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by jnwatson 5y ago
7 years as a contractor is abuse. It is abuse of the crappy enforcement of labor laws and abuse of the contractor. That you can have an integrated member of the team clearly be a second-class citizen, that’s just hard to fathom.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
To be clear, this is not (just) a matter of ethics. If true, these acts are in violation of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Each violation can be up to 5 years in prison.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
That half of the population is under 20 boggles the mind.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
That’s what confused me.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Math consists of proofs. Every proof corresponds to a computer program, by Curry-Howard Correspondence. Every program is an implementation of an algorithm. Hence, math consists of things that correspond to implementations of algorithms.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Consumption of processed meat is significant enough of a health impact that it is a common question in lifetime expectancy calculators.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Whoosh.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
It strongly depends on your latitude and your longitude within the time zone. There were always going to be winners and losers in this situation.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
The reviewer is clearly someone that’s never driven a luxury car. Luxury cars have all the features he’s talking about. Luxury cars have good acceleration. Yes, EVs have better acceleration, but not dramatically better than a typical spor
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Mixed-use developments are a thing. They are common on the East coast. Just move into one. I live in one. I still have a car, but pretty much only use it on the weekend.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Not to mention several UK territories in the Caribbean that drive on the left but get their left-side cars from the states.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Taking part in the "money rat race" isn't just about the Benjamins. It is about working for a company that explicitly values your contribution. That in itself helps with motivation.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Looking at DNS traffic isn't generally considered DPI.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
These are all premium features you have to sign up for.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Regardless, it is probably moot now. The impact of oil and embargo will have wide-ranging inflationary effects.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
> You don't budget your wage increases (which would've happened in Q4 last year) based on transitory economic conditions. Wage increases are as transitory as inflation numbers. If the inflation per year is 3% then 7% then 3%,
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by jnwatson 5y ago
You're literally asking this person to forgo potentially an extra quarter million dollars a year to avoid a couple dozen hours of study.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
It helps to perform well enough to get influence as to what you get to work on, as that ends up on your resume.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Your compensation isn't driven by the things it can buy. It is driven by the balance of supply and demand in the labor pool, which is mostly insensitive to inflation in the short term. In the long term, sometimes inflation is caused b
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by jnwatson 5y ago
I completely agree. I'd buy a luxury wagon in a heartbeat. BMW makes several models, but don't ship them to the US.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
That's a great resource. I'd argue that inflation isn't "real" until it gets to around the 5% mark. High inflation attracts Fed interest rate increases which attracts bond investment over equity investment. In the
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Eating once a day is a type of intermittent fasting, which has been well studied and shown to have some of the health benefits of fasting.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
I interviewed with AWS about 7 months ago and got an offer. I had multiple recruiters emphasize the LP stuff. I prepared, and there’s no way I would have passed without that preparation. In my experience, they also give the toughest progr
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by jnwatson 5y ago
There’s not a huge overlap between Chronicle and Mandiant. Mandiant makes most of its money off intel and incident response. Chronicle sells tools to do those.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Even if the FSB are universally psychopaths (which they aren’t), global famine is a destabilizing force that can be leveraged.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Potatoes are nightshades. It is entirely reasonable that in some situations they might be bad for you.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
Russia has had a land border with NATO since 2004 when Latvia joined. That simply doesn’t compute.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
It is important to distinguish between strategic and tactical decisions. Russia has made a strategic decision to avoid heavy bombers due to the high likelihood of civilian casualties. Some platoon commander launched a rocket barrage for wha
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by jnwatson 5y ago
It is clear to me a lot of folks posting haven’t tried to hire a developer lately. The tack you’re taking is the only one I’ve found that works for small orgs: be flexible about experience and try to build a team around whom you can find.
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by jnwatson 5y ago
For many “positions” in tech, job descriptions are merely useful fictions. Except my first job, I didn’t stick with the elements of my job description beyond a month or two. This is especially true for my current FAANG job. This is even m

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