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by sailfast 6y ago
I really feel this comment. Especially during transition it’s hard to see the “to-be legacy” system as worthy of the effort because the new stuff will be here so soon! Until it isn’t because life happens and you’re left with a really shaky
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by sailfast 6y ago
Would this have an impact on transmission rates if a virus did allow for airborne transmission?
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by sailfast 6y ago
> Dominion plans to use about $3 billion of the after-tax proceeds to buy back its shares later this year. So, they sold this asset to buy back shares? This seems like a seriously short-sighted play.
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by sailfast 6y ago
They are required by law to fund 75 years of their pension obligations. Because of this, they run in the red, not because the business model is completely flawed. Further, rural routes are things that should continue but are cost prohibitiv
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by sailfast 6y ago
"My opponent supports the attorney general having access to your porn habits. I support your privacy" is a pretty straightforward simplified riposte to your above oversimplification.
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by sailfast 6y ago
I reached out to my representatives on this when the Act was first proposed. I'm confused about the changes that have happened since that time and the post does not say anything about what has changed. What does "Advancing" m
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by sailfast 6y ago
What tax dollars are you talking about here? The USPS is only in the red because of congressionally mandated pension funding requirements. It’s a business otherwise. Not sure why everybody’s talking about tax dollars. https://abo
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by sailfast 6y ago
Right. There will be fewer jobs that will be more commoditized, therefore driving down wages and reducing hours so the outcome of that CDL may not pay as much as it otherwise would with human drivers. Companies aren’t just going autonomous
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by sailfast 6y ago
It seems like a fair compromise to say “you have to work our hours because we believe it’s important to have this overlap” rather than “sorry we’re only hiring in North and South America”
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by sailfast 6y ago
SOME truck drivers (the ones that keep their jobs) will get a lifestyle "increase" because it will be local, but demand will drop substantially. Even so, these "lifestyle increase" jobs would only exist until autonomous
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by sailfast 6y ago
There’s one for everything.
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by sailfast 6y ago
Yeah the TL;DR: on this is “Bill Barr (or any AG) could read all of your emails without a warrant if you vote for this.” I know they would legally require a warrant to read them, maybe, but he’d have the access without it. Not a fun thought
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by sailfast 6y ago
Crypto is classified as an armament for export control. I’m keeping mine under the second amendment, since the folks who wrote this bill seem to care about that one. As an aside: does that mean US DoD will get a back door as well? As a secu
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by sailfast 6y ago
What is the best way to opt-out / avoid tracking like this? The Oracle opt-out page requires providing your physical address / email / name and then only sets a cookie in your single browser.
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by sailfast 6y ago
Sure, good point. I’ll bite. The first sentence Wikipedia “monetary contract between two parties” definition leaves out the trading bit you include from other places. Here’s what the Financial Accounting Standards Board says: ( https:/
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by sailfast 6y ago
Just because it's not traded doesn't mean it is not a financial instrument. You are paying into a pool of money that promises to pay you a certain sum of money above your contribution if something happens. That is defined by a mon
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by sailfast 6y ago
The technicality in six point font is the risk you're not allowed to take because it would cost you more. The whole point of it is to spread this risk out as broadly as possible for the cheapest price possible based on known risk. Know
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by sailfast 6y ago
Find a place with some honest people, working on something that matters. You don't need to be some legendary hacker to work with solid people in a con-person free zone. It sounds like you're perhaps working jobs where, if a broade
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by sailfast 6y ago
And the gunslingers were overly romanticized for years and years in movies and only existed for a brief period. Also they died a lot.
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by sailfast 6y ago
An automated test suite with snapshots and contracts for data.
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by sailfast 6y ago
$180K per car to manufacture is really quite expensive!
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by sailfast 6y ago
How much of the overall investment was done in the hopes that some level of autonomy would turn all these minuses into pluses within a couple years? I get investing in a loser if there’s key enabling tech like this “in the pipeline” but it
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by sailfast 6y ago
Yup - this is a much better way of describing the intent of my words. Thanks.
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by sailfast 6y ago
Yes this is a much more elegant way of putting it. Thanks.
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by sailfast 6y ago
> if the records have already been deleted, or indeed are automatically deleted after the request is made, no crime is committed This isn’t true under US law. No matter where you conduct your work, if you destroy a record without capturi
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by sailfast 6y ago
The goal was to do it for the same price per seat as an economy ticket, and in a carbon-neutral way because of how the fuel was manufactured. https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/29/16383048/elon-musk-spacex..
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by sailfast 6y ago
In your specific SalesForce scenario they built SalesForce to stop people from coding CRM systems, and then people continue to make money building connected abstractions / Apps on top of other systems that are SalesForce compatible so
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by sailfast 6y ago
May be more of the same but I find my filter also declines substantially, so I basically turn into a colossal pain in the rear to deal with. Longer-fused patience or optimistic thinking becomes short fuse rage and negativity. There is no ba
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by sailfast 6y ago
Maybe? It seems that it is more about whatever metric VCs are excited about is what will lead to the next bubble. What are you measuring? Revenue? Is it viral coefficient? Is it revenue per customer? Is it lifetime revenue above acquisition
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by sailfast 6y ago
If you are a citizen of the united states, you get a vote if you're 18, according to the constitution. No tests, IDs, or other things are required. To add any additional burden is counter to the constitution, and as a result any additi

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