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by no-s 5y ago
The term “Virtue Signaling” observes the practice of concealing one's true feelings or ignorance in order to publicly communicate an acceptable moral perspective, thus demonstrating good character to some audience. It is a scornful pej
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by no-s 5y ago
I would not be surprised if the recent upticks are directly correlated with privatized prisons. There’s a corporate interest right there! Having some experience from within (healthcare industry, original DRG implementations and TEFRA), I
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by no-s 5y ago
or maybe it was written for the benefit of Congressional virtue signaling. The utility of bolstering the reputation of Federal Prosecutors via selective prosecution is just an emergent property?
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by no-s 5y ago
thanks!
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by no-s 5y ago
Makes me worry there will be a nasty backlash somewhere in the industry no matter what...it’s possible HN can’t analyze this usefully without rancor, though. [EDIT] this was flagged fairly quickly, but if the other post with all the comment
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by no-s 5y ago
“ Then Reagan got spooked by the movie Wargames – yes, the one with Matthew Broderick – and urged the dimbulbs in the Congress and Senate to send the CFAA to his desk. They obliged, he signed it, and CFAA became law in 1986. ” You mean corp
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by no-s 5y ago
at the risk of invoking Godwin’s law, this effect has been observed in the past, e.g. “...that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deep
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by no-s 5y ago
database->datalake->datavault->databunker? (HHOS)
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by no-s 5y ago
welcome back to the olden days...not at the bottom yet, heheh. We used to rely on networks of contacts for B2B marketing. Maintained via junkets to conferences and retreats at exotic locations.
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by no-s 5y ago
back in the early 80’s I wrote 400kLoC in the course of a summer (APL/360, very short lines), printed it all out on green bar fanfold paper. Stashed the printouts in binders on bookshelves, the shelves collapsed and I got nasty bumps a
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by no-s 5y ago
> considering the amount of NASA money they get I don't think it's right to say they didn't rely on government funding. Rather, they probably have the advantage of not being under the direct thumbs of government accountant
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by no-s 5y ago
> Per-flight costs for the shuttle was $1.6 billion USD (2010 dollars). That was the improved cost. In the late 80s I interviewed at the contractor running shuttle ops (Lockheed missiles & space?). The head of the NASA project office
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by no-s 5y ago
> It is mind boggling the lack of basic security principles some people have. OpSec - it's not just a buzzword, it's the Way.
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by no-s 5y ago
> What is the other option? letters of marque for the nation-state actors. bounty hunters for the criminals. There's a lot of options, I suspect using the financial systems to stop bad guys is probably going to miss the mark and pro
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by no-s 5y ago
wonder what was compromised to gain access?
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by no-s 5y ago
> It's REALLY impressive that you only need to read 54 KB out of 700 MB, to fetch the records. the harsh reality is that doing sensible queries that only reference and return the data actually needed always makes things faster. Even
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Systematic Over-Crediting of Forest Offsets(carbonplan.org)
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by no-s 6y ago
After reading it in entirety, I can report it's just another pointless rehash of the same discredited crap.
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by no-s 6y ago
yeah. it's like we don't get an honest say in what we get to see. Like advertising, heheh.
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by no-s 6y ago
> It was clear when they forced Brendan Eich out for having a mainstream political opinion. That's when I stopped using Firefox. It wasn't that Eich's opinion was mainstream. He kept it to himself and never imposed it on a
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by no-s 6y ago
> $3 for that small rush when I check the numbers is for sure worth it. I used to enjoy drinking wine, a glass of red wine every day, but I had to cut way back to "occasional" due to health concerns. Lottery's way cheaper
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by no-s 6y ago
> how to write a (trivial) program in Rust without fighting the borrow checker once curiously apt, yet true...
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by no-s 6y ago
Yes, the distinctive pronouns help in reducing ambiguity. However some people are taking offense at the insufficiency of gender specification and asking us to add more pronouns to remedy the insult. It might be simpler if we didn't nee
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by no-s 6y ago
> Calling people by their preferred handle seems simple to me. Many people are taking offense at gender-distinctive forms embedded in the language. The argument is the accepted usage demeans whoever is not represented. So to solve this t
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by no-s 6y ago
> He or she, depending what the person looks like. Well, that may be perceived as insulting by the addressee, and they might have a point. The previous consensus was not to presume offense. Too bad we can't all efficiently communica
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by no-s 6y ago
>so I have a bunch of links some of you might find interesting if you want to dig further oooh, thank you! I'm starting to see SQLite the same way!
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by no-s 6y ago
>this is one of the fundamental parts of writing maintainable code >It's probably even worse to deduplicate code wrongly than not deduplicating at all. I strongly agree. >A few questions: You're quote of the parent doesn&
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by no-s 6y ago
>>none (!) have been able to properly formulate this (even after I'm hinting that it's not only about code deduplication) and 75-90% believe it's all about code deduplication Well, duplicate code is the typical manifest
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by no-s 6y ago
>>I've joked that we should call it "Huffman coding" when someone tries to collapse unrelated things in ways that will be unmaintainable. heheh I've made that joke too, also "let's un-complicate this into
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by no-s 6y ago
>>A lot of developers do expect SOLID to apply to every case, and I've seen fine code get rejected in reviews because it wasn't SOLID enough. Prescriptive principles without informed discretion. That is the problem, and it&#

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