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by tcmart14 5y ago
I believe Franklin said something along the lines of anyone who gives up freedom for security doesnt deserve freedom at all.
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Torture is not a good example. If you torture someone enough they will tell you whatever you want them to tell you in order to stop it. Mike Baker talks about why it was pointless for the CIA to torture someone and why when they train peopl
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by tcmart14 5y ago
I am currently a SWE student, and non-traditional. I am a full time student with wife and kids. I work full time and prior to starting school and current job, was in the Navy. Now that I am close to graduating and looking at companies, I am
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by tcmart14 5y ago
Depends. I bought my first iPhone this year because iPhones average about 6-7 years of security and OS updates. I would have stuck with Android, but the best support I could find was 3 years with a Pixel (my last android was a Pixel 3a).
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by tcmart14 5y ago
I can address the iPhone at least for me. I bought my first iPhone this year. The reason is because, unfortunately, Apple is the only company that pretty much promises more than 3 years of security updates. I believe on Android, pixel is th
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by tcmart14 5y ago
As was mentioned here, xcode is not a requirement. I manage my development tools on Big Sur with NetBSD's pkgsrc via pkgin.
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This makes a lot of sense. If a person has good fundamentals and understanding of engineering and CS, then they should be able to master any tech stack. I think in software development, we are in a weird position. In other engineering field
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by tcmart14 5y ago
I agree on your open source comments as far as, the only open sourced code a person has is personal pet projects. However, if you see someone has PRs and commits into something like the Linux repository or a major well known project, then t
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by tcmart14 5y ago
So what I get is, write shitty confusing code and don't document it. Job security, got it!
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Which is why I pointed out that the problem is to complex to perceive what the world without the measure looked like with accuracy. To add on to your list, lives lost that would have been prevented if a hospital was not ran over and medical
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South Dakota has a higher death rate per capita than north dakota. Both are in the top 3 for covid cases for per capita. I would say bad example. Where as California was an extreme compared to either state and per capita death rate is 161&
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by tcmart14 5y ago
Addition: So many variables have been at play over the past 2-3 years, there is no way now to be definite on one specific cause. Instead of jumping to A caused B immediatly, time needs to pass to see if a trend occurs. The statement can be
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by tcmart14 5y ago
Economic downturns also result in higher rates of crime, both violent and non-violent and we've also been in a bit of an economic downturn. I remember the murder rate in Jacksonville Florida skyrocketing during the housing crash in 200
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by tcmart14 5y ago
Yea. One thing is, to know how many people would have died without lockdowns would require to go into some other dimension or universe where this was the case. Otherwise, its about accurate as me saying what the world would like if world wa
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by tcmart14 5y ago
Is anyone gonna mention this was the first world wide pandemic of this scale since modern medicine really? There were pandemics, but not of such a world wide scale. Sure 1918, but that wasn't to much past just throwing leeches on a per
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by tcmart14 5y ago
Nope we are still here. Look at the anti-war movement. Full of left wing veterans like myself who are anti-establishment. Its just the democrats who changed. The people who actually were left, didnt. Of course America doesn't have a go
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by tcmart14 5y ago
For data, blame the stock holders and investors. Engineers are beholden to them for their jobs. Venture capitalists and shareholders want to leverage data analytics to turn a profit. You could almost make an argument for AI. The same people
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by tcmart14 5y ago
Or politicians who seek advise and counsel from engineers. And then balance out the cost-benefit analysis.
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by tcmart14 5y ago
I agree. Ill extend this. Climate change is an engineering problem, especially when time constraints are not considered. However, if we want to work at a fast rate to reduce climate change, it is certainly a political problem. That is just
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by tcmart14 5y ago
The US Dollar derives value from economic activity of the US. You can essentially say the US Dollar is a representation of US markets.
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by tcmart14 5y ago
Its fine, except for the opt-out. I avoid google services in every way possible and as mentioned in another's posters comments, if I am using a google service it is due to the choice of some other service I use. What is ridiculous is t
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by tcmart14 5y ago
A large issue is the reluctance, especially in the US, of approving new designs in nuclear. We tested a molten salt reactor in Idaho once in the 80s and it worked as expected. It can not melt down even in power loss because of the heat tran