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by plandis 9y ago
Well he lists several things. Why do you think that a special hiring queue for diversity hires and special classes for diversity hires is setting an equal bar? Those things seem discriminatory to me.
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by plandis 9y ago
A society where only a select few own property? I believe Europe tried that for 100's of years. I doubt you'd find many people willing to go back to serfdom.
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by plandis 9y ago
When was that? Do you have the post mortem for it?
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by plandis 9y ago
I'm curious -- are you a Chinese national? I feel like I keep seeing userXYZ's posting pro-China whataboutism every chance possible.
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by plandis 9y ago
You know it's possible, as an individual, to be critical of this and, for example, prison population.
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by plandis 9y ago
Separate end points. Also, AWS recommends that you might want multiple different accounts for more isolation [1] [1] https://aws.amazon.com/answers/account-management/aws-multi-...
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by plandis 9y ago
I think each DC has at least two power sources and probably a backup generator. I think that's why cloud providers have been so reluctant to open in Africa, diversified power is apparently a problem.
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by plandis 9y ago
You're also forgetting that if you set up something on your own you also have all the hardware concerns as well. You need to procure hosts, provision them properly, deploy them, monitor them, scale them, fix them. That infrastructure c
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by plandis 9y ago
But if that's your methodology, you'd need to cut several cables in different locations simultaneously. A single cable doesn't take too long to fix (a couple hours, tops) and there are probably several redundant backups to ha
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by plandis 9y ago
AFAIK Spotify doesn't have offline play on the Apple Watch
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by plandis 9y ago
I think the difference here is that someone buying Ubiquiti is knowingly getting a slightly more in depth initial setup. Your grandma is getting a Comcast router and probably doesn't know it can be logged into and configured or how to
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by plandis 9y ago
I wonder if those goals of increasing the amount of general knowledge someone knows is in alignment with the goals of attending community it's college? I'd imagine for a lot of students in community college they care more about ge
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by plandis 9y ago
Why do you think that every functioning adult should understand algebra?
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by plandis 9y ago
Misleading title. Should be "Chemicals in boxed mac and cheese". It's entirely possible (and way more delicious!) to make mac and cheese from scratch in a very little amount of time
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by plandis 9y ago
Now try hosting a blog that critics the Chinese government.
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by plandis 9y ago
Bellevue is entirely a different city from Seattle. Your office is not in Seattle. From real Seattle the commute would actually be kind of bad (1hr+)
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by plandis 9y ago
So not in Seattle.
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by plandis 9y ago
That makes sense about project organization done correctly. The thing that really stands out about Flask to me (using it for small projects, I don't really get to use Python at my day job) is that the codebase is incredibly easy to und
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by plandis 9y ago
The Birdman-esque cinematography was pretty cool!
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by plandis 9y ago
If the EU can simply decide that agreed upon tax deals are no longer valid seems like nothing more than a shake down of an American company. Also, it's somewhat terrifying because what laws will Brussels decide to suddenly interpret di
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by plandis 9y ago
Are you suggesting the false sexual harassment / rape accusations never happen? I think there are some athletes from Duke who were subject to character assassination and would entirely disagree with you.
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by plandis 9y ago
Yeah is is the reason the only IOT product I own are light bulbs. If they fail it's not that bad. I definitely wouldn't trust a smart fridge, lock, thermostat, etc...
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by plandis 9y ago
Here is the docket: http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/dockets.c...
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by plandis 9y ago
I'd rather drink after I'm done with work at a happy hour than drink during lunch and have to work the rest of day. From a job performance perspective the happy hour seems better anyways.
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by plandis 9y ago
TIL I have an odd obsession with swearing. I never knew. I swear a lot so I'm glad you mentioned that, as an American, I don't like swearing. (All joking aside, perhaps trying to generalize 300+ million people is too coarse of an
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by plandis 9y ago
We do Friday happy hour because it's been a reliable method for having multiple teams interact, spread ideas, talk about what they have been working on, etc...
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Or Google for that matter. My search is pretty much exclusively Google in the same way my shopping is almost all Amazon.
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by plandis 9y ago
I see a lot of comments stating that mathematicians have high IQ and high test scores. Is there any data to confirm that or is everyone just speculating?
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by plandis 9y ago
> We're complaining about traffic shaping by ISPs, while big 5 are shaping it already, deciding what we read, what we can download, and who we mingle with. What companies are you including in your "big 5"? I don't thi
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by plandis 9y ago
No doubt this will pass. Short of Pai resigning and Trump deciding to appoint a Democrat I don't know why this wouldn't. The FCC has made it clear that they don't value public comment.

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