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by bulatb 5y ago
In the US, going up a tax bracket can't under normal circumstances lower your effective pay. The higher rate is only for the income over the floor: if a $1 raise puts you over, only that dollar gets taxed at the new rate. It's pos
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by bulatb 5y ago
> You probably wouldn't even notice if one landed on you. This is not comforting .
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by bulatb 5y ago
If you're Google and you sell GCP, you give away the tool that helps more customers use more of your product.
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by bulatb 5y ago
Thanks for doing this and thanks for writing about it.
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by bulatb 5y ago
A perfect employee is one who fits the role exactly. Define your roles and you'll know what that looks like. You could get them wrong and have somebody come along and show you, by being what you needed, but that's a whole other th
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by bulatb 5y ago
That's a different school. The University of San Diego is a private university in San Diego. UCSD is the San Diego campus of the University of California.
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by bulatb 5y ago
The lawful bases for processing data are listed in Article 6. Subject consent is 6(1)(a) and legitimate interest is 6(1)(f). Consent is used when processing is not required to provide the service, no other basis applies, the processor still
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by bulatb 5y ago
I don't understand. I personally try to walk, because that's just what I prefer, but I can see why people don't. You end up far away from everything, without a tribe or much to show for your trouble. Often times the truth is
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by bulatb 5y ago
Ideologies carve epistemic valleys. Cozy, beautiful places you'll never escape—because why would you try? No evidence from other places ever filters in. Are you living in a valley? Maybe not. But what makes a valley, and how big can it
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by bulatb 5y ago
Alice's car has been on the car lot only twice in its life: once when she bought it, and today when it was repossessed. How could its location now have anything to do with the systemic economic problems that caused her job to disappear
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by bulatb 5y ago
Event Horizon recently interviewed Lisa Kaltenegger (coauthor here) and Jackie Faherty about a similar paper they wrote: "Past, present and future stars that can see Earth as a transiting exoplanet." https://www.youtube
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by bulatb 5y ago
(Neutrons.)
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by bulatb 5y ago
A heavy water molecule has deuterium in place of hydrogen; the extra neurons make it "heavy." Most water has some miniscule amount of heavy water in it.
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by bulatb 5y ago
It's not a prefect analogy because it only really captures the producer's point of view. They are hiding the product's heaviness or GMOness itself, but because they think that doesn't tell you anything about its safety
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by bulatb 5y ago
It's rational for them to lobby against GMO labeling because it's a lose-lose proposition, even if they honestly believe their food is safe and eat it themselves. Either it scares off consumers (some of whom won't know what G
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by bulatb 5y ago
I think he's implying that traditional MPAs are relatively well-understood. The team will pretty much know how to make them and will not expect to break new ground on architecture, discover new things the model enables, or spend a lot
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by bulatb 5y ago
The author argues that the non-SPA approach deals better with that kind of management than SPA does.
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by bulatb 5y ago
For anyone deciding whether to read, I'd say the article is broadly centered on this: > As developers, we need to operate under the assumption that good management is the exception, not the norm. Multi-Page-Apps and hybrid framewor
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by bulatb 5y ago
Are you using CloudSync's encryption feature? That's meant more for using Dropbox (or whatever) as the mirror and giving it encrypted files which your NAS nodes will transparently decrypt, like Synology's version of Boxcrypto
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by bulatb 5y ago
"You can't please everyone all the time."
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For anyone interested, it's called the fundamental attribution error.
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by bulatb 6y ago
I think I snuck an edit in while you were writing. Sorry! I see where the researcher says it's not impossible he missed a certificate, but not a reason to believe he actually did. The article is unfortunately full of leading questions
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by bulatb 6y ago
Yeah, this is a less-but-still-misleading follow-up. The password might turn out to be related or might not, but I don't think the added details point either way. This security company's marketing blog is mixing up the facts with
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by bulatb 6y ago
This was posted yesterday and flagged into oblivion. Unless new information has come out, there wasn't and still isn't any reason to believe this leak had anything to do with 2020's megabreach. Edit: To clarify, this version
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by bulatb 6y ago
"Why would anyone use <blockchain>? Stupid." vs. "How can I sell services to people who are clearly using <blockchain>?"
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by bulatb 6y ago
Git is hard because it has no client. It's a set of primitives for building one. The "client" is your knowledge of its data model, mental mapping of obtusely named commands and flags to things you want to do, and ability to v
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by bulatb 6y ago
I want to be clear that by "the standard whiteboard interview" I mean a certain format that's been roughly standardized at FAANG and copied out-of-context by a major chunk of the industry. It's a starter question, then a
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by bulatb 6y ago
The article explains in detail how a pressure difference can create a force, and how the process generates these differences and how the force is felt as suction, but still argues that the process doesn't suck. A process good at testin
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> to be perfectly blunt [...] the very smart people I know are good at them > and most of the people who “don’t test well” aren’t It's frustrating to read this same response in every interviewing thread. If I may be equally blu
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by bulatb 7y ago
I still worry about someone getting into my account. The largest insurance would run $2,240/month, and you can spin up 25 of them no questions asked. Plus there's Spaces, backups, snapshots. My own mistakes are probably a greater

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