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by bialpio 5y ago
In that case the problem becomes what other poster mentioned: it's a zero-sum game so you increasing your energy consumption takes green energy from someone else. Maybe if you mined only when you knew that the energy would be curtailed
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by bialpio 5y ago
To summarize the part about efficiencies, by heating up your place with electricity instead of gas, the power plant needs to burn ~50% more gas (& so 50% more emissions) than you'd have to if you were to use your furnace. Intuitive
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by bialpio 5y ago
> I'm basically just swapping some of my natural gas heat out for a few hundred watts of electric heat Except now you have to compare efficiency of your natural gas system vs efficiency of the power plant + electric heater. Chances
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by bialpio 5y ago
"$20 to fully charge your EV", "$5 to charge your phone" ? Installing fake solar panels & a net meter & selling the stolen energy back to the utility company? Just live off of stolen electricity to cut your month
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by bialpio 5y ago
Would be way more profitable if they figured out some way to re-sell what electricity they stole...
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by bialpio 5y ago
I'm looking at it like this: if I have to _prepare_ for an interview after being in the industry for almost 6 years, then the interview is testing different skills than what I'm using in my day to day job. Edit: clarifying a bit:
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by bialpio 5y ago
I found that preparing for LeetCode type of interviews improved my skills of solving LertCode type of problems and did not change how I performed in my day to day job. IMO the type of work is so dramatically different that I don't thin
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by bialpio 5y ago
There is a huge difference! For one, suggesting it was man-made lends credibility to the conspiracy theory crowd ("plandemic", "they manufactured it to enslave you", etc), which is probably why the press over-indexed on
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by bialpio 5y ago
... and the next halving is still ~3 years away.
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by bialpio 5y ago
Reality is not the enemy here, hard life is and I'd like to think that we're all in this together & we'll help each other out. :-) I'm hoping we're becoming an advanced enough society that we'll be able to
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by bialpio 5y ago
Let's dust out those whips as well while we're at it, shall we? /s There's nothing wrong with people leveraging their (temporary) increase in bargaining position to drive the wages up. I'm not at all surprised that
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by bialpio 5y ago
But if you don't close those businesses, you get people who are one financial emergency away from bankruptcy. You get people who have no chance of bettering their lives. I do not have a solution, but that does not mean that I cannot ca
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by bialpio 5y ago
If the only way for the business to be profitable is to pay less than a living wage, then that business is in fact _not_ profitable. I'd rather subsidize people that are between jobs rather than business owners (because I'd still
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by bialpio 5y ago
Interesting, thanks! That's more in line with what I'd expect coming from Poland - medical degree is 6yrs (& is equivalent to Master's, I don't believe you get a Bachelor's degree during those), specialization t
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by bialpio 5y ago
> Forcing students to get an actual Bachelor's degree gives students some fallback. That may be one reason, but seems to me that it doesn't really raise the standard of education. So it doesn't really help with proving tha
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by bialpio 5y ago
> Why? An apples-to-apples comparison would be to see how long it takes to become a general physician after completing secondary school. Because if the requirement in the US is indeed "bachelor's degree required, any will do&qu
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by bialpio 6y ago
That's why for pen testing, you still warn people, but you do it high enough the chain that the individual behaviors and responses are not affected.
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by bialpio 6y ago
What dispersed all of the fear for me was reading this: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source... Especially the part about poly-A tail. IIUC, it means that each mRNA "particle" tha
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by bialpio 6y ago
Would your opinion change in any way if it turned out the homeless person donated their kidney to the rich person a couple of years ago? It seems to me that the broader context matters here as well.
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by bialpio 6y ago
The enforcement does not necessarily need to come from the compiler - it's not uncommon to introduce additional required processes / checks that new code needs to pass (ex. "tests need to pass", "at least one review
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by bialpio 6y ago
Prior art from Microsoft which leverages similar idea, but using macros: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/code-quality/best-pract... They also have SAL annotations for "what locks it?".
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by bialpio 6y ago
What's the one that also includes Microsoft? FANMAG? I recall there was something but can't remember what...
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by bialpio 6y ago
The main point was that failure to digest something doesn't mean that you are allergic or intolerant. My impression was that this was what the example with babies' bodies "rejecting" some foods that they cannot process i
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by bialpio 6y ago
As someone already mentioned in the comments, this software was actually developed somewhat in-house by Citibank who then sold it to Oracle: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Financial_Services_So...
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by bialpio 6y ago
Allergy != Intolerance. When you have an allergy, you suffocate, when you have intolerance to something, it'll be unpleasant to be around you and you may spend some time on the toilet. This is an oversimplification, but one is an immun
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by bialpio 6y ago
One more book to look into: http://www.pbr-book.org/
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by bialpio 6y ago
I think requiring payment is a bit too strict requirement to define a customer. Your users still agree to your license, so there is a relationship established, you may just not get any benefit from it (monetary or otherwise). Even in your l
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by bialpio 6y ago
I think I'm missing something... Ubuntu is developed by Canonical, right? Just because you do not pay for it when you get it outside of Azure does not mean you are not their customer?
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by bialpio 6y ago
It is a violation of your privacy that you may have already agreed to - presumably MS mentions this in their ToS/privacy policy that this information will be shared. They just conveniently forget to remind you that when you deploy a VM
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by bialpio 6y ago
We haven't heard about it before because other sales reps didn't admit to knowing that a customer has deployed something, and reached out to the customers under the guise of standard-looking sales pitch that got dismissed as regul

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