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by illumin8 6y ago
The challenge is that our founding fathers unwittingly created a gerrymandered situation due to both the electoral college and the senate, where 40% or less of the population is able to control the entire federal government. Now that they&#
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by illumin8 6y ago
Agreed. This hate crime was committed 1 month from his 18th birthday. A defendant that wasn't white would have been tried as an adult and thrown in jail for years.
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by illumin8 6y ago
From the article: > On the evening of June 9, 1990 — a month before Patton turned 18 — Patton and a Klan leader took a semi-automatic TEC-9 pistol and drove to a synagogue in a Nashville suburb. With Patton at the wheel, the Ku Klux Klan
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by illumin8 6y ago
This is true. I work for a unicorn and we've committed to paying all of our contract staff until the office reopens. This includes making special payments to the caterer, even though we've cancelled regular lunch and dinner meal s
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by illumin8 6y ago
They are free to do so, but when they do it for arbitrary reasons, it instills a lack of trust in leadership. Leaders that lead through fear are much less effective than leaders that are able to motivate their followers in positive ways.
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by illumin8 6y ago
How does that happen? The way interviewing should work is that every person that interviewed you should vote, and if its unanimous that you should be hired, then some SVP a few levels up decided to veto it, I'd be livid if I was a hiri
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by illumin8 6y ago
Yeah, stored procedures making API calls to external services, sounds like a nightmare of tech debt to unwind. I'm sure when you have a brilliant engineer like this you can make it work though.
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by illumin8 7y ago
Also, single consumer for SQS? Completely wrong. It is a common pattern to autoscale a group of workers based on the number of visible messages in a queue. Hundreds or thousands of workers are not out of the question. SQS has no practical l
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by illumin8 7y ago
> People are strange - the fact that there was a global pandemic coming at us was pretty obvious as of early march, but it was this weekend that everyone decided to panic? It's not as though this were a hurricane that just landed on
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by illumin8 7y ago
It's more than wet markets, although those are obviously dangerous. It's the continued expansion of human population into rainforests and other wildlife areas: > Yes. EcoHealth Alliance, an NGO, and others, looked at all report
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by illumin8 7y ago
I hate to break it to you, but when society starts to unravel because there are 1,000 dying people lined up outside the hospital and no free space on the floor for them to be treated, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act won
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by illumin8 7y ago
In the tabletop exercise performed at Johns Hopkins just a few months ago, the world didn't fare so well. Even though some countries initially control it, it continues to spread and be reintroduced, ultimately leading to 65 million dea
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by illumin8 7y ago
Yeah, all I can say is "ouch." I went through a very similar courtship process with a large tech unicorn and luckily my outcome was good, but halfway through the process I basically had to ask them to give me 5 figures in legal fe
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by illumin8 7y ago
Did you notice that in the original article he is running the stock clock speed? If a CPU can't handle any instructions it supports at stock clock and voltage for any period of time it is defective, full stop.
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by illumin8 7y ago
I read that 66% of California voters approve of SB50. It is pretty easy to understand that allowing sensible, 4 story apartment buildings to be built next to transit/BART stations will help increase the housing supply, which should mak
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by illumin8 7y ago
I tried to title this "Introducing Staking Rewards on Coinbase," but "Introducing" was removed automatically from the submission.
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Staking Rewards on Coinbase(blog.coinbase.com)
3 points by illumin8 7y ago|3 comments
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by illumin8 7y ago
> Making a transaction this large is a security risk. It effectively establishes a billion dollar bounty for any party who can rewrite enough blocks to erase it. This is incorrect. It creates a billion dollar bounty only for the sender i
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by illumin8 7y ago
> depending on your size of course, it could easily be cheaper to have a dedicated "build engineer" maintaining a build farm. This is how the majority of people do it. (I work in the video games industry, it's _MUCH_ cheap
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by illumin8 7y ago
This is incorrect. If you trade on material non-public information, it is insider trading. The only questions you have to ask yourself are: - is the information material? (would an average investor learning of it impact the stock price or v
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by illumin8 7y ago
> Notice that the doctor didn't disagree with that being a course of treatment for this disease. Yes, but having a PBM tell a doctor that their diagnosis is wrong and try to change their professional recommendation, without ever hav
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by illumin8 7y ago
Good point. Maybe MacOS/iOS should have a feature where, just like going to a custom service that can launch an already installed app, such as zoomus://123456789, they can allow software vendors to register an install URL tha
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by illumin8 7y ago
Firefox has way better privacy controls than Chrome, however, their track record on security is abysmal. In fact, a 0-day was just found last week targeting Coinbase employees. I wish I could switch to Firefox for privacy reasons, but good
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by illumin8 7y ago
And they are only available to customers that have access to the US banking system.
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by illumin8 7y ago
The whole premise of this article is that Libra will be financially insolvent and will need to be bailed out. This makes a pretty huge leap from "Facebook = bad" to the Libra foundation not having sufficient controls on their trea
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by illumin8 7y ago
Similar background (minus the military), and I agree the differences are staggering, but the nice thing about the US is that a poor kid actually can do this, rise from poverty to upper-middle class in a single generation.
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by illumin8 7y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. Another thing that is implied by this "doom and gloom" article is that there is no way out of poverty for those 80%. This is categorically incorrect. I grew up in poverty. A family with 9 kids, a w
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by illumin8 7y ago
Again, more whataboutism. The topic at hand is the PRCs unlawful harvesting of organs from ethnic and religious minorities, and the genocide (yes, genocide, read the report) this represents.
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by illumin8 7y ago
This is a textbook case of whataboutism. The US is not perfect, but let's not get distracted when the topic at hand is the forced harvesting of organs and genocide of religious and ethnic minorities.
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by illumin8 7y ago
That seems awesome that you're going after big cable/ISP/wireless companies. Do you think consumers that are harmed by Comcast/Xfinity's abusive practices of bundling and zero-rating their own video services, but ch

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