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ecb_penguin
1y ago
Ok, great, so we put Packet Filter in the title. Still doesn't explain it. So let's put Packet Filter for BSD in the title. You didn't explain what BSD is. Eventually let's just put the entire article in the title. >
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1y ago
I seriously can't imagine seeing this and thinking I should spend my time making a game about it. As a hiring manger, I'd bin anyone that thought an affair was a worthy discussion, let alone making a game about it.
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ecb_penguin
1y ago
> You're not gonna believe this, but you are paying for it. Every dime your employer spends on your insurance is one dime they're not paying you in cash. You're not gonna believe this, but you are paying for it. Every dime
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1y ago
> You are cooked if this is how you debate and discuss as a human being. Critical thinking is more important than tone. Also you don't need to share your medical conditions with people. Most people don't do that...
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ecb_penguin
1y ago
The vast majority of health systems use EHR systems. I mean, you can go to small clinics that don't share data with anyone, but that's on you.
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ecb_penguin
1y ago
Yes. Every doctor in my hospital group has access to my records. I don't fill out anything when I go.
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1y ago
> So it’s not about whether you “have the money” but whether you happen to have one of those rare employers offering platinum plated health plans That means having the money... Wait until you hear about things like the Mayo Clinic Execut
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1y ago
Well, at least you stopped arguing about how easy term life insurance is.
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1y ago
You're cooked if you can't tell the difference between a person and an LLM. > Autistic and ADHD. Not terribly socially apt Is this why you thought I was an LLM?
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1y ago
> How are those ideas anti-consumer or anti-business? Arbitrarily banning things you don't agree with doesn't support the development of new ideas, nor does it give customers the choices they want. > operating system has bee
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1y ago
I think you've seriously confused the US and Europe. > You fill out forms and make calls and get letters and all this bullshit. No I don't? I log into my hospital health system, click a button to schedule a specialist, pick a t
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1y ago
I don't pay out the ass... My premiums are covered by my employer, and I have no co-pays. It literally does not cost me anything to see my doctor. > the system is absolutely drastically worse than other developed countries I can see
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1y ago
"the Dunning–Kruger effect is the thesis that those who are incompetent in a given area tend to be ignorant of their incompetence, i.e., they lack the metacognitive ability to become aware of their incompetence. This definition lends i
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1y ago
Ok, so you have no experience and you're just making things up. > Term life is just not that complicated a product at heart Sure, it's easy if you don't know what you're talking about and just make stuff up! > Onus
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1y ago
> Who cares? Me, who enjoys higher salaries, more jobs, better benefits, better healthcare, better schools, more diversity, and higher purchasing power. Also it's more fun to work for US tech companies than Nokia :).
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1y ago
If you think it's that simple, you have no idea what you're talking about. How many years experience do you have in the insurance industry that you're so confident to talk like this? > because this is a financial product a
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1y ago
It doesn't, though. It's pretentious and educated people will see through it. If the goal is to inform, then you should do the opposite.
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1y ago
> Frank Abagnale committed financial crimes and had a wildly popular movie made from his story. People are talking about Nikita Bier, not a movie about Nikita Bier. You can be hated and reviled, and media about you can still be popular.
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1y ago
Yeah, but that's ego. You wouldn't be able to pick out Jiro's sushi in a blind taste test of many Tokyo sushi restaurants. If other people can replicate what you do, then the 30 years doesn't serve any actual purpose.
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1y ago
> Skimmed the readme, seems like it's not AEAD? Are you just looking for keywords? That's not how a quality security review should be done. > I don't see any reason to use a tool that's not AEAD. Do you have an act
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1y ago
Or you could just build things for fun. Why do we have to care about "nourishing a user base"? Two decades ago we would build software and release it for fun and utility. > Specifically you should compare and contrast to tools
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1y ago
I don't understand? It would be useful to see how items from the past test for these materials. There are also plenty of current items. Do you have an arbitrary date we should use to ignore items for testing?
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> where companies don't have financials Seems like a pretty good reason to have more information than 1 slide...
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You need to read the fine print on the slide you linked. They carefully chose a cohort to show these numbers. It only apply to investors that backed 3 or more companies during a demo day. And, as you can see, the more YC drinks it's ko
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1y ago
> You're wrong You thought YC was comparable to a university > This is why LP's throw money at YC's funds Yeah, we know hedge funds that throw money at things usually beat the SP500. > It is very apparent after many
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I'm here for the scam! I get paid absurd amounts of money at an unprofitable YC startup. It's fine, though, because our founders are scamming even more money. It's all a ponzi scheme where we pass investment dollars to the ne
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> YC is very similar to a university No it's not. It's not even remotely comparable. > There is a small group of companies that create the reputation on which everybody lives Also called luck. YC investors cannot articulate
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1y ago
We've had unhinged evaluations for a decade. We hit peak absurdity with Yo ( https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/18/yo-raises-1-5m-in-funding-... ) It was a scam app where you send "yo" to your friend
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I didn't realize how poorly YC startups were managed until I joined one. It's mostly a ponzi scheme, where unprofitable companies pass their books off to non-technical investors that love hype. > 1 slide. 1 minute pitches. 1 sp
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1y ago
You work around it 1. Get a hardware token 2. Install a TOTP desktop client 3. Only use the phone for 2FA 4. You understand the spirit of the exercise and don't get bogged down by silly rules.
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