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by giaour 5y ago
Unlike student loans, those debts can be discharged in bankruptcy.
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by giaour 5y ago
"Low rates" here meaning 8%?! It's lower than credit card APR, but would you take a large installment loan at that rate? The interest rate especially shocking when you consider that interest is supposed to pay for the credito
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by giaour 5y ago
The person studying gay romances in 14th century literature is probably a PhD student with a stipend and full tuition remission. They're getting subsidized by MBA tuition dollars, not by loans.
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by giaour 5y ago
Some percentage of tuition dollars are effectively cross subsidizing other students (e.g., masters candidates subsidize PhD students, wealthier undergraduates subsidize other undergraduates receiving institutional grants or discounts, etc.)
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by giaour 5y ago
I was thinking of their scoped permissions model described at https://medium.com/deno-tutorial/deno-security-65af9811d9c9 Not sure if you can scope down permissions as part of an module import or if it only works when
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by giaour 5y ago
Doesn't deno take this approach? The runtime does kinda force the question by only supporting imports via fully qualified URLs.
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by giaour 5y ago
> I.e. the twenty paragraph "When I was a child growing up in Atlanta..." followed by a crappy in-house video player followed by, finally, the actual recipe? > My assumption is SEO? For some reason, Google must really like h
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by giaour 5y ago
Smitten Kitchen was one of the OG food blogs that established the pattern that recipe spam websites are trying to emulate. Back in the aughts, searching for a recipe on Google was useful because they would prioritize "enriched"
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by giaour 5y ago
Compounding the problem, the 2000 word essay is sometimes really useful if it's describing a technique used in the recipe (cf Stella Parks' recipe for homemade bagels on Serious Eats: https://www.seriouseats.com/ho
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by giaour 5y ago
This is one area where I find Powershell preferable. It allows commands to return structured data in a standardized way, which really helps interop between programs from different publishers
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by giaour 5y ago
And yet, if GMail published email exchanges of a protected nature between someone and their lawyer, would you just throw up your hands and say, alas, digital communication is cursed? Some digital activity should be considered private, and v
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by giaour 5y ago
This is a really bleak way to look at digital devices and their role in the world. Should you only write things you want the world to read on a computer, and for everything else, just use pen and paper?
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by giaour 5y ago
Anecdotal, but my experience at Microsoft and Amazon is that you interview with the team who has open headcount, and (simplifying here) the manager you would be reporting to makes the decision on whether to offer you a specific position on
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by giaour 5y ago
Title insurance might be cheaper if your county clerk’s title register were cryptographically verifiable by outside parties? Though that just requires a Merkle tree, not a blockchain
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by giaour 5y ago
Seconded! I taught French in the US, and Canada multilingual was the most ergonomic way to switch between languages without switching keyboard layouts.
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by giaour 5y ago
> This is a bit like saying everyone who walks/bikes to work stops paying their fair share of gas taxes that maintain the roads their food arrives on. I haven't seen people argue this point for people who don't own a car,
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by giaour 5y ago
GitHub does require that SSH keys only be used by a single user account. I shouldn’t have phrased my comment as a question: a former employer required that I use different GH accounts for different purposes, and it was a hassle to get local
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by giaour 5y ago
This seems more legit. If a user is signing their commits, other users should have access to their public keys in order to verify the signatures.
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by giaour 5y ago
> Your Pubkey can be used to cross-match multiple identities. Example: You have different coding personae. One that is activist, one that is company-peon. Different accounts, same SSH pubkey in Github or other server with publicly listed
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by giaour 5y ago
As an unaccredited investor, your investment funds can only be accepted by publicly traded corporations (with all the legal protections and reporting requirements that entails). Investing in GameStop is definitely riskier than putting your
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by giaour 5y ago
Gold was also legal tender within living memory in many jurisdictions —- until 1971, you could freely exchange USD for gold and vice versa. In some ways holding gold as a hedge asset is a survival, though as with its intrinsic value, this d
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by giaour 5y ago
Don’t we all just chant the “Fear is the mind killer” Bene Gesserit litany until the fear of failure dissipates?
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by giaour 5y ago
A better analogy would be that the blockchain is a filing cabinet. A deed has the force of law because the city/state is prepared to use violence to enforce the ownership claim inscribed on the deed. What authority is going to enforce
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by giaour 5y ago
I don’t understand the survivorship bias argument. If any company tried to follow in AirBnB’s footsteps and saw their revenue decline as ad spend went down, wouldn’t they widely publicize this fact? “Hey! AirBnB is wrong, and following thei
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by giaour 5y ago
I think what the GP was trying to get across is that you’re making an argument from moral principles that doesn’t necessarily translate to situations without the same moral stakes. Opening a business to serve a minority excluded from mainst
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by giaour 5y ago
I wonder is this is intentionally set to match the top level of the GS (civil service) pay scale in the DC area.
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by giaour 5y ago
Lol can’t they just buy “bulletproof hosting” from shady foreign vendors? There’s a whole ecosystem of platforms that cater to hate speech sites, illegal pharmacies, phishing portals, etc.
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by giaour 5y ago
I would build effective moderation into the core of the product to try to avoid the abuse and disinformation that has been a huge problem on Facebook and Twitter… but TRUTH seems to be built on the assumption that existing platforms just do
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by giaour 5y ago
> In a slide deck on its website, the company envisions eventually competing against Amazon.com's AWS cloud service and Google Cloud. I guess this means they plan on running the service in their own data centers from the beginning,
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by giaour 5y ago
> there was no option to decode Social Security numbers for all educators in the system all at once Sure, but this was an application where you could search for any licensed educator and get their social security number in the response.

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