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by kevinpet 13y ago
A big problem with this is that the government does not specify how the matching is to be done, so everyone errs on the side of flagging people who clearly (to a human) do not match. It's just "here's a list, match it or anyt
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by kevinpet 13y ago
I like the emphasis that the duty to the nebulous public interest is about actual safety and potential disasters. "and to undertake technological tasks for others only if qualified by training or experience, or after full disclosure of
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by kevinpet 13y ago
"and does not diminish quality of life, diminish privacy or harm the environment." This is a very strange meaning of "ethics". I understand ethics are relating to what that profession does, i.e. a lawyer or priest cannot
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by kevinpet 13y ago
You can't exactly use "digital signatures" and "cryptographic proof" as distinguishing characteristics among crypto researchers. Many of the phrases noted are similar overly verbose academic writing. "It should
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by kevinpet 13y ago
Doctors and police are unqualified to have an opinion on what blood looks like? They seem to be the two groups most likely to have an accurate opinion. There's nothing in this article that jumps to conclusions. He's saying it look
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by kevinpet 13y ago
Cut the "offended" bit. It's either a fake or it isn't. This is a factual question. To claim to be offended is to say that you consider certain areas of thought morally off limits.
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by kevinpet 13y ago
And you hang out on a discussion board for startups?
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by kevinpet 13y ago
One Weird Trick Successful Startups Use to Grant Equity
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by kevinpet 13y ago
I don't think Andy's point is that equity is a strong retention tool. It's that when people stop vesting, then it's almost active encouragement to go look elsewhere.
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by kevinpet 13y ago
"just not going to get a subsidised product" What subsidized product? I just paid hundreds to thousands for something you advertise as a smart tv.
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by kevinpet 13y ago
That's cool. You may prefer that. But let's not deny that there's a huge market who have valid reasons for preferring it to work in the TV.
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by kevinpet 13y ago
Backblaze doesn't use RAID, they use blob-level replication. I'm sure they can lose data, the question is how likely they are to lose data simultaneous with you losing your HD and local backup.
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by kevinpet 13y ago
What does Fox News have to do with anything?
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by kevinpet 13y ago
The issue is not bcrypt vs. some other hash. The issue is hashing vs. reversible encryption. Unix has been using salted hashed passwords since the 70s. "one-way hash function" is a common phrase in the first edition of Applied Cry
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by kevinpet 13y ago
A real significant bug will be experienced by others. A single report suggests a problem with that user. Two reports suggests a dozen others who haven't bothered to report it.
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by kevinpet 13y ago
They aren't all as bad as Feinstein. California liberals should stop with the "but we must reelect her, because otherwise someone who isn't connected to the San Francisco political machine might get elected". I'll t
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by kevinpet 13y ago
> When we put it that way, very few people have declined to continue the interview process because of the trial week, less than 5% of applicants. How many people decline the interview process before you've offered them trial week be
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by kevinpet 13y ago
I didn't mean to say that it sounded like a sales pitch. What I meant is that it's talking about relative strengths and weaknesses, where what I really need to understand what Serf is is more along the lines of how the API /
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by kevinpet 13y ago
There was a lawsuit over a guide to Harry Potter that Rowling won, but she won it because the guide copied too much from her books. They were later able to publish it by cutting down on the quotations. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by kevinpet 13y ago
As you said "continuous" is important. I'm looking at you, Palo Alto, with your protected bike lane that goes one block and ends at an intersection with two one-way streets.
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by kevinpet 13y ago
> 7. It’s probably a gross violation of your company’s security policy. > Yes. As is using Linkedin itself. Or Dropbox. Or Github. Or Evernote. Or Chrome. Or any enterprise software that uses the bottom up approach. I doubt I could ev
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by kevinpet 13y ago
I wonder if they called it "intro" to make it impossible to google for so that no one can ever figure out what they're agreeing to when they install it. What does the sig it appends look like? I will have to make sure to neve
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by kevinpet 13y ago
This would really benefit from a "how does this relate to zookeeper". I think this is an entirely new service, with different technical insides, and trying to provide a higher level solution to what people usually cobble together
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by kevinpet 13y ago
I suspect Virgin Galactic will do better, even at over double this cost. Virgin is going to give the feel of a rocket launch, like everyone has been watching on TV since they were kids. Also, weightlessness.
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by kevinpet 13y ago
Anyone using stop loss orders harmed themselves. It's like saying that you wouldn't have gotten hurt rolling down the steepest hill in town on a skateboard with no helmet if someone hadn't parked in a red zone.
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by kevinpet 13y ago
And I commute by bicycle, so I have no need to buy a Hyundai, but that doesn't mean a Hyundai is overpriced.
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by kevinpet 13y ago
So you pay cash for everything, and somehow that demonstrates your ability to responsibly use credit? Do you also assume that Mormons are experts on responsible social drinking?
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by kevinpet 13y ago
So your view is that the expected lifetime of the product is identical to your one year warranty? I think that's the sort of thing you're supposed to let your disappointed customers discover after they've purchased.
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by kevinpet 13y ago
There are plenty of retrofit options. This is just a retrofit in a shiny iphone inspired design and a price tag to match.
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by kevinpet 13y ago
Doesn't look like there's a whole lot of coding in that coding interview. Apparently the article assumes that "coding interview" involves a whiteboard, rather than a keyboard. We segment our interviewing into different s

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