direfungasaur

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by direfungasaur 8y ago
> The simplified executive line of reasoning, why to rather trust an external entity over their own people, goes usually along these lines: "We do not take advice from our employees. We hired them for grunt work and we only expect t
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by direfungasaur 9y ago
With respect to the 'change one law' phrasing - I don't think a repeal of the 2nd immediately leads to confiscation. It only removes the federal restrictions, but several state constitutions have the right explicitly enshrine
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by direfungasaur 9y ago
I just don't understand the generality of the assertion. Law-abiding folks are suddenly going to become violent because the government changed one law? I can certainly believe that some segment of the population might revolt, but broad
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by direfungasaur 9y ago
Are you implying that gun-owners would suddenly wage war on the nation if they were told to hand over (some portion of) their guns in the next year or face civil penalties? Doesn't it seem far more likely that most law-abiding folks wo
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by direfungasaur 9y ago
An Individual Contributor - someone with no direct reports.
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by direfungasaur 9y ago
There's no reason that a bright student with a biology background couldn't be a perfect fit for these sorts of things if they have some contact with a computer science class or two. Sure, it's completely realistic for a bio
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by direfungasaur 9y ago
There are arbitrary, unambiguous, agreed upon standards of politeness. You don't curse people out. This are unambiguous when you are interacting with people before you have established your own norms. It's possible for a health
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by direfungasaur 9y ago
obvious and unobjectionable steps like "recruit junior devs from the ranks of biology grads I don't follow how this is an obvious decision. Would you please elaborate? If the target software isn't dealing with the biology
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by direfungasaur 10y ago
I haven't researched the rationales behind taxi protectionism laws, so I can only offer conjecture. Two two reasons I can imagine we have such laws are traffic congestion control and accident liability. On the surface congestion contr
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by direfungasaur 10y ago
You are arbitrarily assigning Uber's disruption a positive social outcome, which appears to be the lynchpin of your argument. Your argument could be applied to many outcomes that would appear on the surface to be negative. A few (adm