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by seiji 13y ago
Drop 60 kg of knives on a city then see how many people you kill versus dropping 60 kg of uranium with technology surrounding it.
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by seiji 13y ago
You want a doctor who defers to your judgment as a non-doctor?
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by seiji 13y ago
It's like walking up and saying "Could you send me an electronic mail message to my apple internet phone?" It labels them as "outsider" with poser knowledge, except they wield power and define internal politics (an
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by seiji 13y ago
Okay, that's the one thing all you old people[1] jumped on as the Offense Token of the post. But, really, it's old guys in suits in the government/military who are obsessed with labeling things "Cyber." I was thinki
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by seiji 13y ago
Lists are meant to be linked.
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by seiji 13y ago
usually hacking with Ruby/Python/PHP etc Erlang is designed to create solid production systems. If someone is obsessed with quick hacks and fad-of-the-week programming, they will feel uncomfortable in a real development environ
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by seiji 13y ago
Hearing suits (usually over 50) talk about technology and the Internet gets painful. They're obsessed with the word "Cyber." "We have a war on Cyber!" "We need to hire more people to make Cyber secure!"
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by seiji 13y ago
Is there empirical data showing non-zero correlation?
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by seiji 13y ago
A wise man once said: when you have a flabby culture of consensus that rejects those who offend the few, that’s exactly what you’re going to get: risk-minimizers, not excellence-maximizers. It’s generally agreed upon that some people are t
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by seiji 13y ago
I've been Reddit-free for over two years. You can do it! How? Just stop. You can't peek. You can't view it for "just a minute." You can't "just browse." The only solution is to not visit at all.
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by seiji 13y ago
Training to failure increases sarcoplasmic hypertrophy (makes muscles bigger by storing more sarcoplasm, but doesn't increase strength since sarcoplasm is a liquid that doesn't contract (read: impart strength)). If you're at
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by seiji 13y ago
My initial thought at the name: We're naming projects after Internet famous founders now? I call dibs on Projects Altman and Collison.
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by seiji 13y ago
10lbs over say six to eight months. That's a long time. Go keto and drop 5 pounds a week.
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by seiji 13y ago
Relevance? The Bay Area is one of the most wealthy MSAs on Earth, but it also has the highest homeless population complete with constant childish gang rivalries.
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by seiji 13y ago
FULL DISCLOSURE: I work at Apple Unless you got your message vetted through PR, you're in danger of termination now. (Completely not joking. It's happened before.)
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by seiji 13y ago
Wow, that page is full of garbage. Use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-message instead.
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by seiji 13y ago
I know programmers at microsoft who use SO as an intern. They just post questions about strange windows problems they can't work around. Somebody on SO will respond with a 1,000 word essay with 500 lines of code about it within a day,
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by seiji 13y ago
Valleywag is a banned domain like youtube and a hundred others.
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by seiji 13y ago
Yeah, it's possible they were HR-level accounts that actually run payroll and not just employee accounts. The more power you wield in an organization the less competent with technology you are.
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by seiji 13y ago
ADP is horrible, but their website can't change financial details (it only shows paystubs and tax forms). You can kinda change things through ADP FlexDirect, but all direct deposit enrollment is done elsewhere. The ADP employee site
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by seiji 13y ago
At least nothing of value was lost?
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by seiji 13y ago
They have powerful nerds with money combined with constant internal reorgs due to backstabbing politics. "stepped down" is the corporate version of political "to spend more time with his family." "You don't wan
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by seiji 13y ago
Something I've never understood: when opting out they don't let you walk through the metal detector, they always force you to go around it. What's up with that? [Source: opted out ~5 times in the past year at terminals lacki
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by seiji 13y ago
Based on the number of people who don't use their phone for a boarding pass, there won't be a problem of the public signing up for an extra service.
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by seiji 13y ago
Huh whatnow? The original iPod (and modern iPods minus the Touch) don't run iOS at all. The iPod gave Apple the time to stall until they could build what Steve wanted to make in 1999, but the world didn't have the capacity to cre
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by seiji 13y ago
Thought experiment: Without the Internet, where would the recent 20,000 new IPO-based millionaires in SF/SV have come from? What else would they be doing?
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by seiji 13y ago
I'm holding up 27" monitors with this cheap little thing: http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=109&cp_id=10828&cs_id=... Plenty of free desk space! (Also, in the pro-sub-30" argument: it's diffi
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by seiji 13y ago
they have been effectively fixed That's a big part of the preference dynamic too. The price per resolution got stuck and didn't budge above 27" for years. Hopefully one day I'll be happy with four 50" 8K screens.
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by seiji 13y ago
The artificial split limit is a benefit for me. Helps self organize things. Watch a movie on the left screen, web browse on the right screen. Keynote in the left screen, reference materials in the right screen, etc.
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by seiji 13y ago
50" for my desktop. What? Most people I know can't even handle the current 30" monitors. It feels nicer having two 27" monitors from a not-grossly-exceeding-peripheral-vision viewpoint.

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