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by jonfw 4y ago
Any evidence that this continues to happen? Any system with any amount of scale will have bad actors. It’s one very bad data point, but certainly not enough evidence that the whole system is corrupt
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by jonfw 4y ago
Unless you live right on the beach or another heavy tourist destination, I don’t think 30% vacation/short term rentals is remotely realistic
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by jonfw 4y ago
Why not solve war and hunger while you’re at it?
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by jonfw 4y ago
sadly, the job of a CISO typically isn't "make the most pragmatic decisions possible to keep our infrastructure secure and running smoothly". In many industries, it's more lke "join as many compliance programs as po
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by jonfw 4y ago
I'm not very familiar with rust, would you be able to share an example?
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by jonfw 4y ago
Golang is continuing to grow to serve this use case. Just like explicitly handling errors though- you'd be expected to explicitly handle null values if you want to be safe from them
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by jonfw 4y ago
Worth considering the biased data. Levels will only have data from job seekers- which would imply that they either have A) recent offer or B) salaries from employees who are considering jumping ship (biased towards employees who are underpe
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by jonfw 4y ago
> the specific claim that sub-standard working conditions are better than nothing is a very old and weak argument that has a tradition of being used to justify subjugation It's a weak argument when it's incorrect. slavery is cl
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by jonfw 4y ago
The OP is making a utilitarian argument. You can’t argue that utilitarianism is a defunct philosophy because people once used it to justify slavery. If you are making this argument, please share your philosophy that no bad person has ever u
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by jonfw 4y ago
> Interestingly, this is the same argument that was used in favor of slavery. That's really not very interesting, this same argument can be applied to many things that were good and many things that were bad. Let's try and focu
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by jonfw 4y ago
Modern brake systems are so good though, they're cheap, powerful, reliable, and easy to service. I am not sure that the juice would be worth the squeeze
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by jonfw 4y ago
Mozilla competes just fine IMO - a developer who uses firefox 99% of the time
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by jonfw 4y ago
“Design better tests” is not useful feedback. It’s just kicking the can down the road and blaming professors
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by jonfw 4y ago
How is webcam and microphone support? Web conferencing always killed me running Linux even on well supported hardware How is battery life? What distro are you running? Are you doing all ARM binaries or is there some translation layer that w
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by jonfw 4y ago
Personally, I blocked most websites on my primary browser on my work computer, and I set a maxvisit and minaway on my hackernews profile. So I get 20 minutes of slacking off on hackernews, and then I get booted off for a few hours, and the
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by jonfw 4y ago
That's a fair point, but it still doesn't make the title read accurately
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by jonfw 4y ago
I'm just saying that the headline reads different than the article, I'm not making a judgement on the contents of the article
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by jonfw 4y ago
Title is pretty misleading. This is only on certain models from those makes
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by jonfw 4y ago
They're doing it because the automatics perform better, sell better, package better, and have more gears
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by jonfw 4y ago
I like CPOoutlets for american tools and KCtools for the german ones. For tools and other big ticket items- I'm scared to deal with Amazon when I need warranty work
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by jonfw 4y ago
Scarcity doesn't imply value.
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by jonfw 4y ago
crypto climate change
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by jonfw 4y ago
You don't compare against best case scenario (1000x), you compare against expected value. Because very few startups have a 1000x exit
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by jonfw 4y ago
What do you expect you will do if somebody capable of killing you wants your password? I can't imagine a circumstance where I would not voluntarily give somebody a password if they were in a position to physically force me to provide b
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by jonfw 4y ago
Buy a house, live in it, sell it for more than you bought it for
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by jonfw 4y ago
If you were a lawyer and said "I am not willing to track my time" you limit your options significantly more than a programmer
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by jonfw 4y ago
> for many people it's as real as gravity That would speak to those people's lack of understanding of gravity more than anything else in my view
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by jonfw 4y ago
My XPS (not a brand new one, not sure if this has changed) has a really weird webcam location to get the thin bezel, it's right next to they keyboard There are always tradeoffs, and I find the notch to be a trade-off with no real loss.
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by jonfw 4y ago
#2 is probably the single biggest attack vector on these platforms
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by jonfw 4y ago
I'm currently sitting at my notchless-MBP noting how there is not a single thing in the middle of my menu bar and there never has been. I can't think of a single reason I wouldn't want a notch in exchange for smaller bezels.

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