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by poof131 11y ago
No it’s not. We second guess every plane crash trying to figure out exactly what happened and how we can prevent another crash in the future. Lessons learned are then passed on to other pilots. The NTSB and other safety boards are huge se
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Your comment -> "whereas in reality nothing happens if you don't explicitly give consent first" From the article -> "View scans your Facebook friends and creates fake profiles for them." Having a profile creat
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You were an intern there and there were no other engineers? Was it a paid internship or were you their free engineering labor? Now you are going to graduate and get a real job. Their free technical labor is leaving so they offer you a CT
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by poof131 11y ago
Yep, you can even get it as a font.[1] [1] http://www.fontpalace.com/font-details/Dijkstra/
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Thanks for the pdf and this comment. The source seems reputable and it definitely changed my understanding of how money is created. I thought banks could only lend the money they took in through deposits or borrowing and had no idea they
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by poof131 11y ago
I think if you want to become a CEO you have to first (critically!) a) figure out what makes a successful culture and then b) become a person who enjoys and thrives in that kind of culture. I don’t know if I see this as much value add. F
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A part of the article I disagree with is that I don't see Goldman and BlackRock’s involvement as a good sign. These late stage investors have terms that no employee gets. [1, 2] Employees who joined late are going to get screwed as r
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The main use case I’ve come across is network analysis. After awhile in Iraq, the military realized killing people planting roadside bombs was stupid and ineffective since these were low level individuals sometimes doing it just for money
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What I really find upsetting, more than Silicon Valley wasting millions on hype, is the board of directors. Senior government and military officials are making bad decisions for their own pocket books post retirement. General Mattis squas
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When do laws actually matter? The commercial requirement to fly people for money doesn’t seem even remotely unreasonable - 250 hrs. [1] That is not a lot of flight time. General aviation is also about 20 times more dangerous than drivin
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by poof131 11y ago
Do not worry. You have years of problems solving experience. Physics is one of the most challenging majors you can do. The fact that you completed a degree in it and have taken algorithms, assembly, C, and machine learning puts you in a
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venture hacks is a good resource [1]. Check the employees section for some of the stuff you are talking about. http://venturehacks.com/archives
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The super tucano is a great plane. Saddened me that the Navy and Air Force couldn’t get them operational in a much quicker fashion and on a much larger scale. They provide better ground support and targeting, longer on station time, and a
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The first one seem very applicable to laser guided bombs.
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The President has all the power to curtail these abuses. Unfortunately, reducing your own power is not something that comes naturally to most people. Additionally, any reduction in the national security apparatus will be a political disas
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While I agree with the sentiment that agencies are going rogue, I think the power play rests with the executive branch. NSA, FBI, Justice Department, etc. all report to one individual, the President. All agencies in government focus on inc
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Wow. Democracy can be ugly, but to look to an oligarchy for the solution? I think this is the antithesis of Russell’s thrust.
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The pensions seem great because they are too good to be true. [1] Many of the public pensions put people in the top quarter of household incomes. So at a time in your life when you aren’t working, your kids are through college, and your ho
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by poof131 11y ago
I imagine very few people believe there should be no taxes. The question is more where those taxes go: wall street bailouts, wars in foreign countries, unaffordable pension systems, and how much is available, which clearly isn’t enough bas
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by poof131 11y ago
And you described the real crux of the problem—crony capitalism. The rich financial sector gets bailed out because they are politically connected. The public unions get bailed out with fabulous pensions because they are politically connec
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by poof131 11y ago
You can learn some meteor and angular 2 at the same time: http://www.angular-meteor.com/tutorials/socially/angular2/bo... I enjoyed the meteor angular 1 version and plan on doing the angular 2 version soon.
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I imagine very few of them are profitable, but a number of them could turn profitable if they chose to slow growth. Just like Amazon is still doing, most of these companies are going to be funneling all the cash they get back into the comp
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Actually, according to the article the quotes from the parent are recorded on video. They are from the second meeting when "Youssef and Mohamud went to a room at the Embassy Suites, where Hussein was waiting — and where the FBI had in
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The problem is terrorism isn’t like car accidents. In another thread somebody commented that more people die on the roads in a single day then died in the terrorist attacks in France. Sure. But the volatility in car accident statistics i
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I encourage you not to do this. If you want to make a statement, do it through your vote or by volunteering. By charging extra to the military, you actually join the camp with all the corrupt defense contractors who overcharge for everyth
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I don’t think the key is inspiring them, it’s understanding them. Empathy. Why are they a team of ‘meh’ programmers. Is there no upward mobility? Does no one care how they perform? Are they just clocking time? Words are so hollow. Un
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> One thing that sending in ground troops would do is hopefully reignite the debate as to whether we should be in that country at all. Agree, but you're only part way. We really need to bring back the draft. On the ground in Iraq
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I would say it depends on if your app is more consumery (react) or enterprisey (angular). React will give you better performance and server side rendering. It mixes the view in the javascript which can be a little off to some. Angular will
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Birdstrikes are incredibly dangerous.[1] Flying drones into class b airspace and ignoring FAA requests to cease should be a criminal matter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549
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Depends on what you want. DevOps is incredibly in demand. My VP of engineering said it is the toughest to fill role. It is critical for companies operating at scale. However, you are away from product, so over to you.

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