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by tiredofcareer 13y ago
I had an account when pg left that comment. That was five years ago, long before grayed-out comments were even implemented. Now, if enough people disagree with a comment, it turns gray and is never seen again. Which means the only comments
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by tiredofcareer 13y ago
I made a request that if you downvoted you explained why. Thank you for heeding my request. You and someone else have already mentioned that merely saying the word "downvote" in a comment is an insta-downvote trigger, which is completely in
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by tiredofcareer 13y ago
What a great blanket policy, regardless of the rest of the comment. On the accounts I've had downvote privileges with, I've reserved them for cases where the comment doesn't contribute anything or is disruptive to the discussion; no wonder
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by tiredofcareer 13y ago
So one's civil -- a completely different ballgame -- since you don't reach the Supreme Court as a plaintiff for a criminal case. Is the other civil or criminal?
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by tiredofcareer 13y ago
And you have all the facts, then?
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by tiredofcareer 13y ago
I'm not sure where you pulled that number from. I've successfully defended against multiple charges in my life, unsuccessfully others, and the only money I was out was a couple forms and bail, which I got back. The charges I got out of invo
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by tiredofcareer 13y ago
And you reached that conclusion based on what evidence? Good thing we don't need evidence to determine guilt in a court of law, since it sounds like you've got the findings figured out already based on what you've read in the news and in st
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by tiredofcareer 13y ago
I'm not trolling. Why does this girl deserve attention? Why did she get it? I genuinely can't come up with a reason. Are you guys prepared to contribute to the legal funds of everyone who is expelled and charged with crimes for unfair reaso
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by tiredofcareer 13y ago
When you use specific terms like PIPs and perf, we know who you're talking about. I interviewed at Google recently and asked my interviewers about you, Michael, based on the threads you start here that talk about the management vs. engineer
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by tiredofcareer 13y ago
Welcome to HN. I'd rate that troll 2/10, as it was a pretty obvious troll for a community of smart people. Hopefully nobody here would bite on something so obvious; that might have worked better on Reddit. (You should go back.)
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by tiredofcareer 13y ago
The appropriateness of this showing up on Hacker News, the Internet's favorite dream killer in Show HN threads and perpetual contest to see who can be most correct in comments, should be lost upon no one. If you participate here -- myself i
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by tiredofcareer 13y ago
Nobody does. I promise. My conviction made lots of news as well; has never come up since I got it expunged. Typical BigCos get a standard background on you (these are measured in dozens of dollars), and any further investigation that involv
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by tiredofcareer 13y ago
How exactly would a sealed juvenile record affect job applications? They don't show up on any criminal background inquiry that companies have access to. Police and government (i.e., clearance or priors), yes. Juvenile charges are practicall
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by tiredofcareer 13y ago
The better architecture is to bring logs to a centralized place and do analysis on them that way. Your GUI tool doesn't scale for real work, particularly if the machine you are investigating logs upon has been compromised or is broken.
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by tiredofcareer 13y ago
Some worked on gmail and were in the right place at the right time for personal mail. You keep it after you leave.
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by tiredofcareer 13y ago
That attack is more useful against a mosaic than a straight blur . In this case, to attack successfully, the attacker would have to lay out every possible passport with the letters in the exact position as they'd be printed, because th
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by tiredofcareer 13y ago
If you cross paths with enough Googlers in your career, eventually you'll come across the lucky souls with first names as gmail accounts; then when they explain the deafening background radiation they get, you start thinking "hm, maybe lolh
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by tiredofcareer 13y ago
This is like being upset that someone referred to a Bentley as a car, which you consider a conspiracy based on people liking Ferraris more. Alternate theory: the media calls it a smartphone because it's, well, a smartphone.
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by tiredofcareer 13y ago
Before someone corrects you with a photograph, the ascent stage had fins in addition to the vectoring on the F-1s. However, my understanding, though I might be wrong, is that those were intended for stabilizing the vehicle instead of acting
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by tiredofcareer 13y ago
That isn't remotely true; where'd you hear that whopper? A merchant can authorize and charge a card for any reason, and the cardholder can challenge it and it will be investigated. How would VISA and Mastercard even enforce "the product mus
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by tiredofcareer 14y ago
It's interesting that you wrote that in reply to bane but not me, when a couple of your points specifically call out things that I wrote. Why is that? Is it because I made the same point without emotion, and he's just a little more wrappe
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by tiredofcareer 14y ago
The trap is applying logic to being human, when humans are illogical by our very nature. kiba is doing it, and your poignant extrapolation of that logic demonstrates why we "can't think through this one, we have to feel it," as the film quo
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by tiredofcareer 14y ago
Richard Stallman made several points in the linked e-mail. The point that I'm concerned with, and made clear that I'm concerned with, is that the Texas plant is the, quote, "bigger danger" than the Boston incidents. He wrote that nearly ver
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by tiredofcareer 14y ago
Be careful, applying your engineering mindset to real life. We cannot quantify the human experience. Let's take one tiny minutiae of both incidents with the strong and clear prior warning that there are countless examples of these points: i
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by tiredofcareer 14y ago
I specifically did not address measurement of the reaction and took active measures not to conflate the two, because I'm quite aware that they are easy to conflate. That's what the bottom of my comment is specifically targeting. I have some
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by tiredofcareer 14y ago
Agree with your first paragraph. I definitely think we should devote effort to reducing incidence of death, no matter the cause. Couldn't agree less with the remainder, because you are comparing car accidents and terrorism, which I specific
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by tiredofcareer 14y ago
I've noticed this tack a lot recently (three arguments like this in 24 hours), and I'm concerned by it. There seems to be an inability on the part of some people, apparently Richard Stallman included, to realize that active intent to harm
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by tiredofcareer 14y ago
What a tremendously helpful comment. Do you have anything to contribute, instead of just poking the poster?
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by tiredofcareer 14y ago
I didn't make an argument in that paragraph. I pointed out that a nation of people is making 25% of their power from wind, and plans to increase that to 50% before the decade is out, and you came here to argue that it doesn't make sense. It
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by tiredofcareer 14y ago
> As a result, they use less electricity than its developed counterparts. It's almost like that's valuable information when we're discussing an electricity generation technology . You wrote this without qualification in terms of what y

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