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by jdm2212 4y ago
Ghidra was already best-in-class, and the goal isn't to build a community around Ghidra -- it's to spur recruiting by giving people a taste of how far ahead the NSA is of what's commercially available. If this is what they ca
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by jdm2212 6y ago
> The federal government pays a comfortable six figures Nope, it doesn't. Cracking 100k in the civil service requires being very very senior (equivalent of at least a colonel in the military). It is a cool opportunity, but it does n
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Federal civil service is all on the same scale, and it tops out below what new grad engineers typically make at defense contractors, to say nothing of FAANG.
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by jdm2212 6y ago
> You get paid an excellent defense sector salary unconditionally I would imagine CIA officers get a regular civil service salary, which is emphatically not the high salaries that contractors earn.
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Chinese people use WeChat pretty much exclusively. If you want to talk to someone there, it's WeChat or nothing. You can still make phone calls, but that's not how most people communicate these days.
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by jdm2212 6y ago
If you were planning to get a new phone in the next year, buy it today while you can still install WeChat. On that note, off to the Apple Store... EDIT: I wonder if we'll be able to get around these restrictions while traveling -- Visi
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by jdm2212 6y ago
If you let prices go up, that will mostly prevent regular people from hoarding. You only have to enforce quotas against quasi-professionals looking to spend big, buy in massive bulk, and corner the market.
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by jdm2212 6y ago
My local Korean grocery store and Ace Hardware both have KN95 masks in stock for $2 to $5 a piece. Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've heard of them just being available in stores elsewhere too.
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by jdm2212 6y ago
The solution to hoarding is quotas, not price ceilings. Limit how many people can buy, but don't try to control the sale price.
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by jdm2212 6y ago
The disgusting part isn't wanting to know who he is. It's tracking down the family, and when they refuse to talk, crashing the dead man's funeral to show his widow and daughters the picture of him moments before his death. &g
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Even if a bunch of people used cheap money to buy TSLA, that means a bunch of other people now have lots of money they made selling TSLA. So someone, somewhere, is sitting on cash, which is deflationary and not what you want in a weak econo
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by jdm2212 6y ago
No, the guaranteed negative return is only if you expect rising inflation. Whether $1T in new money turns into inflation depends on what people choose to do with the new money. If they're all terrified about economic uncertainty, they
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by jdm2212 6y ago
There's no impact because people are sitting on cash rather than spending it. What the Fed accomplishes by handing out the $1 trillion is this: they kept all the _other_ money circulating. If people wanted to hoard $1 trillion because
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Among most groups in America, the fertility rate is well below replacement -- same ballpark as Japan, IIRC. The only reason our population grows is immigration: immigrants themselves, and they have more kids than native-born Americans. So t
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by jdm2212 6y ago
> If hypothetically all nations agreed on world peace In a perfect world, that would work. We don't live in a perfect world, which is why virtually no society has ever disbanded their armed forces and lived to tell about it. Similar
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by jdm2212 6y ago
People join the military for lots of reasons (patriotism, free college, bad family situation, and more) but we all recognize that funding the military and making life tolerable for service members is necessary for our society to keep workin
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Systemic problems require systemic solutions. One-off problems require one-off solutions. Parenting in the pandemic is a systemic problem. And even in non-pandemic times, we have public schools, child services, parental leave, etc. The nati
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by jdm2212 6y ago
> Then is it cool if I skip a few meetings to volunteer to help the homeless? That's the thing -- you won't actually go volunteer with the homeless. (Or at least, 99% of us wouldn't.) But parents actually have to change th
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by jdm2212 6y ago
1. Government subsidies don't cover anything close to the cost of raising a child. 2. Child-rearing is a thing tens of millions of people actually do interleaved with full-time work, and has to be addressed by high-level decision maker
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Someone has to provide the goods and services you'll consume when you're old. Those people are today's kids, whose parents are doing you a big favor at considerable expense to themselves. Raising children isn't like smok
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by jdm2212 6y ago
> If I remember correctly, pushing back hard when not winning a contract was not done. At least two high-profile companies (SpaceX being the better known one) have done just that very successfully in the last few years.
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by jdm2212 6y ago
He also probably has a lot more time to think about interesting problems now as opposed to 24/7 managing what's basically a giant utility.
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Writing a novel that holds together requires a coherent model of how the world works, and if you've got that you've basically got AGI. An AI author that can write a compelling account of a person or institution's behavior ove
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by jdm2212 6y ago
To get a real story you need AGI that has some understanding of what it's writing about. What GPT-3 churns out is really just pleasant prose about a theme, but it's meaningless/directionless and won't make sense beyond i
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by jdm2212 6y ago
It's not a great tactic if the owner of site A decides to sue you and subpoenas the hosting providers for B, C and D. You can only get away with it as long as you aren't successful enough to draw the attention of anyone with money
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by jdm2212 6y ago
So there's two different concepts. One is original creative output, which is copyrightable. The other is information, which is not copyrightable. If you find something verbatim identical in a bunch of different places, you've got
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by jdm2212 6y ago
> Airbnb had to fire 1/4 of its staff It's not so much "had to fire 1/4 of its staff" as "fired 1/4 of its staff preemptively because by the time you actually have to fire 1/4 of your staff, it&#x2
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by jdm2212 6y ago
California law is pretty clear on the matter. You don't have to like the law (it's a dumb law), but the law is clear.
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by jdm2212 6y ago
AFAIK there are roughly zero documented instances of in-person voter fraud by Democrats over the last 20 years. There are, amusingly, a bunch of documented instances by Republican voters who said they were doing it to offset the (imaginary)
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by jdm2212 6y ago
If you play Russian Roulette, you'll eventually kill yourself. You might not be able to predict exactly which trigger pull will do it, but one of them will. Don't try to time the market. Do try to prepare for a crisis.

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