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by grumple 5y ago
So why did you call out Israel, the US, and Russia and not the others? I'm not trying to start a flame war here, I'm just curious as to what makes them special. There are many other nations involved in larger-scale conflicts righ
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by grumple 5y ago
Can you name a nation that doesn't have an appetite for war and killing?
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by grumple 5y ago
Even then... do we accuse every American of bloodlust for our nation's warmongering? Or every Chinese person for their governments treatment of the Uighur/Tibet/etc? Governments != people of a nation people often / usual
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by grumple 5y ago
If 2) were true, these top companies wouldn't have regular, public failures, mediocre products outside of their core competencies, and they wouldn't progress primarily through acquisitions (many of which also fail).
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by grumple 5y ago
As a manager, your job is to make your team work well for the benefit of the company. You do that by motivating them, by improving their skills, by removing barriers to their success. This idea of targeting your employees is absurd... who b
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by grumple 5y ago
Let's say you're perfectly happy with your team of 9, but you have to fire 10% of people every year. It doesn't matter who you hire for that 10th spot. It doesn't matter who makes the decision. You're getting a 10
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by grumple 5y ago
Just like every company, they sometimes have things break, push out code that doesn't behave as expected, hit limits on various services they weren't aware of, etc. The complexity of technical systems is massive especially when
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by grumple 5y ago
I went to a party the other night and didn't drink at all. Very unusual. I brought a bottle of tequila for the host and friends. Strangely, I didn't feel anxious at all, despite having pretty high general anxiety. My energy levels
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by grumple 5y ago
The data seems to indicate that half of American adults drink never or close to never. My lived experience is much different; friends in their 20s/30s/40s drinking at every event and gathering. I live in an area full of very busy
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by grumple 5y ago
Chart 1 doesn't make sense to me. It seems everything else is about the median YEARLY earnings, and the word lifetime in the context of this doesn't make sense. Maybe it means the median yearly wage for each individual? Like if I
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by grumple 5y ago
As developers it's easy to look at these things and think "wait, that's my job". Except... it isn't. If these things can be abstracted away, made easier... that's good. That's what we strive for. You don&#
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by grumple 5y ago
All sources I've seen say we have much longer than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth#:~:text=Four%2... .
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by grumple 5y ago
Two points, from the study itself, 50B is their median estimate but their mean estimate is 428 billion [1]: > We calculate that there are likely to be ∼50 billion individual birds in the world at present: about six birds for every human
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by grumple 5y ago
Any company over 1 billion in market cap probably already does this. Every company I've worked for has (mid sized to fortune 10). HR has to justify their existence by actually doing work. It's also in the company's interest t
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by grumple 5y ago
Good luck in a competitive field like tech. Companies might not advertise salary ranges at a few big tech companies, but the vast majority of recruiters tell you the salary range as soon as you talk to them (or you name your price and the
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by grumple 5y ago
I use it at my current company. I don’t like it. I don’t like Jira either, but Jira is still far superior and integration with other Atlassian products is really helpful. Linking tickets to one another in Monday is really bad, data gets los
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by grumple 5y ago
Meh... These links could be longer... can we get a URL Lengthener Lengthener?
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by grumple 5y ago
The cost of shutting down this pipeline for a week is a lot more than 5 million. At 3 million barrels per day going through it, in 6 days that's 18 million barrels. At $65/barrel that's 195 million worth of oil that didn&#x27
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by grumple 5y ago
I think preventing breaches is a losing battle. There will always be new vulnerabilities. You can practice things that make recovery fast and reduce the impact of breaches though. Isolate data, encrypt it, only grant necessary access, have
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by grumple 5y ago
Tape backups are ok but still mean significant operational downtime because recovery from tape is slow. This is better for long term data storage than rapid recovery. For recovery, you need more accessible backups. And to test your backup p
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by grumple 5y ago
The problem I see is that there are tradeoffs between security and usability, and again between developing security vs developing features. Security doesn't make money next quarter, while features and ease of use do. Any software engin
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by grumple 5y ago
I have yet to find a datetime library in any language that was adequate for all purposes I've needed. That's not a particularly damning example in my opinion. I've had to write very weird datetime code in JS, Python, and Ruby
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by grumple 5y ago
I think this is a good point. Messing with oil is probably the fastest way to bring the full weight of the US gov to bear upon you.
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by grumple 5y ago
Every minute an engineer spends doing those things is a minute they aren't coding, debugging, or architecting. So what happens? We have to hire another engineer to pick up the slack. When we could hire an administrator for much less to
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by grumple 5y ago
I've never taken a spin class, but what does an instructor do in one? Isn't this just a matter of "go faster, go slower" like with typical preset options on cardio machines? Are these people really getting paid this much
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by grumple 5y ago
This could be a steal IF Apollo can fix the management and leadership issues at both companies. There's a real opportunity with both companies - both have pretty high revenues to only go for 5B. If you can cut down on operations cost O
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by grumple 5y ago
I cannot fathom why Louis DeJoy is still in office. He was planted in the USPS for the purpose of disrupting the mail service and his biggest order was the dismantling and destruction of hundreds of automated sorters around the country that
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by grumple 5y ago
The disadvantaged class is poor people. Poor kids will have to work and will make less money while doing it than they should. So not only do these kids have to waste valuable time at low-wage jobs (rather than studying, being kids), but the
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by grumple 5y ago
This is a drop in the bucket compared to their national budget, which is 493 billion this year. Billions are peanuts at the scale of a national government.
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by grumple 6y ago
We do hold banks accountable for money laundering. Just because they figured out a technologically advanced way to do it doesn't mean it becomes ok.

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