mvc

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by mvc 4y ago
There's plenty of C++ programmers. But they're really smart so they know the time to work with with crypto has been and gone.
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by mvc 4y ago
As someone who lives in a "lower-cost area", consider that the grass may not be greener on the other side. My sister just bought a place in the city. Tiny compared to mine up north. And almost as much. But if the next 10 years are
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by mvc 4y ago
Companies choose to do business in a certain state and yet I hear many "pro-business" types claim that all taxation is theft.
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by mvc 4y ago
> You do the math Typical consultant. Get other people to do the work while you take all the praise ;-)
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by mvc 4y ago
Because only democracy gives us the chance to recover from our mistakes. This seems clearer to me in this last year than in any other year of my >40 on this earth.
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by mvc 4y ago
Haha, when I worked at a small IaaS, half my time on support rota was explaining how the SQL Server instance a customer launched was costing so much.
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by mvc 4y ago
Do people still think the free market is so great at allocating scarce resources given the lived experience of the last few years? Seems to me that market participants at many different levels needed a fair bit of help with their reaction t
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by mvc 4y ago
I like seeing assignments like this being aligned too but it's not great if you care about minimizing the number of lines that code reviewers will read when you make a change that introduces a new variable whose length is longer than a
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by mvc 4y ago
I don't think you need to replicate the gradients of whatever mountain you're "everesting".
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by mvc 4y ago
If that 1% has >=28% of the wealth, then yes absolutely
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by mvc 4y ago
It's not a punishment for wealth. Think of it like insurance of your status in the system. Your insurance premiums are proportional to the value of the stuff you want to protect. Presumably you own a house. A pension. Various other inv
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by mvc 4y ago
> What if a billionaire pays a network of his agents of influence Exactly. Or if the billionaire is the head of an enemy state.
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by mvc 4y ago
> In practice I'd prefer a world without government and with companies tracking me over a government that steals half of my income and protect me from "evil" trackers. What does "in practice" mean here? I get the
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by mvc 4y ago
Presumably dividends would balance it out though.
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by mvc 4y ago
How many decades would you say? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
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by mvc 4y ago
And yet here in the UK, it's quite normal for senior engineers to be faced with 3 months (I've even heard of 6!) working for a company after deciding to quit and hand in their notice. Completely bonkers if you ask me.
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by mvc 4y ago
Depends where you live and why you were wiring the money. Banks in the UK are on the hook if it's a scam induced transfer.
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by mvc 4y ago
> In the process empire also justified what they did was in the past and cautiously moved away from that without an inch of guilt This is especially annoying when one sees facist trolls using the misdeeds of the empire to excuse the horr
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by mvc 4y ago
> Children don't inherit their parent's debt Doesn't stop them from inheriting their parents assets though.
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by mvc 4y ago
> And Cloudflare is? No, but it is (or was) used by kiwifarms which seems to be a platform dedicated to terrorising trans people.
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by mvc 4y ago
We're allowed to refer to groups of people on here as "vermin" and "self-entitled twats"? Doesn't seem very kind. You think because you ride a lot gives you permission to refer to people in that way?
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by mvc 4y ago
> But uphill that's just completely different Yeah, if it gets steep enough, walking is less effort than cycling. But downhill is essentially free for cycling and definitely not free for walking. And of course if you introduce grass
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by mvc 4y ago
Sure. As long as we tighten up on other externalities. You use a lot of energy? You pay for the damage to the world.
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by mvc 4y ago
> Water/Electricity utilities don't cut the supply to rapists and terrorists These services are not typically used in the act of raping or terrorising someone.
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by mvc 4y ago
> Peacekeepers should be sent to carry that out (e.g. from the UN directly). And how would that happen when Russia can just veto the UN action?
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by mvc 4y ago
Check my comment history here. You'll see I'm no particular fan of capitalism. And of course the far-right existed before Putin. But he is the head of a mafia organization that controls the world's largest supply of natural g
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by mvc 4y ago
Oh yeah. China's a real "land of the free, home of the brave" these days. Just ask Jack Ma or Peng Shuai.
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by mvc 4y ago
> for a conflict that really has nothing to do with us This is so wrong. Where do you think all the disinformation comes from? The rise of far-right parties across Europe. The attacks on democracy. Putin has been waging war against us (a
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by mvc 4y ago
The good thing would be for the companies to report profits where they make them but apparently we can't rely on their good nature to do that. I don't have a problem with governments resorting to tactics like this in order to get
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by mvc 4y ago
They are making record profits https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62382624 Not from any particular clerverness. Or increase in productivity. Purely because of abnormal market conditions due to a war waged by a dictato

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