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by dguaraglia 6y ago
Bingo. The problem with talking about Covid-19 casualties is there's no argument that'll convince the skeptics: mortality rates are relatively high when we still have hospital capacity , imagine if we had double or triple the num
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
They are pretty common at least in Europe, in particular if you are looking for a visa type that doesn't require a sponsor. There are ways around them - for example Spain will let you apply for a 'startup' if you are starting
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
To be honest, I feel like the base CS degree is kind of useless to anyone who has worked in the industry for a while. But it does give you the opportunity to do an MS or PhD, which could be more interesting if there's still an academic
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
Only people engaged in a field are prone to have a conflict of interest. Not only aren't those two things mutually exclusive, they are highly correlated.
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
As someone in the same position that the author was in (dropped out of college, have had a successful career in Silicon Valley) I can understand the allure of doing a 'speedrun' to get a degree. For one, if you want to emigrate to
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
One of my favorite memories about that game was having to reverse engineer their anti-copying system. Growing up in Latin America getting legit games wasn't really a thing (both because of cost, but also availability), so I remember ge
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
Sure, and you can do something similar with C and obtain a ~10kb executable, or even less if you put some effort. Or write that in Java and need a complex setup including the JRE and a bunch of packages to support it. The point is that this
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
Same here. That game was amazing.
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
Not if you can get re-infected. That's why the cold and flu virus are still doing the rounds every year despite pretty much everyone you know having had a cold or flu at some point.
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
Or the other way around: those getting married have actually thought it through, rather than feeling peer or family pressure? Who knows.
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
Can we all agree that - sure - all those things look dodgy and most likely Hunter Biden benefited from his dad's position, but: 1) That doesn't prove Joe Biden himself benefited directly from it (that's implication all these
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
Haha, I hear horror stories from my friends who are on NextDoor. At some point, a guy reported seeing a coyote on Lafayette park while walking his dog at 2am. You know, just being nice to the neighbors and letting them know to be careful ab
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
That's not uncommon. Our office in North Beach was a 12-month deal. In fact, contracts tend to be longer (24 months or so).
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
LOL, you are not far off. I can't remember where, but a while ago I saw an interview with some guy who did pretty much that: he opened a studio but instead of calling it yoga he came up with some 'cool' name like 'RX+fit
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
There was also a Python/wxWindows development environment called 'Boa constructor'. It was the bee's knees. Shame it died. http://boa-constructor.sourceforge.net/
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
I've experienced it a couple times after having a bad flu or cold. It usually happens towards the middle the disease, when your nose is completely stuffed. It usually lasts a few days (think two to five days) and - in my case at least
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
The problem with such attempts at a 'rational' explanation of why one or the other approach works better is that we are talking about an irrational issue. It's easy for 30-something people with no preconditions to think they
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
> It is now clear that the Danish, Norwegian, and Finnish governments do not care much about the stability of the Nordic cooperation and anyone might hesitate when choosing a job across the border. So, there's literally a single cou
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
So, you saw creating a 'safe space' inside of a college campus, and you decided that means the whole campus is a 'safe space'. That makes sense. Whenever I walk into a building with a bathroom, I assume I can pee anywher
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
While I agree that the test is unfair (because of breaking capabilities), this is by no means a crazy situation that wouldn’t happen in a city or a place with tons of children. The important question this rises, and the most important quest
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
I'd agree about that when it comes to most of the 'supplement' side of his fungi business. I'm a bit less skeptical when it comes to this particular application regarding bees: it seems like a pretty easy thing to test a
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
This used to be the best way to try Linux before live CDs became a thing. The first Linux distro I ever used (DragonLinux) was 'installed' by unzipping an 8mb zip file and running a BAT file. You could 'uninstall' it by
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
No, my point is exactly the opposite: choosing the worst possible examples of someone who supports X to argue that's the norm is bad thinking. If you want to play the 'broad generalization' game, then you have to be able to
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
I think it’s the opposite: what they wanted was for Assange to claim that Seth Rich had stolen the data, not so much to confirm DNC influence on the probe but because it’d fuel a whole nightmare scenario of conspiracy theorizing. If I’m rea
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
Mostly about startups really, with a big lean on technology. On occasion, there are political discussions but they tend to be heavily monitored to stop them becoming too bad.
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
Dude, the moment you realize whose side neo-Nazis are on, you really don’t want that argument.
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
You are aware that something like 30 women have accused him of sexual assault, right?
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
Assange also made a big show of trying to claim it was Seth Rich without actually claiming it was Seth Rich. I'm not sure I trust Assange's claims on this one, chief.
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
> I'll leave speculation of motivations behind on why more types of treatments haven't been tried. We're in a strange time when a lot of the institutions that have failed the public are still being weaponized against peopl
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by dguaraglia 6y ago
I'd argue that the proliferation of 'pre-publish' papers and the fact that anyone with a blog can push disinformation confirming anyone's point of view has made it less likely that people will disconfirm their beliefs.

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