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by mcherm 5y ago
Actually, for those who have a strong concern about user privacy, there have been strong reasons to use Apple. Just a few years ago (2016) Apple spent an enormous amount of money and reputation going to court against the US government argui
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by mcherm 5y ago
It does not. Bitcoin (and it's successors) are a decentralized solution to the double spend problem. If "decentralized" is a requirement, then a cryptocurrency can be an excellent solution. Other known solutions (like "j
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by mcherm 5y ago
> With children, I find it's almost always a better strategy to focus on the positive sides of an experience. Which, according to the article, was the second step of Fred Rogers' rewriting process.
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by mcherm 5y ago
Good point. Anyone reading these comments and wondering about it should check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle .
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by mcherm 5y ago
First of all, you wouldn't want it. I am an old programmer, so I still remember being taught to code before structured programming became universal. And I can personally attest the structured programming was a great advance. In case yo
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by mcherm 5y ago
I was under the impression that "customer" simply meant any person who makes use of their services. Are there certain categories of people who CloudFlare refuses to have as customers? (I know there are SOME -- for example, as a US
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by mcherm 5y ago
> Many conspiracy theories turn out to be true after time. I would be interested to know what evidence you have for this. Of course, given the billions of ideas in the world there are necessarily a few conspiracy theories that were later
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by mcherm 5y ago
> this is actually so true that you might be committing a crime by suggesting it Perhaps where you live. The legal system I live under has strong protections for freedom of speech that ensure that such a statement cannot be criminalized.
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by mcherm 5y ago
The point you raise here about how regulatory choices contributed to the crisis is spot on. But when you say this: > customers would have had an incentive to push back against the banking behaviours that led to these mass failures I&#x27
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by mcherm 5y ago
> FDIC was a pretty silly idea anyway. In 1934 (the year after the FDIC was created) the FSLIC was created[1] (Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation). It served the same purpose as the FDIC, but for financial institutions incorp
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by mcherm 5y ago
> the article is very low quality. Here's a link to the actual paper I appreciate the link to the paper. But I consider the article superior in a few ways: (1) It is brief, and targeted to an audience that is not a specialist in thi
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by mcherm 5y ago
The ringing is important for a reason not mentioned in this article. My primary use of calling is to locate the phone that my wife or kids have misplaced -- if they didn't have a ring tone then we couldn't easily find their missin
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by mcherm 5y ago
> That is not "making the rich richer" [...] This is a pretty rare case and helps people get into the single digit millions, not billions There are two different categories. Those who have "single digit millions" are
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by mcherm 5y ago
As I understand it, that is basically how it works in the courts in many US states. The court takes several months to schedule and hold the hearings to determine whether or not the person is, in fact, legally entitled to be in the dwelling.
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by mcherm 5y ago
For those of us with coupled accounts, is there any way to separate them?
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by mcherm 5y ago
Under a huge number of common scenarios, adding manpower to a project INCREASES the delivery time. This has been well-understood since 1975[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law
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by mcherm 5y ago
Suppose my interviewing process is rather limited and I can only measure the y-intercept with pretty severe error bars... like to within +/- 30%. Also, my interviewing process is even MORE clueless at measuring the slope... it could be
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by mcherm 5y ago
"That type of person" accounts for some substantial fraction of the vaccine-hesitant population that accounts for freely available covid-19 vaccines for everyone age 12+ in the US but only 51% of the population being fully vaccina
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by mcherm 5y ago
I very strongly disagree with this advice. If my startup had netted me over a hundred million dollars I would start to have real concerns about making new friends. It would be incredibly difficult to know whether someone wanted to be friend
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by mcherm 5y ago
I suggest two approaches: (1) Skip HR. Leverage contacts and contacts-of-contacts to go directly to someone with authority to hire. (2) Write a cover letter explaining that your current title is misleading about your responsibilities. In it
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by mcherm 5y ago
Cool. Hey, before I get socially engineered into attacking some forum, would you mind providing proof that the HN post is coming from the same person who owns the forum? An announcement on the forum which requested spam would do nicely.
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by mcherm 5y ago
Summary for those with better things to do than read this: If your cryptocurrency scheme pays more than a loan does, then you could have "free" loans by funding them with your cryptocurrency scheme. Of course, if your cryptocurren
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by mcherm 5y ago
> iCloud [...] will have to push the same hashes to everyone Why? What's to prevent them from pushing specific hashes to a specific phone?
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by mcherm 5y ago
> I don't see how this bill threatens any human's existence. It doesn't. > How does being required to track data about taxation challenge the existence of the builders you mention? Suppose US law says that it is illegal
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by mcherm 5y ago
If there had been any issue with getting the charges reversed, I would have been much more concerned about this. I still think any large purchase ought to be confirmed before being processed BUT, the ability to reverse the charges without s
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by mcherm 5y ago
I host my personal blog on https://www.mcherm.com because to me it's worth a few dollars every few years for domain registration plus a few cents a month (I don't get much traffic) for AWS hosting in order to make it c
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by mcherm 5y ago
If this is what they can afford to pay and you move on then they will get to decide whether they can eliminate your position (maybe they can focus on a different part of their business and quit building custom WordPress sites) or pay more.
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by mcherm 5y ago
...and that is part of why H1-B employees receive less in the way of salary and salary increases at many firms.
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by mcherm 5y ago
> Is this a normal rate of suicide in these circumstances? Absolutely not. For real numbers: > For 2019, the [Blue HELP] calculated the officer suicide rate at 22.4 per 100,000 population.[1] ...and that is an annual rate. > Is the
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by mcherm 5y ago
Not necessarily. I work for a bank. Applying your analysis, one could argue that banks offer zero intrinsic value. After all, all they allow you to do is to move money around back and forth between different people. But, as it turns out, mo

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