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by gspetr 4y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/barack-obama-michelle-obama-... Even if he's made more since then, 10-15% of your net worth definitely isn't peanuts. Not to mention being as high profile as he is, and talking &quo
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by gspetr 4y ago
Why would the concept be at risk though? Will the species go extinct or would communists take over?
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The recent Canada convoy protest was both in NA and a mass protest. How much change has that brought?
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ORM is not ideal for every project. If we have to grind through simple calculations on millions of records, with no user experience to worry about, we gain little from expressing the data as objects for a few microseconds; the cost of trans
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by gspetr 4y ago
ISBN-13: 978-0984782857
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>SWORN DUTY If they cannot be sued for a breach of it, do they have it? SCOTUS opined: “Nothing in the language of the Due Process Clause itself requires the State to protect the life, liberty, and property of its citizens against invasi
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by gspetr 4y ago
>Profoundly dumb people have been heads of state, CEOs etc. So why not the richest person in the world? It's simple to explain away - other people have appointed heads of state. And I have not heard of an idiot (in medical sense) to
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by gspetr 4y ago
So what you're saying is that an idiot can become the richest man in the world without being born into it? How often has that happened in the entire history?
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Except it's not free, you're the product. https://www.theregister.com/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/ "Loveable Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg called his first few thousand users "d
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I would exercise restraint with extrapolations here. Countries with lowest homicide rates: Least diverse. US States with lowest homicide rates: Least diverse. There are some exceptions, however in general this statement is true when we look
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>Not sure why you used Farenheit People from Europe likely already have a vague idea of what the temp is like in northern parts of it, and 45% of HN is from US according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3298905
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by gspetr 4y ago
>If how HN is is what's keeping women out How is HN keeping women out? Every comment I've seen in the decade I've been on HN dismissing a woman solely because of the gender has been either downvoted to oblivion, flagged,
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Twitter is hands-off when it comes to content moderation? What? Not even people on Twitter believe that, according to a poll that Elon Musk ran.
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33396313/ "Indigenous Knowledge about Consumption of Edible Insects in South Africa" >Edible insects are a nutritious diet and play an important role in people's liveli
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How do you test all of it?
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>a doctor to tell you you need urgent surgery when in fact you don't? I have had exactly that happen to me when I visited a very fancy dental clinic, replete with photos of household name celebrity clients on its lobby's wall.
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by gspetr 4y ago
As I've replied in the sibling comment, GOG can solve this for most (non-big publisher) games: https://www.gog.com/connect
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This is the best solution that I know of for Steam shutting down: https://www.gog.com/connect It's not perfect, as GOG does not have everything, especially most of the recent titles from EA, but it does alleviate the p
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by gspetr 4y ago
>someone has the bright idea to make you a manager. maybe present your own manager with a copy of "The Peter Principle" book? This seems like a literal example of it. The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by
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Pray tell how your threat model would handle this: https://xkcd.com/538/
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Does the company have people whose job description includes looking for deeper problems such as this one? I don't know what your position or political standing in the company is, but I assume that with the tech job market the way it is
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>Why _would_ you expect anything different to happen at a massive company? Because a massive company has enough money around to put the processes in place and hire skilled people to do both deep[0] testing and system[1] testing. [0] htt
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by gspetr 4y ago
I don't think invoking a comparison to taxation makes this a compelling argument. Almost all of it is spent on entertainment, i.e. something you could theoretically replace with some other subscriptionless hobby.
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In light of the past few years I had entertained a thought: Is "RoboCop" what "Defund the police" would look like? A BigCo. providing private security at scale? Because we've had private pharmaceutical companies pro
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by gspetr 4y ago
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia[0] defines fascism as "dictatorship of monopolistic capital", so OCP fits the bill perfectly. While this is not "the" definition, but it at least provides insight: what a communist POV on fa
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What he says the issue is: We should have consulted an expert before finalizing our architecture. What I see the issue is: We have exactly Nobody in our organization whose full-time job is to perform deep[0] testing. [0] https:/&#x2
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by gspetr 5y ago
>Brian Warner aka Marilyn Manson That's a cool anecdote, he seems like a very resilient character from that era. I'm very surprised he hasn't been canceled[0] though, considering he had many relationships that would not pa
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It's a valid reason for sure. But why not just say that and stop saying stuff like "no-no, those anti-ballistic missiles we deployed in Poland are against potential Iranian aggression."
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>could be an effective role as world police. There's war in Yemen right now, with one of the sides heavily backed by Saudi Arabia, where's the world police? Or does it only respond to calls when land changes hands? >starting
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If that's true then if you were a rational actor why would you overspend on military, even if we adjusted by cost of labour, GDP per capita and other relevant economic parameters? US spends more than the next 10 countries by military s

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