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by daenz 5y ago
The government is elected to represent the interests of the people. They bear the overwhelming responsibility for any corrupt deals made with "people making ridiculous amounts of money." It sounds like you're to assign blame
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by daenz 5y ago
But he makes money from those ventures and is therefore immoral! /s I don't understand why so many people seem to hold the attitude that the only acceptable response to someone having money is to pressure them to squander it by gi
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by daenz 5y ago
In an exit interview I've done, it was clear to me that HR was trying to spin a story about why I was leaving that didn't align with what I was saying or trying to say. They were nice enough, but it was full of questions that appe
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by daenz 5y ago
As someone who has worked with extremely intelligent and skilled system engineers, who have all checked each other's work, but still a critical infrastructure issue slips by, this scares the shit out of me. The hubris of thinking human
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by daenz 5y ago
>For some law enforcement agencies, forfeiture funds have accounted for as much as 20% of their budgets, and are sometimes used for seemingly nonessential purchases. Jesus, this is depressing.
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by daenz 5y ago
Can someone explain to me how civil forfeiture doesn't create a perverse incentive by making police departments dependent on the existence and availability of (potentially illicit) funds?
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by daenz 5y ago
This is what "equity" refers to. It means that the playing field must be deliberately tilted to "counteract" any natural tilting. If that feels unfair, that's because it is, intentionally. But the counter argument i
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by daenz 5y ago
I've seen the argument that women having and raising children should result in no interruptions of their career growth or earnings.
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by daenz 5y ago
Interested to see, if this trend continues, if heterosexual women will adapt to desire men with less financial success than them.
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by daenz 5y ago
>Yea because we live in a place where everyone is super honest and no one is going to try and take advantage of that to make 500k a year. I would be THRILLED if I was put into some kind of a short probationary period, with limited access
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by daenz 5y ago
We don't know who struck first, us or them, but we know that it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power and it was believed that they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant
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by daenz 5y ago
>they have to argue in court that the warehouse would be unprofitable given the union's demands. They would? Why? How does the existence of a union prevent a company from firing everyone if it wants to? My understanding is that the
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by daenz 5y ago
Well clearly you were an order of magnitude too low. Edit>> they left off a zero in the first number.
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by daenz 5y ago
>Both parties must report as income the value of the goods and services received in the exchange. [0] My understanding of it is the good/service you receive is considered income at the fair market value, regardless of what you trade
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by daenz 5y ago
Also known as "It's ok to ostracize 20% of the more vulnerable people when it's something I like."
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by daenz 5y ago
>I don't think I could fully embrace the Amish way of life but I suspect my local community mostly farmers and ranchers could implement a barter system if we had to. Funny thing, bartering is still subject to taxes from the IRS[0] 0
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by daenz 5y ago
>Write your pipeline once, run anywhere Ha, finally. The timeline for a pipeline that I wrote recently looks like this: 1. Write local test/deploy script 2. Promote scripts to hosted CI system 3. Local scripts rot 3. CI sy
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by daenz 5y ago
Floating point numbers are a common source of issues in large open world games. Because of how a float is stored, there is more precision for values closer to the "origin" of the world (0, 0, 0). Which means there is less precisio
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by daenz 5y ago
The clip at 0:42s impressed me https://youtu.be/O8TSA-X9UlU?t=42 because the behavior seems to be trying to "edge in" and assert fairness, which is what humans expect of each other in these situations.
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by daenz 5y ago
Just because someone isn't forced by law to do something, doesn't mean they are values we should be promoting. There is a whole range of "they're not obligated to X" scenarios that we can mention. For example, polic
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by daenz 5y ago
Nit, but YAML is a superset of JSON, so no conversion required :)
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by daenz 5y ago
I'm against this for many reasons related to increased potential for authoritarianism and abuse of freedom, but also because it undermines a desirable quality of cash: if our digital infrastructure suffers a significant outage, physica
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by daenz 5y ago
It sounds like you're suggesting that because they already exist in some more-bureaucratic form (seizing cash isn't logistically straightforward), there is no meaningful change to making these things digital and "push button&
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by daenz 5y ago
What's next, a HackerNews browser extension that makes it appear (to you) that all of your comments and submissions are always upvoted to the top?
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I think the point that they're making is that there wouldn't be a large opportunity to short Enron if people were insider trading from the very beginning. The price of the stock would be more accurate from the beginning, because p
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by daenz 5y ago
To people disagreeing with this, can you give a counter argument? On face value, what rosndo said seems to make sense.
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by daenz 5y ago
That's an interesting perspective. So in a way, insider trading corrects the market because the difference between what is known and what is unknown should not result in a vast difference in valuation.
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I think you gave good advice. If someone has privileged access/info, they shouldn't advertise it to the world. It's just asking for trouble.
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>I bet insider trading is not as fun when you're unemployed and bankrupt. Not just unemployed, likely unemployable by any reputable company in the industry. Also, good on you for having integrity, but honestly what you say is too mu
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by daenz 5y ago
Cool! Do you plan on capturing modifiers like "spicy" or "large" ? Without those, I imagine a lot of dishes won't be quite the same.

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