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by pathseeker 6y ago
I've heard this before, but what advantage does the loan have? Doesn't the CEO still pay just as much tax when he/she sells the stock to pay down the loan? Is it just to allow the stock a chance to appreciate?
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>Maybe make them pay 10-25k lump-sum in cash. After a certain amount of guests have visited the offering then the money can be returned. This is so detached from reality. It would wipe out probably 99% of listings from people not doing i
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Woah, how cold are these things that you would need skin grafts like that?
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by pathseeker 6y ago
It's not 10ms, it's hundreds. GEO orbit ISPs provide a service that's complete garbage for desperate people with no other options. The latency is bad enough that voice and video calls are miserable, online gaming it out of th
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Maybe, but that's not astroturfing, which is what the implication was. Astroturfing is fake accounts or purchased votes.
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by pathseeker 6y ago
No more so than defending a government because you like what it has provided.
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by pathseeker 6y ago
SQL injections, vulnerability exploits, or other hijacking mechanisms to inject links directly. In my mind, using a system as designed without breaking any laws lands in grey-hat territory.
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>Anything pro S&P500 should be suspect, especially when the comments are defending bad news. That's a pretty ridiculous assertion when you consider how many people benefit from these companies' products/services. (Look
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>For the emergency room, I can call an ambulance. As someone who had siblings that required various visits to the hospital for emergency things, using an ambulance each time would have paid for a couple of new cars. Most healthcare isn&#
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>I don't think extravagantly so, but I have worked in software for a couple decades and saved a lot. Well then you are well-off. Most people can't swing 5 nights in a high CoL city without months and months of saving. Offering
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>Unlimited should mean unlimited, not throttled. Throttled is still unlimited in the same way as any other connection. Your connection is always throttled, it's just a question if there are two different speeds with the latter trigg
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>So the improvement of Moore's law (RIP) ends up going to programmers' salaries instead of to performance improvements. This statement doesn't really make sense. If programmers spent the time to optimize everything instead
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by pathseeker 6y ago
It's not arbitrary. It's based on authorization levels for object properties/fields. If you haven't encountered this it's likely that you haven't spent much time working on a system with many different distinct
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Well unfortunately that's just not how the real world works. In most production systems you are going to end up with a bunch of fields that aren't visible to regular users. There ends up being a whole bunch of roles that need acce
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by pathseeker 6y ago
I think you've got cause and effect backwards. The rocket-ship rise of IT salaries is what has everyone in the field discussing salaries. The topic wouldn't even come up if it was pretty well-bounded to $80k/year for a SWE wi
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Unless you're talking to an FE/PE from another engineering field. In their mind you're nothing resembling an engineer. Also, if they are Canadian they might get their goose feathers extra ruffled. https://en.wikipe
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Unless you have a whole fleet doing the same thing, nothing.
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Yes, they are (F-16 most commont)[1] (F-16 pressurized)[2]. It's just not enough to avoid needing additional air supply to prevent hypoxia. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_United_States_A... 2. ht
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>I'm in violent agreement with Colin here. You're not really in "violent agreement" when you're just agreeing with him from the outset. https://wiki.c2.com/?ViolentAgreement
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>Maybe I am overly optimistic about academia, but my understanding is that your advisor, funding agencies, journals, etc. know the layout of the field and make sure that what you’re doing is both interesting and novel - even to a fault.
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by pathseeker 6y ago
This is pretty standard when fetching entire complex objects from many backends. You get the full object with all of the fields the authorization layer allows you to see. Something like "GET /reservation/<id>" woul
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Isn't this looking at the past with rose colored glasses though? Time before using computers for business was terrible with much less transparency (no Googling prices, etc). Paperwork got lost all of the time. Companies could easily bu
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Drink water out of the tap like a civilized person.
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>- Ban ALL single-use plastic (except for medical supplies). Direct bans for things so heavily used are going to have extreme unintended consequences. Are we willing to put that much immediate demand on things like tin and aluminum (cans
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by pathseeker 6y ago
None of those companies make their CPUs or GPUs.
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Wow, didn't notice until you pointed it out. Rebinding someone's % to that symbol would be a good prank...
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by pathseeker 6y ago
Non-carbon energy sources will not stop fires. Many of the ecosystems in California have depended on the fires as part of their life-cycle. We screwed up over-preventing fires during the last 100 years and built up a huge tinder box.
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>Also, to first order, when a company issues stock to purchase another corporation, that cost is essentially "free" since the value of the corporation increases. This isn't correct. If investors thing Nvidia overpaid, its
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by pathseeker 6y ago
> They obviously wanted it to be a digital paper, for some reason, and not a data mining source. "Because it's pretty" is it. 99% of people don't care about text being a data mining source.
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>powerful that it corrupts and undermines the whole system. We don't have that today. This is a little dramatic. There are no companies that qualify for the size of "undermining the whole system".

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