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by stanferder 7y ago
Someone should start a company called "Google 2010".
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by stanferder 7y ago
Isn't it contradictory to maintain that a non-US citizen outside the country does not have rights under the US Constitution, but can be subject to US law?
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by stanferder 7y ago
Decent used equipment from the 1970s might well have more useful life ahead of it than a brand-new Sonos setup purchased today.
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by stanferder 7y ago
Repair people are second only to exterminators in their ability to speak the truth, then get something done, in the space of a few minutes.
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by stanferder 7y ago
On a bit of a tangent, are CV/resume gaps still frowned upon in 2020? It's kind of ludicrous that one unbroken stretch of continuous work seems to be some kind of ideal.
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by stanferder 7y ago
Thanks for providing that. I believe the route to the accidental purchase the twitter thread refers to is through the "Pay with credit card" button though, which for some reason isn't present in your configuration. https:&#x
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by stanferder 7y ago
It's kind of admirable that Mozilla would promote an idea that can so obviously be used to judge them poorly with respect to recent news. That last bit of news about them isn't necessarily the only thing they should be judged on
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by stanferder 7y ago
I don't have the app (or car) so I can't verify for myself, but now it's hard to reconcile your statement with the twitter thread analysis I referenced above. EDIT: Maybe it's a discrepancy about what a "confirmati
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by stanferder 7y ago
It's also hard to reconcile this valuation with the practice of making it easy to fat-finger a $4,000 non-refundable purchase in their mobile application. Do they need to go back and hit up their existing customers for more money?
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by stanferder 7y ago
Did Greenwald ever say he doubts Russian involvement? I know he on the side of "Trump didn't conspire" and feels that the rest of the media is mishandling the matter, but I don't think he's ever disputed the actual
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by stanferder 7y ago
So is it the Russians or the media reaction that made the difference? If I recall correctly one of Greenwald's main theses is that click-thirsty coverage of exciting-sounding stories overwhelmed more substantial topics in the 2016 ele
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by stanferder 7y ago
Yes. The true statement remains true.
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by stanferder 7y ago
> The difference is that many people have worked on highly functional "real agile" teams and can tell the tale. Sure, but is it really the "agility" or the people making the difference? The highly functional teams I&#
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by stanferder 7y ago
Seymour Cray used to dig tunnels. NOTE: This is probably a very dangerous activity.
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by stanferder 7y ago
I've completely stopped buying tickets on airlines that own or ordered 737 MAX's, so I don't even have to check if they've been un-grounded.
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by stanferder 7y ago
It's enforced so often that people who aren't even trying to circumvent the law get nailed: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2017/04/05/91-of-irs...
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by stanferder 7y ago
Should be "observe".
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by stanferder 7y ago
Maybe the oversupply could be addressed by encouraging students to wait until their 50s to pursue PhDs and research work, i.e. shrinking the supply by reducing the number of years between getting a degree and retirement. With more students
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by stanferder 7y ago
You're underestimating luck. A better analogy would be a process that selects for the top 2% of athletes through competition, then enters them into a lottery.
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by stanferder 7y ago
In what sense has "progress" "stopped"?
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by stanferder 7y ago
I think bloggers deserve some leeway in how they write; it's an informal medium and maybe the author's usual audience is arriving with a lot of shared assumptions. Still, I wish IPFS had been defined within the post. I had to loo
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by stanferder 7y ago
> [W]ill that make it impossible to make positive changes? Yes, but that's consistent with the passive philosophy at the heart of index investing. I was surprised that index funds had an active interest in anything beyond reducing
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by stanferder 7y ago
Isn't it possible for the index funds to simply not wield the power they have, and abstain from every vote? I was surprised that funds that are not actively managed are still actively engaging with public companies.
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by stanferder 7y ago
Fair enough, but these things aren't marketed as assistive devices.
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by stanferder 7y ago
I can't even imagine a scenario where I'd want a "smart home". When I leave a room, I turn the light off. When I enter it, I turn it on. When I leave the house, I turn the heat off. When I enter it, I turn it on. If I
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by stanferder 7y ago
Yes. Digital Ocean got me in the door for $5, but thus far has they have done everything I needed it to do, with clear documentation for how everything works, and no nasty surprises. As someone doing proofs-of-concept and experimental work
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by stanferder 7y ago
It's not Certified Scrum Master™, it's Certified Scrum Master®. That trademark is registered .
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by stanferder 7y ago
If they ramped that $5/month to $20/month after X months, I would keep paying it. Digital Ocean is a fantastic deal, everything I've tried straightforwardly works, and the fact that I can't accidentally spend money as I
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by stanferder 7y ago
Points well taken, but I think "unsafe" turns it into a value judgment, especially (as samatman says adjacent) since it isn't necessarily really unsafe.
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by stanferder 7y ago
I fear that the rush to integrate humans with machines will miss something essential and end up replacing true consciousnesses with philosophical zombies.

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