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by pdeuchler 9y ago
Oh i'm sure consumers will love getting their expensive whole foods groceries at bargain prices for 5 years, until amazon has pushed everyone else out of the business, solidified a monopoly, and jacks up prices.
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
Hard to read that wording and not infer it was specifically phrased like that to prevent saying "we upload literally every file, recursively, in the below directory". Easy to see very intelligent and circumspect people interpretin
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
Well, what is true is that it's extremely hard to execute arbitrary code without user knowledge on a Mac. Windows has thousands upon thousands of arbitrary code execution bugs where simply opening something like a pdf can allow an atta
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
You're really proving him wrong by calling that a "slur"... Seems very odd to me that a mod would find it worth his time to tsk tsk at someone making a commonly held observation about the Bay Area but is seemingly fine with t
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
I can't disagree more, gnome-terminal is fantastically better and it's not the only one. Faster, never gives me disk contention like Terminal.app does (unless I explicitly cause it), has TrueColor (it's ironic that the design
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
The entire argument is extrapolation based on the cost for a firm to lay optic cable, are you serious? Do we really measure the social good of Google by how much capital they put into their fancy server clock syncing (the exact name of the
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
There's no real problem at all to professional investors, they will figure out how to trade at the price they want regardless. It mostly hurts retail investors who rely significantly more on market signals to be correct. Professional i
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
I'm saying this as a Sanders supporter, but maybe he should have been more specific and detailed about his proposals then. My two biggest frustrations with Sanders were 1) his inability to understand that it was going to take more than
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
That's an impossible problem though, isn't it? Reputation was used as a proxy for ability until it became an end itself, but until we can correctly attribute some metric of ability (which sounds slightly dystopian) before hiring p
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
I'd agree, but don't think that's quite possible. At least with college you can have selection even if it's free, but high school is mostly mandatory, so the curriculums will always revert to whatever shuttles the most k
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
People know their options. Let's be real... outside of trade professions like programming/carpentry/plumbing/etc. an associates degree is barely a step up from a GED (and sometimes worse: "Why didn't you just t
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
Programming is easy, engineering is hard
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
>> But that doesn't mean that it's not valuable to use incomplete information to speculate on a diagnosis in other settings. Jesus man, how do you write something like that in the comments for an article about removing menta
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
Please stop sharing that tripe. The author himself admits it's horribly unethical and overwhelmingly likely to be entirely wrong in the very first paragraph, but somehow justifies his continued speculation because a random group of pee
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
Not requiring sub-contractors go through the same "ludicrous quality standards" is a lazy, malicious act on the part of Comcast
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
The incorrect assumption here is that people earn what value they produce. People actually earn (value_produced - profit + bargaining power). The reason for upping the minimum wage is all minimum wage worker unions have disappeared and an
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
This doesn't make sense to me, some of the most toxic work cultures I've experienced were highly corporate with extremely "mature" HR practices. Besides, a place where you're solely valued on your contribution? I ha
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
If the alternative is sequestering them into talking to an AI controlled by the people who get to talk to humans, then unequivocally no
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
Something isn't adding up here... if this is supposed to be supplemental therapy to talking with an actual human, but instead the actual human part is nixed and it is used as the entirety of therapy (i.e. outside of it's prescribe
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
There seems to be a new push for technological problems to social illnesses, and it consistently boggles my mind how so many smart "experts" really think people engaging more with computers/phones/AI instead of, you know
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
I think the mailing address is just in Niwot, but it's really unincorporated Boulder County
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
Tell me about it... I'm sick and tired of the trope that Boulder is just white people from the coasts when it's actually wealthy people from the coasts, and Wisconsin.
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
I agree with this comment as it applies to the general tech ecosystem here, but Sparkfun might actually be exempt from this because it is legitimately a very cool place to just be around... But that said yeah, it is very apparent that too m
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
As a Boulderite I take offense to that last part... the average house here is actually over a million dollars thank you very much
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
Highly reminiscent of a late stage USSR. Similar parallels across many other empire-in-decline eras throughout history as well.
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
And yet, they're young enough that many, probably the majority, require co-signers on their student loans. If we set out to send mixed signals about maturation to college students we couldn't have done a better job
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
>> that no matter how good the argument is, it won't beat a bad one. What kind of absurd, nihilist nonsense is this? Sounds like yet another example of Trump's opponents being unable to think critically and assuming their at
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
47 comments in 40 minutes, especially with comments like mine, probably set off the flame detector. Not really complaining, the author of this article doesn't even deserve to be ridiculed.
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
This article makes my blood boil. >> There is still no consensus on why the last housing boom and bust happened. Yes there is. There was widespread fraud on the part of mortgage lenders and investment banks. Wow, crazy. Someone give m
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by pdeuchler 9y ago
We already have that distinction in our current regulations... some devices need FDA approval, some don't

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