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by rqebmm 10y ago
Yeah, any large-scale self-driving car automation is going to take at least a decade to have a large effect, possibly more. Between the inevitable hiccups, upgrade/replacement costs and safety/labor regulations, it's not goin
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by rqebmm 10y ago
Let's say Obama has airtight proof that Putin single-handedly elected Trump. What would be more damaging to the US: publicly admitting that foreign states have control of our elections (which could very reasonably start a large-scale r
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by rqebmm 10y ago
Exactly. China tried one path, found it didn't work, and then chose to draft behind the best economies in the world, do what they did to get there, and do it faster because they have the benefit of hindsight.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
> Getting the inside scoop on a very large chunk of the federal workforce has "nothing to do with the fundamentals of our democracy"? Yes. It has nothing to do with the fundamentals of our democracy. It absolutely has to do wit
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by rqebmm 10y ago
Right. Decrying the NYT for peddling government lies is the definition of shooting the messenger. We have to think critically about all our sources of information, whether it's the NYT, Fox, RT, Breitbart, or our facebook friends.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
> Obama's reaction was - nothing Nothing publicly. There was a public reaction to this issue because when "some elites of his own party got egg on their face" it was front page news for months that potentially effected the
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by rqebmm 10y ago
Because it's been covered extensively and is unrelated to the leaked DNC, DCCC, and Podesta emails that arose at the end of the election season?
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by rqebmm 10y ago
1) The Obama administration has said that retaliation will be in some part covert, so there's strong reasons to believe the publicized reaction is only the tip of the iceberg 2) If Russia hacked US elections in a material way (i.e. stu
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by rqebmm 10y ago
American political consultants != American intelligence agencies. When Trump retained a campaign manager with ties to Russian officials[0], it was a minor scandal, not something requiring over government response. [0] http://www.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
There's already public evidence. Circumstantial evidence, but evidence nonetheless.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
The recession certainly did a number on the participation rate, but the current rate is more or less organic (as evidenced by recent gains in wages once unemployment stabilized at ~5%). A lot of baby-boomers aged out around during the reces
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by rqebmm 10y ago
> you know what you're getting into This is the crux of it for me. The concussion/injury risks are an issue, but if you're informed, so be it. Bodily risk doesn't stop normal people from lots of things, from driving a
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by rqebmm 10y ago
The Social Security Trust Fund has no looming liquidity issues for the next 20 years or so[1]. Solvency is a different issue, and has nothing to do with student debt payments. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Sec
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by rqebmm 10y ago
I think you're answering different quesitons. Solving for "which method is most efficient" is different than solving for "which method provides the best long-term source of energy. Obviously solving for the former is sim
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by rqebmm 10y ago
Also Snowden was certainly aware of the fates of previous intelligence leakers like Thomas Drake[0] and William Binney[1] and others who tried to blow the whistle through the proper channels, only for nothing to happen. [0] http:/&#x2F
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by rqebmm 10y ago
So what should he have done considering the organization(s) he worked for failed to uphold their agreements?
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by rqebmm 10y ago
It's most likely just part of the due-diligence required for the merger. Yahoo brass probably decided that publicizing this information wasn't worth the PR hit, and so they buried it, but Verizon doesn't want to take on the r
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by rqebmm 10y ago
> Pay-scale of an engineer in silicon valley is much higher compared any other state. Until you factor in cost of living. Last I checked Austin has lead in cost-of-living-adjusted salaries for the last few years.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
Which raises an interesting corollary: is there such a thing as an "indiscriminate" leak? Recent events have shown that WikiLeaks' practice of leaking anything they have has instead created an opportunity for targeted leaks b
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by rqebmm 10y ago
Gladwell's biggest omission is the stories of Thomas Drake and William Binney. Two predecessors that Snowden was well aware of, who tried to be, as Gladwell puts it "leakers as insiders". They were systematically shut down, a
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by rqebmm 10y ago
There's a difference between a project and a business, but the line is pretty blurry.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
I mostly agree, but I'd add an important caveat to (2): Before you go looking for a new job because you're not being challenged, ask to work on other projects at your current job. I've found this is a much better way to learn
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by rqebmm 10y ago
This is true, but ultimately if your company wants to be a dick about it, you could still end up having to fight them in court. They just have to say "when we signed that form you said it was a <domain A> app, but now it's t
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by rqebmm 10y ago
Um, Bernie? He was quite pro-labor, he just couldn't get enough votes to beat Clinton. Then again, neither could Trump, but here we are.
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by rqebmm 10y ago
> he's more pro-union and pro-safety net than a typical Republican nominee. That would be true if he had the first interest in actually governing. So far his approach appears to be "Hand off decisions to existing Republicans a
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by rqebmm 10y ago
I object to the subtitle "It becomes harder to reverse this trend" like it's an inexorable march without any possible cause. Just look at the difference in context between today and the 1972 reference date for the start of th
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by rqebmm 10y ago
Valve also has the prestige of being a high-profile gaming company, which brings with it choice pick of engineers. A "normal" enterprise app consulting shop doesn't have the luxury of every computer geek clamoring to work the
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by rqebmm 10y ago
People get too hung up on the question "to test or not to test" instead of asking the question "where and when should I test". I started my career writing iOS clients, and the obsession with TDD was baffling. 80% of my c
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by rqebmm 10y ago
I agree. Requiring things like stakeholder signoffs, code review, good test processes, and respect for team resource management is annoying, but it can also be incredibly important when you're trying to keep a big ship afloat. Without
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by rqebmm 10y ago
When I'm talking about development environments, I'm talking beyond just the IDE. Would you rather work with Java , C#, or Objective-C? Would you rather work with a open-source frameworks or a closed-source ones? Would you rather

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