skyraider

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by skyraider 13y ago
Sense of duty, or the realization that you are powerless to resist the iron grip of the state? Maybe both..
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by skyraider 13y ago
Central planning/socialism really is a problem. North Korea would benefit greatly from a superior system of organizing the means of production. Their centrally-planned food system, for example, isn't working very well.
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by skyraider 13y ago
Check the Who's Hiring and Seeking Freelancer posts here. The November ones may still be active. Also, just to re-emphasize, you should post a list of skills in this thread.
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by skyraider 13y ago
One problem with "go do a task" interviews is that you can't gauge a company's interest in you, the candidate, before doing them. I remember doing a task-based interview once, getting an offer, and having it retracted af
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by skyraider 13y ago
Sure, but the crime and punishment attitude was around before private prisons. They are more like contributors to the problem than the original cause. It would be great to shut down the private prison industry but let's be realistic ab
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by skyraider 13y ago
A few points: - Many former judges are prosecutors. Prosecutors are trained to get the maximum 'sustainable' sentence. This means looking at what the law says and enforcing it. Fault: legislature. - If the law says that sentences
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by skyraider 13y ago
There's a huge difference between 'going to jail' and life in prison.
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by skyraider 13y ago
Is it really hard to make a decision on sentencing in nonviolent crimes that you wouldn't personally lock someone in a box for? If they're not a danger to society, they do not belong in a box.
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by skyraider 13y ago
I think an effective way to frame this issue is: Would you consider these people so dangerous that you would personally build a small concrete box and forcibly keep them inside for many hours a day for the rest of their lives? Or, is that h
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Ask HN: Should there be a 'Dashboard of Human Progress in Formal Fields'?(prezi.com)
1 points by skyraider 13y ago|0 comments
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by skyraider 13y ago
I think carriers today are like the battleships of yesterday. They look imposing but modern tech (swarms in the former case and, well, enough Fairy Swordfish biplanes in the latter) defeats them. Submarines are what we need IMO.
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by skyraider 13y ago
It does have ground attack capability and given its stealth capabilities, is probably a good fit for the role and maybe even a better fit than other ground-attack aircraft in the US arsenal.
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by skyraider 13y ago
The Australians picked the F111 for its range. There is a good discussion of the politicking that lead to the selection on the "Replacing the Canberra" section of this wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G
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by skyraider 13y ago
Sure, fighters, bombers and drone work excellently when your adversaries have few if any functional modern aircraft, or when their ground defenses are so vulnerable and/or disorganized that (often risky) strikes can take them out. Howe
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by skyraider 13y ago
SEEKING WORK: Remote (NYC based). Available to meet or kick off projects at client locations. We (Databracket) are an experienced distributed team who do full-stack web dev, distributed systems, architecture and algorithms work. We most oft
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by skyraider 13y ago
I think the interesting lesson here is that even marketplaces should be competitively constructed - i.e., there should be significant price-competitive pressure to deliver goods and services; just letting the government to facilitate market
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by skyraider 13y ago
It's also not Fox News - it's Fox Business, which has a partially separate staff. Don't you know? If a Fox-related outlet does something funny, it's special because we don't agree with their political leanings. cd g
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by skyraider 13y ago
Agree. They probably cringe at the over-attention paid to being right about things that are beside the point; long-form citations for posts of less than 100 characters; the passive aggressive Snowden comments on articles about, like, Gmail
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Knowledge vs analytical ability, AKA need a search engine for solved problems(zachdex.tumblr.com)
1 points by skyraider 13y ago|0 comments
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by skyraider 13y ago
This is kinda helpful, but it's only for tech-y cities and only for certain skills, and only for startup-y jobs: https://angel.co/salaries
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by skyraider 13y ago
To simplify: Concurrent tasks complete in the same, overlapping time period. Parallel tasks run at literally the same time.
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by skyraider 13y ago
Poetic. And a good point. The social vibe of a coffee shop gives me energy, and going to the same environment with the same people every day just drains that away.
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by skyraider 13y ago
This is why I find it incredibly creepy and insulting when founders of small companies try the 'true sense of ownership' or 'we hope you are as excited to work on this as we are' lines. If you want me to be as excited as
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by skyraider 13y ago
Wait, why did they offer you options instead of a raise? I just want to hear why that reason tempered your enthusiasm. (I don't get excited about options since I have to buy them, but they can be more incentivizing, at least for me, th
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by skyraider 13y ago
Is there a scale somewhere where I could calculate the expected percentage a very good negotiator with appropriate leverage would be able to extract in the best-case scenario, based on employee # and some metric of value-add?
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by skyraider 13y ago
We did not consider that, but thanks, I will take a look at ShareJS. Minisync is designed only for a non-concurrent single-user use case where a user fetches a document at point A in time, makes changes, and then submits the document to the
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by skyraider 13y ago
Hi, one of the authors here. We realized that for many CRUD web apps, a library that lets you synchronize "diffsets" (lists of changes the client makes to JavaScript objects) can replace server-side controllers and views, so you d
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Show HN: Minisync gives your web app its own relational backend-as-a-service(blog.tutorspree.com)
49 points by skyraider 13y ago|6 comments
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by skyraider 13y ago
Hey folks, some context here. I needed a cache that will: - Keep the site up when the web server is down - Allow for logged-out users to see "login" and logged-in users to see session info (for example), while still caching most o
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Would you use a one-click sitemap-to-flat site service?(zatchit.com)
3 points by skyraider 13y ago|1 comments

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