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by crpatino 9y ago
By the same logic, you could reach 100 years old by being scrupulous with your health, avoiding any mistakes while performing risky activities, and fleeing from any violence comming your way. It is kind of neat advice in retrospective, but
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by crpatino 9y ago
> If properly backed up digital records are even more resilient, and it's not like this is a new concept. If people would be willing and able to make proper digital records, the Cloud would not exist. Actually, most of the technolog
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by crpatino 9y ago
> The same thing you do if physical tax/medical/financial records get lost in a fire, or any other data for that matter. The thing you fail to grasp is the resilience of physical records. Imagine Germany trying to take down Eng
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by crpatino 9y ago
Double-plus-so. The Internet continues to be damage tolerant. The problem is that we have collectively expended the last 20 years building single points of failure, and hooking them up all through the Internet.
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by crpatino 9y ago
There... > (especially since this is not really considered a crime) The seed is already planted: it is ok to display the face of a citizen, as long as he's a criminal. No debate about what kinds of public need does supersede the pri
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by crpatino 9y ago
Company culture does not change like that; and in most cases not at all because upper management has to be willing and able to pay for it not just assigning resources but tolerating significant hits to the bottom line (by example, foregoing
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by crpatino 9y ago
Agreed on the Iraq example. One of the things that ancient European nobility got right was to put their own children in the front lines as low or middle level army officers. The rank lieutenant literaly comes from the French for "land
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by crpatino 9y ago
You are right on every account, but you have to actually know who Robespierre was to get the pun.
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by crpatino 9y ago
It is not that we are so efficient, but that a priviledged tiny cabal have learned how to push the consequences of their mistakes to the rest of the population. To borrow your example: In agricultural age, if you fucked up harvest your
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by crpatino 9y ago
On the other hand, when the collective idiocity better known as the Internet of Things finally comes back to bite us in the ass, we can at least be sure it wont be in the form of a nuclear winter.
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by crpatino 9y ago
People building and manteining the system are not really engaged with customers, and therefore cannot know what the system is used for? And people best qualified to understand that lives were at risk are so far away detached from the develo
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by crpatino 9y ago
As long as we are sharing crazy theories... Boring corporations like boring spaces, and have to pay big, boring salaries to get any talent at all. On the other hand, cool code slingers may or may not prefer tabs out of personal idiosyncraci
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by crpatino 9y ago
Ok, I will make one last comment and let this discussion to rest. It is curious you mention Snake Oil. There was a post a few days ago on HN, reporting that Science has found actual biochemicals in oil of some snakes that may be useful in m
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by crpatino 9y ago
Thank you for engaging, dpark. You mentioned elsewhere that the (HN) audience collectively decides. You are right, I have taken a small punishment in my karma numbers, but I am willing to pursue this regardless. You claim that people hear a
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by crpatino 9y ago
No, but downvoting people who does not share you opinion is. Double-plus for downvoting people that calls you on your hypocricy. The terapeutic modalities you have label under the collective label of "bullshit" is a valid options
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by crpatino 9y ago
Then you should argue against it, and let the best argument win. Last time I checked, Chc was not the infallible God of Truth and Goodness. Maybe it is not a good contribution, but it is not for you alone to tell.
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by crpatino 9y ago
Downvotes are for signaling failure to honour conversation protocol, no disagreement of opinion. You guys shoud know better. If you want to argue that liver cleansing is a quack, do so in a comment. Better yet, ignore the parent and let it
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by crpatino 9y ago
Corruption 101 - As a government official, run an effective bu ineficcient operation, then position your friends and family to benefit indirectly from it: easy and secure jobs, contracts to provide supplies at overprice, real state apprecia
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by crpatino 9y ago
I am old enough to remember how everything used to make sense (as little as 5-7 years ago). Today, "don't connect anything to anything" sounds like the last line of defense against the horde of Progress-worshiping geeky retar
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by crpatino 9y ago
Even a broken clock gives the exact time twice a day. As a professional community, we have uterly failed at giving a flying fuck about anything other than quarterly revenue (aka. upholding a basic ethical standard). But now, we can at least
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by crpatino 9y ago
It is an important life skill, cannot be denied. However, I cannot stop noticing that all the worst traits of the software industry start with the talented professionals amoungst us "caring less" about their jobs; and then the boz
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by crpatino 9y ago
The cheapest kind of cheap is the one where you reap the benefits but make someone else pay the bill. And make that bill extra expensive, to add insult to injury.
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by crpatino 9y ago
The thing that makes that one praise at the table meaningful at all is the fact that there had been dozens of times the kids behaved just as well, or mostly as well, but the parents choose to not make a big deal about it. The same argument
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by crpatino 9y ago
Would you mind to clarify what you mean by "X definitely"? I think you are on to something, but cannot fully grasp wha you mean.
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by crpatino 9y ago
What makes Labor Theory of Value fundamentally flawed? The fact that it has the letters M, A, R and X tied to its authoriship? I agree that toilling at useless task adds zero value in the best case -more often than not, it adds negative v
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by crpatino 9y ago
The keyword here is that GP never said "if you do fire junior people", but "if you are firing junior people". The later implies a recurrent pattern of behavior and, unless you want to argue that an unknown factor beyond
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by crpatino 9y ago
In an ideal world, union leadership should work with management team to make the company succeed and share the fruits of that success with the rank and file employees. A corollary of this is that if the company fails to succeed, there w
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by crpatino 9y ago
They introduced a third shift recently, but have been working around the clock since the very beginning. 5 years is way too much time for a management team to notice that working 12x6 with your body is way different than working the same am
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by crpatino 9y ago
That's factually correct but, paraphrasing Orwell's Animal Farm, some "yous" are more equal than others.
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by crpatino 9y ago
Thanks for the keyword, let me ask google now.

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