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by ibeckermayer 4y ago
Nonsense. Sure, deflationary shocks can be calamitous, like the Great Depression or the GFC. But steady deflation over time is logically the natural and good outcome of improvement over time—as technology advances and we get better at produ
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by ibeckermayer 4y ago
Man, that’s too bad, you had a diamond in the rough. Hoping to find a practitioner like that myself.
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by ibeckermayer 4y ago
> In other words, you keep some of the financial resources and opportunities that others could have had. Those workers needed to be organized in such a manner that the value they produce is actually worthwhile and their productive output
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by ibeckermayer 4y ago
Genuine question -- what low level things can't you access on a MacBook? I've been using them for years and have never run into anything I needed that I outright couldn't access. It could well just be that I'm not diggin
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by ibeckermayer 4y ago
“Cancel culture” is about people losing their jobs and being censored from platforms like Twitter for making arguments or jokes that rub the politically powerful the wrong way. Again, it’s the active removal of the practical ability of expr
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by ibeckermayer 4y ago
> “If I say something, no matter how vacuous and offensive, that’s free speech. But if you criticize it or otherwise say something I disagree with, that’s censorship.” What an embarrassingly dishonest characterization of the problem. Nob
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by ibeckermayer 5y ago
I'm not a C expert and I'm stumped but curious. What does malloc(0) return and why is that important?
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by ibeckermayer 5y ago
From my perspective you’re unfairly projecting bad faith onto Teleport and shooting your self in the foot in the process. 1) You’re assuming that a good faith argument would decrease the chances of us hiring you, but for the most part that
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by ibeckermayer 5y ago
You’re mistaken, we do have a rubric. All of the members of the interview team grade the interviewee according to the rubric, and the scores are then combined into “votes”.
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by ibeckermayer 5y ago
No specific criticism of the process was offered, so a general justification is warranted. Personally I became interested in working for Teleport in large measure because the interview process tested my practical skills, rather than having
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by ibeckermayer 5y ago
Banger
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by ibeckermayer 5y ago
It’s a nonsense standard to demand “examples” of science not being done, which would be impossible to know precisely, and OP didn’t even claim specifically. The point is that our prominent scientific institutions are occupying themselves wi
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by ibeckermayer 5y ago
Too easy https://www.science.org/content/article/two-elite-medical-jo... https://covid19up.org/neil-ferguson-fear-driven-predictions/
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by ibeckermayer 5y ago
Strong regulation by whom? The organization that brought us the CIA, NSA, FBI, and the rest of the alphabet soup of “security” bureaucracies that spy on us arbitrarily? Strong regulation could easily worsen the problem, as it can lead to a
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by ibeckermayer 5y ago
Is this currently illegal?
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by ibeckermayer 5y ago
In an important sense, taking on risk to profit on someone else’s need is how the entire economy works… You can argue that much of what we produce nowadays isn’t a fundamental “need” like shelter, but that’s really beside the point, and a f
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by ibeckermayer 5y ago
Have you ever ran the numbers for a rental property? I have — after interest on the mortgage, taxes, repairs, insurance, HOA fees (if applicable), management costs, etc., margins wear thin to non-existent in most areas. Plus you’re taking o
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by ibeckermayer 5y ago
I don’t really get it — my low resolution understanding is that Nix gives you the ability to define your Unix environment itself with definition files, similar to how Docker gives you the ability to define a container abstraction with Docke
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by ibeckermayer 5y ago
More “efficient” isn’t necessarily wise. Sure it’s cheaper now, but what about if China decides to take Taiwan over militarily? Or a natural disaster takes out TMSC manufacturing? Or some other black swan event that I can’t even imagine? Al
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by ibeckermayer 5y ago
If you do say one set of max push-ups every other day, you will get noticeably stronger. Handwaving bro-estimate is you will start upping reps within a couple weeks, and start noticing stronger arms and chest after a month. Add in another s
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by ibeckermayer 5y ago
Recklessly polluting a shared and vital resource like the oceans is an act of war. If the US wasn’t busy squandering unimaginable amounts of resources in backwaters like Afghanistan, we could be wielding our military might towards genuinely
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by ibeckermayer 5y ago
Our team builds a custom controller for a CRD for which it’s useful to be able to run and develop locally, rather than have each developer on the team run their own cluster in the cloud
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by ibeckermayer 5y ago
When I read a story like this, I don’t think mere luck/timing. You taught yourself programming in your 40s. That’s hard work and discipline to gain a skill. There’s plenty of other stuff you could have chosen to do with your time, but
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by ibeckermayer 5y ago
That seems pretty dumb. There aren’t competing ideas about how an operating system should work?
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by ibeckermayer 5y ago
It's worse than that: in terms of preventing infection, vaccine effectiveness drops to 16% after about 6 months [1] (see the graph on the final page). Severe disease infection seems to last longer, but a natural hypothesis from this da
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by ibeckermayer 5y ago
Enforcing basic property rights is a good start. “I’m sorry sir or madam, but this is some of the most expensive real estate in the entire world, and you may not just pitch a tent here on the sidewalk. If you refuse to remove yourself then
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by ibeckermayer 5y ago
The point is that it is indeed a criminally corrupt government that would enter your house without just probable cause. Concerning oneself with the implementation and maintenance of such principles of justice is wise even if you have “nothi
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by ibeckermayer 5y ago
Joke country.
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by ibeckermayer 5y ago
What rule would such a requirement violate? Does the SEC have rules saying high-frequency/day trading must be allowed?
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by ibeckermayer 5y ago
“Fundamental analysis” is not merely a narrative, though. For example for a mature company, there is an underlying economic reality about the time frame you can expect to earn back your initial investment in dividends, and the subsequent RO

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