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by ptero 7y ago
IANAL. Clearly reservists are an important group that I did not cleanly address. I originally meant full time employment. > My military service is what I did one weekend a month and has no connection to my tech job, other than providing
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by ptero 7y ago
Not sure about the general population, but folks here are largely zeroing in on the conflict of interest issues. At least in the US, I would expect serving "PsyOps" people to be government employees, supported by taxes and subject
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by ptero 7y ago
I think I have the same approach to the items I consider inexpensive (I would define it as forgetting about loss of money in a month if the thing turned out to be a total loss). But I see this "delay purchase" after reading negati
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by ptero 7y ago
That is a valid argument, but can be applied to any hush hush effort. But such "limited visibility" organizations often push to limit public control, after which their mission or methods may morph to support internal goals that ma
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by ptero 7y ago
> "Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences." > I am free to say anything I like, but if I say the wrong thing, I get punished for it Not quite. You did not quote a critical part -- being free from consequences fro
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by ptero 7y ago
There are valid points in the article. But the author seems enraged that he is charged $35 for 10M API calls per day (his main complaint). He knew (or should have known) that he needs in the ballpark of 10M API calls per day and the pricing
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by ptero 7y ago
The use case that I did personally hit a couple of times is old, out of print books. They were relatively inexpensive (say, $10-$15 at publication 30 years ago), but did not publish a lot of copies. Thus my choice is between getting free
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by ptero 7y ago
> CenturyLink has been acting in what appears to be good faith within Denver city limits ... offering gigabit fiber service ... for around $60-70/month This is good, but I see higher/lower prices as a symptom, not the problem i
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by ptero 7y ago
> Bankruptcy seems quite appropriate. Hmm... Would not they just file for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, restructure their debts (i.e., write those pesky $125 payments off), then emerge in a better shape than they were?
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by ptero 7y ago
I think trying to solve personal (e.g., non work related) problems is a minefield. I would not, as a team lead, go there beyond a generic offer to talk. Most companies likely have standard policies for health and similar personal issues and
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by ptero 7y ago
Fair. But even this (at least in the US) is the flip side of the laws that in public areas I can take any photos that I want. And I generally like this setup -- I can snap pictures of friends and kids without worrying about proving my right
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by ptero 7y ago
The key difference is that you can decide not to buy corporate products you do not want, but have to comply with the laws. I am a lot less concerned about stupid things done by a majority for convenience (and I can choose whether to do part
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by ptero 7y ago
And of those that did show up, how many were people :)
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by ptero 7y ago
> if there is a stampede for the exits, there still have to be buyers on the other side of the sellers That is a key point in the debate. I do not see that above is necessarily true. Say a price of a low volume stock X is driven down bel
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by ptero 7y ago
This is the way it felt to me, too. The author seems to be cherry picking some incomplete statements from Burry's article and tries to make them sound ridiculous, and sometimes resort to adjectives rather than arguments. I am not a spe
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by ptero 7y ago
It could be more serious than the flash crash (again, just an interpretation). Flash crash gets resolved quickly and is transparent to non-participants because there is a lot of money willing to buy on dips. But fast trading money only buys
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by ptero 7y ago
I will try to interpret, but obviously it is just my interpretation (and personally I mostly agree with many theses Burry gave). First, he does not really talk about being a "good citizen" or not. His points are for "greedy c
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by ptero 7y ago
I think there is somewhat of a wild west on orbit. Even in the case of known, active missions the parties in a "potential collision" may have different opinions about actual likelihood of the collision: "collision likely&quot
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by ptero 7y ago
> I mean I don't really want to be doing that but right now, putting money in savings and keeping it is basically costing me 2-3% of its value a year due to inflation. I am not a financial planner, but investing in riskier bonds bec
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by ptero 7y ago
I agree with you and I see the main problem with the current US pension system is the lack of clarity. This allows bureaucrats and politicians to spend money collected to support old folks in the future for unrelated pet projects now. Socia
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by ptero 7y ago
But does it matter for you? I know it would not for me. I can certainly find counterexamples, but for me the last leg bandwidth is seldom the bottleneck. My 2c.
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by ptero 7y ago
Agreed, clarification needed. I meant "many/most", but made the sentence read as if I meant "everyone".
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by ptero 7y ago
IRS budget cuts seem to be thrown around a lot, but to me this is just a symptom of the real problem -- a tax code that is way too complex. Years of congress pandering to special interests, fixing minor issues with pages of new tax rules an
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by ptero 7y ago
Remote work can be great, but it requires two key things. First is the ability to actually do useful work at home or other non-office location. This is not hard (I suspect some people working remotely do goof off, but I suspect those people
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by ptero 7y ago
> Documentation is essential. How things work is an important thing to document. I agree with this 100%. However, to be useful it needs to hit the right level of crudity. For most projects, a short (<10 pages) description of goals, de
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by ptero 7y ago
I am not blaming anyone. But the same was mostly true when FOSS was young -- most users wanted convenience, not tinkering. But early FOSS supported tinkering regardless, probably because FOSS was frequently a hobby, developers (not users) d
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by ptero 7y ago
> Even though FOSS ate the world, we didn't win software freedom, we just enabled a bunch of new tech giants to put us into consumer roles with little to no freedom once again. I think one of the dominant causes of this is the fact
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by ptero 7y ago
Can you provide some examples? I think FAA is usually involved at all stages and should those planned TFR be a pain safety-wise (e.g. encroach on a landing pattern), Pentagon is told to come back with a better plan. Those two organizations
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by ptero 7y ago
There is always room for mistakes if you start by building prototypes. In fact having first approximation prototypes allows one to catch mistakes in how systems and subsystems interact early and fix those at a fraction of the cost. Developi
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by ptero 7y ago
You can overdo it, but just my personal experience is that focus on work at work, even with urgency, never brings those. Where anxiety and stress can come in for me is letting unsolvable, abstract-ish things hound me for a long time: "

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