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by cwalv 6y ago
I think $/time is a pretty good proxy (definition?) for usefulness
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by cwalv 6y ago
An alternative would be that the essential workers are just paid more; if they're truly essential, it's hard to see how this wouldn't happen naturally
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by cwalv 7y ago
You can use hyperlinks as a navigational tool as well. You can get a link to any paragraph on any page and paste anywhere else. You can also use tags and "tag summary pages."
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by cwalv 7y ago
Are iPhone batteries really soldered-in? I've replaced a couple cracked screens, and vaguely remember replacing a battery on older iPhones, and I'm pretty sure I didn't need a soldering iron
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by cwalv 7y ago
This is funny because it's true. The wired "pro" version works a lot better (it does reliably capture video from just before the motion was detected until the end of the event), but you can still just knock the camera off the
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by cwalv 7y ago
Didn't the article address 1) with this?: > Another difference is that hash tables only provide average constant time accesses. Bad behaviour can be caused by hash collisions, either unintentional or malicious, but a bigger issue is
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by cwalv 7y ago
Another potential benefit to use a RDBMS system as a queue is that it can make it much simpler to express priorities in cases where it's not a simple FIFO, i.e., if the next job a consumer should take depends on more than just the time
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by cwalv 7y ago
> but when your employment market changes and you need to move to Houston, the hedge is gone That's the other end of the coin that's really easy to miss. I moved to Las Vegas in 2011, when my wife graduated (and where she lande
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by cwalv 8y ago
Maybe it shouldn't be, but your comment is surprisingly cynical to me. I don't believe share price is at the front of his mind, nor any of the engineers working at Boeing. I, for one, work for much more than a paycheck; I think i
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by cwalv 8y ago
It's more like saying most men who die in their 20's die due to excessive risk taking.
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by cwalv 8y ago
So do you believe that restricting the use of this tech in the US would prevent oppressive regimes from using it? Or even slow them down?
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by cwalv 8y ago
You're right, I haven't (I wonder what percent of the population has?). I find it hard to believe that law enforcement using facial recognition would really make that problem much worse than it already is though.
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by cwalv 8y ago
I meant to distinguish "when I'm in public" explicitly; in cases where I have a reasonable expectation of privacy I would not want to give that up.
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by cwalv 8y ago
Not defending anybody, but I think the point in the article is sound. If my child were missing, I would want every technical resource possible to be available to find her. Having "big brother" be able to identify me quickly in a
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by cwalv 10y ago
It seems like the yearly cost calculation (19,146.11 /30 years = $638.20) ignores the time value of money. $19,146.11 30 years from now is only worth $5,778.22 today at 4%. The future value of 30 $378.49 yearly payments at 4%/yr
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by cwalv 11y ago
They might believe market success is a fairly ridiculous barometer for measuring societal value. I'm not sure what a better measure would be. People will pay for things that add value, and getting a bunch of people to pay