satellites

7 ms·

31.
by satellites 4y ago
> Primarily used for illicit goods and services This is the only actual use case. And it’s not a great look.
32.
by satellites 4y ago
That’s a blatant straw man fallacy. No one here is insinuating that financial institutions are pure and innocent. If anything, crypto news over the past year has proven one thing: that the crypto space is just as corrupt as “traditional fin
33.
by satellites 4y ago
I noticed this happening pre-Covid and gave up on Prime. I didn’t use it enough to justify the price anyway. But I was experiencing 3-4 day shipping instead of 2 days. Not a big deal, but it broke the promise of “free 2 day shipping” in my
34.
by satellites 4y ago
Industrialized humans have a historically abysmal track record of ham-fistedly “optimizing” ecosystems. Any manual intervention into an ecosystem generally requires establishing an indefinite commitment to more manual maintenance. Who deter
35.
by satellites 4y ago
Yes, but in specific quantities, no? Manually depositing them on the surface after extraction would still disrupt the system’s balance.
36.
by satellites 4y ago
Why are you assuming that rare earth metals deep below the surface of the earth would benefit the life ON the surface that has evolved to live in the absence of those metals? Even if for some bizarre reason the metals were beneficial, what
37.
by satellites 4y ago
Yes. It’s farcical at this point.
38.
by satellites 4y ago
Is it really that common? It’s happened to me once, in my 10 years of using Reddit. Not saying my anecdote proves anything but I wonder how rampant it really is.
39.
by satellites 4y ago
Good catch. I assume it was to mitigate the risk of him fighting the extradition or outright fleeing. If he had known their case was this strong, with his former colleagues flipping on him, I wonder if he would have agreed to be extradited
40.
by satellites 4y ago
I can rant about this for a while, but I’ll try to distill it down into a few points. The tasks are repetitive and boring. Many dev teams are poorly managed - they claim to be Agile, but really they use Agile as a smokescreen for micromanag
41.
by satellites 4y ago
Thanks for this! I’ve found a few interesting posts already. Appreciate the link. I’ll update this comment with any specific feedback but I like it so far.
42.
by satellites 4y ago
This is blatantly false. The Portland Police have more funding now than ever.
43.
by satellites 4y ago
Statistical correlations are a subset of reasoning in general
44.
by satellites 4y ago
Good points, and honestly I’m more curious to try out Mastodon after this discussion than I was before.
45.
by satellites 4y ago
> Reddit also has similar issues of being forced to choose a "governing" subreddit I’ve been on Reddit for 10 years and I’ve only experienced this… once? Twice at the most. It happened so long ago I can’t even remember the spec
46.
by satellites 4y ago
That’s not the point the article was making. Imagine if, by subscribing to /r/books, your posts on /r/funny were governed by the moderators of /r/books, even though they are unrelated subreddits. (I know this h
47.
Ask HN: Transitioning out of Web App CRUD, into other CS fields?
6 points by satellites 4y ago|5 comments
48.
by satellites 4y ago
I’m telling you that there IS demand, there IS need, but capitalism will not provide because market incentives are not enough to correct the situation. Reality is not a thought experiment, and “supply and demand” is a simplistic reduction t
49.
by satellites 4y ago
… unless you live in a food desert, in which case that capitalist society is failing to provide for basic needs. This is a complex problem. Your reductive takes don’t really address the issue at hand and instead seek to wave it away. “I alr
50.
by satellites 4y ago
Good point. I hadn’t considered that type of housing. It got me thinking though. My partner got evicted when she was younger (early twenties) because her roommate was lying and stealing rent money. Her credit was shot and she had to live wi
51.
by satellites 4y ago
As mentioned in the article, some low income housing units literally don’t have kitchens or don’t allow cooking. This blew my mind and is a facet of poverty I hadn’t even considered. Also, are you actually making the point that food deserts
52.
by satellites 4y ago
I'm a noob when it comes to stock trading rules, but can someone explain how this is different than what Jim Cramer does on his show? Cramer has been exposed for knowingly giving people bad stock trading advice. Is it just that Cramer
53.
by satellites 4y ago
To anyone curious about exploring this angle more, I recommend Noam Chomsky’s book “Imperial Ambitions.” It’s a collection of interview transcripts where he discusses the US wars in the Middle East and the political and economic motivations
54.
by satellites 4y ago
True, but that’s on the bubble of a college campus. In the media and in non-college circles it was close to heresy to criticize the war during the first few years. Much more so to say it was a profit-driven sham. Not to say no one was speak
55.
by satellites 4y ago
Agreed. This is typical anti-intellectualism disguised in academic language. They make frequent appeals to the past, talk about the "West" as a unified concept (a favorite of the modern Right that sounds catchy but has no real sub
56.
by satellites 4y ago
In the rare instances where you do have bugs in the compiler, have you been able to resolve them reasonably? Or is it deeper language issues that you then have to work around? Not trying to poke holes; it seems really cool and I want to try
57.
by satellites 4y ago
If you’re not opposed to contracting through bigger staffing firms, there is still plenty out there. But full time positions do seem to have slowed down from my anecdotal perspective.
58.
by satellites 4y ago
That it is any factor at all is ridiculous.
59.
by satellites 4y ago
All of his sycophants tend to think he’s a genius engineer and all the ideas his company produced are his own.
60.
by satellites 4y ago
Yeah, warming oceans are a huge part of it. Jellies can thrive further and further north as the oceans fail to cool off as much in the winter. So their habitat is expanding, while the habitat of other species is shrinking.

More ›