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by sesteel 6y ago
Less regulation has generally led to more public harm. Toxic waste in rivers, siphoning of pensions and retirement plans, ponzi schemes, and on and on and on. There is always a balance to strike and then a constant rebalancing. We must g
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by sesteel 6y ago
This is usually the correct position. Regulated competition and controlled monopolies try to provide the best of both worlds. Private companies will always push for deregulation or find ways to exercise a monopolistic advantage because th
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by sesteel 6y ago
While you chose not to share what poor outcomes you are considering; your comment compels me to state the obvious: nearly all choices have trade offs.
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by sesteel 6y ago
That is a fair point, but I believe current law (in the US) still protects iPhone owners who jailbreak their phones.
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by sesteel 6y ago
Apple is gatekeeping a market of their own design. I am going to try to construct (probably a poor) analogy. It is as if Apple started a town and a bunch of people moved in establishing a new market. The only way to deliver goods to this
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by sesteel 7y ago
In order for capitalism to work, money has to change hands. Typically, money changes hands for an item or service of perceived value. Again, typically, there is a profit calculated into that transaction. That small fraction which constit
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by sesteel 7y ago
Same! I installed the Pop! OS Linux distro and everything seems fine. It doesn’t have the battery life I’d hope, but I have a terminal and 32GB memory for less than a new Macbook with less memory. The keyboard works well.
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by sesteel 7y ago
War and the preparation for war is a feedback loop. The military industrial complex is a symptom of technology. The more tech we develop, the more things we have to protect and the number of ways we can be attacked increases non-linearly.
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by sesteel 7y ago
No worries; I'm just trying to be clear.
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by sesteel 7y ago
I don't hate Java, it is a tool like any other. I only bring it up because I have extensive experience with it being used in the government realm. It was not a passing comment. Exporting sensitive systems to other countries takes spe
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by sesteel 7y ago
Traditionally, government people have trust issues with programming languages as the compiler is, itself, an attack vector. If you are using a nightly release of the compiler, it may be assumed by some that the compiler is not vetted for s
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by sesteel 7y ago
Well, yeah. The surprise was actually finding a way to build it (to the Germans); I don't know what Japan knew or didn't know about the science.
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by sesteel 7y ago
Well, I'm not saying it isn't totally BS; but I understand the motivation to overturn every stone when talking about defense. It isn't like the US didn't surprise a country with new physics during WWII.
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by sesteel 7y ago
I tend to agree, but if the sightings are real and the activity is increasing. The US might want to inform the opponent that we know who is violating our airspace, we know it isn't alien technology, and we know how they are doing it.
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by sesteel 7y ago
You can't defend against what you don't know about. The US invests time and money into a wide range of research topics simply to know what is possible. Military research is a bubbling cauldron of activity.
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by sesteel 7y ago
Yes! I understand that it feels inconvenient to read, but what is REALLY inconvenient is hunting down all occurrences of a magic string comparison that is poorly defined.
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by sesteel 7y ago
If this project was trying to prove there is a space for a language with the features as described, it was a success. Many people want a magical compiler that has simple syntax, no calling overhead to C, and automatic memory management wit
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by sesteel 7y ago
Traditionally, most people start with an interest in computing. I was a biology major that stayed up late at night learning C++ instead of studying biology. I ended up switching into computer science as a junior and never looked back. If
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by sesteel 7y ago
I am not sure the following advice will help, but it has helped my teenage daughter. What helped me the most when I was a teenager was to discover that not washing my face frequently reduced facial acne. As gross as this may sound, I used
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by sesteel 7y ago
True, but it seems knowing how I'm being hacked helps me avoid it. There are several comments in this thread that share devious methods for increasing conversion. Now I know some new things to look out for.
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by sesteel 7y ago
Agreed; but once reading through https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ it is nice to have a deck like this. I wish it would be standard that all docs and books would include an Anki deck. I cannot remember squa
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by sesteel 7y ago
This is exactly the kind of post I come to HN to read. Thank you for posting this as it attempts to answer an interesting question I didn't even think to ask.
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by sesteel 7y ago
I might not understand what you are getting at, but all value originates from desire (demand) and scarcity (supply).
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by sesteel 7y ago
I think you are correct. Typically, there needs to be pain before there is action that is human nature. That pain traditionally has come in the form of epidemics, famine, and war. A large part of climate change denial is driven by economi
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by sesteel 7y ago
I think many people view UBI as transformative (as you suggest), though they don't always talk about it in those terms. Increasingly, production and services will be automated leaving fewer and fewer jobs for people. In a far off dys
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by sesteel 7y ago
What constitutes a defense contractor to you and I are obviously different, but I don't hold that it is a matter of opinion or interpretation. If you've been awarded a defense contract, you are a defense contractor.
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by sesteel 7y ago
You either are or you aren't a defense contractor. Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have been competing for a $10 billion dollar defense contract. Google just dropped out. Aside, Boeing is considered a defense contractor by many, but o
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by sesteel 7y ago
Not when talking about payscales. To say defense contractors don't pay FAANG salaries when FAANG companies are in the defense business is a failure of awareness. I was simply pointing this out.
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by sesteel 7y ago
Companies have different rules and expectations. I was paid for every overtime hour I worked. Early in my career I was still learning and it was worthwhile, both financially and technically, right out of school. It can simply be a 9 to 5
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by sesteel 7y ago
It should be noted: Amazon is a defense contractor. Google is/was a defense contractor. Apple is a defense contractor. Microsoft is a defense contractor. SpaceX is a defense contractor. IBM is a defense contractor. ...

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