darkarmani

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by darkarmani 4y ago
> COVID-19 vaccine was created after the fact, and it hardly prevented a major global catastrophe. What? It immediately dropped the death rate. How many more millions of lives would it have to have saved to get notice?
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by darkarmani 4y ago
In Finland's case, if you are filthy wealthy, you should never drive yourself. Hire the cheapest person that is a good driver and pay their tickets for them.
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by darkarmani 4y ago
He just needed to "neg" some VCs by crapping on them to get a better term sheet.
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by darkarmani 4y ago
Caffeine makes you hungry? That's weird. It's a stimulate so it should make you less hungry.
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by darkarmani 4y ago
Isn't this Google Voice which was once Grand Central (12 years ago)? Forward your phone number to a different number through gvoice. For email, add a '+' symbol to your email address and filter them out if they get abusive.
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by darkarmani 4y ago
That sounds like a terrible trade-off that makes people more likely to write down passwords on post-it notes or in a clear-text file to cut-n-paste. Especially if you lock accounts after a 10 tries or so (or PCI's ridiculous low numbe
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by darkarmani 4y ago
What did the employee get in exchange? Bait and switch training?
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by darkarmani 4y ago
> I see this as a way to give companies an incentive to train workers. They don't need this abusive system to do that. They can reimburse college credits and require a certain amount of time. The difference is that they aren'
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by darkarmani 4y ago
What example? How can they get any money out of someone that doesn't have anything? Eventually, the debt will go to collections and someone might get 10% of the money collected.
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by darkarmani 4y ago
The real answer is to make H1Bs transferable between jobs. H1Bs are limited, so what does it matter which company they work for? That would reduce exploitation done under H1Bs and keeping salaries low.
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by darkarmani 4y ago
Biking is the only great way to make that kind of commute.
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by darkarmani 4y ago
> Even when you get a job there are people that you don't get along with, but you still find a way to make it work. You expect a 6 year old to have the insight and emotional maturity to work around with a terrible teacher? Why woul
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by darkarmani 4y ago
> Kill a man, chop into pieces and shipped away. Fine now. What? Who said that was fine?\
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by darkarmani 4y ago
> is now a net exporter of oil most years There are different kinds of oil and they aren't equivalent.
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by darkarmani 4y ago
I'm not sure the criteria for being good is being perfect and "never making a mistake".
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by darkarmani 4y ago
> "make it someone else's problem after I die" seems like a pretty decent incentive not to sell. I'm not sure it is a problem -- it just affects the true value of the property/asset.
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by darkarmani 4y ago
Those are business expenses. > Avoid paying cap gains taxes on sale using 1031 exchanges This is deferring the tax, not avoiding it.
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by darkarmani 4y ago
Since I use conda for everything anyway, I just end up doing a `conda install -p ./test postgres` when i want to install a throwaway postgres and then delete the environment later.
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by darkarmani 4y ago
Are you using conda-forge? Solving from over 6TBs of packages can take quite a while. Conda-forge builds everything . This isn't a criticism, but because of that the number of packages is massive.
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by darkarmani 4y ago
> There's nothing really inherently racist about it, or bullshit. It's the same argument wielded to discriminate against immigrants. It was used against the Irish, Italians, and Polish in NY City to name a few. Each group was
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by darkarmani 4y ago
> Well, what is the recourse for legitimate businesses then? When pirates can set up shop and distribute content that is expensive to produce, how do these businesses evolve to a more flexible model when an unknown large chunk of their r
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by darkarmani 4y ago
> The prolonged war is a US strategy. If so, that's a stupid strategy. Russia can easily defeat the US's strategy by leaving Ukraine.
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by darkarmani 4y ago
> Train people are content to stare out the window for hours, like indoor cats.
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by darkarmani 4y ago
Compiled packages have ABI restrictions. Even conda-forge puts major version constraints on their packages at build time (ie: built on 3.9: >=3.9,<3.10.0a).
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by darkarmani 5y ago
Why would anyone trust uncured bacon? If it isn't cured, it is going to develop bad pathogens. That's my joke anyway. This stuff is terrible: it's not even cured!
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by darkarmani 5y ago
What do you think about external core dependencies? For example, people are starting to use Okta/Auth0 for the authentication core of their apps. Obviously, this puts them at the mercy of the okta if anything goes wrong with IdM. But
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by darkarmani 5y ago
> just to give one example, CI pipelines seem to fail all the time. Really? I've not seen this to be the case unless they are never maintained (ie: a year goes by and ignored dependencies change)
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by darkarmani 5y ago
I'm so sorry you are going through this. Good luck. I hope you are able to get settled safely.
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by darkarmani 5y ago
> In fact, the world will benefit greatly from cutting out Russia from the internet! Imagine all the horrible cyberattacks and thefts of sensitive private info, money, ransomware attacks on cities schools and hospitals, and national secu
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by darkarmani 5y ago
I agree. Condemn them for the invasion. The "collateral" damage of civilians is part of an invasion. I haven't seen any evidence of targeting civilians as a goal. The US has unfortunate civilian casualties as well during m

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