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by erdos4d 4y ago
> Herbert Diess’s master plan for beating Tesla Inc. hinged on replacing calloused factory hands with the nimble fingertips of 10,000 software workers who would transform Volkswagen AG into a tech player. How can any product with 10K dev
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by erdos4d 4y ago
I don't know your case, but getting your whole life shitcanned for having illegal porn seems crazy to me. Can you start a business and work behind that? I've never once looked into who founded any company I've hired for anyth
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by erdos4d 4y ago
I seriously hope something happens on this issue. Virtually every young academic I know tells me this is everywhere and the most toxic people are usually who move up the promotion ladder, by stepping on and forcing the decent ones out. Actu
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by erdos4d 4y ago
> And I felt the concerted institutional effort every single step of the way to push me down and grind me into submission, to teach me I was a criminal for thinking for myself. I so relate to this. The people who run schools honestly bel
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by erdos4d 4y ago
> Anyway, we might know how to reduce recidivism, but society sure doesn’t seem interested in taking the steps to invest what’s needed. The current "justice" system is a huge jobs program all around, and it is predicated on a p
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by erdos4d 4y ago
Yes, it's a socks5 proxy, if your software will obey the proxy rules, you can pipe it all through tor.
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by erdos4d 4y ago
Wait til they add the hashes of the next set of leaks to this. We all know that's coming. The next Snowden is going to have it harder.
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by erdos4d 4y ago
Completely agree. I see others are not liking this comment. I suspect they have an interest in young people continuing to slave themselves for less and less. The cold truth is that young people can cause a hell of a lot of trouble if they d
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by erdos4d 4y ago
I quit carrying my phone out of the house because I knew something like this was coming. I really like it, I look at scenery and actually think about things now. People around me probably think I'm poor as dirt too, so they leave me al
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by erdos4d 4y ago
> You still seem to think that the cartels do things merely for their own cruel amusement. I, on the other hand, believe that cruel amusement is luxury which they allow themselves only as long as it works. I agree with you on this. I als
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by erdos4d 4y ago
Dang, the guy said "You cannot have dominant players in a supply chin if there is no demand". What would you take that to mean? I honestly think he's talking about removing the demand (users). I asked him for clarification, b
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by erdos4d 4y ago
I absolutely do think they could. They operate vast smuggling networks in the US right now with near impunity, as one proof of this capability. Also, US intelligence is pretty bad when it counts. It didn't catch 9-11 or the fall of Afg
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by erdos4d 4y ago
Hold on amigo, have you seen how cartels operate? They actually do just do as horrible of a thing as possible, just because the top people want to be monsters and show their enemies they can slaughter them. They hang their gutted enemies of
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by erdos4d 4y ago
You think that if a thousand cartel guys showed up at a nuke plant with the intention of melting it down that armor and airstrikes would help matters? I think that would just help them actually.
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by erdos4d 4y ago
I'm talking about if the US already was at war with them and hitting them hard. I don't see what would restrain them at that point.
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by erdos4d 4y ago
If the US actually started using its military to hit these guys, what would stop them from sending a thousand guys into a large chemical or nuclear plant and creating a disaster that wiped out a city, or more? I find this sort of jingo rhet
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by erdos4d 4y ago
Oh hell no. There is no other subject I am aware of that has the skill variance math does. Some people you cannot teach, others you cannot catch.
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by erdos4d 4y ago
What are the economics here? Can one make more money as a developer or a blogger? Talent tends to follow money, so that should tell us something.
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by erdos4d 4y ago
Huh? How do you get that from this?
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by erdos4d 4y ago
I bet this happens a lot actually. Its far easier to just post a bullshit job on a board and collect the CVs than dream them up yourself.
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by erdos4d 4y ago
This sounds like what I wanted to do once I realized how insanely easy remote work was. I do my wife's code for her dev job and it honestly works out to like 2 hours a week for me. She spends maybe 10 hours in meetings, so it totally m
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by erdos4d 4y ago
> Sometimes it really does seem that "the cruelty is the point". This extends very far beyond Guantanamo. I really wonder where all these sick fucks come from. I don't remember much of a psycho vibe from classmates or work
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by erdos4d 4y ago
It's really a tragedy that 4 RS-25 space shuttle engines, marvels of engineering and fully reusable, are going into the drink tomorrow.
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by erdos4d 4y ago
You shouldn't be downvoted here, this is true. As tax revenues decline, they are trying to shift the burden directly onto the inmates to pay for the whole works.
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by erdos4d 4y ago
At some point American has to shut down this horrible failed experiment with mass incarceration. I feel like I'm watching the end stages of it where they try to make it as absurd as possible and get the last bit of cash out of everyone
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by erdos4d 4y ago
Look at how many people will lose their jobs if this shuts down. The people who support this are often just happy to see minorities and poor people get fucked if it means their stupid brother in law stays on at the local prison. They view t
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by erdos4d 4y ago
They listen to the ones they find useful. I guarantee you "trickle down" wasn't Bush's idea, an econ man put those words in his head, and it was to provide academic justification for giving the rich a big wealth transfer
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by erdos4d 4y ago
No I don't want to read through that crap anymore, I had enough in grad school helping econ friends. What I'm talking about is that they always make a bunch of simplifying assumptions about the world and then fit their model and a
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by erdos4d 4y ago
Its a very political field and whichever little clique gets the ear of the decision makers that year determines what policies get enacted. I'll grant you that this doesn't matter in practical terms, because we all know that the po
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by erdos4d 4y ago
This. The subject is definitely not the rigorous science that its practitioners would like you to believe. They mostly just fit some sort of regression model and analyze it, but rarely is there any serious work to demonstrate that reality a

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