jbob2000

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by jbob2000 7y ago
You don't need to die to injure yourself on a bike. I've hit ruts in the road and scraped my knee and torn pants. I've slipped my foot off the pedal and wacked my shin, cut my hand putting a chain back on the derailer, and nu
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Carbon emission from vehicle manufacturing is localized to the area they are manufactured in. The benefits of electric vehicles is that you don't have cities and suburbs full of smog from combustion engines. You must live in a warm cli
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by jbob2000 7y ago
You can't run any major resource operation without smart people. Unless you want to do it with shovels, you need smart people to set up the machinery and keep it running. You need trade agreements so you can actually get that machinery
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by jbob2000 7y ago
The original purpose of the nuclear energy program in the US was so they could have any number of facilities able to create nukes at a moment's notice. It was just a happy coincidence that we could also draw power from these reactors.
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Or what about this: I am indecisive about what music I want to listen to in this current moment and I want you to give me options that I will deny until I become decisive about what I want.
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by jbob2000 7y ago
I’ve had some exposure to the travel industry by working for a credit card loyalty program, but nothing formal. I appreciate your honest reply and wish you luck!
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by jbob2000 7y ago
How will you scale? The reason that travel booking is so bad is because once you get too big, you start to eat the (very thin) margins of everyone in the travel industry. Then they get all defensive and, if you don't get acquired, star
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Turning off read receipts doesn't actually turn off read receipts, it just does't show the state to the user. Facebook still knows whether or not my message was read.
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by jbob2000 7y ago
This is just email tech playing catch up with instant messaging, twitter, and other communication tools. At least with email I can block images and prevent the tracking from occurring. I can't do that with facebook or twitter.
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by jbob2000 7y ago
So the people who fund them are happy to just have the money go into a hole and... then what? They definitely have metrics. How do they know which journalists are writing good articles? How do they know which topics to write about?
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Their metrics are for “articles viewed”, not “articles that the reader read and enjoyed”. They don’t care if you get bored halfway through, they probably don’t even care if you read the article. As long as the numbers for the money metrics
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by jbob2000 7y ago
The same thing that remains when your computer stops responding: a hard reset.
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by jbob2000 7y ago
You’d need to hear stories from the trenches to understand my comment. My brother works in a branch, most of his day to day activities are explaining to people why they don’t have enough money in their accounts. “Well Jim, you spent $100 at
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by jbob2000 7y ago
In a future where victory isn’t decided with small arms, it’s really just a part of the constitution for history and symbolism’s sake. Do you see China invading us with an army? No, they’re flooding our markets with cheap goods and putting
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by jbob2000 7y ago
I definitely thought about my comment a lot, since I am in a technical role. I recognize it's arrogant, but let me provide some insights. We are currently facing threats from "online only" banks, where you can sign up and use
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by jbob2000 7y ago
It’s a risky play. At my enterprise company, we’re not allowed to use a single vendor for everything, we explicitly must use different companies if a favoured vendor hits a certain spend threshold. This is to prevent cost overruns and solut
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by jbob2000 7y ago
These problems will solve themselves, but at the cost of human life. I remember someone telling me that governments only move when a lot of people die. The Indian government will eventually learn to regulate their pharma industry, it will j
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by jbob2000 7y ago
But I don’t actually care about these things and I don’t care about succeeding or failing. I just care about having sexy projects associated with my name so I can get promoted. (Not actually me, but that’s how people at big companies think)
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by jbob2000 7y ago
The doctors and medical staff are mostly white, while the people they are treating are mostly black. To the ignorant, this would appear like an attempt at a genocide or recolonization.
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by jbob2000 7y ago
> For a fee starting at $49 a week, users can leave text, voice and video messages with counselors who respond five days a week. Customers can pay more for live video chats. Considering that people with mental health issues often don’t h
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by jbob2000 7y ago
It's not one sided though. The colonists who brought disease over were also dying from the disease (and they didn't bring it over to explicitly wipe out the indigenous population). The destruction of the environment affects everyo
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Some of those issues are issues that all populations face (death from disease, government bureaucracy, policing, destruction of environment). I don't think its fair to claim that these are intentional parts of a genocide. There definit
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Yeah, I feared it was a politicized term. I guess my real thought here is, what is the end goal? So you call it a genocide and give a lump sum of money to the indigenous populations. Now what? The government already admits guilt time and ti
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by jbob2000 7y ago
I’m not understanding why it’s a genocide. It’s not one entity performing these killings and it’s not organized; lots of indigenous women are just in shitty situations, that doesn’t make it a genocide. We’re talking about ~100 deaths a year
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by jbob2000 7y ago
There’s a book about this called “Sacred cows make the best burgers”. I haven’t read it, but it was recommended to me by a colleague after I was complaining to him about having to support a legacy system because of a few “important” clients
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by jbob2000 7y ago
In order for it to violate your privacy, it needs to take some kind of data from you that is considered private. What data is a tracking pixel taking from you? The only thing a tracking pixel "takes" is the address of the computer
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by jbob2000 7y ago
The tracking pixel doesn't provide any material information, it just tells you that a certain computer downloaded the image at a certain time. It doesn't tell you WHO downloaded the image (but you could deduce that if you had othe
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Oh my god, they think a tracking pixel is a "secret tracking device". Jesus christ, get over yourselves, EVERY email has these in them...
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by jbob2000 7y ago
It’s really gross how big companies operate. Our VP was more than happy to pay it! I would even go so far as to say that our entire solution was structured in favour the contractor. A smarter solution didn’t need their proxy at all, but thi
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Pfft that's nothing. We just had a contractor charge us $50k to setup a simple HTTP proxy. I looked at the code; it's a .NET starter app with our endpoints in it that route to other endpoints. $50k and it probably took them 2 hour

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