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by iaw 10y ago
Palantir tried to recruit me a while back before Peter Thiel came out as a Trump supporter. Their pitch is basically "work more for less pay!" hidden behind buzz-speak.
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by iaw 10y ago
Supply of potential candidates is high, supply of highly qualified candidates is low.
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by iaw 10y ago
I am not familiar enough with the circumstances to say but I'd suspect it was an issue of jurisdiction. Whatever police forces covered that area didn't have the funding to address "nuisance" complaints. The police were
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by iaw 10y ago
Not homicide, manslaughter by definition. There are two questions: 1) How much value was provided to society by prosecuting this man so aggressively? (a lesser sentence that allowed him to continue to work and care for his family would have
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by iaw 10y ago
I am intimately aware of the prosecutorial aggression of the Solano County DA. There was a young father who worked at the sugar factory that lived in a poor neighborhood. The owner of the house next door had rented it to ex-con meth addict
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by iaw 10y ago
There's a few exchange archetypes for sugar babies: 1) Girl immediately exchanges sex for goods/cash (rarest) 2) Girl makes a sexual exchange after a courting period (most common) 3) Guy isn't interested in sex but a female c
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by iaw 10y ago
I don't disagree that sugar babies are prostitutes but to equate a $5000 entry fee sugar baby to a $200 backpage escort to a $25000 drink girl is disingenuous. The legal circumstances surrounding these exchanges, as well as the women t
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by iaw 10y ago
Can the sponsor expect a return of their money/goods if sex is not provided? The answer to that is no, which is why I draw the distinction.
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by iaw 10y ago
I know women who work as escorts and girls that have been sugar babies, there's a pretty distinct difference.
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by iaw 10y ago
> ZeniMax also declined to invest in Oculus in an early financing round and was unwilling to accept anything short of “a large non-dilutable stake” in Oculus in return for allowing Carmack’s participation as a technical adviser, accordin
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by iaw 10y ago
Wired isn't a publication I'm that pleased with anymore.
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by iaw 10y ago
This is a gorgeous photo, but wired is a horrible site.
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by iaw 10y ago
Flagged until we have a paywall bypass.
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by iaw 10y ago
Backpage offered prostitution arrangements. Sugar babies, in spite of what people think, aren't prostitutes. It's just that girls that don't sleep with their sponsors tend to lose their sponsors. Also, think about what type
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by iaw 10y ago
> This is a Very Good Thing. I disagree, my opinion is based on the economics of drug prohibition [0]. I agree with your sentiments about the industry itself but the challenge is that the more prohibited a service like this is the more
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by iaw 10y ago
Cost for AWS GPU instances is not that high (relative to purchasing a GPU). The amount of time to transfer hundreds of gigabytes will be dwarfed by the time savings from using GPU compute. Was there a concrete reason you didn't go that
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by iaw 10y ago
It's possible but the volume investment required makes it unlikely. The resource requirements to create a quality scrape/search engine are pretty extensive.
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by iaw 10y ago
> doing to reshape Yahoo's internal structure were being looked with good eyes My recollection of those events were that Marissa Mayer exercised her privilege to have a daycare next to her office while ignoring the needs of all the
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by iaw 10y ago
She never has to work a day in her life after disrupting the lives of thousands of her employees while failing to accomplish any of her objectives. She had all risk removed when they hired her.
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by iaw 10y ago
I didn't see a good-faith effort, what I saw was a lot of conservative policies that tamped down innovation and then efforts to chase the market leaders. Marissa Mayer didn't do a good job, her first acts at Yahoo alienated the lo
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by iaw 10y ago
That is one thing I appreciate, everything from Nvidia's side works perfectly out of the box. I've only ever had undocumented issues on the FOSS side.
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by iaw 10y ago
Serious question: what prevented you from using an AWS instance?
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by iaw 10y ago
I feel like his actions bordered on treasonous especially given how inconsequential the new information turned out to be.
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by iaw 10y ago
To illustrate lefstathiou's question: Where the author says: "The problem is that people who are happy with their experience and respecting our rules are not allowed to speak with the media so you end up hearing disproportionately
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by iaw 10y ago
That's what I meant, I'll leave the comment as it stands though. Edit: I guess you could say, that was the spirit of my post :D
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by iaw 10y ago
I think because the state law was written about recording the distance between facial features the implementation comes into play. I swear that whole "letter of the law" concept in the US as opposed to the actual intent is frustra
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by iaw 10y ago
Admirable intentions by the author but I hope (s)he changes his font/formatting style. The current font with dense paragraphs makes it hard for me to read without a headache, sparser sentences (either via bullet pointed lists or illust
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by iaw 10y ago
FYI, The technology detailed on that page is governed by ITAR for US citizens. You can end up facing some serious penalties if you are a US citizen and build a GPS receiver (capable of operating > 10,000 feet) for someone in another cou
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by iaw 10y ago
You're half right, but you ignore market dynamics. Silver Tuesday [0] is a good scenario where the value of a precious metal was inflated due to the behavior of market participants and not an intrinsic value of the material. There is
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by iaw 10y ago
The most likely scenario is that at the second casino one of the managers saw the strange winnings, rewound the tapes, and deduced what they were doing with the rotations. Once that's done, Ms. Sun's criminal record would be easy

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