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by digsy 7y ago
>The current situation of 70k a year college is predatory, but a student accepting that cost should be smart enough to know what that means. Many students who accept these loans are 17-18 years old. Expecting children to make solid finan
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by digsy 7y ago
Video games are part tech, part art and part storytelling. So in a sense they are closer to movies than pure software. That distinction is where some of the wish for credit comes from I believe.
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by digsy 7y ago
>Unfortunately very few of these may actually relate to management but at some point you reach that level of seniority and then the company says "here's a team, I'm sure you'll be fine" and leaves it at that very
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by digsy 7y ago
What kind of technical due diligence did you do? I'm wondering if machine learning could be used for this.
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by digsy 7y ago
https://nordcloud.com/10-examples-of-ai-in-manufacturing-to-...
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by digsy 7y ago
>I suspect the biggest difference between these companies is not talent or vision, but sens of urgency Well that and the SABRE engine is a completely new design and SpaceXs engines are based on engines created in the 1960s and refined si
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by digsy 7y ago
A number of banks now allow you to suspend credit cards via a secure app [1] (username/password required). You then un-suspend the card when you want to do it and its near real-time. Its not quite what you asked for but functionally it
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by digsy 7y ago
>Me and my team delivered a high frequency trading platform. Ahead of schedule, and better performance than requested. Sounds like you have the startings of your own business there.
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by digsy 7y ago
Targeted ads when it comes to housing (AKA redlining) are illegal under Fair Housing Act of 1968. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
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by digsy 7y ago
>I'm not sure why some think that a university degree should mean you're ready to be an effective professional engineer from day 1, let alone year 3. Maybe its an excuse and the companies who say that just dont want to pay for
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by digsy 7y ago
I saw Kevin Mitnik (FBIs most wanted hacker in the 1990s) at a conference plug one of these into laptop with a fully patched version of Windows 10 and one of the very common security suite of apps. The laptop was completely compromised in s
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by digsy 7y ago
They block (or just dont have) the USB data pins - so all it can do is draw power.
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by digsy 7y ago
Also same boat. I've found that a mix of proper ergonomics, regular breaks, CBD oil (for inflammation), wrist braces and physical therapy exercises can do a lot of good.
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by digsy 7y ago
Maybe the educated folks on HN couldnt expect anything else. But most people believed the current Administrations reasoning, which was that the tax cut would benefit them by stimulating the economy (eg trickle down economics), which to educ
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by digsy 7y ago
AFAIK, every state in the US is an at-will state. That means you can be terminated at any time, with very few exceptions. So anytime the company is trying to force you to do something, you have to decide if resisting is worth making yoursel
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by digsy 7y ago
The Fed has been using same day ACH (which was really 1/2 day settlement) since 2016. And they were sending signals pretty soon after the launch that they were wanted real-time payments. I believe that pre-dates Libra but quite some ti
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by digsy 7y ago
Maybe they were canaries in the coal mine of free speech but now some of them have been co-opted to do real arm e.g. Russian trolls pushing anti-vax memes [1]. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC61377
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by digsy 7y ago
ICE have been detaining and deporting legal aliens. Being cautious as an immigrant is just a sensible precaution at this point.
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by digsy 7y ago
I think your example is different to this scenario as your friend will have submitted many pics to VK so they have decent training set for her face. Whereas the DMV only has 1 picture of a suspect so it will result in more false positives.
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by digsy 7y ago
In the thread that allegedly lead to the ban (you can see an archived version here - http://archive.is/vpvb4 ), The_Donald users post comments like: - 'get a rope' - 'So, firing squad time right?' - &#x2
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by digsy 7y ago
The issue isn't the $100 limit - the issue is having the CEO give approval. I would expect that such a small amount would be approved by someone much closer to the engineers on the hierarchy. Not to mention what a poor use of the CEOs
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by digsy 7y ago
WikiLeaks turned down leaks on Russian Government during U.S. Presidential Campaign - https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...
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by digsy 8y ago
The point of mentioning blockers at the meeting is to put pressure on the person who is the source of the blockage. In an ideal world this isnt needed, but many people need public reminders or prodding to unblock.
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by digsy 8y ago
Odroid H2 has 2 X SATA 3.0 - https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h2/ A number of others have mini PCIE that you can add a PCIE SATA board to - https://www.amazon.com/Port-Controller-AsMedia-ASM1
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by digsy 8y ago
QueryStorm does this - https://www.querystorm.com/