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by crpatino 12y ago
> I'm all for founding a company which specializes in "Stupid shit no one needs" and is valued at billions of dollars. Sign me up! At least in theory, companies "valued at billions" literally cannot specialize in
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by crpatino 12y ago
Ok, I am going to bite. AirBnb is stupid. Every child that has heard about the Little Red Riding Hood should be able to figure that out. The fact that we do not hear about even more horrible incidents regarding this service is for the mos
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by crpatino 12y ago
You keep talking about bugs and therefore you keep missing the point. As a matter of fact, I tend to agree with you that the Infosec community would benefit enormously by adopting some of the best practices that we lowly programmers take fo
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by crpatino 12y ago
I guess am sorry that we ended up in bitter ends of a pointy discussion. For what's worth, I was not trolling. I stand by anything that I said (specially the "sprinkle of crypto fairy dust", which I have seen IRL more often t
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by crpatino 12y ago
> European "rehabilitation first" Really? I have heard French justice/prison systems are nothing like a walk in the park. Probably the same across all southern Europe?
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by crpatino 12y ago
You are wrong on practically every account: > Joe Developer sees this advice and decides not to write crypto software. False. Moe Manager stomps his foot and makes Joe Developer wire together "something good enough", regardless
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by crpatino 12y ago
Glad that you find my opinion helpful. One more piece of advice that came to mind. Maybe you can negotiate that part of your current responsibilities be offloaded to a more junior engineer with the right balance of knowledge and attitude. T
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by crpatino 12y ago
1. One way of learning is to apprentice to a master craftsman. Another way is to figure out things on your own. Yet another way is to take stuff you think you already know and try to explain it to people that knows less than you. None is be
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by crpatino 12y ago
Nobody is claiming that this changes are more than astronomically possible to be produced by random processes, the title in such case should have read "... raises robustness concerns" instead of security concerns. In every securit
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by crpatino 12y ago
That's survivor bias. Earth looks in equilibrium to us because it changes very, very slowly... and we happen to evolve to make the most out of the current set of conditions. But I'd bet that to the living organisms of the Cambrian
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by crpatino 12y ago
A sink does not have to be an "ultimate sink", you can think of it as a temporary storage subsystem. Individual trees take carbon from the atmosphere, put it into their body mass, and release it years/decades later on their e
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by crpatino 12y ago
He meant the radioactive waste from nuclear fission (with an I) plants. If I picked up the argument correctly, fusion was never meant to work, it was just a smoke screen so that people would not look too closely at what the nuclear industry
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by crpatino 12y ago
I never said that by only cutting frivolous usage, the problem would be solved. If 80% is agricultural usage, then agricultural cannot be not part of the solution as well. But if people keep coming up with clever arguments for not cutting t
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by crpatino 12y ago
The pipeline is expensive, and can move only so much volume per second. You'd need basically and artificial river. Then, there's landscape constrains. And Oregonians will veto any decision about their water siphoned to California
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by crpatino 12y ago
The point remains. Water consumption will be cut down either voluntarily or by lack of availability. You cannot chose not to cut down your consumption, but you can choose what type of consumption to cut first. Drink 10% less water and you w
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by crpatino 12y ago
> Golf courses account for probably not more than 0.5% of all human water usage in California annually. Great! That's half percent point gain of a life-constraining resource at the cost of a little non-essential entertainment for a
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by crpatino 12y ago
Not only in Hacker News, but otherwise agreed with you.
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by crpatino 12y ago
Because humans don't eat, right?
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by crpatino 12y ago
With due respect, if your kids think that it's OK to shoot a gun to someone because it is "non lethal" (btw. sublethal would be more accurate), then you are raising a generation of drooling idiots. Which is, by the way, not w
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by crpatino 12y ago
On compulsory education: If you agree with John Taylor Gatto, you could argue that the purpose of universal education was never to provide children with opportunities to learn how to make a living (apprenticeships rules date from the middle
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by crpatino 12y ago
> I'm afraid Google doesn't pay his taxes like we, the tax payers, think it should... I am sure the same could be said of every company beyond certain size (200-300 employees comes to mind, but this is just a wild guess), regar
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by crpatino 12y ago
Ok, this caused lots of discussion, so here it is. I am Mexican, living and working in Mexico. Interest rates for a house are in the ballpark of 10%. This can be either very bad (on a 30 year mortage, you end up paying back about 3 times as
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by crpatino 12y ago
I know, I am a terrible person. 8 months into a Death March project does that kind of thing to your sanity. Right now I am counting on her being smarter than I am.
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by crpatino 12y ago
Not really hiding, since she is aware the money exist. I am just keeping it in an account I alone have access to.
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by crpatino 12y ago
Not that major management failure is ever punished, is it?
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by crpatino 12y ago
Cut expenses, payoff debt, increase savings... on principle. Then when you see the first early warnings, do the same but twice as hard. I am well on track to pay the mortage in 4 years instead of the standard 20, have probably 6 months of e
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by crpatino 12y ago
And what's exactly wrong with that??? All that means that it's crystal clear to Upper-Management that air traffic control is Hard!, and it must be properly resourced. It makes me feel safer (even if probably more risky due to huma
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by crpatino 12y ago
This is precisely my point. You attribute the capacity to reason to chemical molecules because their behavior seems purposeful. It does not occur to you that living entities may have goals and achieve those goals by using information proces
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by crpatino 12y ago
The fact that it ends up being beneficial to the species does not make the behavior any more rational. Strictly speaking, the label rational implies a cognitive phenomenon where some "thinking subject" represents a problem in an a
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by crpatino 12y ago
The problem with senior positions being that older people have usually seen better and saner than you can offer, so your recruit pool is limited to within-industry pouching?

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