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by than3 3y ago
mbgerring, I agree with you in almost the entirety of what you've said both here and in some of your responses. There are a lot of false assertions made, often with no consequence for doing so, which is an ongoing problem; and worse a
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by than3 3y ago
I'd add, polish often means different things to different people. For example, failure planning and risk management often only happen when there is funding. There also was no content moderation.
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by than3 3y ago
Unfortunately that's invisible though. They can never really know that you were there and change action. Just like they can never really know all those clicks are organic clicks for their ad-spend. Its more of a we trust its this becau
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by than3 3y ago
I've been in IT for over a decade and in almost all companies, with the people that hire these types, before the hiring manager or person who makes the decisions even see the resumes for any position; HR throws out everyone without a d
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by than3 3y ago
The prevalence of spectrum disorders being used as a catchall leads to over-diagnosis/mis-diagnosis. Many times there may be underlying causes that never or rarely get resolved or correctly diagnosed. Chronic heavy metal poisoning for
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by than3 3y ago
> There are other door openers, like being a really good coder. This may have been true at one point, but if it was ever true, it no longer is. To get well-paying jobs (above the poverty line), you either need a degree or you need a cert
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by than3 3y ago
> I've never been the kind of A type personality ... That's a poor way of characterizing the issue. I think you should look more closely at why you haven't done well instead of internalizing that you are just not the right
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by than3 3y ago
The main issue with Usenet was it lacked any form of content moderation.
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by than3 3y ago
Its hard because the drug dealers follow where the vulnerable populations go. Crime increases because the drugs increase as the populations shift locations.
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by than3 3y ago
FWIW, I upvoted; but I agree this is an ongoing problem on HN and really any place that allows people to downvote based on how they feel. You can state all the facts you want and some people downvote because they simply didn't like it;
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by than3 3y ago
I agree. SF has a lot of issues and the money went to places that were ineffective with only a small portion going to housing first. 17B shows this isn't a homeless problem, this is a corruption and accountability problem.
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by than3 3y ago
To elaborate, System's and Signals is a course usually reserved for EE majors, you can watch lectures about it at MIT OCW; there's a Textbook which is relatively cheap and while its very math heavy (probably requiring Calc3+a bit
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by than3 3y ago
In many areas, DevOps means different things to different companies. While I'm not in a DevOps position, nor have I been in one. The people I've met who were, primarily focused on providing value and automating repetitive work. Th
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by than3 3y ago
No problem, it has been my experience, and I try and pay it forward when I can. I'd have appreciated knowing this back when I was first starting out, but it wouldn't have changed much in terms of outcome. As a young adult you don&
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by than3 3y ago
Claude Shannon huh?... You generally don't get a first job in IT as a System Administrator, ever. Its one of those unicorn stories you hear about that almost never happens. That being said I'm one of those unicorn stories but then
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by than3 3y ago
Yet another classic example of perverse incentives. Create a problem, offer a solution that creates other more serious problems. Force it through bureaucratic circles without representation. Create a less free world. When you drive, you are
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by than3 3y ago
> something is seriously wrong Not at all, this is just the way things are, and if you studied history correctly you'd realize this and be educated enough to rationally think about these things instead of repeating a common indoctri
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by than3 3y ago
> that's like every sysadmin's nightmare. Not worst case scenario, but it definitely was up there. I'll always remember it, both because nothing you normally had access for would work because no access, and my contingencie
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by than3 3y ago
While not titled as a cyber-security professional, I am a System Admin/Engineer who has worn that hat a few times when there was no one else available. In my experience, it seems like vendor disclosures, and measures that might impact
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by than3 3y ago
Yes, but the entity paying had to have constructive knowledge of their operations when they purchased them. A slap on the wrist is what they counted on to eliminate a competitor and get it cheap. If only there were clawback measures.
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by than3 3y ago
> mass shootings happen because ... Unfortunately with regard to that point, you are naively mistaken, mass shootings happen because we as a people enforce gun-free zones and these extreme and malign individuals target those zones for th
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by than3 3y ago
> I think piracy is much closer to dying than people think it is. I sincerely hope you are wrong because it engenders certain things which would indicate we have a very rough road ahead as a people. Being able to record and save historic
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by than3 3y ago
> aren't relevant to running an eating disorder helpline they are when you replace a human's activity with what's effectively a computation engine. Those have fundamental limitations which are well known, and they did it a
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by than3 3y ago
fundamental limitation of computers, you run into the halting problem or decidability problem when you have same fixed inputs and multiple different outputs. human's can handle multiple different meanings given the same inputs and prov
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by than3 3y ago
I would not be surprised if that was the case. It was a monumentally stupid idea to fire the human workers for this particular application. No computer can hope to accurately respond in a way that isn't harmful at least some of the tim
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by than3 3y ago
You are naive and misinformed. This is wrong with regards to about everything you just said. Basal metabolic rate varies dramatically with the amount of lean muscle mass. You can rapidly lose lean muscle mass by having too high of a caloric
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by than3 3y ago
Unequivocally; yes, this is harmful. You are not a doctor, and should not be giving medical advice. Neither am I but you certainly have not known or worked with people who have done this kind of lifestyle transition. That level of calorie d
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by than3 3y ago
They had to shut down after being bankrupted by USG?
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by than3 3y ago
Legal isn't my forte, and I'm not a lawyer either, but it seems like overreach to me. Specifically, say the circumstance involves someone else paying his legal fees. They are going after him for collecting, so they are already don
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by than3 3y ago
Works for me too. Nice to see some judges have integrity.

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