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by lsc 9y ago
It is by far their biggest problem. Personally, I find 'ships and sold by amazon' to be a brand I trust; outside that? yeah, it's like buying from a shady ebay seller. Personally, I think amazon needs to distance themselv
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by lsc 9y ago
I personally place public education up there with an army and cops as things I really want my society to have. Yeah, all those things cost money... but not nearly as much as not having those things will cost you in the long run.
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by lsc 9y ago
>To be clear, midwesterners weren’t voting based on tax policy as you suggest, this was about trust, betrayal and vengeance. That's consistent... but I don't really see how it's actionable. There's a lot of talk on t
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by lsc 9y ago
>Assuming you live on one of the coasts, you’ll get yours. Just wait until the underfunded pension systems finally blow. Do you think people on the coast will be more hurt than people inland by social security getting defunded?
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by lsc 9y ago
If it really is about economic pain for the poor, why did they vote in someone who promised to cut taxes for the rich and benefits for the poor? That sounds like the action of a people who think they are doing fine; people who don't th
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by lsc 9y ago
If you mean like a licenced engineer, a PE or something, then sure, a degree is required. But if you mean someone in the computer industry, as the word is usually used in these parts? A degree is a substitute for a few years of experience,
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by lsc 9y ago
so first? go read what Paul Graham wrote about this[1] It does a good job of explaining US school culture. but Graham was far more functional than many. I mean, in general terms, 'nerds' often don't have the social skill
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by lsc 9y ago
I think it's about values, not about physique. You can be big and nerdy and while being big can stop the most physical manifestations of social ostracization, my observation is that isn't the most painful part. I mean, I think
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by lsc 9y ago
My point re aws is that aws is way more expensive than data center space and hardware; if you have someone competent and inexpensive in the midwest to handle the datacenter/hardware stuff, it makes sense to move off of aws much soone
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by lsc 9y ago
Would you ask your Literature professor what the real world applications of reading Joseph Conrad are? I think asking for a 'real world application' of something you are learning in the course of a liberal education is missing t
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by lsc 9y ago
Fundamentally, I don't care how "hungry" my technical staff is. (I mean, I want to see to it that they are well fed, but if I'm hiring technical staff... their ability to "hustle" isn't something I am se
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by lsc 9y ago
Eh, compare relative costs/relative income and cultural factors. Most of the people I know here in the south bay, if they rent, get some place reasonably nice all to themselves for around that kind of money, and the south bay is bett
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by lsc 9y ago
>"Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither." so, this is generally attributed to Franklen, and makes a lot more sense in context: "those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safe
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by lsc 9y ago
I'm not sure it's really even a political problem, except to the extent that all values problems are political problems. It's just that if your kids get beat up for being good at math... well, your society is going to fall
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by lsc 9y ago
My argument is that not valuing education (as evinced by an unwillingness to spend public money on it) is an even bigger problem than the actual lack of money for education, though that is also certainly a problem.
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by lsc 9y ago
>It also doesn't help that every state in the midwest has been slashing educational budgets and in some states has enacted almost a war on education. Yeah, uh, this is going to end badly; I left the central valley for the anti-int
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by lsc 9y ago
Eh, for amazon? I think it is location dependent. The majority of your datacenter costs, if you want to run your own hardware rather than amazon? At first, those costs will be dominated by people, and this is why it makes sense to run
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by lsc 9y ago
>Isn't it? I don't use Uber because it's cheaper I use it because I can have them come straight to my front door hailed from an app leveraging gps with continuous updates to their progress then have my destination programe
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by lsc 9y ago
The reflexes and attention on the self-driving car are going to be dramatically better; if there is a safe opening, the self driving car will be much better at exploiting it than a human would. I hope this will overcome the "advant
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by lsc 9y ago
Eh, if you change this to the fear of this far outweighs any possible benefits, I'd agree; I mean, flying using current technology is far safer than driving, but we've by law severely limited the usefulness of air travel beca
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by lsc 9y ago
You're talking to a man who has already failed to drop the extra weight (and there's a whole lot of data showing being skinnier helps a lot; not only with sleep apnea, but with a whole raft of other health and social issues.) I
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by lsc 9y ago
I was looking at that oximeter you mention, but according to reviews, they updated the firmware, which made it much more difficult to get the data out of the thing. I actually spent a fair amount of time looking for a pulse oximeter I coul
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by lsc 9y ago
But... I don't think that detracts from my main point, which was to give an example of a technology that was "simply too cheap to be developed" that was, in fact developed. Sure, for various reasons it ended up not costing p
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by lsc 9y ago
>You know why we don’t use them? They suck. Even in WWI, after people figured out what they were about, casualties from chemical agents were never as extreme as in their initial deployment. Militaries train and equip soldiers to handle c
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by lsc 9y ago
hah. corrected.
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by lsc 9y ago
That'd be like 10K for another 100K miles? probably more with maintenance. I'm not sure that's a better deal than a $18K civic brand new, if you really planned for driving a few hundred thousand miles, especially when you
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by lsc 9y ago
I mean, on one hand, sure, there's always corruption; nobody is perfect. But there are huge differences. "Less corrupt" is a goal worth working towards; I just don't think you can compare our current president to any
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by lsc 9y ago
A recent counterexample in my life: I recently was diagnosed with sleep apnea. It's a mechanical problem where my respiratory tract relaxes in such a way as to close off airflow while I'm sleeping. It's actually a big prob
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by lsc 9y ago
Leases have significant per mile fees. Your uber driver isn't staying below 15k miles a year. You would either want a loan or a very high millage lease, both of which cost rather more. But the interesting part is that I don't see
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by lsc 9y ago
Just looking at that thing hitting a non reflective target is going to melt your eyes. Are we going to rely on traditional laser goggles that block certain frequencies? Or like fiber optic diagnostic microscopes, are we going to issue full

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