rabidrat

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by rabidrat 8y ago
Not sure if you've ever used those social safety nets, but they are not easy to qualify for and/or sign up for, so only the stubborn and/or desperate actually take advantage of them. There are also disincentives, like misinf
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by rabidrat 8y ago
How do you know that UBI won't create more of them? It's a common refrain, like with legalization ("anyone who wants to smoke weed is already doing it"), and I know several people who didn't smoke before it became
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by rabidrat 8y ago
I've been using unix for 25 years and I did not know that.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
I was looking for someone I knew in college (20 years ago) last night, who has a very common name, and I don't know where they live now. The value of the all-encompassing social network is that I should be able to narrow it down to on
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by rabidrat 8y ago
> In March 2014, a French high court upheld Kerviel's prison sentence but ruled he would not have to repay €4.9bn.[36] I was hoping he was actually billions in the hole, but no, he's out of prison and working and not responsibl
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by rabidrat 8y ago
No, but in the case of fixing up an old car, it is not just a poorly chosen example. Fixing up older equipment when the industry of parts has moved on, is fundamentally more expensive than going with what the industry is currently manufac
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by rabidrat 8y ago
And that assumption is fundamentally incorrect, and not just coincidentally.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Large amounts of debt (student loans) and lack of access to capital. I have several friends who have started their own business, which turns out to be "consulting to pay the bills and trying to balance the remaining 20% of time toward
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Tell that to your grandmother over the phone and see how much of a pain it is :)
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by rabidrat 8y ago
> I would not mind at all doing a two-three hour on-site assignment. If you're there, they will at least have to make a similar effort as you are. I find this much more fair both as a candidate and as an employer. I've had this
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by rabidrat 8y ago
How do you go about doing this (licensing the core to another company)? Do you call up SaaS companies in the phone book until the receptionist connects you with the VP of New Indie Product Acquisition?
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Reread, I made no such suggestion. In our black-and-white culture, though, we don't have much of a bin for "that's not illegal but it's societally risky so we're going to have to keep an eye on you". Which is
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Some (many?) people do kill themselves, being unable to cope with the trauma of being sexually abused as a child. I don't think it's a useful approach to state that execution is "worse" and to consider the legality of th
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Focus the center of your visual attention on something for a few minutes, and you will indeed stop seeing. In reality you think you are seeing continuously because your brain timeshifts your consciousness during your eyeball's saccade
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by rabidrat 8y ago
> Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., attempted to ask Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg a question about data privacy, and revealed a conception of social media resembling a wad of tangled Christmas lights: “Do you track devices that an indiv
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by rabidrat 8y ago
The OS program loader is who allocates pages to .bss and initializes them to zero. In the case of an OS, who would do that initialization? At best it would be the bootloader. Initialization during kernel_init() before using any globals i
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Can we strike at the root and try to reduce rent-seeking behavior? Even if we can't eliminate it, there was a time when 'usury' an ugly moral sin and Jubilee was an actual event, so at least we understood who the jerks were,
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by rabidrat 8y ago
How many companies have 50k software engineers? Seems like the handful that do, should do whatever works for them. The rest of us can just use a monorepo.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Then the risk is that they take the job, but only for 6-12 months, and then leave just when they're starting to become productive with the new tech and your environment.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Why? I have access to it anyway by clicking on their name and can cut-and-paste by hand. And they are people who have agreed to share this kind of information with me specifically.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Is there any way to get a list of my direct friends with all their contact information (email, phone, etc)?
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by rabidrat 8y ago
An interesting footnote: Jeff Harbers died in a plane crash 10+ years ago: https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Jeffery-Harbers-1...
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Most software is not one algorithm. Most software is a complex system which can be parallelized in a variety of ways, some of them embarrassingly trivial.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
How do we resolve this conflict then? Do we censor everyone who anyone claims is a Nazi? Do we have an official review board to vet the claims? Or maybe we decide that it's better to not censor based on ideology or rhetoric but on o
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Bell Telephone was a peer-to-peer communications infrastructure, not a publishing platform. To the extent that it did provide a medium for publication (the phonebook), they absolutely had standards for what could be published. Were those
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Chuck Moore is a genius, and if any self-professed hacker has not dug into the language Forth (including creating an implementation of their own, which is a rite of passage to becoming an "intermediate" Forth programmer), then the
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Worse, they produce 4.75 tons of CO2. https://www.reference.com/science/much-pollution-average-car...
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by rabidrat 8y ago
I like HDF5 because it's compatible with everything, but it's a bit more difficult to get started with than other modern formats. Partly this is due to design by committee including everything, and the APIs follow suit. With som
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by rabidrat 8y ago
I have found for myself that taking Ibuprofen eases both anxiety and depression. It's not a cure but it surprises me how much of a mental effect a mild analgesic has.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Yes, and just organized our first NYE party via email (evite).

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