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by ci5er 9y ago
Fair enough. And especially with re-titling. I guess I am getting old and crotchety, so if somebody posts an article about aliasing artifacts using vector EE equipment to play galaxy wars, the quote "[1968]" doesn't seem nece
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by ci5er 9y ago
My hair is starting to think about peppering itself with white, so I wasn't born yesterday, but I've spent about 1/3 of my adult life in Asia (primarily Japan), about 1/3 in the North of the US split between Yankee-land
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by ci5er 9y ago
Is the point of this comment that the point being made by the article is no longer relevant (i.e. 'obsoleted by the march of technical progress')? Or that you might waste a click on an article that you have read it before? Or ...
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by ci5er 9y ago
I don't know your geography, industry or role - but - as a hiring manager for developer roles - generically - if I have to plow through 200 applications to find 25 candidates to screen to find 10 interviewees to fill two positions in a
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by ci5er 9y ago
Maybe. But based on the 3rd-hand reports I have read (the suicide can't/doesn't report), the self-kill-decision seems more immediate than the realization that the efficacy of the substance wasn't, you know, efficacious.
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by ci5er 9y ago
Salvia is, for me, is quite rough. But I can't imagine it causing suicide. What's the progression/causation there? Or do we just not have enough data to know?
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by ci5er 9y ago
> you can't be just rational and the fear will disappear. Are you sure? I find that mentally walking through a checklist of true-true facts makes my sweating/shaking/vomiting go away (for a while)
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by ci5er 9y ago
What about a license that says: "If you buy some X number of seats of our software, then you get a copy of the source-code to modify and do with as you will (today as well as when we, the vendor, die, as vendors are wont to do), but th
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by ci5er 9y ago
> 2) I'm sure plenty of people who do not understand power laws are able to comprehend economic concepts around inequality. Well, sure. But wherever a power distribution pops up, there's a chance that a complex system (small-wo
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by ci5er 9y ago
I get your pain ... the Verilog Synopsis integration party took about a decade to get over, and at $20K+/seat, it hurt to have to shell out for 2~3 independent-but-each-necessary licenses (as an indie). But, for JetBrains, at $200&#x2F
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by ci5er 9y ago
That doesn't sound like the kind of behavior anyone would want to encourage. I will say (anecdotally) that the women that I hired as individual technical contributors and promoted to managers were (on average -- with a small sample siz
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by ci5er 9y ago
Breaking the back of OPEC, plummeting the price of oil played no small factor. Even today, with the bounties of modern production tech, Saudi Arabia and Russia and Venezuela are hurting more than a little...
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by ci5er 9y ago
Here you mean "Manichean" to mean 'redemptive' in the moral-dualism sense? If not, what do you mean? (I want to make sure I am reading you as you intend)
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by ci5er 9y ago
Maybe so. I do remember that I found Heinlein a lot "lighter" in his approach to any dialectic. It's been more than a couple of decades since I have read either. It seems that I need a refresher!
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by ci5er 9y ago
Nation-states are not people. Nations have (temporary and shifting) alliances based on common shared interests -- not love. Japan is a great ally. I lived there for over a decade, and I can say that I love the Japanese people. But I will ad
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by ci5er 9y ago
So... Like Heinlein? Post-WWII Cold War sentiment of that type was not uncommon. I/We (old people) looked at "big government" as something that collectivists (national socialists (nazis), fascists, international socialists (c
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by ci5er 9y ago
How so? It is one of the very few constitutionally enumerated functions of the federal government, and I don't remember it being privatized?
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by ci5er 9y ago
> Plenty of people, even in the US, operate without any of these things After my company crashed, my wife divorced me and then I got cancer -- things were pretty grim on my credit-worthiness story. Net-net: I went without a bank-account
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by ci5er 9y ago
What were his politics beyond cynicism regarding the incentive structures often embedded within our most common governing systems?
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by ci5er 9y ago
I've re-read your comment a few times. Now - it's early - but I'm missing something. Is this a "Dark Pattern" (I'm not even going to try to parse how something can be darker than dark)? Or is it a safety featur
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by ci5er 9y ago
From (my) GP: > some telecom stuff they wanted to get out off. I'm guessing that it might well have been?
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by ci5er 9y ago
Lethargic? How so? How did they become so - because they live off of the support portion of the Enterprise Oracle licenses?
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by ci5er 9y ago
Dad - you're drunk. Go home.
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by ci5er 9y ago
This all seems to be an expression of the zeitgeist. Popular perceptions shift. Things get accomplished democratically (or through court fiat without too much blow-back) and protesters protest, because, you know, man, that's what they
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by ci5er 9y ago
Ctrl-left is the antipode to the Alt-right: Antifa. They appear to outnumber the neo-nazis and kkk by between 5:1 to 20:1. That's what I meant. i.e. I see them (as newly defined alt-right) as a joke. (well, and horrible)
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by ci5er 9y ago
This is a sensitive topic - and hard to comment on neutrally enough not to potentially offend someone. I'm going to try my best... > [Just in case it wasn't clear enough: antifas/radical-left in the US are pretty much a ha
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by ci5er 9y ago
Except in western Europe towards the end of July. It's closer to 85%. Brutal.
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by ci5er 9y ago
Uuuh ... Shouldn't they be, you know, developing? Or has GitHub turned into Reddit when I wasn't looking?
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by ci5er 9y ago
> Has this ever happened? I don't think so. Sure it does. I've had it happen to two of my ventures. Anecdote is not the singular of data, but I can't imagine it is rare.
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by ci5er 9y ago
Well, since the studio model broke down and gave way to the guild model, maybe ... but the studio model was solid until it wasn't. Baseball franchises (for example) own the players until they are allowed out of their contract to become

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