scientistem

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by scientistem 9y ago
Right, google drive has a big problem with public file hosting and piracy. If the content is encrypted the safe harbor becomes trivial to preserve.
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by scientistem 9y ago
Just a note, not trying to pick your anecdote, but the experience of something seemingly occuring frequently out of nowhere is exactly the baader-meinhof phenomenon. You’d need to demonstrate a causal link to firmly disprove it, which would
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by scientistem 9y ago
Ehh, as someone with anxiety, it’s not that straightforward. Maybe you join it to socialize and improve your self esteem. Granted, the members I know just really like puzzles.
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by scientistem 9y ago
This is certainly click fraud. Is that fraud in the legal sense?
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by scientistem 9y ago
After email, of course.
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by scientistem 9y ago
Note, media outlets do not have medical degrees, but do have a vested interest in generating controversy.
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by scientistem 9y ago
I think there is (limited) semantic value to single page forms. They also encourage api first design. Is this always worth it? Certainly not. But it does have value.
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by scientistem 9y ago
Well, I’d assume price competition. (I appreciate the response!) How can you expect prices to improve if you can’t shop around?
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by scientistem 9y ago
Hmm, I suppose we have different standards for evidence.
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by scientistem 9y ago
While that may be true, the causal link between government spending and high prices is unclear. The vast majority of waste I see getting healthcare myself is the absolutely massive cost of dealing with insurance itself. This is an industry
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by scientistem 9y ago
That is true, but you’re focusing on the php part rather than the median php position part, which is the relevant point to the discussion.
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by scientistem 9y ago
I would not describe government as heavily involved in health care. The prices you see rising are from lack of meaningful competition and transparency allowing providers and insurance companies to dictate prices virtually arbitrarily and ce
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by scientistem 9y ago
Well, average pay in SF is only high if you ignore the homeless person sleeping on your stoop. In that sense the job would be extremely rewarding compared to other parts of the country. If you only compare yourself to people in like jobs, t
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by scientistem 9y ago
I actually intepreted that as the jobs require a very low level of skill and provide low compensation—exactly what you’d expect from making a job “blue collar”.
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by scientistem 9y ago
I wouldn’t even call it a blue collar job: the labor isn’t very intense, the pay is excellent, and it’s very stable; easily salariable compared to seasonal and contract work (though you can contract if you want).
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by scientistem 9y ago
I think this is most analagous to simd in terms of issueing a single computation over multiple words of data, which would work well for both zeroing data and operating on scalar arrays.
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by scientistem 9y ago
It actually sounds like you’re describing the leadup to wwi. These conditions lead to war, not against it. I’d love to hear a contrary opinion for the downvote I got: gross economic disparity and a large populace that has forgotten war soun
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by scientistem 9y ago
SMS is really hard. While my name isn’t Twilio Engineer, it might as well be SMS engineer.
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by scientistem 9y ago
Well this is true, but it’s certianly a far cry from the high employment prospects i was brought up believe STEM fields offered. My sister is on her second post doc; while the money is perfectly adequate, if she ever burned out she would be