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by rev_bird 10y ago
Agreed. Unfortunately, the opposite of "move fast and break things" is "move slow and watch them break on their own."
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by rev_bird 10y ago
That doesn't speak very highly of the rehabilitative capacity of prison then, does it? Why are we even sending them?
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by rev_bird 10y ago
>history will remember Trump as the Neville Chamberlain of the climate catastrophe I'm not sure this is true, but not because the sentiment is wrong: It implies that at some point, climate change will be as universally recognized fo
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by rev_bird 10y ago
"Fix" is a relative term, especially if IoT devices are in play – yes, turning off the internet to customers stops the attack, but then (at least?) thousands of people lose internet connectivity because of a vulnerability that the
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by rev_bird 10y ago
Parent commenter wrote: "[t]he problem is that the people who enjoy the benefits are not the people bearing the cost... if you want to live on a cul-de-sac in San Ramon... you now need to drive your car to work on an elevated freeway t
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by rev_bird 10y ago
It bothers me that one tactless moment from Clinton seems to get more attention than a lifetime of tactlessness from Trump. The guy openly insults anybody who doesn't unconditionally support him, but Clinton has one quotable moment of
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by rev_bird 10y ago
I'm way late on this, but I've been thinking a lot about it, and I'm particularly interested in this debate with someone whose opinion I respect a lot. Regarding your first paragraph, I'd agree that "claiming a low
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by rev_bird 10y ago
It's a shit ton of money for one person . For a business, especially a business without revenue, it seems like far less.
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by rev_bird 10y ago
>It has to sit within the company. I don't think this is true. If you buy an ice sculpture for the office lobby, it's totally tax deductible (it's a business expense), but you can use money for whatever you want if you tak
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by rev_bird 10y ago
Liability protection, if nothing else. If someone sues a company, they can't (in theory) take the CEO's house. Also, in the US, you can save a bunch of money on payroll taxes if you elect to be taxed as an S-corp. The short versio
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by rev_bird 10y ago
>free labour I'm normally pretty sensitive to stuff like this as well, but I've signed up and transcribed a few pages so far. As a ( very amateur ) genealogist, I've benefited so, so much from digitized records, most of wh
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by rev_bird 10y ago
I wasn't expecting to start understanding the other side on this one, I have to admit. But this is a compelling argument -- that maintaining the taxi companies is like trying to maintain city buses, except companies built the infrastru
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by rev_bird 10y ago
This is probably going to get buried now, but in case you come back to this thread, thanks for pointing me toward "Listen, Liberal." Checking it out now -- I read Thomas Frank in The Nation every week, but I didn't know abo
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by rev_bird 10y ago
This is a pretty surreal move: >The law says the money will help taxi businesses to adopt "new technologies and advanced service, safety and operational capabilities" and to support workforce development... [Larry Meister, mana
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by rev_bird 10y ago
>I think its clear Russia uses Kaspersky to make western intelligence look bad. Its more demoralizing to have a AV vendor point this stuff out than one's own security apparatus and its a good cover for the FSB's own hacking. Wi
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by rev_bird 10y ago
I think it probably depends on how much you stand to gain from automated tax-loss harvesting: If you don't have the time/skills to do it yourself, strategically selling depreciated stocks (then, potentially, buying them again late
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by rev_bird 10y ago
>it can actually remember device-based 2FA for a month Call me crazy, but that seems like a totally different feature than what AWS two-factor auth is doing. AWS uses 2FA to validate users, while Google uses it to validate devices, and y
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by rev_bird 10y ago
That's interesting, I hadn't considered it that way. I was looking at it as, "We want this person to work here because they passed our tests, now we wreck the deal for no reason." You're saying the salary disclosure
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by rev_bird 10y ago
I'd love for this to be true, but I constantly find myself limited by time. I either have time to learn one thing really well or a little bit about a lot of stuff -- if I try to do both, I never end up getting the deep knowledge of the
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by rev_bird 10y ago
Much obliged. Will take a look.
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by rev_bird 10y ago
>A better law would be that employers may not discriminate or refuse to hire someone if they refuse to tell them their previous salary. To be honest, this does not seem like a better law at all. "You can ask about this information,
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by rev_bird 10y ago
> "OK, we can do that. But we have a policy of always making the lowest possible offer to candidates who won't share their compensation information. I just want the best for you." This makes absolutely no sense to me. &quo
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by rev_bird 10y ago
I've been looking through your website but can only find one remote position ("SUSE Sales Engineer"). Is that accurate, or am I missing something obvious? Thanks!
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by rev_bird 10y ago
At first I thought these were all separate tags for the listing, but I checked out their (surprisingly complicated) careers page, and I honestly can't figure it out. OP, can you help us out? Are any positions available for remote work?
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by rev_bird 10y ago
This is great, thanks for linking it. I'm really interested in this kind of stuff, but it's so hard to find resources on it. Lots of people on Twitter making fun of mistakes people make, not a lot of folks giving advice.
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by rev_bird 10y ago
>incredibly difficult Not to mention very expensive. People hate the idea of spending $50,000 a year making a rapist into a better person when the government won't pay for their kids' college instead.
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by rev_bird 10y ago
The author didn't say anything about listing trends on those other sites, only that their listings usually trend closely with the others, using the past six months as evidence. He shows us the first six months of each year, with only
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by rev_bird 10y ago
That's fair. I should have been more clear -- it's weird to me that chart shows 18 months of data in parallel, rather than just having a line graph that spans the 30 months from the beginning of 2014, and (less so) that it doesn&#
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by rev_bird 10y ago
It could be even simpler than that -- maybe there's a really popular job board that's attracting all the customers? MySpace losing hundreds of thousands of users didn't mean there were less teenagers.
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by rev_bird 10y ago
I don't think I buy the premise. "Tech job listings on one website are down 40%" seems more accurate, and is much less scary. It definitely helps that the author mentions that they track their listings compared to their compe

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