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by fallingknife 1y ago
Where is the cost coming from? Wouldn't a crawler mostly just accessing cached static assets served by CDN? And what do you mean by your search infrastructure? Are you talking about elasticsearch or some equivalent?
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by fallingknife 1y ago
This sounds a solution contrived to advantage companies that want access to this data rather than an actual economically valid business model. If building an index and selling access to it is a viable business, then why isn't someone
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by fallingknife 1y ago
Hosting costs are so minimal today that I don't think crawling is a natural monopoly. How much would it really cost a site to be crawled by 100 search engines?
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by fallingknife 1y ago
How is any of that relevant? Our civil rights laws ban racial discrimination. If you think that racial discrimination should be permitted in one direction then argue that our civil rights laws should be amended to allow it. But don'
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by fallingknife 1y ago
My dad is a university researcher. During the Biden administration he was forced to add completely unscientific DEI language to his grants if he wanted to get them funded. You just don't know about it because the media you watch does
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by fallingknife 1y ago
Every large company I have ever worked for has had noticeably lower standards for women and minorities (except for Asians of course because fuck them in particular). They will never say it in the trainings because they know it's illeg
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by fallingknife 1y ago
Couldn't find the person you wanted to argue with in the comments so you just pretended they are here and claim the community is "part of the problem" even though you couldn't actually find one of them.
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by fallingknife 1y ago
I neither have a CS degree nor have ever got a single certification and it's never hurt my ability go get SWE jobs, so I really don't know what you are talking about.
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by fallingknife 1y ago
What is predatory and misleading about it? I just looked it up and it's 17% of your next two years income. Seems pretty simple to me.
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by fallingknife 1y ago
The university accreditation system is a cartel. You can't gain accreditation until you have already graduated students! So basically you have to find a group of students who are willing to risk studying at an unofficial university,
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by fallingknife 1y ago
The only less beneficial way I can think of to use his money would be to turn it all into cash and set it on fire to lower the money supply.
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by fallingknife 1y ago
If you have more money than anyone else on earth, the highest leverage use of that money is going to be to fund projects that require more capital than anyone else can afford to fund and that governments are unwilling to fund. That way you
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by fallingknife 1y ago
Actually, no he can't. OFAC will absolutely destroy him if he does. I have a remote job and I am even explicitly banned from doing any work for my company while I am in China or a bunch of other countries.
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by fallingknife 1y ago
Number of EOs issued is a poor measure of centralization of power. Most exercise of executive power these days don't even require an EO, just a decree from one of the executive agencies. And looking at Trump vs Obama is myopic. This
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by fallingknife 1y ago
Yes, how could I forget all those people who died from correctly dosed and uncontaminated medications.
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by fallingknife 1y ago
You have to deregulate the supply. Right now you have to be specifically approved to manufacture a drug. This causes monopolies / oligopolies even in non-patented medications. It should be changed to a system where any company who w
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by fallingknife 1y ago
There are plenty of tech reasons for microservices. e.g. scaling high traffic services separately and separating low priority functionality from critical paths. I would agree that this is usually not a smart thing to do in a small org, bu
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by fallingknife 1y ago
Rich expats who hold visas and reside in a foreign country but don't pay taxes to that foreign country on their assets held back home is actually a very common thing around the world. This is encouraged because having rich people show
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by fallingknife 1y ago
Paying $5 million to get a visa and then paying taxes on whatever assets and income they bring with them seems like a great deal for the US because the foreign income never would have been taxed by the US anyway if they hadn't got the
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by fallingknife 1y ago
Like it or not this is basically how the US is run these days. Congress has ceded its power to the executive branch. Almost everything now is done by bureaucratic degree and executive order.
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by fallingknife 1y ago
From 700 AU you would still be only 0.01 ly from the sun, or 400x closer to the sun than the second closest star.
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by fallingknife 1y ago
Probably easier to just put it in solar orbit at that distance. Orbital velocity is only about 1km/s at 700 AU.
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by fallingknife 1y ago
I see it every day and it doesn't come close to the insanity of government
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by fallingknife 1y ago
If the limits are to prevent corruption, why do they have to be so far below market rates? I don't think anyone is objecting to there being limits. Every company out there has level based limits. The issue is where those limits are
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by fallingknife 1y ago
I really want to like unions. They make all the sense in the world in principle. But in practice they always seem to end up centered around this "pay your dues" climb the ladder bullshit.
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by fallingknife 1y ago
Only every single interaction with the government I have ever had and the experience of everyone I know who works in industries where they have to deal with the government on a regular basis.
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by fallingknife 1y ago
> The report examines evidence from nine sectors - electricity, health, waste management and water, prisons, buses, ports and airports, railways and telecom,. Yeah, if you examine only utilities and monopolies they are not more efficient
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by fallingknife 1y ago
Companies manage to handle all 3 of those things without the inefficiently (or at least a lot less of it). As for the terrible salaries and mountains of political crap, that's the real issue here. But these are changeable and shouldn&
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by fallingknife 1y ago
I think a lot of the objections here aren't really bureaucracy in terms of government employees doing things. A lot of what people mean when they complain about "government bureaucracy" is really that it often seems to be 2
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by fallingknife 1y ago
It was not illegal. Businesses are not required to charge sales tax in states where they have no operations.

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