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by smsm42 3y ago
I've talked to some Canonical interviewers and they all were perfectly nice. No "high school brag" vibe at all. I suspect people who wrote those long form questions and people who actually do the interviews are completely dif
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by smsm42 3y ago
The worst ones I've gotten are those that I didn't get. Like, after being actively engaged for several weeks and passing some interviews, just... wall of silence. Come on, people, if you don't want me - drop me a note, at lea
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by smsm42 3y ago
That sounds like "cars are just a way to make people come to the car dealership". Technically, this is true, but "just" here is not playing a good role. The whole point of the thing is the cheap bulk goods, so "jus
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by smsm42 3y ago
IMHO, any significant growth in 500s (that's what I was getting during the outage) warrants mention on status page. I've seen a lot of stuff, so if I see an acknowledged outage, I'll just wait for people to do their jobs. Stu
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by smsm42 3y ago
I don't mind the rear view camera pings. Occasionally blind zone pings have been useful. The rest are mostly useless.
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by smsm42 3y ago
That comment would be much more valuable if it contained something beyond unsupported statement and something that I assume was meant to be an ad hominem attack.
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by smsm42 3y ago
A sensible concern, but not the one quoted in parent comment, which talked about adware.
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by smsm42 3y ago
I've been Evernote user for years, didn't see any ads. Am I not looking in the right place?
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by smsm42 3y ago
Efficiency is mostly irrelevant - unless you're going into the wilderness, you have a gas station within minutes of driving, and unless you are extremely careless, the chance you may end up in a place where you can't drive to a ga
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by smsm42 3y ago
As I have been traveling last year, I've seen several promotions from car rentals to get an electric car. Never took it - first of all, I don't want to drive Tesla because it's not safe (no physical environmental controls, wh
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by smsm42 3y ago
You are right that cheap lower layers are a funnel to guide people into expensive higher layers. But if the business model would be to cater only for 10% hardest cases, you don't need the funnel, since people coming to you already have
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by smsm42 3y ago
$39 is the cheapest offer (well, beyond free ones). If you want to cover your mortgage, your charity giving, savings, maybe a little stock investments, maybe some side gigs, then you very quickly get to $100. And of course state is extra (
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by smsm42 3y ago
if they say they saw you stealing - yes, that's evidence. If they just say "you stole" then yes, the correct question would be "why do you think so, on what evidence" - but a first-hand experience is definitely evid
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by smsm42 3y ago
> a private system for the remaining taxpayers would have to cover its costs with only 10% of the revenue. Is it that hard? Americans filed about 260M returns last year. 10% of it is 26M. Let's say you get only 10% of those - since
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by smsm42 3y ago
It's the same thing. The court just has more procedure around it, but outside the court it's the same thing. If somebody tells you "I saw John dining with Jack's wife last night at the restaurant" then unless you hi
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by smsm42 3y ago
If you get a speeding ticket, likely the evidence is the word of the police officer who clocked you speeding. There's no way to go back in time, stand next to the officer and verify he actually directed the speed measuring device to yo
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by smsm42 3y ago
You don't need the code even - though the code, as being already paid for by the taxpayers, should be available to them anyway - the rules are public, the data should be available to the public, so you can just reimplement the rules an
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by smsm42 3y ago
I'm usually lean to the side of "keep your government paws out of the business". But taxes aren't business - it's a governmental function, and there's no reason why the government who levies the taxes can'
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by smsm42 3y ago
> The idea that drug use is a victimless crime is patently false What about alcohol use then? Smoking? Buying high risk stocks, options and NFTs? Investing in high-risk startups? Working for a high-risk startups? Spending 100 hours per w
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by smsm42 3y ago
Some places are more willing than others to charge anybody using or brandishing a firearm, regardless of the circumstances, and sometimes those exactly are the states which charge very aggressively for it. Heck, I've heard of people ju
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by smsm42 3y ago
Drugs? Contraband? Tax evasion? Insider trading? Industrial espionage? Any process crime like "lying to a fed"? If you think about it, we have tons of laws that don't fit into the mold of "hurting specific people" -
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by smsm42 3y ago
Wow, a felony? I know in a number of states you can get a misdemeanor for bad speeding, but a felony without harm, or endangering or dui or anything likd that sohnds extremely heavy. Which state is that?
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by smsm42 3y ago
Oh my. So now in addition to bounty beggars we'll have bogus generated security report that can waste hours of valuable dev time chasing after LLM hallucinations.
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by smsm42 3y ago
Well, I think the approach taken by the author - all dolutions are known and easy and people are just stupid for not just doing the obvious - deserves it, for failing to ask - and even better, answer - the obvious question of why nobody els
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by smsm42 3y ago
Unfortunately, it's not that easy. Over the years, I have reads dozens of articles from young enthusiastic teachers coming into bad schools with the starry eyes and the determination to fix it all. The system inevitably chews them up a
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by smsm42 3y ago
The OP is like if High Modernism were a teenager. All adults are stupid, they don't understand anything and can't see what is clear to any normal person (i.e. me). I know everything that is there to know, but nobody wants to liste
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by smsm42 3y ago
It is adorable when a person who knows a lot about some things decides that he knows everything about all things, all problems are simple to solve, just do this and that, and the reason all problems in the world aren't solved yet is be
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by smsm42 3y ago
You are implying the cause of illiteracy is the lack of funds. It is not so - in fact, the very worst schools often spend per pupil the same as the very best ones, or at least very close to it. Throwing money at the problem is not the solut
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What work do you imply?
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by smsm42 3y ago
> When the problem is painful enough we as a society can do a lot. For example, we lie about how the problem came to be, institute a censorship framework to prevent scientists from discussing it, spend months preventing solutions from re

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