losteric

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by losteric 5y ago
Or at least reach an agreement of reserved off-sprint capacity. For example, I've been on teams with minimal ops burden where the manager agreed to keep 1 head off-sprint to handle emergencies. On typical weeks, that gave the team 15%
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by losteric 5y ago
If you're on a sprint process, I've found it quite helpful for whoever is involved in estimation to target a "P90-confidence" estimate and round up the points... fighting the tendency towards "average" estima
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by losteric 5y ago
Allegedly* - based on supposed unreleased secret FBI recordings
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by losteric 5y ago
Breaking laws comes with punishments but we are still free to break laws. In some situations, there may even be an ethical imperative to break the law.
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by losteric 5y ago
Taxes fall in brackets. For example, income: https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/federal-income-tax-... * $0 to $9,950 - 10% of taxable income * $9,951 to $40,525 - $995 plus 12% of the amount over $9,950 * .
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by losteric 5y ago
Unemployed by choice is an unfamiliar notion... but, on reflection, anyone with in-demand skills and sufficient savings does have that choice. Those two attributes should be quite common among this site's audience.
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by losteric 5y ago
Fighting an outside "other" simplifies maintaining social cohesion within the cult, therefore sustaining exploitation of cultists.
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by losteric 5y ago
That is a fair concern. However, as a customer - searching my message history is a desirable feature. I would rather see meaningful individual and corporate accountability for privacy breaches. The threat of jail and/or 100MM's in
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by losteric 5y ago
Mass adoption of crypto will come with the same problem - middlemen slipping in under the guise of efficiency and convenience, who will then be compelled to cooperate with big brother.
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by losteric 5y ago
Blame Congress for the poor investments in America's future. Biden's direct influence is limited to the executive branch.
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by losteric 5y ago
> Supplements can mitigate the problems to an extent but are inferior to natural sun exposure. Inferior how?
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by losteric 5y ago
> We can be full time remote but still occasionally grab a coffee with coworkers if that's convenient for folks. +1 this sentence; personally, I'm not interested in the fully distributed model espoused by some evangelists. I s
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by losteric 5y ago
I acknowledge the darkness of history and a desire for security in territory owned by the group you identify with. However, Israel is now repeating history by displacing present-day non-Jewish people who also have familial bonds to the terr
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by losteric 5y ago
The regular M1 MacBook does have a fan. The M1 Air doesn't, but throttles the CPU to avoid overheating
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by losteric 5y ago
Unfortunately, that timeline probably why Mighty will go big - the business model is a trojan horse for a very lucrative global surveillance business, which challenges and likely surpasses current businesses ("social media" and
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by losteric 5y ago
Not bank transfers, but https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption says > 778,988 - The number of VISA transactions that could be powered by the energy consumed for a single Bitcoin transaction on average (1157.
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by losteric 5y ago
> Maybe a little higher because police tend to be male, younger, have guns, and are frequently in high stress situations. And many are ex-military as well
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by losteric 5y ago
Real estate prices are also part of the problem, especially in urban cores... some Seattle and SF rents are just stupid, to say nothing of NYC
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by losteric 6y ago
1. whataboutism 2. Most currencies are fiat, not gold-backed
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by losteric 6y ago
Perhaps some form of social anxiety or avoidant attachment? It's easy to be friendly (or an asshole) in brief superficial interactions, but longer interactions lead people to intimacy that some find undesirable... fear of rejection can
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by losteric 6y ago
> Why would fruits be more scarce for a non predator (as where human ancestors), than meat? Seasons change? Meat is available year-round but can be dangerous to acquire and prepare safely. Fruits/veggies are easy but seasonal food s
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by losteric 6y ago
Recipes do not have patent protection, yet there is plenty of innovation in restaurants. There are many paths to an innovation. I don't think the first person deserves such a monopoly. American IP law, in combination with the generally
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by losteric 6y ago
Personally, I don't own the latter... and have no desire to. Microwave serves that need and more
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by losteric 6y ago
Perhaps a consequence of cold war domestic "anti-communist" culture warfare?
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by losteric 6y ago
> Basically, if I ever got a call from a number not in my contact list, I would never answer. I know I'm not the only one like this, but I don't have any numbers to back it up. huh... I have literally never met a single person
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by losteric 6y ago
That is the cheaper alternative. In my experience, it's probably fake, as the FDA requires prescriptions for legitimate phototherapy devices sold in the US. You can find the same type of devices on eBay and Alibaba for even cheaper, bu
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by losteric 6y ago
Note that truly FDA-approged phototherapy devices require a prescription in the US. It's quite likely that device isn't even UVB, much less "FDA approved" (I have a condition that requires UVb. I wasted so much money, an
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by losteric 6y ago
Yes, this is a great way of doing things - I have no problems TDD'ing business logic hosted in Lambda, because the business logic is fully decoupled from the execution environment. SAM should be for high-fidelity E2E integration testin
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by losteric 6y ago
The camera is just one of many signals, some of which do change over time
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by losteric 6y ago
More effective public discourse between private citizens, particularly when in disagreement... instead of the taboo and fear of confronting opposing views, seek it out and approach all with an open Socratic mindset. If every moderate deradi

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