snarf21

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by snarf21 5y ago
Exactly, no one is leaving unless something truly better comes along. Oh wait, our failed SEC and FTC let FB buy up the new and better things because they knew they couldn't compete. I'm assuming the next good thing will get sold
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by snarf21 5y ago
The Catholic church can't change because they would have to give up the ghost. The Catholic church has always been about emotional and monetary control. You aren't allowed to ask for forgiveness of your sins but someone who went t
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by snarf21 5y ago
Or you could be outraged regardless of the ratio. Additionally, don't forget the Catholic church purposefully not reporting these incidents to the authorities and actively covering it up; instead moving the priest to a new town to abus
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by snarf21 5y ago
It didn't help that telecoms used to use SMS as an extreme profit center. I don't think WhatsApp would have taken over the way it did if SMS was always included in all plans for free. This is similar to the way "local" l
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by snarf21 5y ago
Exactly, you can barely find anything good listed on CL anymore. I hate FB marketplace but use it because that's where the listings are.
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by snarf21 5y ago
We've always been followers and joiners. Look back 1000 years, we talked to very few people and our sphere of influence was small. Look at the changes the printing press had, influence could be cheaply disseminated. The newspapers took
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by snarf21 5y ago
How did you get started in contracting? Did you just start with a previous employer or do you use an outside firm?
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by snarf21 5y ago
One thing I learned a long time ago is that a "bad" process that is followed universally by everyone (dev, pjm, pm) will always out perform a "great" process with only token buy-in and constant exceptions.
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by snarf21 5y ago
The benefits of the blockchain are simple. To drive the pyramid scheme to profitability. It helps obfuscate the scam from people who don't know any better.
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by snarf21 5y ago
Exactly, you own a ledger entry. Stop saying that is like baseball cards. I can frame and hang a real baseball card on my wall because I own it and it is real. I can hang a digital frame on the wall and point it at your NFT and have the &qu
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by snarf21 5y ago
I thought crypto was censorship resistant? /s
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by snarf21 5y ago
Or if you prefer yellow mustard for some things, I'd suggest Plochman's. Everyone I've had tried Plochman's never ever uses that garbage from French's ever again. It is such a wonderful mustard with just the right a
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by snarf21 5y ago
I think the issue is that the interviewee doesn't always know what is on the "test". It is also a waste of everyone's time. If a company's only data store is SQL of some kind, which do you want: Someone who can bare
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by snarf21 5y ago
I disagree. I think we can all agree that we don't need videos talking about how the "bad ideas" of slavery/child abuse/human trafficking/etc. are wonderful things. I think we are right to suppress them. You ca
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by snarf21 5y ago
Part of it is a hope to get back to normal. The other part is that their "bodily choice" isn't self contained. If someone has ebola, is it their "bodily choice" to walk around infecting others? The unvaccinated are
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by snarf21 5y ago
Very true but the reason for it is that it is insanely profitable. This is the real ends for everything on FB. I always say "ain't no one convincing nobody about nothing" on FB. It is faux outrage for profit and until we star
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by snarf21 5y ago
So true. My experience is that those people have "one weird requirement" that is unique to them that other tools don't include so instead of getting 90% of the the performance benefit, they'd rather complain and not chan
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by snarf21 5y ago
It can be an easy mistake to make. Too often we assume that everyone is high functioning and higher than average aptitude with higher than average support. I'm sure all those kids did okay during distance learning. It is all the other
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by snarf21 5y ago
Not helping them solve their problems is different than actively punishing them.
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by snarf21 5y ago
I had an old boss that I developed a rule of 3 for. He like to change priorities constantly because that was "agile". So I just knew that until he asked for something the 3rd time, I would say "yes" and let it die on the
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by snarf21 5y ago
One thing I learned a long time ago is that a "bad" process that is followed universally by everyone (dev, pjm, pm) will always out perform a "great" process with only token buy-in and constant exceptions.
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by snarf21 5y ago
Well said. It is frustrating with the "everything is an emergency" mindset at some companies. I far along in my career that I just let it slide off but others aren't. We had a potential customer that was definitely going to
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by snarf21 5y ago
Serious question: In a place like China with the Great Firewall, can't they simply block crypto connections at the ISP level? Can't they more aggressively disallow VPN connections to locations outside of China? They might not be a
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by snarf21 5y ago
Well said. Since work takes such an out-sized amount of our lives, we often assume that this is where our purpose is. At parties, people ask what we "do" and we almost universally reply with our vocation. We assume this is our def
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by snarf21 5y ago
Because the trust is distributed. One single person can't cause the entire system to break down or steal all them money. With blockchain coins, the incentives are aligned. The weird thing that happened with BTC that I don't think
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by snarf21 5y ago
Leaving BTC and lighting aside, I don't think most people would opt out of ads in favor of micro payments. There is a minority who have the money that would but I see nothing in society that points to making such a change possible. Do
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by snarf21 5y ago
This is what happened with the straws kerfuffle. We are absolutely willing to give up things that we don't care much about. Like what is alluded to, we don't really want to have to consume less, which would have far reaching conse
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by snarf21 5y ago
That is not a reasonable criticism. However, Apple is far from the good guy. Look at all the pro China things they have done. People committing suicide after being forced to work endlessly. Agreeing to the Great Firewall rules to continue d
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by snarf21 5y ago
You are forgetting about all the brokers and all the staff at the insurance companies whose jobs is to negotiate different prices for procedures with different doctors. Most brokers charge 5%. Additionally, this change would cause a loss of
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by snarf21 5y ago
This is why we need reference based pricing. You can't charge more than 1.2 * Medicare and if you pay cash, you get the Medicare price. This change alone would remove 25+% of unnecessary bloat from the US system.

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