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by sangnoir 2y ago
It's legal speak for "They are looking at who we have wiretaps on", which any country would be interested in, just to see which of their assets are being watched, for counter-counter-espionage purposes.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Which has a lot of implications None of which I expressed in my brief comment, but you're projecting from what others have said or done. You are arguing against a stereotypical position I do not hold, and I have no desire keep exp
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I suppose that's one argument a public defender may make to a judge when it goes to trial. I don't think the argument would fly though.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Also as others have pointed out, please stop crapping on the trades I never "crapped" on the trades like you imagined I did, they are a perfectly fine career choice.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> The only issue here is with the attitude that a career in the trades is somehow inferior to getting a degree I made no such claim - the word I used ( commit ) was chosen with care, and is neutral. > They also happen to earn a lot mo
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Barrels of ink have been used to debunk various flavors of Social Darwinism by better thinkers and writers than I. I wouldn't commit a kid who struggles with math in 3rd grade to a life in the trades. I suppose HN has an over-represent
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Another theory goes that we should provide more resources to the best and brightest students so that they go on to become great leaders and experts in their fields and then improve society for everyone. I'd call it "trickle d
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by sangnoir 2y ago
If someone manages to break into a vehicle without an active account with payment details on record, it can drive them right to the police (or shelter).
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by sangnoir 2y ago
How over-fitted are their models to the cameras? I'd expect a layered architecture where a sensor layer does object-recognition and classification and then hands over this representation of the world to a higher-level planning model. Y
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Doesn't matter: if they can't secure their data, the contract is terminated, and they possibly get taken to court.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Tellingly, the propaganda and AI slop are free. The combination of democracy and capitalism has a multitude of failure modes.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Yet I still disagree with being the set for life, in my area I think this might be the root of the difference in perspective. Very few people can be set for life maintaining a lifestyle only just afforded by their income. You may hav
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by sangnoir 2y ago
What does "set for life" mean? If you're earning $788,000 per year (top 1%), there are many places you can live and be set for life in the US, or even in the state one is currently living in after working for a few years. Obv
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Languages bring along a culture. Sone teams buck the culture of the broader language ecosystem, most do not. IMO, the C# culture is closer to enterprise Java than it is to Typescript, for good or for ill.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
You may have misremembered an old Onion News bit[1] about the CIA requesting congress to renew funding for its "'Facebook' program" 1. https://youtu.be/ZJ380SHZvYU
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> This might also be a microcosm of why the working class is pissed off in America I know it's topical, but I really don't think the working class on America is pissed because they are struggling to increase their annual inco
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Every demographic crisis involving low birthrates is an immigration melting pot waiting for the population to get desperate enough to change policies. Unless people accept the reality that perpetual growth is impossible, and that the e
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by sangnoir 2y ago
The FCC and FTC have a huge say on this. See the scandal with bulk-loaded, astroturfed public comments on broadband under the former Trump-appointed FCC chair. The FCC determines what broadband is, and which companies get federal government
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> And if it's not community-owned, it needs to be regulated with open access requirements. What kind of communist, socialistic talk is this? It's frankly anti-American and hurts the linchpin of the best country on earth, out jo
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Everyone has a price. If you reject the offer but the ISP in the neighboring community doesn't, they'll grow into your area and use predatory pricing to get drive you out of business. A lot of roll-ups happen as the original owner
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Did you consider that the AI screeners would have liked the AI veneer? That CV will be "read" more times by a machine than it will be by humans. Someone should publish an RFC for a machine-to-machine resume spec so we can ditch th
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Because it's in society's best interest not to have impaired people driving; whether it's due to substances taken, illness or age.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Everybody knows, like the man said, "Trade wars are easy to win"... right up to the moment the other side starts buying grain from Brazil instead of the American midwest.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Bonds forged in fire are stronger - this has been known since Rome needed soldiers. Bootcamp doesn't require sleep deprivation, adversarial leadership,and that level of physical strain, but shared suffering increases unit cohesion. I
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by sangnoir 2y ago
The oft-repeated question "What could be worse than a genocide?" was ill-thought-out, first-order thinking, IMO. Regardless, we are going to find out the higher order results soon.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> The reality is post-covid was an inflationary period because of hyper consumerism That was just an outgrowth of high monetary supply during COVID to shore up the numbers and prevent economic collapse due to a steep and sudden drop of e
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by sangnoir 2y ago
There's a built-in assumption that there would be no constraints applied on nested simulation anywhere further down the stack, which is IMO unlikely, unless every layer has unlimited compute, or otherwise interested in investigating ne
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> “Free market” usually excludes the use of violence How can contracts be enforced without coercive force if one party decides not to follow the agreement?
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> But they don't suck because of lack of effort - they suck because there are real physical constraints. They do suck due to lack of effort or investment. FANG companies have remote dev experiences that are decent - or even great
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Not very well, it sounds like, if the CTO thought they weren't "behaving". That is not a healthy environment.

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