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by sailfast 4y ago
Think tanks are not the government. They are private institutions. Typically when one uses the term "deep state" you mean someone working in the government that has their own agenda and/or are acting on a specific conspiracy
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by sailfast 4y ago
Such as? Not trying to be pedantic, just looking for a more specific example. Are you talking about political appointees or public servants? If so, where? What agencies?
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by sailfast 4y ago
It's a nice fantasy, but it's simply not the case in my experience. The details are deferred because you want to be able to adapt some things faster than you can change a law and you want it done with a comment period by subject m
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by sailfast 4y ago
Folks still need to get re-elected, even if it's heavily favoring lobbyists. That is still SOMETHING, rather than a company creating something out of thin air. In this the OP is correct. It's not a lie, and your vote counts. For w
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by sailfast 4y ago
It’s not, really, but it IS a good thing for feature development speed if that’s what you’re into, and might help a team figure out quickly which data is critical to optimize for once you start putting more serious data loads through your A
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by sailfast 4y ago
An underrated approach here is to ask questions if you think someone is making a mistake, and then see how they answer. "Oh, cool - why do you think X is going to be better than what we've been using?" etc. There's a hug
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by sailfast 5y ago
That’s a straw man. You’re giving your money to a vendor expecting a return, and instead your money is just unusable forever sitting in front of you as a monument to test coverage because of a bug in code. The thing that caused the problem
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by sailfast 5y ago
Good luck in your journey. Sounds like you know yourself well - which is a great start. I believe in you.
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by sailfast 5y ago
The internet is wrong. Nothing happens when you cross the barrier. Do what makes you fulfilled and live without regrets. Nothing worse than wasting the limited time we have worrying about things we cannot change. (talking to myself now haha
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by sailfast 5y ago
I work with a local independent advisor, and while they do make money on commissions they've never advised me to go a direction that doesn't work just to buy a product, and their advice is worth every penny in fees that I pay on t
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by sailfast 5y ago
Whoa. This sounds really tough and I’m sorry you had to go through that.
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by sailfast 5y ago
If the Samaritan had tweeted about how he felt the person really was deserving of help, he would have been signaling. Maybe they scheduled a seminar for their company on how best to help people after having walked by? But the Samaritan acte
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by sailfast 5y ago
Add a Wagtail CMS layer and you'll have a number of agencies / companies potentially ready to use this as a service. Do you plan on providing a hosted version as well, or just the core shipped package?
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by sailfast 5y ago
The dollar is only one currency. SWIFT is the network that allows transactions in multiple currencies across banks easily. There are a huge number of sovereign currencies in the world that you can buy things with, not just one. Probably mor
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by sailfast 5y ago
They're not preventing movement of physical currency - they are preventing use of the existing network and systems to easily move debts around so that it is exceedingly difficult and you have to move physical currency instead of bits &
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by sailfast 5y ago
The past two years has not been real remote work. When you work remote for real you get together in the office every month or so and your relationships stay high bandwidth. The past two years has been forced separation. Forced virtual, and
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by sailfast 5y ago
This is already law in Colorado. From what I’ve seen, however, folks are only required to post the base salary, not the whole band. Either way employers likely end up posting the widest band possible for all positions, so the data may not b
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by sailfast 5y ago
FWIW, no. After the savings and loan crisis a lot of that went away. Especially not typically fraudulent are the APY yield savings accounts whose deposits are insured. Also I doubt you could find countless violations outside of (maybe?) ins
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by sailfast 5y ago
Becoming "your own" domain registrar without having to deal with ICANN was another interesting one to me (after checking into how all those .eth domains popped up). It was exciting when I first looked at it and then I realized tha
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by sailfast 5y ago
Legislation to broaden access for the unbanked and legal docs for non-citizens is the way to solve that use case, not enabling illegal credential sharing to obtain money as a use case (in my opinion)
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by sailfast 5y ago
The complaint system isn’t too terrible to use - at least when I last tried it out for a credit reporting dispute. You’ll likely get a reply from the institution in a week or so, and if they don’t reply in a timely manner it’s a red flag:
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by sailfast 5y ago
A MILLION people? Not one bit? "Perhaps intellectually I would have some compassion for them?" I guess you're proving Stalin (paraphrasing Tucholsky?[0]) was right? "The death of one is a tragedy, but the death of millio
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by sailfast 5y ago
Looks like this is 82 episodes in. Are there any specifically high value ones that people have heard to point me in the right direction? I have some young kids and would be interested in some of this but don’t have hours to devote to a podc
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by sailfast 5y ago
One doesn’t mind until it turns on one, typically. It’s all fine until the monopoly stops operating in good faith and it’s too late to stop it.
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by sailfast 5y ago
I'd be interested in this for some circumstances with the kids knowledge - and generally I'm interested in companies that are trying to do this without an alterior motive (see: Notabli for photo sharing). That said, as a parent, I
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by sailfast 5y ago
The Tile app is also installed on your devices. The tiles ping back to those devices. There's probably some play or other in that data.
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by sailfast 5y ago
Has anyone attempted to sue Google in small claims? For smaller annoyances like losing access to email and/or having a video removed this seems like it might be an option to increase the cost of improper take-downs? That said, not a la
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by sailfast 5y ago
Huge productivity boom after the 2008 recession when everbody had to do the same thing with a ton fewer people, I would expect to see smaller growth as things normalized again over the following few years. That said, not a data scientist -
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by sailfast 5y ago
Happily, my in-laws don’t complain when the turkey is juicy. I also smoke mine, spatchcocked on the grill each year and it’s always come out great. Hard to screw up with a good thermometer and two-zone setup. (The Amazing Ribs technique has
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by sailfast 5y ago
Isaacson has a knack for writing flowing non-fiction prose that make for a great read. Sometimes the detail can border on excruciating but he seems to have resolved this in his later works.

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