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by giaour 4y ago
Guess we needed those three laws of robotics after all.
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by giaour 4y ago
No one has access to literally everything. I work for a cloud provider with hundreds of products, tens of regions, and multiple isolated "clouds"; the "full access to production" you allude to only exists at companies to
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by giaour 4y ago
Why is this a subscription?
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by giaour 4y ago
I work at a bigtech company, and, depending on how you look at it, either everyone in a technologist role has prod access or nobody does. You have to get peer approval to access your team's sliver of prod, and some team's take thi
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by giaour 4y ago
I've mostly reverted to 90s-style browsing: there are some sites that I check regularly, and I'll follow outbound links if the title seems interesting.
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by giaour 4y ago
There are plenty of dense, walkable "towns" within the DC metro area. Some (like DuPont circle) are in DC proper, while others are in VA or MD. There is no shortage of suburban sprawl surrounding DC, but the dense areas tend to be
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by giaour 4y ago
> Deposit insurance became necessary because the government started forcing banks to replace the highly commercial bills in their balance sheet with illiquid government bonds (cf. The National Banking Acts of 1863 and 1864). I'm sor
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by giaour 4y ago
> And if i understand it correctly You did not. Per the article, the "buyers" of SPAs are the developers and teams who heard about a technology and thought it would be the right tool.
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by giaour 4y ago
"Tell white lies to avoid awkward conversations" is perhaps not the revelation the author thought it might be.
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by giaour 4y ago
I usually see plenty of security focused roles in the regular Who's Hiring thread. You can try using https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/ or one of the other aggregators listed at the top of the thread to se
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by giaour 4y ago
Have you ever taught before? I found it extremely stressful and draining as a full time job. Try dipping your toes in the water soon with a program like TEALS if you've never managed a classroom.
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by giaour 4y ago
There are multiple contract types, and you're correct that the "cost-plus" paradigm (where the contract covers the contractor's costs plus a profit margin) has some perverse incentives. I saw a number of smaller efforts
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by giaour 4y ago
Layoffs may have second order cost saving effects (e.g., reducing competitive upward pressure on salaries, discouraging staff from asking for raises), but those seem impossible to measure
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by giaour 4y ago
I'm sure there is a "monkey see, monkey do" peer pressure aspect to the current wave of layoffs, but don't forget that hedge funds and activist investors have been actively lobbying for these job cuts: https:/&#x2F
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by giaour 4y ago
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, to hear that this automated plagiarism device committed plagiarism.
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by giaour 4y ago
My in laws own a restaurant, and it's both a ton of work and not exactly the kind of work they were expecting. My father-in-law went through specialty chef training (VPN pizzaiolo, not culinary school or anything like that), but I don&
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by giaour 4y ago
The proposed system exists, and humans have had to work in it for some time now. People get routinely sued for copyright infringement if their work is too close to an existing work. The (successful) suit against George Harrison for "My
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by giaour 4y ago
> You can google an image of any great work of art and look at it for as long as you like, for free and take from it what you can and use all of that to create something else and get paid for that thing. If the copyright on a given work
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by giaour 4y ago
> When you buy a book, you’re not paying a licensing fee. You’re exchanging for goods. You’re granted very few rights to own a copy of the work. But they’re almost all to do with distribution. None of those rights is the right to read it
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by giaour 4y ago
> Even if you get the system to work, what about future artists and writers? Are we just creating an entrenched historical group of creatives getting royalties forever? Copyright expires, and new artists will create new (copyrightable) a
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by giaour 4y ago
Did you methodically weigh the pros and cons of stealing from your employer? Was there a real possibility that you would have emerged from the consideration having decided to go ahead with the theft? If not, what you're describing soun
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by giaour 4y ago
I think the answer is no, that's not enough power, but even if it were, you would need some way to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy within the watch itself. That would presumably be a pretty lossy conversion, so it seem
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by giaour 4y ago
True, but I wouldn't say "just as much." An ongoing financial relationship usually means that the purchaser can expect reasonable advance notice if a project is getting discontinued. And in more sensitive agencies, if the gov
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by giaour 4y ago
I have seen this perspective a lot in government and adjacent entities. For them, commercial software and corporate open source has a clear financial motive. If they can't identify why a project exists and continues to receive support,
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by giaour 4y ago
The ACA has "minimum value" requirements and defines what constitute "essential health benefits" that plans must include to satisfy the ACA's coverage requirements and be eligible for sale on healthcare.gov or state
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by giaour 4y ago
> Clearly this individual doesn't understand git at all. The script wasn't even doing anything. Their other tasks, which were application development tasks, demonstrated code that was also somewhere around an intern/associ
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by giaour 4y ago
What's more likely: that they managed to fool their boss and colleagues for years only to be found out by you, a complete stranger, in a 45 minute interview? Or that they were nervous, made a small mistake, and then panicked/ fr
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by giaour 4y ago
No, because the crypto balance was always a mirage.
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by giaour 4y ago
If I wanted to set up a botnet, bundling malware in a dumb game and then putting the exe on the internet for free seems like a decent start
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by giaour 4y ago
Exactly! Like leaded gasoline or children's toys made with arsenic.

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