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by phyller 8y ago
Ha, you're right about web engineering. But how available are jobs like yours? Because the guys that were doing them 20 years ago are still doing them today.
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by phyller 8y ago
I call BS. I'm not saying the planet doesn't have iron or titanium, just that I don't think their data shows it. The researchers supposed that this planet might have iron and titanium in the atmosphere, they have an image of
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by phyller 8y ago
I think the root issue is that there is just simply too much to know and too little time to know it. Everything is completely reinvented every 3 years now it seems, so many of the successful young engineers I know tend to develop a herd men
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by phyller 8y ago
Wow, I wish I was an engineer in that era. 25 years at the same company, 3 languages over 13 years. And when he needed to learn a new language he actually went to school for it. I just started a new position, I have to learn at least 2 new
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by phyller 8y ago
He worked on planes, it may have been an important factor for fitting into some space, and working in remote desolate places with a small crew of other people. Basically, you could probably send this guy to a dry lake bed in the desert for
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by phyller 8y ago
I was accepted into the Georgia Tech CS masters program without any formal education in CS. I have significant practical work experience though. If you don't have an undergrad degree at all, I'm not sure a master's degree is
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by phyller 8y ago
Whoever it is, Musk said that no one would have majority control. So it wouldn't be a takeover unless it was hostile. The recent action on the stock has made a hostile takeover, particularly by the Saudis, more possible because of the
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by phyller 8y ago
I tend to agree with Mark Kelly that the added bureaucratic overhead would be unnecessary. The Space Force and Air Force would have to have all sorts of complex channels to work together where they overlap or hand over jurisdictions, share
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by phyller 8y ago
Holy crap, I was envisioning all loose graphene floating to the top of our atmosphere, eventually surrounding the planet with a diffuse, fuzzy silver plating. That would be one way to take care of global warming :D Maybe a better title woul
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Tesla board to meet about going private, may ask Musk to recuse himself(cnbc.com)
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by phyller 8y ago
Do be fair, anyone could jump in front of any car with a regular driver and direct it with hand signals. If someone was standing on the road in front of me directing me into another lane I would do it, with or without an orange vest.
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by phyller 8y ago
"The only thing objectively inmoral is imposing one’s own moral standards and viewpoints on others." So the only really moral thing is to a) think that there are no universal moral standards b) universally apply this moral standar
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It's ironic to me that some anti-control people that buck against the system don't seem to have a problem when it's them making decisions for others. Making the drug and trying it on yourself is one thing. Sharing it with som
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by phyller 8y ago
You have multiple engineers working with each other on the same code base, reviewing each other's code before it can be merged into the main branch. Then you start to find which engineers the other ones don't like to work with.
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by phyller 8y ago
From this point of view, I guess you should make an exception and treat tech debt complaints more seriously when it is coming from the devs who wrote the original code. Sometimes in order to meet business needs and get things out the door y
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by phyller 8y ago
I think you are half right. It would take wars exactly like Irag and Afghanistan. And here we are, testing autonomous vehicles. Perhaps I'm wrong, but my understanding was the current raft of autonomous technology was supported in it&#
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by phyller 8y ago
Right, but to your original point. You said Venezuela is a capitalist country. Is Norway socialist because they used capital to acquire assets, and Venezuela capitalist because they used force to acquire assets? I don't think most peop
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by phyller 8y ago
Oil is not too far from the all time highs, it's certainly much higher than when Chavez took over. Why isn't everything better? They killed basic market economics, including (especially) in the oil industry. They made it so people
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by phyller 8y ago
I was arguing against US intervention. But since you asked... Mali. When i was there the local pharmacist had a picture of president Ford, of all people, up. Turns out the US had run a program to eradicate a particularly nasty parasite in t
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by phyller 8y ago
China, when it was actually socialist and redistributing wealth, took itself back 100 years and probably produced more human suffering than any other event in world history. So yea, perfect example. Then they reformed and decided to maintai
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by phyller 8y ago
And the moment that happens every single bad thing in Venezuela for the past 15 years and the future 1,000 years will be their fault. The entire world would condemn the USA as imperialists and there would be protests in the streets. Europea
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by phyller 8y ago
There's nationalized in the sense of, only the government can control this resource, it is owned by the people. Good. Then the government builds it and spends money on it. If you have a good government you get a good resource for the p
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by phyller 8y ago
China is not a great counter example. Chavez actually did things to redistribute wealth, and when certain goods got too expensive they fixed prices, and when the businesses failed or refused to operate at a loss they were nationalized. Chin
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by phyller 8y ago
The government has routinely nationalized both foreign and domestic businesses and expensive infrastructure, and sets prices on goods. When this caused inflation and shortages they responded by nationalizing more businesses and setting more
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by phyller 8y ago
The article title should read, "Scientists able to temporarily induce some symptoms of aging in young mice". If they could have reversed symptoms of aging in actual old mice they would have done it.
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by phyller 8y ago
You might want to do some research on that one. Hitler might be considered an amateur compared to Stalin.
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Or hundreds, or even thousands
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by phyller 8y ago
I recommend the movie "Eye in the Sky" as a great encapsulation of one aspect of the moral struggles in this area. I wonder if the people who made that movie know that it is being shown at the US Air Force Academy by many of the i
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by phyller 8y ago
You miss the point. The point of a trial is maybe he wasn't a terrorist after all. Someone who is in fact guilty of certain crimes does in fact lose some of their protections, they can be detained. Innocent people should be protected f
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by phyller 8y ago
Exactly. And if these rights are a good thing (which as a nation we have theoretically decided they are), we should be giving them to non-citizens as well. I think it is always good for a) government having to prove guilt instead of the acc

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