iratewizard

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by iratewizard 8y ago
Or maybe more realistic and less paranoid: the code he wrote was more performant but significantly less maintainable. Look at it from a director's perspective. Technical debt from an H1b. Is he trying to maintain job security by being
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by iratewizard 8y ago
Iceland has a population of 300k and brought in more than 2m visitors last year. 10% of its GDP and 30% of export revenue. The vast majority of tourists in Iceland are very respectful, but Iceland's hasty decision to bootstrap its econ
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by iratewizard 8y ago
You can easily take that to ad absurdum levels and every activity you do is destroying the world. There's a balance, and stone stacking happens to balance the line between posturing one's virtue and respecting an ecosystem.
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by iratewizard 8y ago
And...
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by iratewizard 8y ago
The number of steps you take is more intrusive than where you've been? I'm supposed to believe John Hancock is going to bring about the boring dystopia you describe because you claim insurance is enormously intrusive? Was your fir
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by iratewizard 8y ago
I am a senior software engineer with John Hancock. I can say with quite a bit of certainty that the Orwellian conspiracy is just paranoia. I can't tell you how many boring but necessary meetings I've sat through around what data w
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by iratewizard 8y ago
I feel like it needs to be stated that not all of us engineers have the same brutalistic taste in design.
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by iratewizard 9y ago
What's more annoying is when you connect a wacom tablet to your laptop and your laptop says it's charging. Only when your laptop is dead do you realize it was low battery. I had this happen during a demo and it was terrible.
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by iratewizard 9y ago
Easy in theory, but you can't just abolish the gambler's mentality. Cunning people with a loose moral compass will find a way.
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by iratewizard 9y ago
Internet explorer with a million toolbars seems to have been replaced with the much cleaner tablet-as-a-Facebook-machine and a million freemium apps.
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by iratewizard 9y ago
Does it do that on the wider internet? The most notable companies supporting it are companies that have already sliced up 98% of the internet market and actively engage in anti-consumer monopolization.
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by iratewizard 9y ago
Not really. My girlfriend and I together make more than 200k/y and spend less than 1k/month on expenses while we prepare for her to launch a business. We cook food from CSA and our Farmer's market, have a cozy 2 bedroom in a
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by iratewizard 9y ago
Impressive that you already know who is responsible.
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by iratewizard 9y ago
I definitely agree. Not to mention that there is a limit to what a human surgeon is capable of without some sort of augmentation. If this technology is going to improve it needs to be used in the field.
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by iratewizard 9y ago
There's a huge difference between someone who comes to live permanently in the country and someone who is looking at trees for a week. Do you think the US has the infrastructure available to screen the facebooks of all 75 million touri
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by iratewizard 9y ago
It's not clear. Human moderators are not the magic pill that fixes everything. Google has taken enough flak for injecting far too much liberal bias into their system and human moderators will only outrage more people. You may see it as
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by iratewizard 9y ago
Just an FYI - you will probably cringe when you look back at how you used to type and form sentences.
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by iratewizard 9y ago
Is the latter dangerous because it is dissent? It sounds like we are now defining a framework for what dissent is acceptable and it seems to align to a dominant political ideology. Sort of defeats the point of dissent.
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by iratewizard 9y ago
I can definitely agree with that. China is a great example of different but the same. For the most part an atheist country but one of the most superstitious in the world. A result of there superstition likely being much higher suicide rates
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by iratewizard 9y ago
Would having fewer people who use religion to define themselves reduce the "Us vs Them" mentality in your opinion? Is a sizable portion of the world ready to give their life up -- like dedicate it to spreading or supporting an ide