc. All the company has is an email address and a bunch of other incorrect informat
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by ben509 7y ago
I've done this repeatedly. I like to put mildly insulting things in all the form fields before I lock out the account entirely.
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by ben509 7y ago
> Would you make this same argument when journalists cover fi[n]ance or war? Yes. A journalist's job is to report news, not make it. Activist journalism has virtually destroyed the reputation of the press. What good is any coverag
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by ben509 7y ago
TBH, I fired that off without fully getting the context. It's true, but not wholly relevant.
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by ben509 7y ago
It's definitely not a mature response; I don't feel the righteous fury about these kinds of things that I did 20 years ago. As to whether it's appropriate... social opprobrium can often be a less worse way to deal with a prob
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by ben509 7y ago
For running, I like the AfterShokz Titanium; it's using bone conduction so you don't lose any situational awareness.
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by ben509 7y ago
The US is a large, heterogeneous nation and comparisons with small homogenous nations are misleading.
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by ben509 7y ago
My company was in WeWork for roughly 2017. I had your initial impression, it does look good and you can certainly get up and running quickly. But after a while, my feeling was that it really seemed to be poorly thought out as an office spac
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by ben509 7y ago
(I'm not taking a side on whether the opiod question is correct, just talking about the process of journalism.) The press's ability as an institution to contradict another institution has practical limits. In particular, if the br
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by ben509 7y ago
We don't agree what it actually is, though. In practice, the "reasonable person" standard is achieved by asking a jury. In a jury, the members apply their life experiences to the case they're deciding and then persuade e
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by ben509 7y ago
It's hard to put it in words as our perception of aggression is a basic social instinct. But, broadly, you know from posturing (bucking up, moving in closer) eye contact, tone (more volume, or possibly less) and the cursing would get p
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by ben509 7y ago
> Emergency response is not customer service, where you can just tell a client that you'll have to drop them because they berated one of the phone clerks and that's against company policy. That's why it's good for cus
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by ben509 7y ago
> pretty much every reasonable person Reasonable is subjective.
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by ben509 7y ago
Have you seen any way to use Nix to test with tox?
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by ben509 7y ago
People do disregard numeracy if all the, "LOL, your teacher said you wouldn't always have a calculator in your pocket" memes are anything to go by.
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by ben509 7y ago
What about in humans at normal doses?
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by ben509 7y ago
> I think it's pretty safe to say you'll never get the opportunity to apply category theory during your daily standup meetings Theory tends to bite when something breaks, though. Performance problems are often explained through
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by ben509 7y ago
> This comment makes it seem like you think that people against high powered rifles are unaware of the technology and capabilities of weapon systems. They have passed laws that demonstrate that they don't understand these things. Th
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by ben509 7y ago
The central dispute is not whether CO2 causes a greenhouse effect. It's that CO2 is itself a relatively weak greenhouse gas, compared to say methane (making cow farts a valid concern), and our atmosphere is already relatively saturated
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by ben509 7y ago
Truth is, there is no crisis, because birds aren't real.[1] [1]: https://birdsarentreal.com/pages/the-history
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by ben509 7y ago
On one job, I had to disable code coverage for a whole suite of tests that were simply making calls and completely ignoring the results. I know, coverage is Yet Another Metric, but if you don't game it, it can help you track down branc
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by ben509 7y ago
What do you need the statistics for? The people doing a degree studied the material under the guidance of an expert and had to demonstrate their mastery of the subject. Self-learners aren't doing that.
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by ben509 7y ago
> but try not to disparage the people who decided not to stick around and are working in the same jobs as you Theory matters, classic example here[1], and if pointing out that people are making well understood mistakes because they haven
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by ben509 7y ago
Nonsense. If you sell bread at $10, but at the end of the day (when you'd have to throw out unsold inventory) someone offers $6 and you accept, you aren't lying about your stated price. As with any kind of transaction in business,
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by ben509 7y ago
> The real-world impact of this open issue is really small as it is limited to cases where DML happens before DDL has fully finished So... database migrations.
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by ben509 7y ago
> I find it really impressive that such a large organization runs anything on Python. Isn't the speed optimization potential immense? Does the amount of Python involved just not matter compared to image data? Usually, that's ex
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by ben509 7y ago
This is a bit lower level as it's only concerned with serializing, but a package I wrote called json_syntax[1] will take @dataclass or @attr.s classes decorated with type annotations and build encoders and decoders for them. It also ha
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by ben509 7y ago
It's never actually in a contract, these are always policies since employment is at-will. But "they cannot work" is implying that person gets fired. I agree that serious breaches of security are a firable offense, because it&
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by ben509 7y ago
One data point is the demographics of HN?
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by ben509 7y ago
And then hope they don't get new management.

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