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by curun1r 9y ago
It's propaganda, but it still points to a system of perverse incentives that the Cuban Government should address. My parents took a bicycling trip to Cuba a number of years ago. Their guide had a wife who was a doctor. He made ~20x wha
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by curun1r 9y ago
I somewhat agree, but any connection between Communism and Socialism needs to similarly find its way to that trash heap. Communism's failing is its seemingly inescapable combination with totalitarianism and despotism, which was a signi
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by curun1r 9y ago
> the work generated by those groups is understood by upper management as a key to success I think you could have left off the "as a key to success" part. Software engineering, as a discipline, is very hard to quantify and hard
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by curun1r 9y ago
A couple of question with answers we'll never get: - What is the breakdown across for-profit vs traditional school graduates? Are University of Phoenix grads defaulting at the same rate as ivy league grads? (obviously no, but the dispa
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by curun1r 9y ago
> Having the rights to a show is not having a monopoly, as we're talking about them. If not every single cable company in the world is somehow a monopoly. Cable companies don't generally produce content. In the case of the ones
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by curun1r 9y ago
I think you're proving the authors point by misunderstanding it. Using the term 'Identity Theft' buys into the way that the corporations involved want us to think about the credit market. It allows them to take a crime agains
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by curun1r 9y ago
Amazon is far more than a store. For one, they are a monopoly on any content that's exclusive to Prime. And for a lot of us, that's meant choosing between our Prime accounts and our preferred streaming device. I personally would&#
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by curun1r 9y ago
> Reports require a static schema This may be true, but reports also normally require a different schema from the OLTP database. Data warehousing with star schemas is a thing and it doesn't matter whether your OLTP database is an RD
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by curun1r 9y ago
Had you taken on college loans? I know that's how I established my credit and, once I had that in my history, they were all to happy to give me a card with an absurd limit (for me, at the time, with only a work-study job) with little m
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by curun1r 9y ago
For the record, I wasn't talking about the overall module system with my "design by committee" description, just the recent proposed changes. Whether there were only 7 votes or not, it definitely felt like there was an effort
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by curun1r 9y ago
I don't know if it's still a problem with Spring, but at a previous job about 8 years ago I was able to cut our application's start time from about 80 seconds to ~12 by writing a custom implementation of the logic that Spring
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by curun1r 9y ago
> ...because more modern languages are doing this out of the gates and with far fewer hacks and more out-of-the-box tooling (e.g. Rust) Haha...I love Rust, but you must not have been following the recent saga over modules in the communit
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by curun1r 9y ago
I don't even understand why word of mouth would even be a thing when it comes to mattresses. People sleep differently and have different preferences when it comes to what they sleep on such that I can't see buying a mattress witho
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by curun1r 9y ago
My recollection was that Outlook's Web Access was the first. IIRC, it used what would become XMLHttpRequest when it was still internal to Microsoft, so it's the first of what we might consider to be modern web application. GP&#x27
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by curun1r 9y ago
> and nobody is giving diabetes a whirl to address a sociological condition Actually, yes, they are. There's no more perfect disease that you could have chosen to disprove your own argument. Adult-onset diabetes is almost always a v
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by curun1r 9y ago
It seems pretty obvious. Piracy is a synonym for particular sort of theft, but one that paints a very vivid picture of the person doing it as an outcast and a danger. If they had, for example, used the term 'digital shoplifting',
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by curun1r 9y ago
Which is exactly why I said, "...an alternative system needs to be put in place before releasing the database." I wasn't saying that using SSNs they way they're currently used is a good system or even that it works halfw
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In addition, untrue entries in their database should constitute libel. Most (but not all) of the damage from letting SSN/name/address combinations out into the wild that you're referring to comes from adding false entries to
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by curun1r 9y ago
Yes, but the argument that just releasing the database is responsible is based on the notion that private sector businesses have no right to use the identifier and can't complain if their usage is compromised. But extensive use by the
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by curun1r 9y ago
> The trick is believing. For those that lack belief, Valium or Xanax should do the trick too. I don't fly international often enough to worry about getting hooked, so 2 pills (one to sleep on the plane and one to force myself to sl
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by curun1r 9y ago
I wouldn't worry about O2 saturation with regard to passing out. When I've done holds using an oximeter, I can't really get my SpO2 below 90% either, even when I know I'm pretty close. But there's just so much that
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by curun1r 9y ago
> I sincerely wish the Social Security Administration would publish a complete official database of real name to SSN mappings Given the prevalence of fraudulent tax returns and people working under fake SSNs to avoid taxes, I imagine the
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by curun1r 9y ago
Interesting...I've also spent a lot of time training in apnea, but I've never tried to test my cognitive abilities while training. Instead, I try to get to a state of meditative non-thought while training since it seems to improve
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by curun1r 9y ago
For tasks like the one the author describes, I prefer using just [1] over make. It's designed to be a command runner rather than a build tool, so you lose things like considering whether files have been modified when executing a target
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by curun1r 9y ago
I think you're missing the point of people saying that they want CarPlay/Android Auto. People don't want another system, they want another set of controls, screen, speakers and charging dock for their smartphone. They already
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by curun1r 9y ago
I'm mostly the same, but I'm less militant about it and, instead, try to empower my team to handle it themselves. That said, I explicitly promise that any time outside of the normal 40 hours should be taken as comp time. So if som
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by curun1r 9y ago
It does evoke the brilliant: "We're making the world a better place through constructing elegant hierarchies for maximum code reuse and extensibility." It's a infrastructure piece, which is several abstraction layers b
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by curun1r 9y ago
Ugh...no. The carbon footprint of cryptocurrencies is already borderline-unconscionable, and that's with purpose-built hardware that achieves efficiency beyond what consumer-grade equipment can. Moving mining onto consumer hardware and
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by curun1r 9y ago
The problem with viewing pain the way you're viewing it is that pain is an entirely subjective concept and there's no way to objectively measure it. Looking for physiological symptoms, like serotonin imbalances, can never adequate
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by curun1r 9y ago
OTOH, he could be the front man for one of the lottery syndicates mentioned in: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/how-mit... There have been lots of groups that have made lots of money

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