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by maxaf 7y ago
I’ve been conducting a thought experiment. Imagine an Uber competitor that keeps drivers as full time employees and charges customers a price that allows it to pay the drivers a fair wage while slicing a modest profit margin off the top. Le
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by maxaf 7y ago
Monsters can occur anywhere. What makes a real difference is a community’s capacity for looking the other way when an individual sheds their personhood in the perpetration of heinous acts. Look at religious organizations (Catholic Church, O
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by maxaf 7y ago
There are plenty of “smart” IoT devices that use client-side cert pinning as a defense mechanism against MITM attacks.
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by maxaf 7y ago
The smooth talkers are usually poor doers. My experience with such people says that those who are good at PR are rarely deep experts and cannot be counted on to participate productively in a commercial enterprise. Don’t waste your time on t
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by maxaf 7y ago
Straitjackets are also made of fabric.
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by maxaf 7y ago
I for one am currently 100% certain that I'm perfectly sane, but that's just my opinion, which, on balance, is worth about as much as the opinion of the homeless guy on Broadway who yells at passersby all day long. I'm sure h
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by maxaf 7y ago
I have no personal experience with mental illness, but judging by your story it seems that part of the problem was your sister's lack of willingness to seek help. Most health insurance plans cover some kind of mental health services, b
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by maxaf 7y ago
Correct - this would be just like alligator farming. I never miss the opportunity to savor gator meat whenever I'm in Florida, but obviously this isn't wild caught gator. Who knows what it might have eaten last night? I don't
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by maxaf 7y ago
Cockroaches are a great source of protein. Cockroach farming is a greener, more sustainable activity. What you eat for dinner tonight was eating someone’s dinner leftovers last night! This is organics capture at its finest.
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by maxaf 7y ago
Your comment is chock full of flawed and patently false ideas. Firstly, I have yet to encounter a company with a hiring process that is actually, provably, repeatedly tied to any of that company’s business needs. Designing a working hiring
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by maxaf 7y ago
Standing desk, no chair. Whenever I feel like sitting down, I lock my workstation and walk away to do other stuff: house chores, manage personal finances, hang out with my daughter, etc. By the time I’m done doing the other things and am re
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by maxaf 7y ago
Forced to choose between Facebook and a government controlling anything, I'd rather have the government at the wheel. For me this is a "devil I know" type of thing.
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by maxaf 7y ago
This is quite timely, as I'm just about to finish Neal Stephenson's new novel: Fall, or Dodge In Hell. https://n.pr/30EFA4l That story revolves around scanning the brains of deceased humans into a computer simulat
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by maxaf 7y ago
JSX is an external DSL implemented in and interoperable with JavaScript. SwiftUI is an internal DSL implemented in Swift and thus allowing the full power of Swift’s rich type system to tag along. See https://martinfowler.com&#x2F
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by maxaf 7y ago
Police officers conducting a search of a suspect's premises must present a valid search warrant. Police officers requesting that a telecom company aid in surveillance of a suspect must present a valid search warrant. Google, despite of
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by maxaf 7y ago
> law enforcement services, who are presumably authorized to access the device Cue Tony Soprano saying "warrant! WARRANT!" to his housekeeper. What are the chances that Cellebrite requires clients to supply a warrant for each d
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by maxaf 7y ago
Forget science: as an “army of one” you’re unlikely to make a contribution of sufficient magnitude that some needle might be moved in the right direction. Take advantage of the skills you do have: make money by doing what startup entreprene
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by maxaf 7y ago
Please forgive me for being unnecessarily obtuse this early on a Monday morning. Where does Apple say that GPL code isn’t allowed on the App Store? I ask entirely out of my selfish need to avoid unpleasant surprises later on.
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by maxaf 7y ago
I’m 100% the opposite way. My wife is very frugal, but I save nothing. What’s the point of pinching every single penny? That’s not life; it’s survival. Even more ironic is the fact that this is multiple decades of mere survival all aimed to
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by maxaf 7y ago
You forgot to bundle “solution to corporate greed” along with the other things you say we’re going to need. Today’s keepers of “automation, robotics, AI, and related productivity enhancements” are for-profit corporations who are beholden to
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Report Suggests ‘High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming to an End’ in 2050(vice.com)
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by maxaf 7y ago
Look, in a capitalist society, which the US is a prime example of, money flows towards those whose skills are contemporaneously scarce and in high demand by businesses. There is no right or wrong here; this is just the physics, if you will,
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by maxaf 7y ago
I spend no time managing expectations because my child isn’t exposed to advertising. There is no TV or social media in our household, and no ads thanks to multiple overlapping ad blocking solutions. There’s advertising outside, but it’s eas
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by maxaf 7y ago
Could Mianus be worked into this somehow? - Hey boss, we all set for that meeting in Mianus? - Sure thing, I’ve got the notes in Uranus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mianus,_Connecticut
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by maxaf 7y ago
Please tell me you're stripping EXIF tags from all images; otherwise this is just a "rob these people now" list.
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by maxaf 7y ago
That’s simply not true anymore. Our NYPD operates the so-called “Domain Awareness System”, which is a combination of good old database connected to terminals in patrol cars and precincts, as well as metadata-rich security cameras. https:&#
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by maxaf 7y ago
Viewing Terraform solely through the lens of cloud automation and in comparison with CloudFormation is a shortsighted mistake. Terraform has providers for plenty of other services that don't qualify as "cloud things" and lack
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by maxaf 7y ago
Somebody better not be Facebook.
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by maxaf 7y ago
I call into Make from my CircleCI config files just to avoid writing shell in a YAML file.
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by maxaf 7y ago
I deal with such experiences by simply reversing the credit card charge. The issuer of my card has a solid process for handling such situations. They ask a series of questions: was the charge in exchange for goods or services? Did you recei

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