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by jimmy1 8y ago
The banks need to emphasis what I believe they have that is truly superior to startup or smaller tech firms: an established business, stable, predictable hours, reliable pay, excellent benefits, and the security that your job won't be
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But that's not what it means to have competition. Walmart is still Amazon's competitor, despite being much cheaper in many cases.
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Most of us are running other, more important shit that takes up RAM, like an IDE for my code and DB, plus some shells, text editors, etc. If we can get the less important shit to run faster, it would be a win. Your desktop isn't magic
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> Whether you have a Tesla in your brain or a Tesla in real life doesn’t make a difference in how happy you are. This quote from the end of the article reminded me of the famous chimpanzee experiment where two chimps were hooked up to a
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You have kidneys, a liver, and a lymphatic system that all work wonders against small invaders in small quantities, perfect for the situation described with the "PPM" metric. We all love buying into these "it's xyz killi
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regarding #3 -- I kind of despise the Valley in this regard. When you are a tech firm not in the valley, inevitably you get a middle-manager type that comes in and tries to emulate what the latest hip SV firm is doing to boost your street c
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It's not if you take a simple view of emotion. What's controversial is whether or not they feel complex emotions. Is that really depression or just sadness? Do adult elephants have periods of melancholy that are suddenly brought
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I disagree with these proposals, and think the sights should be aimed at companies like Verizon and Comcast, but at least Warren's proposals tend to be coherent. Although, it isn't too hard to be a "policy pacesetter" on
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Studies of communities that have longitivtiy confirm this. For example, the "Ikaria" study, a university of Athen's study of the island of Ikaria, where males reach the age of 90 2.5 times more frequently than Americans, thei
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Wait until Amazon starts killing off some AWS services or features.
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> Whether hotels are better or worse than apartment rentals doesn't matter It absolutely matters. Blockbuster in it's later years was not only entrenched, but also a bad experience. People were tired of being price gouged with
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> A hotel working with Airbnb is like BlockBuster working with Netflix to share customer data. The hotels groups aren't as fucking stupid as Blockbuster was, though. I don't feel like this analogy applies, however. You can make
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> If you whip out your smartphone while I have a conversation next to you, even in a private or semi-public space, and my records get send somewhere without my knowledge, did you just violate my privacy? Yes. Privacy is everyone's
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A better way of stating it, "It goes to show how few folks truly value testing in isolation" that is, having good tests in isolation is seen as a nice ideal to pursue, but delivering working code first trumps all. "How do you
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But that's actually a tenant of privacy: You are free to care about it only when it matters, and you chose who and on what terms enter into your privacy sphere. Privacy is the inherent understood baseline. Everything else needs to just
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> but I don't understand your defeatism. > I publicly resigned from Google Because for every one that resigned, there are most likely hundreds that stay. I do admire your courage and willing to take a stand. In the face of an opp
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> . The speed at which we're iterating on the firewall and other systems that use this is a joy to behold. How much of this do you attribute directly to Rust versus other factors like seniority of engineering talent, clear communica
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If you can't update your virtualization software at work, you are probably running a huge security risk. Do you not have a patching process? If this isn't about work, then curious as to why you can't upgrade?
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> Can you keep skin youthful through exercising it No but you certainly can by avoiding excessive sunlight exposure and staying hydrated!
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> Small businesses can't get the tax break Amazon is demanding It's in proportion. Amazon got the "big tax break" because it offered even bigger returns (9:1 as mentioned in the letter). There was no debasing here. Ho
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As I learned the hard way, you probably don't see them because they are too busy working 2-3 jobs making ends meet, or they were forced out of their neighborhoods due to gentrification .
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It has yuppie jobs and banker jobs. The middle class is deserting the place, and has been for quite some time. You need a healthy middle class. That HQ would have had quite a few tech jobs naturally, but also admin jobs, support jobs, and a
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Ah, but we can do something about it. We have something in America called "due process" so gather enough people around and force the FBI to fix their woefully inadequate form. The ACLU is doing just that in the mean time. "Bu
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Many of the items on this list seem to be some variation of "random place in memory so attackers can't guess" It sounds nice, but can someone explain if there are any downsides?
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You are so right -- thats why in better languages like C# and Java you need an IDE to write half your code for you, and a multi-million line optimizing runtime to make it run fast.
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Ok, but seriously I am genuinely curious, what is the reason for the fence in the picture? I see fences like this when I am out in the mountains camping or hiking. Is it to prevent some type of animal from roaming down the roads?
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No other suggestion was offered in the post I am referring to, just a "sources pl0x" ask. Here is the simplest counter example I can think of. "Gravity is real." "Reputed and trustworthy citations from scientific so
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I believe genius approached it from the angle of "annotating the web" versus "commenting the web"
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Granted I don't have hard data on the "ph" fact, the source is pretty credible in my opinion. The fact appeared in an article written for the British Council, co-authored by Martha Peraki, a Linguistics PhD recipient from Ame
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On some sites, on others it's the 2.5-5mb PWA-that-gracefully-falls-back-to-SPA-that-gracefully-falls-back-to-SSR-with-bundled-inline-styles-and-images JS app that has horrid caching that is causing most of the bloat.

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