buran77

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by buran77 2mo ago
The myth is so pervasive because it's propagated by people with more wealth against people with less of it, and the conflict of interest prevents anyone from giving it up. Everyone wants to feel better about themselves and the easiest
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by buran77 2mo ago
> This is a different problem. Obviously. I just figured I'd point you to the real red flags you missed instead of the "I find it weird so it's a problem" thing. > The job description also doesn't say "ow
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by buran77 2mo ago
> Are those the people you want to hire for software development jobs though? Why do you think the job posting doesn't explicitly mention "owning a PC" as a requirement? If it's a relevant criterion why not make it cl
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by buran77 2mo ago
The US has normalized so much moral rot and legal breaches in the past few years, all in the interest of making more money... Rarely does a country degrade so much, so fast, and I'm afraid this isn't even the low mark.
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by buran77 2mo ago
> Is it a “loophole” that you can buy something and burn it? That’s how property ownership works. It sounds shocking if you're missing the context and only rely on the blogspam which is this TechCrunch article. They aren't buyi
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by buran77 2mo ago
TechCrunch is trying too hard to make a connection in the title there. Amazon was trying to make money then as it is now. Their selling of books at the beginning was no more principled than the destruction of books now. This is the legal lo
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by buran77 2mo ago
> hunting its top scientists [...] this discourages other scientists from following that career path I take it you mean this literally (assassinations) rather than figuratively (getting hired by the competition). > In recent years US
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by buran77 2mo ago
Unless there is a big lobby behind getting more "fixes".
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by buran77 2mo ago
> Because if you ever go back a step, it is no longer the waterfall model By this definition there has never been a waterfall project. They all need to correct, adapt, or redo something . Look, I think I get your point but you seem too
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by buran77 2mo ago
To be honest, for some things, getting a smaller serving and/or higher price is a blessing in disguise - health-wise at least. Same with soda servings where very large cups or bottles encourage higher consumption.
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by buran77 2mo ago
There's a quality to the number, ubiquity, and unassuming nature of cars. They're everywhere all the time, and reach places where a drone would be at least highly suspicious. This ban makes sense if they suspect the enemy is cover
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by buran77 2mo ago
What about Lidar-equipped (and why not, even cameras) foreign cars that scan every one of the country's roads and everything around them? Cars are increasingly packing this kind of tech and telemetry.
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by buran77 2mo ago
> but many details Which part of my list was just "a detail" to be dealt with at some point in the lifecycle (but only if you're not too busy shipping features) for you? You're laying bricks before knowing if the wall
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by buran77 2mo ago
> a sufficiently complex consumer or enterprise app winds up having big performance problems if people don't know what they're doing w.r.t. the code they write and how they connect systems together with that code. On those comp
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by buran77 2mo ago
A lot of things get deprecated on the internet. You can shout in SSL and nobody will answer back. Tying any solution to specific companies is the major problem. Because even if the rest of the age verification scheme is well thought out in
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by buran77 2mo ago
Not only leadership, war looked different back then. The Ukraine war made everyone throw away the classic war playbook. At the time of the Iraq war the US was holding all the cards. It had a perfected playbook, the optimal technology, and s
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by buran77 2mo ago
Literally everything that came after Windows Me both in the consumer and server space is based on NT, to this day. So I'm not sure this argument weighs much. P.S. My personal opinion is that Windows could be a great OS but MS keeps in
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by buran77 2mo ago
> a maintainer confirmed that hardware-bound attestation is a mandatory architectural requirement Hardware-bound is not a problem, limiting that to only iPhones and some Android phones is. Plenty of hardware can keep a key safe and it do
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by buran77 2mo ago
> widely misunderstood Moments ago it was "misunderstandings or malicious compliance". Did you misplace one on your apologetic quest? I'm really trying not to assume the worst about you. Is there any reason you insist so m
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by buran77 2mo ago
> a result of misunderstandings or malicious compliance, but GDPR has a causal relationship regardless of the intent. You can extend causality as far as you want if you're willing to sound like this in the open. If there were no c
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by buran77 2mo ago
> The bankers “were involved in prime mortgages” and had “circumnavigated” certain regulations. > Ellis’s assignment was to break into the data center and steal around 80 servers that hosted the incriminating files The hit was contrac
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by buran77 3mo ago
> It's a small minority of people So are serial killers. A small minority of people can affect the lives and health of a lot more. A handful of people roaring through a neighborhood at night like this can mean nobody ever gets a pro
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by buran77 3mo ago
You're really walking empty handed and with your pants around our ankles in this one. Do you really think the US and US big tech in general have a leg to stand on in this regard?
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by buran77 3mo ago
> I don't understand why there's such a lack of response on the Cursor side. Too busy being acquired by SpaceX?
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by buran77 3mo ago
> hands off managing Valve for precisely this reason Remember that this means he's not the "hands" but he's still very much the head. You'll only know what Valve really is without him when he's no longer aro
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by buran77 3mo ago
> which seems to imply that by 80 life is over and not worth living. That's a big leap you made. But I'll tell you what, this is a question you'll be able to answer when you are in your 80s, not your parents. I have a st
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by buran77 3mo ago
> protecting Tesla and SpaceX was existential Don't you miss the simpler times when people could just frantically applaud Musk's genius and not be inconvenienced by the truth of how big of a role deception, grifting, and outrig
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by buran77 3mo ago
> society thinks 80-year olds are physically less fit than they are in reality If anything the bias is the other way around. You get to see all the 80 year olds who are fit enough to interact with society. You never see the the ones who
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by buran77 3mo ago
That's good to hear but that wasn't really the topic of the conversation. We were discussing people with life threatening illness where the treatment severely lowers quality of life for a very uncertain outcome. Do you think the &
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by buran77 3mo ago
> Why is that? By 80 most people have reconciled with the idea that they don't have too many years left even in the best of conditions. There's no hope of extending life, and there's little to look forward to, they already

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