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by mamurphy 6y ago
Would anyone do differently in their shoes? It sounds like they volunteered for a task force, and would be facing individual liability with no assistance from their union if sued for any work resulting from staying on the task force. If you
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by mamurphy 6y ago
The website isn't loading anything for me right now.
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by mamurphy 6y ago
Current law does not allow him to raise the defense of whistleblowing at trial. This is ironclad precedent and won't be overturned without a new law being passed or the prosecution agreeing to it. The government would get to tell the j
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by mamurphy 6y ago
I read an article, that I can't find now, that convincingly argues that the SAT is one of the most equalizing factors for privilege. Impressive extracurricular, recommendation letters, and even grades are easier to buy than a higher SA
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by mamurphy 7y ago
The first four comments when I got here were disparaging this tweet chain and saying masks don't work. I did a bit of research and found multiple articles claiming masks DO work. These sources acknowledge that masks are a contentious p
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An Emerging Coronavirus Concern: Eviction(citylab.com)
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by mamurphy 7y ago
Fortnite has the support-a-creator program, where players can enter a creator's code in the in-game item shop to choose to divert a percentage (5%, but they have upped it to 20% once for a special event) of all in-game purchasers to a
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by mamurphy 7y ago
>It looks like an olympics logo at certain sizes, and an abstraction of a cut jewel at others. I see at least three things: a flowery circle in five colors at very small sizes (Olympics logo?), a cut jewel (around a white star) at medium
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by mamurphy 7y ago
This seems like a similar setting to the lighthouse in the 2019 documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lighthouse_(2019_film)
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by mamurphy 7y ago
>Not at all the same comparison. No, their comparison was perfect! They said roadle owned 70% of roads, not all of them. Sure, businesses can hope that they get their traffic from non-Google search, but if customers are going to Google f
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by mamurphy 7y ago
Are you absolutely sure about that? There are several other services at $20/month that would offer a much more compelling value proposition compared to Digital Ocean's lowest-tier droplet. I would definitely have signed up for a
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by mamurphy 7y ago
>Frankly, I have to wonder who is the audience for this post. I had the same thought. My guess would be founders of "hot" companies. Altman is signaling that he knows all the ways to be a great investor (and presumably puts the
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by mamurphy 7y ago
Your landing page should have, at minimum, a description of the product or a relevant video (maybe this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX0A9odwZ5U ) before your ask for signups. I don't stream right now, so I have
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by mamurphy 7y ago
> How exactly would this particular trade-off increase total deaths? Do you think this is happening in Oslo? What if I am having a heart attack and the ambulance is on the way? If it gets there within 5 minutes, I can be saved, if not I
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by mamurphy 7y ago
The problem is incentives. If you are the only chip in town, who cares if you go for a long lunch and aren't that creative in pushing performance limits? Capatlism creates winners and losers, and creates incentives for people to try th
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by mamurphy 7y ago
When the walls fell.
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by mamurphy 7y ago
Nice video. I've definitely heard this narrative before. There was a great blog post on HN a while back bemoaning feature lists but I couldn't find the one I am remembering on google. I found two other on-point articles of interes
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by mamurphy 7y ago
Why was the title shortened on HN to remove reference to mechanical keyboards? I think the subject matter is both relevant and helped generate interest in the thread. Also, most of the comments are about mechanical keyboards at this point.
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by mamurphy 7y ago
What keycaps do you recommend, generally? Have you ever tried the "Falcon" Z-77 keyboard? It's been rebranded/knocked off by several Chinese manufacturers (different brands all have the same distinct falcon logo in the t
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by mamurphy 7y ago
Sounds like IKEA was warned in advance and police were there to try and prevent people from hiding, letting them know it was not welcome. I also imagine IKEA has a loudspeaker system. If they announce "please, everyone, store hours are
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by mamurphy 7y ago
Two comments, both directly replying about his age to separate claims that no one is over 30, is "spamming?" And from this you can predict his age? Seriously?
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by mamurphy 7y ago
>Measured by hours, recruiting is one of our largest investments. That's literally the next sentence of the article after “We spent less than $1,000 on hiring." The article explicitly acknowledges this issue.
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by mamurphy 7y ago
>There might be new competition now at a certain level, but there's also the oversupply of lawyers and the continual closing of law firms all across america. Those are kind of competing stories about what is happening. Can you rephr
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by mamurphy 7y ago
I've only used discord -- do threads exist on slack? Or is GP right and lack of threads is a major downfall of chat apps, including slack?
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by mamurphy 7y ago
megaremote seems to be located in Australia and was looking for work in May[1], the claim they work for slack seems to be complete fabrication/wishful thinking/cynicism [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1979
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by mamurphy 7y ago
Relevant tweet that links to this same article and has a self-referential political cartoon: https://twitter.com/PatChappatte/status/1138145415604449280 The linked article is currently down for me, as is the Googl
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by mamurphy 7y ago
Well, wait a second here. Tptacek seems to have been clear in saying that Assange being extradited from the UK itself is much more likely than being extradited from Sweden . Assange ended up being extradited from the UK itself. Since he
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by mamurphy 8y ago
I don't see alternative services on this page ( https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/monitoring-... ) Do you have any alternates you would recommend?
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by mamurphy 8y ago
Ah, to be clear: Subconscious biases still exist to some degree. In recent years, in government and large corporations, diversity hiring goals have completely dominated the hiring process compared to subconscious biases. I don't think
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by mamurphy 8y ago
There are tons of people over their heads, everywhere, of all races and sexes. But as the other person who replied to you noted, people now are openly stating that they want to avoid hiring white males. >Sadly I've had to bring up m

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