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by jedmeyers 6y ago
How do you know who is actually lying if half the information is removed from the sources you usually read?
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
Are you aware of the term "public easement"? In many jurisdictions you are not able to block public access to your "private property" once the public gets accustomed to accessing that property. Same thing should apply he
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
> each asking about 2 questions Google does not usually ask 2 questions. You may/should get harder follow-ups to the original question, which is a good sign.
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
The queue entrypoint is not always the same process either, especially in a system like Pub/Sub.
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
If events are generated by different processes you cannot really guarantee that time is exactly the same for them, unless you do something fancy to ensure that.
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
> Consumer Reports that have to maintain a long-running reputation Tell me more about the "long-running" reputation of Consumer Reports. I will then tell you why Suzuki Samurai is no longer sold in the US.
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
"Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like h
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
> if there's another hearing. Oh, no, another hearing. I am sure he is very afraid of another strongly worded letter after that one. We constantly see executives and officials lie at those hearings, yet they face no repercussions w
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
Is that the same social democracy as in Russian Social Democratic Labour Party?
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
> Yes, however a lot of that is done to produce products that are unnecessary If you have to figure out which product are “necessary” and which are not - you don’t have enough resources “to go around” by definition.
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
As long as you have limited resources to manage, your curiosity will go nowhere without the power to obtain resources to satisfy that curiosity. I too love to dream about how great life is going to be once we all have unlimited resources.
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
The fact that the oncaller has been notified without an actual issue in a production system, is an issue in itself - incorrect monitoring/alerting. And will be addressed an the next production meeting.
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
> Maybe this generation in Europe trusts their government and thinks that its good. Which is strange, since there are people alive today who's relatives were executed in camps by the democratically elected government of Germany. Peo
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
- police chases down and arrest the driver It does not seem the perpetrator was running from the police, so they did not "chase" him. Accounts show that he was avoiding the protesters and police would him very quickly once he got
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
Yes, Trump to be wrong is much more important than finding an effective and cheap cure for the disease that stopped half the economy.
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
No one says it's not easy. Stealing mail is fairly easy too. Federal prison is not a fun place to be, though.
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
US has very strictly enforced laws against odometer tampering. "Major defendants in large odometer fraud prosecutions have received prison terms of up to seven years under current Sentencing Guidelines which do not permit parole. Sente
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
> very impersonal, only-the-numbers-and-ROI matters. What would be a more personal approach when figuring out whether or not to loan the money to someone?
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by jedmeyers 6y ago
Police interactions, maybe. But actual crimes committed should be a relatively objective metric. Can we discuss that one or it’s not allowed for some reason?
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by jedmeyers 7y ago
It might have been a de facto IQ test, but they should have disguised it carefully.
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by jedmeyers 7y ago
Not allowed by law.
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by jedmeyers 7y ago
But that’s not REAL engineering! You are only moving numbers around.
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by jedmeyers 7y ago
> 6/96= 6.25% Is 96 a number of (ongoing + finalized) cases or just a number of finalized cases?
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by jedmeyers 7y ago
Those things from big banks always remind me of the quote from Big Short: "Yeah, I think you mean that you've secured a net short position yourselves. So you're free to mark my swaps accurately for once because it's now
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by jedmeyers 7y ago
> reporting what he believes to be illegal conduct to congress one one side. “Former” cia analyst that was directly involved in the events being investigated by the administration is reporting through his friends to an associate in Congr
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by jedmeyers 7y ago
> Vindman was fired but will surely land on his feet somewhere. Was he "fired" or just reassigned? As far as I understand he is still an officer in the armed forces.
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by jedmeyers 7y ago
> it should be same whether the delivered news is favorable to you/us or not The question is usually "is it favorable to the CIA/NSA or not?". Favorable (Vindman/Cia<mare>lla) -> whistleblower Unfavorabl
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by jedmeyers 7y ago
Which orders did Vindman follow and later was punished for, exactly? I would actually put Snowden as an example of a regime punishing the whistleblower.
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by jedmeyers 7y ago
Based on my PNW experience having a hard shell is rarely worth it, unless you are static. Otherwise softshell jackets is the way to go, much more breathable and fast drying.
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by jedmeyers 7y ago
>> The group even talked about—and eventually dismissed—the idea of leaving the market entirely > That's good enough reason for anyone to get off GCP. I fail to see how this is even a reason to get off GCP, yet a good one.

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