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by sepositus 2y ago
To play devil's advocate, are we at a state where you can confidently say the design is sloppy? I feel it's akin to looking at an incomplete puzzle and judging it prematurely.
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by sepositus 2y ago
> It reached the front page of Hacker News, even though readers there are generally hostile to cryptocurrency-focused stories. The real litmus test :)
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by sepositus 2y ago
In six years? We're talking pre-COVID graduations for both of us. I also started out making $1,200 a month in the U.S military. I chose the military precisely because I grew up in a very poor area where drug use and gang killings were
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by sepositus 2y ago
My sibling and I are about 6 years apart and the difference is astounding. They have no income, savings, and are still living with my parents. I have several kids, own my home, and have a large emergency fund. I still haven’t quite figured
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by sepositus 2y ago
> Sounds like a good solution. Not having children then I should also have the choice to not pay any tax towards other people's children's education. I'd certainly be in favor of that. I don't expect anyone to subsidi
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by sepositus 2y ago
> Well you can take them there, you just need to move. This is what I meant earlier. Since you don't see a problem here, we're basically just talking past each other. The fact that I can't register my child within any scho
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by sepositus 2y ago
> Secondly, I am confused as to what you think should be done. Because it appears that you do not like paying a lot of tax money but expect there to be affordable quality education available? I shouldn't be locked into a specific sc
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by sepositus 2y ago
Doesn't that feel a bit disingenuous? It sounds like you might be coming from a very privileged background and haven't been placed in a similar situation that is primarily outside of your control. It also seems to suggest that I h
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by sepositus 2y ago
> Secularism is the principle of seeking to conduct human affairs based on naturalistic considerations, uninvolved with religion. It is most commonly thought of as the separation of religion from civil affairs and the state and may be br
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by sepositus 2y ago
I'm not immediately aware of any studies, but I would be shocked if there wasn't a correlation. Low-income families have a higher probability of raising children in a dysfunctional home who then become a burden on the local school
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by sepositus 2y ago
This completely ignores the problem. I shouldn't have to sell my house and move to go to a school I can drive my kids to. But, to answer your confusion, the median house price almost doubles in this area. So it's economically infe
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by sepositus 2y ago
How about sending my children to the school 20 miles away that is doing orders of magnitude better than my local district? Not an option apparently. Even tried several routes, including appealing to the school board, and I'm effectivel
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by sepositus 2y ago
> Stanley said this order sets the country “on a path to educational authoritarianism”. Paying large sums of taxes for a school that is unquestionably failing my children, with no option to attend another school (without shelling an unfa
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by sepositus 2y ago
I happen to know Nix, but it’s from previous experience where I also learned to greatly dislike it. Anyways, did an interview yesterday where the company was using Nix to build and they were completely shocked I had Nix experience. So yeah,
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by sepositus 2y ago
Cool platform. Really keen on seeing the Dagger course finished.
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by sepositus 2y ago
All of the places I've worked at that have come close to this style of self-promotion have been dominated by kingdom builders and professional bullshitters.
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by sepositus 2y ago
You might be interested in reading Walz vs New York [1] for some background on this subject. As with most things, it's nuanced, but you essentially have two choices here: tax the churches or don't. Most have agreed that the former
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by sepositus 2y ago
Yes, this is a crucial distinction to make. The fact of the matter is that you have to treat GitHub Actions like a compromised system. Sure, there's not a ton of steps you can take for protecting builds if it's your primary builde
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by sepositus 2y ago
> These are women who wanted the baby That's an interesting point. I haven't interviewed an extensive number of post-abortive mothers, so my view is, of course, not representative of the whole, but in those few cases I have (vi
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by sepositus 2y ago
In general, I prefer not to impose my views on people via the government. If the majority of people feel having "in God we trust" on the currency is beneficial, then so be it. If they don't, I won't stand in their way. T
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by sepositus 2y ago
Or just get lucky and end up with a Dr. Stone [1] :) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Stone
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by sepositus 2y ago
I suppose this will surprise you, but I'm strictly against religion and government mixing. When Jesus said, "My Kingdom is not of this world," I take that very seriously. It's why I've never associated with the Repu
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by sepositus 2y ago
I don’t usually expect nuanced theological discussions here. It’s usually the equivalent of bumper sticker comments. The “appetite” for Young Earth Creationism amongst my Christian group is very low if nonexistent. In fact we often spend mo
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by sepositus 2y ago
I suspect a large part of the problem is a lack of experienced engineers with the capacity to do interviews. As someone who often gets stuck with them, I can attest to how draining they can be, especially if you're doing them correctly
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by sepositus 2y ago
More than ever modern interviews are pointless. I just finished an SRE technical interview where I had to efficiently solve a problem around maximizing profit in a theoretical market setting. I’m guessing it was just a reframed leet code qu
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by sepositus 2y ago
I’m not sure that’s the whole picture. Followed to the logical conclusion, everyone should have the right to pirate whatever books they want and then feed them into a local LLM. Which leads to less kickback to the author, which means they c
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by sepositus 2y ago
This is more or less my view. However, when I say the "humans are bad" group, I mean the people basing their decisions purely on emotion or virtue and who are usually incapable of coming up with such a nuanced view. The same goes
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by sepositus 2y ago
I understand where you're coming from, I'm just saying there's been many companies I've worked for where protecting the user _was_ the most profitable play. And that's what we did. Yes, you're less likely to se
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by sepositus 2y ago
The argument is that there's less profit in selling out user trust. Of course, this heavily depends on the context, especially if you have a regulatory lock-in where users can't leave. However, there are cases where keeping user t
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by sepositus 2y ago
> I live in a city. Building it destroyed some wilderness to give half a million people somewhere to live. I think that was a very good thing. This is likely going to be the point of disagreement. Depending on where someone falls in the

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