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by mcny 6y ago
You could argue that someone or a some group asked for a change order and/or approved a change request with a “bot” or a piece of code.
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by mcny 6y ago
> Health care in the US is broken, and so is our governance. This whole thing has made me see just how severe cost and risk exposure for way too many people really is! There are a lot of people who benefit from health care being broken s
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by mcny 6y ago
I used to think that would be too expensive but then I saw smartphones sell new for USD 20 on Black Friday and I also see one year of 200 MB a month data plans selling for USD 30. That’s retail. I have changed my mind on this: if you were s
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by mcny 6y ago
What is sia sky doing differently from Mozilla send? My understanding is that Mozilla send got overwhelmed by malware?
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by mcny 6y ago
Is that why gitlab.com always logs me out?
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by mcny 6y ago
>> six months > Identity management is the tip of the iceberg: this needs to tie into any future digital currency, income taxes, property ownership, government benefits, and who knows what else. I'll put my shoe on my head if
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by mcny 6y ago
> subtle calls for breakup of the country on HN I didn't read it as a call for breakup of India. There are genuine questions about the state of West Bengal and why it should continue to be a single state. If Telangana can be a state
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by mcny 6y ago
> Back in the dotcom days companies would spend a fortune on Sun kit but I bet when averaged out over time a comparable company would be spending a LOT more on cloud billing. I would like to learn more about this. I'd have thought c
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by mcny 6y ago
> The two ends of that scale are largely incomprehensible to each other. Absolutely. Just to set the record straight, I am not anti-birth and I think I agree with GP more than I disagree. We must do everything we can to reduce the carbon
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by mcny 6y ago
If you reduce this argument, the best way to help our planet is to have fewer children. I’d argue the target total fertility rate per woman should be somewhere below one. To hell with economic growth that relies on an ever increasing human
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by mcny 6y ago
> It's not the concept's fault if the implementation is half-assed. worse than that. Case in point: a major US national bank interview for a developer position. they talk about moving toward microservices. a simple question sin
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by mcny 6y ago
> If it was supporting pure research - finding great researchers and freeing them from the grant treadmill - I'd be supportive, but this doesn't sound like that. Same here. I am all for more research but we want more transparen
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by mcny 6y ago
In case you missed it, Stanford administrators tried to deny responsibility when questioned why CXO level executives (who were working from home) got priority over front line workers for vaccinations blaming "the algorithm". >
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by mcny 6y ago
I don’t get how you can cry for free speech and ban anyone on the app who doesn’t follow the party line. There is no arguing or debating with these people. I got banned from the Donald subreddit for saying the aclu does a lot of good things
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by mcny 6y ago
I absolutely agree that leadership at Boeing was responsible for the deaths but the fact that we can’t get it right for (comparatively) petty crimes means we are unable to get out right for the big ones. I’m of course referring to the sheri
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by mcny 6y ago
What are you supposed to do if your employment contract says you’re exempt (meaning no overtime pay)?
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by mcny 6y ago
> I had already decided the panda should die before you finished that question, not the other way around. I appreciate replies on HN as they show the flaw in my assumption. Speaking of assumptions, indulge me for a moment: I kind of find
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by mcny 6y ago
Lets not be too hasty on this. There are over seven (over eight?) billion (with a B) humans. There are fewer than a billion dogs. Pretty sure the answer is clear: prefer saving dog lives over human lives. Now, if it was chicken vs humans, o
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by mcny 6y ago
> they refused to create subscriptions that exceeded an unknown amount of time I don’t know anything about payments or the EU regulations but it feels kind of stupid to not specify the maximum amount of time allowed? Is it just bad docum
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by mcny 6y ago
They didn't even touch the Sheriff. > Sheriff Laurie Smith, who has the authority to issue CCW permits, has not been charged with a crime. Either i. the sheriff knew about/was in on this scheme and must be put in prison or ii.
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by mcny 6y ago
I think you’re missing the context of this conversation. From a comment in a previous Han post about this > The research participants are voluntarily sharing their ads with NYU. Facebook is objecting.
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by mcny 6y ago
>> Sugar is sugar. >> That’s a very simplistic way of looking at things which isn’t supported by medical science. I agree with you on this one but from what I've heard, it is likely that fruit juices and smoothies are not f
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by mcny 6y ago
» Maybe Amazon's chaotic mess of similar products makes this much more difficult than for a large supermarket, or maybe Amazon doesn't think the annoyance is a big deal. I think amazon.com is no longer day one if it ever really wa
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by mcny 6y ago
» Google knew they couldn't work in the UK, but knew that they could succeed in California. Sort of tangentially related, this reminds me of a story (not sure if it is true, I don't even remember the source for it) that movie-maki
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by mcny 6y ago
I use Fedora. I work on dotnet. I've not been able to run my azure functions on Linux at all. Even on windows, I have to start the azure storage emulator directly and then start func (using the full path). On Linux, azurite is not the
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by mcny 6y ago
> That's why I think that the left digging in is a losing strategy. I think the meta is that lacking a scientific approach, we have to have some things we are not willing to compromise on. Yes, having almost seventy million people v
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by mcny 6y ago
> I don’t understand the point you’re making here. Surely your second sentence contradicts the first? I rarely have a point to make. I started off thinking I disagree with the parent comment but as I started typing I realized I agree wit
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by mcny 6y ago
> I downvoted you because it's perfectly possible to "believe" something because there is evidence for it. Plenty of scientists will say they "believe" in evolution, for example. We don't "believe"
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by mcny 6y ago
Maybe I don't understand microservices but what is to stop a team from declaring the whole monolith to be just one microservice? I have interviewed at a few places over the last year and not one interviewer has given me a hundred perce
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by mcny 6y ago
I don't mind building extra capacity. I do mind politicians sticking their nose where it doesn't belong. I can't believe more people are not angry about the World Trade Center Path station. They managed to spend twice the ori

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