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by mattrp 7y ago
The pentagon is table stakes - everyone has something there. If you’re trying to demonstrate commitment, you invest in the hinterlands... and if you’re trying to justify a decision that otherwise is a deadlock that’s maybe where you find t
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by mattrp 7y ago
It’s driven by two things - by the public perception that all bad guys fly coach (a la 911) and by governments seeking to expand the number of biometric means to enforce compliance of all sorts of things unrelated to travel. The irony is
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by mattrp 7y ago
Wouldn’t you be proud of the fact that your state government hadn’t mismanaged its infrastructure into the dark ages (pun intended)?
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by mattrp 7y ago
In regards to proximity, I felt the prior commenter was saying that aws had not made a physical investment inside a military state.. meaning the pentagon prioritized bidders that aligned with existing pork/spending priorities. I don’t
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by mattrp 7y ago
2 is what I’ve installed in the houses I’ve renovated. It’s just not worth the risk to your electronics and home itself to cheap out on proper electrical in your house. Particularly if you’re one of those people with a 12 core 20tb dell r
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by mattrp 7y ago
All except homes built many years ago where someone felt it was satisfactory to clamp a single wire to the water line. I’ve seen this numerous times. Not to mention the numerous instances of 20A breakers on 14awg. It’s simply amazing what
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by mattrp 7y ago
I’ve installed a bunch of these for myself. You always think about what you might be driving the stake through or if you’re going to hit rock... but you do have a point: after the cost of the rods, there’s the cost of the sledgehammer and
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by mattrp 7y ago
+1 for reminding me about fuckedcompany.com — that was the first thing I read every morning. We didn’t pop up on it but I heard the news of our layoffs on the radio that morning when I was driving in - we were public and it was a pretty bi
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by mattrp 7y ago
What is correlated is parental expectations regardless of socioeconomic status.
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by mattrp 7y ago
Yes let’s just base our policies on gross and highly inaccurate generalizations and then fix the remedy on a formula that confuses asset wealth with regular income. Ps, I absolutely hated middle school.
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by mattrp 7y ago
Couldn’t this easily be circumvented by indicating a generic POI.. if there’s no symbolism attached to it then the app is not a position of recommending anything other than a point of interest. As a sidebar, I’m surprised no one has though
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by mattrp 7y ago
Oh and now blizzard is preventing users from canceling their accounts?
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by mattrp 7y ago
I’m amazed at just how open (and wrong) cctv’s recent reply to the nba scandal was: “We are strongly dissatisfied and we oppose Silver’s claim to support Morey’s right of free expression. We believe that any speech that challenges national
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by mattrp 7y ago
Bingo - the whole idea of any meetings before lunch is absurd. Your brain does 90% of its best thinking between wake up and lunch... why waste that on meetings? Sorry for the sidebar... I’m loving this thread. I’ve been telling my wife f
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by mattrp 7y ago
Same here - my mac air 11” from 2012 is more than sufficient to run my terminal windows into aws. I should get a new one but at this point, I feel like Kramer in that episode where he tried to see how far he could test drive a car after th
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by mattrp 7y ago
I think the partners are all realizing the last thing they want to be involved in is a project with banking regulations / consequences and a partner that so far has thumbed its nose at government oversight.
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by mattrp 7y ago
I love this argument. I would also add that the individual is sovereign. Meaning, in the US at least, our view of the origin of government is that government is granted its powers by the people. A government cannot inherit a right that i
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by mattrp 7y ago
Remember the failed phone? Half of these new echo devices likely will suffer the same fate. I can’t imagine wanting to speak to my hand or my glasses in public... looking completely insane while doing it.
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This kind of thinking is absolute sheer evil and nothing else.
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I’m so thankful to see people express this view. It seems like all the popular kids these days are consumed with government control of everything.
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by mattrp 7y ago
agreed - this is all about improving ad engagement metrics. If they can demonstrate that the user was engaged even if they didn't click the ad, then the acquisition is worth the $500m-$1b they reportedly paid for it. I also see the w
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by mattrp 7y ago
This is the portrayal that is depicted in Turn originally on AMC. One thing that is overlooked by this article is the role of the British military culture. They were immensely corrupt and happy to sit ensconced in New York with officer’s
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by mattrp 7y ago
I love Django’s orm. I wish Django would publish its orm as a separate library. Every time I see a flask / sqlalchemy app I think to myself: Gee you could have saved at least 2x the keystrokes if you’d just used Django.
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by mattrp 7y ago
Isnt this everyone who is coding these days? ;)
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by mattrp 7y ago
Like when prime simply meant two day shipping?
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by mattrp 7y ago
I used to wonder why amazon didn’t prioritize “name” brands as a proxy for quality but then I realized all they are doing is sourcing cheap crap too. So what’s the difference if it’s a one man shop or a big name if the original source is t
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by mattrp 7y ago
The power couple / private school saga was only the first part of a very long article. Keep reading - it gets worse. Way worse.
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by mattrp 7y ago
Yes I liked its implementation in the fuzzywuzzy python library.. worked like a charm when trying to match street addresses and business names.
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by mattrp 7y ago
I agree that morning time is most effective and I’m not a morning person. I also agree that contiguous time is vital - usually 4-5 hours. What I’ve noticed is that once I achieve something in that 4-5 hours it’s very difficult to go on to
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There’s a helpful framework for this conversation created by Salim Ismail called exponential organizations. Instead of trying to bucket companies as tech or non tech, he recommends you look at their attributes to determine whether or not t

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