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by maxk42 9y ago
You heard it here first, folks: We're in a crypto bubble.
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by maxk42 9y ago
This has been standard practice for decades -- nothing new. Moreover, it's standard practice in a lot of big industries. Particularly advertising, finance, automobiles, and others.
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by maxk42 9y ago
Not anymore. But I have been. I've also been a day-laborer. A retail clerk. A Christmas elf. A soldier. And a developer. When somebody is trying to hire you, you are the one with the negotiating power.
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by maxk42 9y ago
Yes, actually, everyone is in a strong enough bargaining position to do that. You can teach people they're helpless or you can teach people how to negotiate. California seems intent on teaching people to be helpless.
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by maxk42 9y ago
Congratulations California. You just capped everyone's salaries. All you had to do before was say "It doesn't matter. My price is $x." I've done it many times and still been offered the job.
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by maxk42 9y ago
Group 4 is not highly paid.
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by maxk42 9y ago
Yes and yes. The utility is not in magically making every email sent to or from you unreadable to 3rd parties. The utility is purely on the side or privacy intrusion: be it via court order or hacker. Nobody can compel them to decrypt any m
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by maxk42 9y ago
I have: It works.
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by maxk42 9y ago
You want a long-term exchange? Istitute a mandatory holding period and/or limited trading times. This is the exact kind of experimental BS that lead to the derivative bubble.
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by maxk42 9y ago
In our increasingly litigious and regulated society they've never experienced it.
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by maxk42 9y ago
I should've been more specific: It was applying to contract work on my behalf. I basically built myself a sales team that's happy to work for free.
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by maxk42 9y ago
I automated applying for jobs a few years back. I wrote a scraper and a classifier that took a look at each job posting, determined if it required skills for technologies I wasn't familiar with, and if not, and it was also a strong en
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by maxk42 9y ago
And also graduation rate.
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by maxk42 9y ago
Because they don't have a sales team.
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by maxk42 9y ago
Stop making sans serif fonts for code! Code has to be readable. Those serifs aren't merely decoration: They're visual cues that help your eye intuitively determine which letter is intended by a given shape. Sans fonts may look &q
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by maxk42 9y ago
Not to mention this completely ignores the fact that most subreddits have active moderators who remove hate speech. If a user is forced to discontinue use of a subreddit where it's allowed and continues to use subreddits where it'
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by maxk42 9y ago
WebAsm
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by maxk42 9y ago
38 suicide attempts among 450,000 workers would place Foxconn's suicide rate at lower than the general suicide rate across the US.
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by maxk42 9y ago
Holy shit you're right.
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by maxk42 9y ago
I prefer it by far. I only use it for a small fraction of my business, though.
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by maxk42 9y ago
In 2016 I made a couple hundred (yes hundred) purchases on Amazon. Of those, more than a dozen failed to ever arrive. All of the ones that failed were from third-party sellers. Amazon Customer Service is very willing to work with you if
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by maxk42 9y ago
Perhaps the concept artist drew poorly a tube of acrylic paint squeezing some yellow goop and the person responsible for the final product couldn't figure out what the heck they were looking at, but said "Well it looks like an axe
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by maxk42 9y ago
This is not branchless. It's if-less. But the ternary operator (?:) is a branching instruction.
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by maxk42 9y ago
Well the extra four years of work experience and income are worth roughly three times the hypothetical 7.1% yield.
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by maxk42 11y ago
Buzzfeed is not a credible news source.
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by maxk42 11y ago
LA is a patchwork of small "neighborhoods" -- each typically only a few square miles. Adjacent to any particularly pricey area will probably be several more affordable ones. Can't afford pricey Beverly Hills? There may be
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by maxk42 12y ago
But if I don't install it then the people I call still get my information without my knowledge, don't they?
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by maxk42 12y ago
These are not problems with C. These are problems with a shitty dev team.
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by maxk42 12y ago
Nobody has brought this up yet: If we deprecate HTTP, then certificates can be used as tools of censorship by governments. We require an alternative to the current HTTPS scheme first.
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by maxk42 12y ago
> those managers gobbled up more than 95 percent of the value added So they added value above and beyond the benchmark and you're complaining that they expected compensation for this service?

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