gustavus

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by gustavus 3y ago
All I know is that I am able to save less, because everything costs more especially food. I know that many of my peers who are looking for work or have been let go. I know that despite the rise in interest rates housing prices have stabiliz
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by gustavus 3y ago
> The law prohibits any program, office or initiative that has “diversity, equity and inclusion” in its name or “asserts that meritocracy is inherently racist or sexist.” It also requires student support services to be open to all studen
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by gustavus 3y ago
> To picture that dimension, Vafa said, think of every point on the imagined surface of our four-dimensional world and attach a small loop to it. That loop is (at least schematically) the extra dimension. So I'm not a physicists and
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by gustavus 3y ago
I really question that, id believe that 300,000 jobs from tech companies have been lost, but 40% of all tech jobs. Sounds like nonsense, especially since the source is an outplacement company.
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by gustavus 3y ago
I'll admit that I am somewhat ignorant here. But I thoughts the "Alzheimer's is caused by plaque buildup in the brain" theory was on its last leg and pretty much disregarded by most new scientists.
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by gustavus 3y ago
MS's core product offering is the same as AWS being an already approved vendor to buy from, so no one has to go through approvals process for them again. Thus they are a defacto monopoly within large organizations. Who cares what the a
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by gustavus 3y ago
I work in the security space. It is the dawn of an era where all the makers are stamped down under the boot ridiculous security theater via regulation for "security" and "protection" and the current interests become entr
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by gustavus 3y ago
Intellectual property isn't.
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by gustavus 3y ago
You know I hear this argument a lot, but had a revelation recently. Everything people are saying about apps and the app store could apply equally well to web browsers and webpages. After all there are plenty of malicious webpages out there
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by gustavus 3y ago
This seems like part of an ongoing campaign to demonize open source models in an attempt to ensure only the "right" people have access to it and so that only those who have been "approved" can take advantage of this. By
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by gustavus 3y ago
> Analyzing the relationship between GDP per hour growth I cannot think of a more contrived metric than "GDP per hour growth" this reeks of someone who already had an opinion and wanted to prove it and the best they could come
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by gustavus 3y ago
"I come in and mostly stare at my computer so it looks like I'm working. I'd say in a given week I only do about 15 minutes of actual work. It's a problem of motivation if I bust my ass and Initech ships a few extra unit
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by gustavus 3y ago
I'm between a 1/8 and a 1/4 dutch and I emphasize with what the speaker is saying, sounds like the Dutch may be my people.
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by gustavus 3y ago
I find this subject interesting because it isn't as cut and dry as it looks. The problem is attackers took data and leaked passwords from previous breaches and then were able to access an account. The question becomes what should 23and
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by gustavus 3y ago
At the scales were talking about it's somewhere between Going to the beach and getting shot by a swimming dog carrying a gun in its mouth and the problems caused by doing flybys of Jupiter. https://what-if.xkcd.com/146
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by gustavus 3y ago
I see people claim this all the time but don't often see any real solutions just general grousing. What would you do? Get rid of mobile computing altogether by government fiat? Ban providing a smart phone to someone under the age of 18
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by gustavus 3y ago
I've been noticing when I was growing up weed was in fact the cure to all problems people had depression, anxiety, anger issues? "Smoke a joint man it makes everything okay." People were out there claiming weed cured cancer,
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by gustavus 3y ago
Or maybe you know she shouldn't have said that calls to "gas the Jews" requires context to determine if it constituted hate speech. Or if she hadn't plagarized massive amounts of her work continually without accreditatio
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by gustavus 3y ago
> 1. If mass incarceration worked, the US would be the safest country in the world. The US has 5% of the world population but 25% of the world's prisoners [1]. The US has the highest rate of incarceration of any country in the world
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by gustavus 3y ago
You are correct to an extant although there are mandatory sentencing guidelines, and plea bargains play into this. But at the end of the day my point is to help introduce nuance to the discussion which often seems to be an argument between
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by gustavus 3y ago
This fuels my growing distrust of academia. The person who is the president of one of the most prestigious academic institutions in the world it turns out has been consistently violating some of the most basic principles of academic integri
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by gustavus 3y ago
I mean not to argue against your point, but Federal prisoners are generally not going to have committed violent crimes as those kind of crimes are the purview of the state and lead to state incarceration not federal.
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by gustavus 3y ago
Here's something I've noticed recently is that people on different sides of the issue usually end up talking past each other. I'll start by pointing out I feel that the prison system is incredibly in humane and we need seriou
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by gustavus 3y ago
I love how people act like Meritocracy is oppressive, or something like that mertiocracy is as simple as this. You have a choice of two surgeons to operate on you for a rare and risky surgery. One has 80% of his patients die on the operatin
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by gustavus 3y ago
Ya so if some kid whose 16 is messing around on his computer figures out some cool app starts publishing it and then bam the incumbents can smack him down. The regulations are designed to deepen the software moat, and security theater, and
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by gustavus 3y ago
> exactly as it was in Germany. Oh you mean the Germany that had to turn to massive amounts of coal to keep up energy production in order to keep their people from starving because clean energy didn't pan out. Sounds like a great ex
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by gustavus 3y ago
Hey I remember seeing this before in another European country. Can't remember the name of it, decided to shut down nuclear, renewables didn't turn out, put them in a precarious position when the geopolitical situation changed. Can
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by gustavus 3y ago
I have a story from a client I worked with. They had 3 or 4 positions they needed filled for their team ranging from Jr to Sr level. But because they worked at a big company they couldn't do the recruiting directly, everything had to b
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by gustavus 3y ago
Yeah and all those people on the other side of the Appalachians can just take a hike, why do they need power anyway. They brought the problem on their selves with their dirty coal mining habits time for them to pay the price.
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by gustavus 3y ago
Ya that's a level of unmitigated bull** where I live there is usually several days out of the year where the temperature is -40 (doesn't matter the units at that temperature it's the same) and massive wind chill. There's

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