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   by roland35 4y ago

   Biden wasn't in the government at the time though. Presidential candidate, sure but just a private citizen
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   by roland35 4y ago

   It wiped out my DSLR camera too. I'm no professional photographer but I bought a refurb Canon t5i rebel when my son was born back in 2016. Phone cameras were still pretty poor at that time, but have gotten much better to the point wh
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   by roland35 4y ago

   I think people make the mistake of thinking that 100% retention is even desirable. The company isn't paying me what I am _worth_, they are paying me what I am _worth to them_. If my unique combination of skills is a better fit and mo
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   by roland35 4y ago

   Absolutely true. For me the secret calories were in cereal. I'd have a bowl as a snack and didn't realize it could be hundreds of calories!
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   by roland35 4y ago

   Yeah, although there is fair degree of turnover to different big-tech companies as well (especially now to get a nice RSU new-hire grant at a lower share price). On pulse surveys there is always a question "how many years are you plan
6. 576.▲
   by roland35 4y ago

   Not necessarily true! I've found that as TC has gone up the level of respect for workers has gone up as well. When companies don't pay well they generally treat workers poorly. Now of course, some mission-based companies are an
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   by roland35 4y ago

   The only thing crypto needs is another layer of crypto! I'm sure there is another crypto layer that provides FDIC insurance, fraud and loss protection, physical offline methods of payment, etc etc... All it serves to do is create more
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   by roland35 4y ago

   That's all fine, except in this case there are some extreme externalities unfortunately. We are all going to pay the price in the long term for this environmental waste. Sometimes regulations are required to protect a shared resource.
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   by roland35 4y ago

   Having a bunch of computers that don't trust each other all performing random calculations to find a specific hash and then add a small block of data to a globally duplicated append only data structure that processes about 7 transactio
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    by roland35 4y ago

    He seems to have a very high opinion of himself, based on my observations of literally any time he speaks! Reading some older articles about him, he has been pampered and told he was so smart from a young age.
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    by roland35 4y ago

    Other industries use energy to produce useful things.
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    by roland35 4y ago

    Sounds like it was a business problem, not an engineering or culture problem.
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    by roland35 4y ago

    Rock on! Glad you're enjoying hacker news too :)
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    by roland35 4y ago

    Asking the big questions here!! What I really want to know is what happens to "ghost feces"... Sometimes you know one dropped into the toilet but it is nowhere to be seen...
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    by roland35 4y ago

    Yes obviously we all know a Blockchain can't reach into the real world and put a banana in my hand... But the point is that what does Blockchain give anyone that a simple app (zelle, PayPal, bananas r us, etc) doesn't? I still nee
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    by roland35 4y ago

    Sounds like a pretty sorry state of things and not how I like to live. I bet you trust a lot of aspects of society though, such as every piece of food you buy at a grocery store and in a restaurant, every prescription and over the counter m
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    by roland35 4y ago

    I don't think I understand. Fidelity 401k - Millions of people put in their paychecks, millions of people have withdrawn successfully in their retirement. An unsophisticated investor will not lose anything. Crypto - no way to know wha
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    by roland35 4y ago

    And what happens if I lose my wallet?? Or forgot the passcode?
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    by roland35 4y ago

    Let's not forget that the entire point of "proof of work" is to waste electricity and waste electronics in persuit of making pointless calculations until one is randomly correct. What a great system!!
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    by roland35 4y ago

    I'm not really a fan of having my life savings just a hack away from being stolen. I am infinitely more confident in my retirement savings being managed by Schwab or Fidelity than any possible way of crypto, online, offline, or whateve
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    by roland35 4y ago

    This lecture by Berkeley CS professor Nicholas Weaver is a fantastic overview of what cryptocurrency and Blockchain actually is and why it is a complete waste of time, energy, and money and needs to be reduced to 0: https://youtu
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    by roland35 4y ago

    Awesome! There are a few different paths you can take, depending on what type of robotics you are interested in. Consumer/Commercial robotics. These are things like Roombas and Robomows. The dominate type of engineer in these compan
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    by roland35 4y ago

    Nonl, you're reading it correctly. Apparently the more catastrophic billion dollars scams that come crashing down the better crypto will be. I am not sure if most people will have enough patience though!
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    by roland35 4y ago

    1. Bitcoin may not be bulky but there are still many risks. Losing the wallet, forgetting a password, or theft are still issues!
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    by roland35 4y ago

    > But having all your money in bunch of wallets kept by a single entity that is not you, is just plain stupidity. I do exactly this with my dollars and it's worked out just fine. Modern society is based on trust. I don't want
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    by roland35 4y ago

    I don't need to be diligently checking the news to see if Chase Bank or Fidelity is crashing 24/7!
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    by roland35 4y ago

    I _think_ the OP means "EQ", not "IQ", i.e. Emotional Quotient. Engineers certainly have a reputation of having lower EQ but I haven't seen this in practice. Just like any group of people there is going to be a ra
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    by roland35 4y ago

    I work in a big tech company in a group that has a relatively good reputation :) What I enjoy most is getting to contribute and have meaningful impact on products which are used by millions+ of people. It is cool seeing articles in HN or
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    by roland35 4y ago

    I worked in NASA as an intern and it was pretty cool! There are some definite pros/cons though: Good: Chance to work on some awesome large scale projects. Relatively stable employment if a civil servant. Some groups like JPL get to
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    by roland35 4y ago

    I don't have specific insight into WhatsApp but I agree with some other commenters here that changing your profile picture and having a link in the text definitely fits the pattern of a phishing attempt. It was probably auto-detected.