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by lsc 8y ago
>Why couldn't you have a flagging system in real-time that shuts down accounts but doesn't save the data to disk? That's what I described with the deep packet inspection. You could hook up an IDS and block users based on
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by lsc 8y ago
I... find it really unlikely that any no-log VPN companies exist for any significant period of time without logging. I don't just mean law enforcement, though that's probably a problem too, (though I have less experience with that
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by lsc 8y ago
>Just because a system isn't foolproof, doesn't mean it's useless. I think this is... a common mistake people make. It's a common mistake I make, really, to look at a system for preventing a bad thing, see a hole,
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by lsc 8y ago
out of curiosity, how come you measure base, rather than total comp? are the bonus and RSU comp pretty similar among top-tier companies? It seems like only comparing base makes it harder to compare smaller companies (which usually give you
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by lsc 8y ago
So, there's two possibilities here that I know of. 1. you are running this all as a sole proprietorship, with no separation of business and personal money. In that case? sort of. Your accounting is going to be complex as heck. if
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by lsc 8y ago
meh, if you don't have kids, $125K is plenty to live in a so so part of sunnyvale or mountain view (which is totally safe, just your apartment will be built in the '60s to working class standards, which isn't as bad as it sou
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by lsc 8y ago
Right, but the previous comment suggests that you can reduce your personal tax liability to zero while still having some personal money paid to you: "pulls out only enough in salary to meet their expenses, makes an equivalent donation
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by lsc 8y ago
https://www.eastwindblog.co/?page_id=146 I mean, there are a lot of places like this. This one has hippie culture, and most of their businesses are old economy, but there are a fair number of places like this that have diff
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by lsc 8y ago
Interesting. My experience is that if I want some idea of how I'll feel about the car in a year, a test drive of less than a week gives me almost no data. Personally? yeah, I think renting a car is the way to go, if you want to evalua
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by lsc 8y ago
eh, I kinda disagree? I mean, conventional medical treatment is... conventional? like, my understanding is that it's like accounting or anything else regulated and licensed... it's been mostly worked out ahead of time what the r
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by lsc 8y ago
eh, I think that for better or worse, the 'prices will fall to match the marginal cost' ship sailed a long time ago; Yes, this is going to make Adam Smith mad, no, I'm not going to fight that fight anymore. I'd pay $
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by lsc 8y ago
to be clear, I think I'd be even more comfortable with some sort of socially accepted procedure to sign up for really experimental trials done by some non-profit seeing entity. Some sort of procedure where you get several conventional
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by lsc 8y ago
so... personally? were I to shell out unusual money for experimental treatments, I'd be way more comfortable with a pay-for-performance model. Like if my doctors think I've got a year left, and you think you can cure me for $120
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by lsc 8y ago
hm. Yeah, there is an argument for working around the shortcomings (longcomings? largecomings?) of modern cellphones with accessories. As a younger person, I used belt holsters for my cellphones. Around the time of the iphone 5, (incide
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by lsc 8y ago
>Top 1% income earners are typically business founder-owners, First, 1% in income puts you around $450K/yr... and that's usually household, so if two software engineers get married and move to the bay area, they have a reason
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by lsc 8y ago
My argument is that if you pay less than your competitors, you can't expect to hire and retain the best people. edit: More to the point, I think this idea that people don't work for money is one pushed by management at the expen
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by lsc 8y ago
I personally agree that uber has had the same impact as amazon... I don't have a car, and for the monthly TCO of a nice luxury car, I get driven everywhere. It's pretty great. The problem is twofold, for uber. First? they&#
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by lsc 8y ago
>But monetary “incentives” are in general quite a terrible system for eliciting good work. I'm glad I don't work for you.
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by lsc 8y ago
my understanding is that it's any tax used to price in an externality. An effluent fee would be just one example. wikipedia supports my usage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax "A Pigovian tax (als
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by lsc 8y ago
it seems to me that the right way to solve the regressive nature of pigovian taxes like congestion fees or gas taxes is to implement them with subsidies so that they are largely revenue neutral. The idea being to give everyone a tax credit
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by lsc 8y ago
You need to figure out what is wrong with a machine before you write a program to fix it; this is why it's important to be able to log in to something broken and nose around. Text processing is not harder than figuring out what libra
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by lsc 8y ago
That guy is way more entertaining than he has any right to be. His voice, the way he waves his hands around when he's talking; his love for ancient Toyotas; He just has a great personality for that kind of thing.
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by lsc 8y ago
>If you believe you can, you can, if you believe you can't, you can't. As a technical individual contributor, what matters is what you can do, not how you feel. Edit: Yes, yes, all absolute statements are wrong; Attitude does
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by lsc 8y ago
Amazon has issues with language, and I imagine some of it is licensing, but like several times I've done the "try to learn a foreign language by reading the same book in two different languages" thing, and it's really ha
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by lsc 8y ago
Yeah, but... CompSci college homework... really isn't that hard? I mean, with some coaching and effort, I can study enough get most of those questions even though my math abilities top out somewhere around high school trig. I mean, t
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by lsc 8y ago
>It's not that people are opposed to change, it's that there are legit concerns about some of the ways systemd works and is implemented, and the way it's been ham-fisted as a political move in a lot of ways. I personally t
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by lsc 8y ago
I was responding to a comment about using trains. Yes, autonomous cars would make spreading out easier.
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by lsc 8y ago
> I think the main point, as this article alludes to, is that we may end up with safe and actually fully autonomous vehicles, but they're bloody annoying to ride in. At that point nobody will be willing to pay that $1000 premium, an
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by lsc 8y ago
this requires cultural change... living more densely, and being willing to share our commute with other people. Cultural change is... often rather harder than technological innovation.
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by lsc 8y ago
Yeah... I mean, when this switch occurred (away from having a wide selection of classics towards being more of a cable channel with their own custom content) I canceled my subscription. I switched to amazon video... I can't say I&#x27

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