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by petilon 4y ago
Experian is so powerful; you can be denied loans for buying a house if your Experian score is poor. You could have little leverage in negotiating a fair salary at your new job because Experian told your new employer what you are currently m
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by petilon 4y ago
The ironic thing about Oracle and Larry Ellison in particular, is that they invented both cloud computing and chromebooks back in 1996. They called it Network Computing and Network Computer respectively. Ellison talked about centralizing co
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by petilon 4y ago
That wasn't a mainstream compiler, and certainly wasn't the reason for Microsoft responding with Visual C++, or C++ becoming popular.
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by petilon 4y ago
Borland doesn't enough credit (or blame, depending on your opinion about C++) for popularizing C++. Turbo C++ was the first mainstream C++ compiler. All that existed before was Cfront, Stroustrup's pre-compiler which translated C+
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by petilon 4y ago
I don't know the current team, but I have met its founder: L. Peter Deutsch [1]. James Gosling, inventor of Java, once described him as the "greatest programmer in the world". They both used to work at Sun Microsystems. [1]
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by petilon 4y ago
> I think people assume that they are receiving worse service from a PA vs a MD. And they have a right to make that assumption. The important thing is making sure the patient is aware they are getting a PA and not an MD. Let the patien
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by petilon 4y ago
The problem is that the US is not a true democracy. Because of lobbying (a form of legalized corruption) [1], big corporations are in control of the country. The laws are written by big corporations such as oil companies, big pharma, hospit
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by petilon 4y ago
> They will charge your insurance for a doctors visit but only have Nurses and P.A's available to see. That little scam is used by my local hospital also. If you don't ask for a specific doctor when you make an appointment yo
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by petilon 4y ago
I have been hit many times with unintended auto-renewal. The merchant hides a clause in terms & conditions that the subscription will be auto-renewed upon expiration, then at the end of the year, wham! you get hit with an unexpected cha
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by petilon 4y ago
If a civil war happens, the blame will be on (1) social media and (2) politicians using topics such as abortion and guns to divide people in order to get votes. But politicians leveraging divisive topics to get votes is not new. What is new
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The U.S. needs a Million Talents Program to retain technology leadership(foreignpolicy.com)
14 points by petilon 4y ago|1 comments
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by petilon 4y ago
> so you never really can blame Word Absolutely, you can. Microsoft has long stopped improving the basic word processing features. When there is no competition Microsoft stops improving their products.
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by petilon 4y ago
Last I checked AWS has poor support for Docker and Kubernetes, they charge a bit more for those than their own Fargate. Docker & Kubernetes are a threat to AWS because it makes applications cloud-independent, and AWS would prefer for yo
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by petilon 4y ago
Some help was justified, but the stimulus benefits were just too high. Companies struggled to hire because workers could earn more money on unemployment [1]. And that was when the pandemic was in full swing. Giving people free money today i
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by petilon 4y ago
Here's another way NOT to fight inflation: https://katv.com/news/nation-world/14-states-approve-stimulu... To help citizens deal with inflation, 14 states are giving them free money. Giving people free money
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by petilon 4y ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/05/12/ask-...
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by petilon 4y ago
If you believe your company's stock is overvalued, how can you fault someone for selling the stock? Bill Gates sold TSLA stock that he borrowed. If you truly believe that TSLA is overvalued, then it makes no sense to fault someone for
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by petilon 4y ago
This article says Musk agreed to buy Twitter mostly as a joke. I think there's a far better explanation. This wasn't a joke for Musk because after agreeing to buy Twitter he proceeded to sell billions of dollars' worth of TSL
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by petilon 4y ago
Look at this story: https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-sells-billions-of-dol... The headline is: "Elon Musk Sells $8.5 Billion of Tesla Shares After Deal to Buy Twitter" The deal to buy Twitter gave Musk
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by petilon 4y ago
So, you don't see a conflict if Musk criticizes Gates for shorting TSLA (because Gates thinks it is overvalued) and then turning around and selling billions of dollars' worth of TSLA? I do. I think that qualifies has hypocrisy.
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by petilon 4y ago
> as long as it doesn't meet the legal standard for imminent lawless action So there is no absolute free speech then. Which is the point of bringing up the "fire" example. If you're a visitor in my house there is no
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by petilon 4y ago
> Why does he need a cover to sell his stock? Wouldn't he look to be a hypocrite otherwise? [1] [1] https://nypost.com/2022/05/31/elon-musk-calls-out-bill-gates...
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by petilon 4y ago
Free speech doesn't have a single meaning. Freedom is relative. There is no right to absolute free speech anywhere. For example, you can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater. On social media owned by private corporations
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by petilon 4y ago
Nope, 1st Amendment only means the government can't restrict your speech. Private companies can.
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by petilon 4y ago
Disagree, there is no absolute freedom of speech, for example you can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater. Also disagree that such unrestricted free speech is constructive or beneficial. Sacha Baron Cohen explains it best:
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by petilon 4y ago
I am going to let Sacha Baron Cohen, of all people, answer your question [1]: Voltaire was right when he said "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." And social media lets authoritarians push
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by petilon 4y ago
This is good for Twitter, and good for the world. Musk's misguided approach to free speech, which says anything that is not explicitly illegal is allowed, would have made Twitter an open forum for spreading lies and hate. My guess is M
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by petilon 4y ago
Spoken like an American. In other countries where healthcare is not paid for by the government, the prices are readily available. Here are some examples: https://www.ktph.com.sg/patients/hospital-charges https:/&
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by petilon 4y ago
If you care about security, two things you don't want to install on your computer are Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Office. These products were written the 1990s in C/C++ and are impossible to secure. Microsoft does not allow instal
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Amazon takes stake in Grubhub, adds food delivery perks to Prime(cnbc.com)
1 points by petilon 4y ago|0 comments

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