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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
-> "crossed the six figure threshold" likely refers to salary. this is pretty easy to estimate based on title if the person works at a large, well-known company. You're right. I appreciate the correction. I didn't thi
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
-> A close friend (from a non-CS engineering background) I know to still be at SAS. We don't talk about finances, but at around 8 years in, I estimate that he just recently (since COVID) crossed the six figure threshold. He's i
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
-> SWEs for being economically rational actors It's okay just to say that you like the money. You don't always have to use the largest words. It's also okay for someone to say that software engineers are paid lots of mon
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
The IRS has been underfunded and understaffed and demonized for a couple of decades. They've been strictly not allowed nor funded to develop online or automatic tax filing for awhile now, largely in part due to lobbying from intuit, H&
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
HG Wells Time Machine might qualify, but it imagined humanoid life following humanity's inevitable decline in the far flung future. I don't suppose that imagining this backwards instead of forwards in time would have been too much
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
But, you don't really care for music; do ya?
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
It's not exactly what I was expecting, but educational regardless. Much like this site. My thanks for your contribution.
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
Don't forget depreciating land..
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
And here lies electric_mayhem, buried with the last manual transmission, just as he always wanted. No grave robber will disturb his grave, nor know how to use his buried treasure.
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
I don't think Trump is an authoritative source on anything.
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
It's cool to see what the hottest research is in NA these days, even if they're being so salty about it.
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
> It was designed by engineers to be quantum resistant without enough deference to mathematicians who could see that it was not resistant to more conventional approaches. Ie, they didn't take enough time and money to consult with ev
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
I often don't think to explain these things, so thank you for taking the time to explain to others the context.
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
Where I'm from, I've not seen a native shellfish in quite some time. Corbicula fluminea, aka "Asian clam," has been the only clam we've been seeing the past few years. We've been to a few state parks and hatche
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
> The book is full of great lines too e.g. "New York is not a city that plans; it creates situations and then deals with them" This sounds like a good line to describe America in miniature.
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
I have never heard this either in my time around Nepali and Indian coworkers.
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
Are they actually confronting the problem or merely assaying an appearance of an attempt?
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
Beware, even a dead cat can bounce.
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
Some comments are worth reading. Some aren't. Reading the latter is the cost of reading the former.
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
There are people denying climate change in this thread. I don't think psychological analysis of their comments or views accomplishes anything.
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
> The Bible says: “It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step.” —Jeremiah 10:23. It doesn't matter what the bible says. You can thump it all you want. It won't reduce climate change, excuse inaction, or a
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
> More like Mad Max? More like California, Arizona, Utah, South Africa, etc.?
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
> It is insanity that the US still works on X Literally every other developed country in the world has it the other way round, X I think the attitude is known as American exceptionalism or naivete or ignorance. Take your pick.
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
I suppose this turning sideways trick will work until it doesn't. I do appreciate everyone on this site contributing to my knowledge of infosec. I don't work directly in the space, but I feel the contributions on this site help ed
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
Fox news? Breitbart? OAN? I don't think Axios has been a bad source of news.
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
> That's the whole point of share buybacks - it's a way to transfer value to shareholders that isn't considered income. If the presumption is that share buybacks increase stock prices more than simply in the short term, th
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
When the regulations catch up, the crypto scams won't have as much traction, and billions will still have been scammed and laundered.
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
Is pleasure flight a euphemism for something?
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
> Depends on what you mean by poverty. I mean, how does one even measure it a 1000 years ago. It's called anthropology, linguistics, geology, and history. They're legitimate fields with highly qualified and knowledgeable profes
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by formerkrogemp 4y ago
I wouldn't recommend wasting your time with Ron Paul's book. Now, I'm not defending the Fed, but his arguments aren't much more than invective, polemic, and empty, idealistic rhetoric. You might be better off reading: Th

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