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by ejb999 4y ago
>>The court doesn’t dispute that people can use a regular browser to download audio and video files from YouTube. However, that requires them to go into the browser’s developer tools and manually modify a signature value. Anyone hav
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by ejb999 4y ago
The 'right wing conspiracy theory' that you say this is unrelated to was this: * Using threadbare evidence, or none at all, the group suggested that a small American election software company, Konnech, had secret ties to the Chine
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by ejb999 4y ago
that doesn't help at all, and in fact makes it worse - with a popular vote you can just hack one or two communities with very large populations (i.e. LA and NYC), and change or cast enough votes to cancel out about 30 other states in t
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by ejb999 4y ago
Read the post again, the OP said: "should be comparable to the traditional penalty for regicide."
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>How often does a nail in one corner of a building become a dependency for a bunch of elements clear on the other side? Thats like asking 'how does naming my local variable X instead of Y have any dependency on code in other fun
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by ejb999 4y ago
then they are not 'similar' people are they? if the cost structure is completely different - that is a completely different calculation.
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by ejb999 4y ago
Just because you don't want to believe it, doesn't make it not true - its human nature to be more protective of the people you know better/personally than those you have never met.
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by ejb999 4y ago
Why is it FUD? Who is more likely to get fired if you are choosing between two similar competent people and you have been told you need to pick one: The one you sit next to and have lunch with a few days a week and possibly lives in your ge
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by ejb999 4y ago
in my experience - if you have a good team, it makes zero difference what methodology you use, they will deliver a decent or better product - conversely, if your team sucks, it also doesn't matter what methodology you use - the end pro
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by ejb999 4y ago
There is nothing unique about software - building almost anything has a certain amount of inherent unpredictabilities - would you hire someone to build your house with no commitment of when it would be done, what it might cost or what it
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by ejb999 4y ago
From the comments at the source: A reporter once asked Howard Hughes, "How many people work at Hughes Aircraft Company?" Howard said, "About half." Same probably applies here.
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Facebook 'looks to quietly cull 12,000 underperforming workers'-15% of its staff(dailymail.co.uk)
5 points by ejb999 4y ago|2 comments
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by ejb999 4y ago
there are more than a few cops sitting in jail right now that would disagree with your blanket statement.
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>Let us see how Elon turn Twitter into a good or bad product He doesn't need to do anything to turn it into a bad product - its already cesspool. Real question is will he be able to make it better?
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by ejb999 4y ago
A 'real-time feed' with a one week delay? I don't think you know what the word means.
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>after a true blind interview is done, the result is way more biased than before, How is a 'true blind interview' more biased? or do you really mean, they didn't get the outcome they wanted?
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by ejb999 4y ago
Don't follow things Karp writes very often, but I agree with this one - next couple of years is going to have some bloodletting for sure. Time to buckle up, imo, there will be no soft landing this time.
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Palantir CEO says this deadly tidal wave of risks will wipe out some companies(cnbc.com)
6 points by ejb999 4y ago|7 comments
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by ejb999 4y ago
>>These are private companies, who is the government to tell them how to operate without funding them You are kidding right? You don't think the government already controls almost everything about how companies can operate?
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by ejb999 4y ago
I agree, I can't even get to any of the twitter 'posts' by clicking on them - all major social media is blocked (by me) in my hosts file - which rules out a lot of the low-effort reposts from twitter.
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by ejb999 4y ago
excellent point - buying a new car is a good example, allowing someone to take out a 7 year loan to payoff a new car, allows the car companies to simply charge more for them - as a large portion of people make their decisions based on being
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by ejb999 4y ago
thus the "if you can avoid it" part of my answer.
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by ejb999 4y ago
I disagree, inflation is a good thing for wealthy, asset owning people - wouldn't you liked to have owned 15 or 20 homes for the past 5 years?
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by ejb999 4y ago
taking on debt for an appreciating (or incoming earning) asset, is generally OK - taking on debt for a depreciating asset is never a good idea if you can avoid it. Taking on debt to pay your daily living expenses is a recipe for disaster -
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by ejb999 4y ago
Is the doctor who tells you for 30 years in a row that you should stop smoking because you will get lung cancer, only right in the year when you actually develop the cancer? Was the doctor 'crying wolf' for 29 years?
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by ejb999 4y ago
IMO, it is not awful to state the obvious. Every company - especially every company over a certain size, knows there are a certain percentage of people that just 'phone it in' and aren't pulling their weight relative to other
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by ejb999 4y ago
I'd rather go get a cavity filled, then buy a new car. Do it as infrequently as possible (hoping to get another 10 years out of my 11 year old Toyota). Every time I visit a new car dealer I feel a need to take a shower, just to get the
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by ejb999 4y ago
As a long time scanner enthusiast, if you actually spend anytime listening to PD radios (which is legal and easy), you will be disappointed with how little information actually goes out over the unencrypted air - just enough to get units ro
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by ejb999 4y ago
That has been my experience as well - really don't understand the love for it, I run on a very powerful machine with 1GB fiber internet, and it always, always feels like a dog to me whenever I am forced to use it. Not sure Adobe will m
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by ejb999 4y ago
exactly - arbitration clauses are not going to help with obvious race-based discriminatory statements from the president being used to pick who should be fired.

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