shmatt

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by shmatt 5y ago
so much this. the discussion around NSO (specifically in Israel this past week) has become so exhausting NSO marketing enjoy the fact they are shown as some super powered company who has been able and always will be able to get full control
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by shmatt 5y ago
These companies want more cash heavy users. Like those older than 50. There is absolutely no way my parents could figure out 2fa in any way other than phone call/sms. They would be cutting out the less technical crowd, which is exactly
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by shmatt 5y ago
Once the method exists. i'd just assume its everywhere We know about Pegasus/NSO and its a fun subject to follow, but in all honesty, every engineer privy to the 0-day bank that powers it could build one of their own, or sell it t
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by shmatt 5y ago
Health officials in other countries have found it is much easier to detect omicron in the throat, and not the nose, with these antigen tests. This started with a big wave of people who were PCR positive but nose antigen negative. When swabb
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by shmatt 5y ago
Well, my landlord raised my rent 40% this year. So you better believe that made me start looking for another job It's nice to think an employees's world revolves around office culture. Until Bright Horizons hand you that $4500 chi
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by shmatt 5y ago
A cost of a nanny (on the books) or a full time 8am-6pm-ish day care 5 days a week in SF/NYC/Seattle There aren't even that many options for parents, many under 5 day care companies won't do 10 hour days. Lots of "2
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by shmatt 5y ago
> you guarantee employee turnover Why? is your theory - are companies adding COLA to new offers and no COLA to existing employees? Pay bands and offers have been about the same from the numbers i've seen in the past year or so. If a
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by shmatt 5y ago
If you're ready to compare salaries between U.S and Germany, you should also discuss free healthcare, free childcare from 12 months, and the ~100 euro a month cost under 12 months. Now compare to the "rich" American ~$4500&#x
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by shmatt 5y ago
The chip shortage can affect farms. Their new pick up or tractor might cost 40% more There is also a big labor shortage. If you're in the U.S a lot of your basket is coming from California. In 2020 H2A visa holders (farm workers) were
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by shmatt 5y ago
You write most importantly about ageism and then by the way about “dont fancy doing all the BS prep needed for interviews anyway” I’ve worked with plenty of non management engineers in your age group in corporate America. Absolutely none of
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by shmatt 5y ago
Good for Serbia for implementing some centralized system. A PCR test result in the U.S has absolutely no way of being verified, either negative or positive In Israel, which swabs every person who lands at the airport. There is a suspiciousl
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by shmatt 5y ago
Warranties and Lemon Laws cover the first few cases For the others, indeed buyers should see this more as a lease type contract for the first year, where you can't just get rid of it without paying a fine
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by shmatt 5y ago
If you're stating the $ amount and not BTC though, it might be worth $70m by the time you purchase the BTC and your receiver sells them... or $200m, who knows 1 BTC = 1 BTC still true though
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by shmatt 5y ago
Reddit profits don't rely on cheap subsidized electricity in a 3rd world country
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by shmatt 5y ago
I think the issue is - do companies who give them information also get access to it for people outside their org Others have wrote this in the thread, but anecdotally I once tried to push up what I considered a low ball offer, and lied abou
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by shmatt 5y ago
For any of us corporate workers, Equifax runs a service called "The Work Number" that has, for a big group of people, every single cent you ever made, who payed it, and when I only learned about it recently. When I requested a rep
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by shmatt 5y ago
The same thing that happens in every marketplace - be it sneakers (StockX), actual stocks, and beanie babies The thing is, and this is true for every market including the S&P500 - until the new money slows down, people will still profit
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by shmatt 5y ago
Can you expand? Investors are risk-heavy VCs who expect more than 50% of investments to fail Patients just saw a blood testing service promising the same accuracy as a blood draw and went for it
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by shmatt 5y ago
From my experience its CTO/CIO's wanting better more stable and fest tech, but not willing to pay for good engineers Next.js is amazing, and it could make any airline/bank website blazing fast. Are said banks hiring the same
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by shmatt 5y ago
Does the US State Department trust the local Ugandan Best Buy employees not to run a swim swap for $50? or $10,000? With an Ugandan sim comes the security of the Ugandan mobile network and its employees
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by shmatt 5y ago
US nationals have never been protected. If you make an international phone call the government can track it[1]. If its internal they can't without a warrant NSO built in a complete block of +1 phone numbers. But those US diplomats were
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by shmatt 5y ago
so simply that URL was worth about $1,000,000 I hope whoever sold it didn't undervalue their asset
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by shmatt 5y ago
* keep the old.Reddit.com design for everyone * spend 9 figures for a redesign The choice was obvious
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by shmatt 5y ago
NSO get way too much credit/dramatization these days. They are mostly 2 things * a shiny UI for customers * a bank of 0-days Those 0-days could be found in house, could be brought in from a new employee copying a previous employer, or
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by shmatt 5y ago
Important to differentiate a) prices stay steady after costs go down - inflation goes down close to 0% b) prices go back down to pre-covid - deflation I don't think anyone is expecting deflation. The outcome of scenario a is low inflat
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by shmatt 5y ago
Ill try to re-organize your questions because they seem all over the place * zero years experience as a software engineer, but you also built a mobile app, a ML model, and a backend service, all by yourself? that doesn't make sense * y
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by shmatt 5y ago
Any example for said video hosts? Vimeo isn't much better these days
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by shmatt 5y ago
> incapable of performing anywhere near the level required to avoid accidents in the real-world. Humans, as well. 38,000 dead and 4,400,000 injured every year in the US due to car accidents. It would be cool to decide on a framework wher
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by shmatt 5y ago
Just checked my folder of scripts like these, its grown to 76 files The best part is, eventually you hit things like booking something as soon as it gets online. And it happens so fast you figure out there are multiple engineers out there,
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by shmatt 5y ago
Hospitalization and death numbers are definitely directly connected to how long its been since you got your shot. So for now, it does not seem like the whole long immunity/T-B-cell thing is happening with Pfizer/Moderna/J&amp

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