salawat

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by salawat 2y ago
Simple. They weren't. Not their problem.
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by salawat 2y ago
The word describing what you're talking about is plutarchy, not patriarchy. A plutarchy is a system of the well heeled and connected, maintained for the well heeled and connected, everyone else be damned. https://en.m.wikipe
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by salawat 2y ago
Boy, somebody should tell this person they've got it all wrong. Quality Assurance is so 10 years ago. They just have AI or stupid devs do it themselves now.
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by salawat 2y ago
>But I'm not owed a decent salary in return for following my own dreams rather than my employer's dreams. Nobody is. Why should that employer's dreams take primacy over anyone elses? The answer: there isn't a reason w
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by salawat 2y ago
Firmware/uCode. Anything created by the entertainment industry in the name of DRM. Trusted Computing Environment. Dark patterns related to engagement. Everything in the SEO practitioners toolkit. Basically, want to unmake the last 20 y
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by salawat 2y ago
Wellbutrin is not an SSRI. Wellbutrin works via the dopaminergic pathway. Same receptors that are generally targets for ADHD.
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by salawat 2y ago
>The world has chosen QuickBooks. This choice was made under duress and with corrupt power brokering. And yet knowing this has gone on, you refuse to continue to fight the good fight even still? Sounds like you're part of the proble
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by salawat 2y ago
Did you miss the legislatiin requiring KYC programs for IaaS providers? Basically adds AWS and all othe American clouds to the bucket of companies having to surveil for people on OFAC. So yes. That's exactly what they'll do.
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by salawat 2y ago
Note union members: in the unlikely event you are here. That money is still in the corporate war chest and could be thrown behind things like lobbying. I'd advise the Union not slouch in bolstering it's relationship with elected r
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by salawat 2y ago
Most search engines don't even actually do raw boolean searching anymore in favor of NN powered NL voodoo that takes an entire planets worth of internet and reduces it down to maybe 200 of the wrong site. All because we can't have
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by salawat 2y ago
...In much the same way as the Hindenburg would have been fine had it not been for that pesky static.
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by salawat 2y ago
Commercial is just Government by another name. walks like a duck, quacks like a duck. Is granted duckhood by the Ur-Duck.
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by salawat 2y ago
How do you think they made money? It certainly wasn't from licensing their SDK that intentionally spoofed 3rd patry banks in a way that deliberately misled users into assuming they were logging in with the bank directly instead of hand
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by salawat 2y ago
>You have to omit China and other Asian countries from the graphs that show Europe is falling behind so to claim that free market and libertarianism is driving innovation and growth, because if you include Asia you end up claiming that i
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by salawat 2y ago
>> If you are a scientist looking for research ideas which are pro-social, and have the potential to create a whole new field, you should consider building formal (mathematical) bridges between results on overfitting in machine learni
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by salawat 2y ago
>Actually humans are much worse in this regard. The top performer on my team had a divorce and his productivity dropped by like a factor of 3 and quality fell of a cliff. Wow. Nice of you to see a coworker go through a traumatic life eve
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by salawat 2y ago
Rule of Capitalism #1: If it is found to be good, but one can't make money off it, it must be made illegal to produce run, then replaced with something that sucks horribly, but can potentially be profitted off of.
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by salawat 2y ago
...And they aren't unreasonable when these things have been rendered non-rivalrous goods. Tell me, what price should your parents have charged you for teaching you to tie your shoes? To cook? To clean? Get back to me when the cost of d
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by salawat 2y ago
Get a color laser. MFC 3770. Never worry about being able to print again.
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by salawat 2y ago
0 unless what I'm interested in is that Professor's very narrowly tailored niche. It's called Piled Higher and Deeper for a reason.
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by salawat 2y ago
Reply: what's my resource budget? Not figuring out something utterly pointless because you won't want to spend the resources to make it happen. See: the full rewrite/retool
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by salawat 2y ago
You mean the difference between wholesale price of the manufacturer and the negotiated discount by the PBM right? Your use of pronouns obfuscates who you're talking about.
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by salawat 2y ago
The assumption there is that trackability is a desirable characteristic to have in a technical system. As someone who sees technical systems as the onramps to centralized abuse by institutional power, I don't see trackability as a feat
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by salawat 2y ago
That's a Helldivers 2 reference, and it doesn't reflect well for your case. I for one, am glad the work of satire exists so we can once and for all have a real talk around how phrases like "Spreading Democracy" can over
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by salawat 2y ago
Realize that literally everyone in the business world is going to spin themselves as some doer of good, and leave the damage they do completely unarticulated. Be very picky about who you help, because often, behind the guise of a do gooder,
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by salawat 2y ago
...You must be working for a different government than I've experienced. Government orgs will initially suffer from siloing problems, but once a synergy is uncovered it tends to get leveraged hard after a while. Remember: when it com
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by salawat 2y ago
Welcome to Hacker News/YCombinator. It's what they do here. Ever since joining the community, it's been a speedrun of things explicitly covered as unethical during my CS Ethics course. Mainly stay here to keep a finger on how
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by salawat 2y ago
Actually, this is incorrect. Pen registers are generally considered fine because they are applied in a specific, limited manner, with minimal injury to the privacy of the populace. There are specific legal tests applied to surveillance tech
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by salawat 2y ago
>Enter share buybacks. This is where the company buys back its own stock on the open market. This reduces supply and hopefully raises the price for remaining shareholders. Which if stocks come with voting rights means shedding influence
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by salawat 2y ago
Solution: for e supremacy of compliance with regulations over fiscal performance. You have to be able to check all of the boxes reliably before we can talk about innovating or optimizing.

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