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by jjav 1mo ago
> Probably because most lawyers/politicians are effectively illiterate when it comes to logic. Unfortunately the “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" is completely wrong in politics. In po
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by jjav 2mo ago
Hard disagree. Unless by "good" you mean that a third of your legitimate email is shoved in spam by gmail. That is not good, by any measure. Even the simplest bayesian filter will score better than gmail.
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by jjav 2mo ago
> Tell me you've never lived in the Bay... I guess I'm a newcomer, only lived in Silicon Valley for ~30 years (will be 30 in a few months).
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by jjav 2mo ago
> even hints at minimally inconveniencing 5% of the population 5%? No. That's a lot of people. At least in the USA, the one and only thing that matters is what benefits the top 0.0002% richest (approximate percentage of billionares
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by jjav 2mo ago
> The standard complaint is that city councils weight complaints from normal people far too highly. In most cases, what happens is they give a lot of weight to input from those who agree with the predestined outcome, and none to those wh
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by jjav 2mo ago
> It's impossible to disprove, but I don't think it's likely If something is impossible to disprove, we must assume it is happening from a threat modeling perspective.
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by jjav 2mo ago
As a hiring manager, I can say that not having that linkedin profile is not disqualifying, but it sure hurts your chances, a lot. Your resume must be extremely exceptional to survive the first pass if there is no linkedin profile to correla
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by jjav 2mo ago
> But anything within a 2 hour commute requires a minimum of $200k salary to survive 2 hour commute is a huge distance , so this is nowhere near true. 2 hours east is roughly Grass Valley, or anything in between (including Sacramento).
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by jjav 2mo ago
SF is not Silicon Valley (arguably, depending on your generation, it is not even part of Silicon Valley). Housing it a lot more reasonable (nowhere near cheap, but feasible) in the actual Silicon Valley.
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by jjav 2mo ago
> So anybody that will follow, regardless of the person's policies won't matter fully, as that person itself will be replaced 4-8 years later. That is the fundamental problem. The only way out, is to make changes to the constit
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by jjav 2mo ago
Pirates was a great game, spent so much time on it (PC version) in 89-90
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by jjav 2mo ago
> I would imagine a very small number of people on here rely on ads for income, but I could be wrong. That's just not the shape of company most devs work for. Who do you think most developers work for? Google, Facebook, two massive
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by jjav 2mo ago
> a department to argue with insurers, etc cost the hospital? My surgeon friends routinely complain about the inordinate amount of time they personally need to spend fighting with insurance, in the form of filling endless forms that insu
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by jjav 2mo ago
> efficiencies of scale and convenience over hosting locally The privacy cost of sending everything to a third party is huge. Running locally fully resolves that, so it is the obvious choice if only cost can be managed.
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by jjav 2mo ago
Don't feel that's it at all. Let's be more specific instead of just "tech" since that can be so many things. I used to be very excited when new tech came out that empowered me to do new different things in more fl
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by jjav 2mo ago
> you tried to have any of those models one-shot an app If you try the same with the highest cost models, it all ends in tears anyway. A completely new app may seem to work ok but as soon as you're doing ongoing development, it need
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by jjav 2mo ago
It is a system where all prices and costs are so far detached from reality for multiple reasons, that looking at any current profit margins is not going to be very realistic either. Really need to step back and start from first principles
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by jjav 2mo ago
A good way to bypass this (and increase your privacy) is to just pay cash. Then you don't interact with the screen at all and there isn't even any expectation of a tip. Funny how it changes.
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by jjav 2mo ago
> Not just technically. They literally have credit card debt in every sense of the word. I mean technically yes that is absolutely correct. But we all know it's not what people think of as "debt", so as previous poster sai
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by jjav 2mo ago
> those numbers would imply 2/3 of people are in what I would consider imminent financial collapse. A suspect a lot of people also carry ongoing credit card debt because they're bad at math or just don't care, not all of t
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by jjav 2mo ago
> say they are opting into Chrome out of spite, which is 100x worse. That is what is frustrating, indeed. Firefox is not perfect. Nothing is perfect. There have been changes in Firefox over the years that I don't like. (I'm sti
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by jjav 2mo ago
> Same way as always. For me same as always also. My "same way" is the HN RSS feed. RSS is the best. Goes straight to my email and I skim the headlines, click on the ones that seem interesting.
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by jjav 2mo ago
Only if you write a bad policy, so don't do that. The better way is that for each policy you look at what do you actually want to do and how you want to do it, and then write that down as the policy. Now the policy makes sense because
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by jjav 2mo ago
Agreed, I can't understand where these experiences come from. I only ever use Firefox, at work, at home, mobile. Since forever, as long as there has been a Firefox (and Mozilla before that, Netscape prior). There was one time about 8-1
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by jjav 2mo ago
> Tech people like to imagine law is code, but it’s not. Nor should it be. Of course it should be code. More specifically, it should be completely deterministic. This idea that judges/courts can interpret the law however they feel
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by jjav 2mo ago
> How loud can they be? LOL.. for home use I go either fanless (very low power), or 4U chassis even if I don't need the space, just to fit large quiet fans. 1U or 2U at home with fans is not what you want.
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by jjav 2mo ago
You tend to learn it early not by choice, but because the student makes some operation on the pointer and suddenly all they get are core dumps or (seemingly) bizarrely corrupted data and they have to confront what's going on early in t
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by jjav 2mo ago
> how is learning about using pointers in C different from using object references and array indices in python/js/java? That's exactly what trips up people coming from higher level languages! If you think of it in terms of
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by jjav 2mo ago
> Roads are owned by the government. Roads are owned by the people. The government (should) be the servants of the interests of the people.
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by jjav 2mo ago
> I am not a fan of flock, nor police surveillance state, but what could they have done better here? Not exist. That is the only societally acceptable answer.

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