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by logicalmind 7y ago
And the level beyond furloughs are paycuts. Many companies are doing fairly large paycuts (20% or more) in order to retain jobs.
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by logicalmind 7y ago
I'm sure I'm not the only one who has had to question the intelligence of family and acquaintances whom I used to hold in high regard. I've been asked to participate in "measle parties" with my kids. And to do a com
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by logicalmind 7y ago
It's all about negligence and what you can prove in a court of law (or settle for in arbitration these days). A person taking an open flame and leaving it unattended or not monitoring it, is negligent in the eyes of most people (aka ju
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by logicalmind 7y ago
This is essentially an inverse blacklist (aka refresh token whitelist) which requires server-side state. The part that these things seem to miss in my mind, especially in situations where security requirements are high, is that the authenti
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by logicalmind 7y ago
But isn't the requirement for using the refresh token that it must be kept secure? For example, if you users authenticate in a browser, they get back an access token and a refresh token. If that refresh token were stolen on the wire or
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by logicalmind 7y ago
It's obviously highly dependent on the domain in which you work, but I would consider what you're saying to be a "business transaction" more than a "database transaction". If there is a 1:1 between the two then
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by logicalmind 7y ago
Yes, this is exactly the type of boilerplate I am talking about. All those usings and try/catch blocks which add needless code. It is possible to compose all of this into an aspect which then decorates your methods. Maybe I'm not
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by logicalmind 7y ago
Cities near me have banned the use of gas-powered leaf blowers. Not specifically because of the noise, but this is a good side effect.
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by logicalmind 7y ago
C# dev here as well, but from a Java background. When I first moved to C# from Java one of the best AOP usages was transaction management. Database transaction management. You could write all of the code, whether it was dependent upon the d
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by logicalmind 7y ago
There always seems to be some romanticism of blue collar work from white collar, and vice versa. There is a thread of truth to the things each side says, but there is also a reality that is ignored. I'm from a blue collar family in a b
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by logicalmind 7y ago
The real question is how many US politicians espouse this worldview. They're the ones making the policy.
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by logicalmind 7y ago
I think Roblox is the nearest clone. It is also very popular.
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by logicalmind 7y ago
This is a service provided by the regulator... https://www.frbservices.org/resources/central-bank/faq/exces...
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by logicalmind 7y ago
What if I told you that some financial institutions could move money off to some temporary location where it sits for a few hours, then move it back. Since this money sits elsewhere for this time, it doesn't count towards their regulat
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by logicalmind 7y ago
Yep, it is the same thing over again with a different underlying loan source. And why shouldn't it be. The people responsible for the 2008 crisis are mostly still in place. In fact, many of the people who survived were promoted to more
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by logicalmind 7y ago
The loan originator has a different risk calculation when their ultimate intent is to offload 90% of the loan(s). Some might say it would be in their own financial interest to minimize the amount of due diligence involved in determining whe
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by logicalmind 7y ago
I work in finance and there has been a lot of interest recently in creating financial products that are eerily like mortgage backed securities, but for other types of loans. A lot of these are (yikes) unsecured loans. A person loses their j
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by logicalmind 8y ago
The cost of labor and externalized costs would be the answer. In the US, the workers demand a livable wage and healthcare from their employer. In other countries, the definition of livable wage is quite different (lots of poor/slave la
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by logicalmind 9y ago
Yes, my experience is in Midwestern USA. Other places may be quite different. Generally, the way it works here is that there are two main trade paths. One is as part of a union, which is mostly new construction. The second is non-union, whi
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by logicalmind 9y ago
I come from a blue collar family. I was the first person in my family to graduate college. But that wasn't my plan initially. During summers in high school I worked installing HVAC systems. After graduating high school I started a plum
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by logicalmind 9y ago
The problem is that the ISP resources are shared resources. Some day we might all have 1Gbps+ fiber to our houses but today this doesn't exist. Many parts of the network you use to access the internet are common to some other set of pe
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by logicalmind 9y ago
I worked for a software company where the CEO believed he could eliminate the programmers if he could get them to build enough "components" that could be "glued" together. He had a large team of architects and programmer
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by logicalmind 9y ago
One of the hardest things to explain to anyone is burnout and the after effects. I've experienced it myself, along with plenty of people around me. But I also know many friends and family members who are committing themselves to their
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by logicalmind 9y ago
I live in North County San Diego and there are various communities of new construction available. From what I've seen, places are more willing to accept planned communities where you can account for traffic, water/sewer, schools,
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by logicalmind 10y ago
There are certainly a couple of examples of international diversity, and refugee acceptance, among two of the largest tech companies ever. Steve Jobs is the son of a Syrian refugee. Likewise, Sergey Brin's family came to this country a
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by logicalmind 10y ago
I have no axe to grind with Buffet in particular. He just happens to be the topic of this post. What I do take issue with is the making of what I would call "meta-money". People making money by doing little more than manipulating
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by logicalmind 10y ago
Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. They have, and do, sell products and services. Celebrating Warren Buffet is analogous to celebrating someone who was a provider of capital to Microsoft rather than the people who provided
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by logicalmind 10y ago
>Warren Buffett getting rich doesn't automatically mean somebody somewhere else is losing out. I guess my point wasn't that somebody else was losing out. But that Warren Buffet could have made 1/1000th the amount of profit
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by logicalmind 10y ago
So I should have said, a benevolent Gordon Gekko.
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by logicalmind 10y ago
I'm probably gonna be downvoted for this, but what the heck. I watched the Warren Buffet documentary on HBO with my 11 year old daughter. Now, I've raised my daughter to have an entrepreneurial mindset and to always look at ways t

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