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by topkai22 7y ago
For why we are collectively concerned about a good comparison is influenza (flu), which kills millions worldwide each year and has a case fatality rate of around 0.1%. I believe flu is the single deadliest pathogen worldwide currently. Covi
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by topkai22 7y ago
Does anyone know if PCI rules call for non reversible storage of passwords (hashing)? I looked quickly online but the only reference I could find was that "passwords are protected by strong cryptography in transit and at rest", wh
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by topkai22 7y ago
Oh man, the time use surveys in the US are amazing here. I can’t find the data or remember specifics, but the amount of time both moms and dads spend parenting has gone WAY since the 60s, even as family size as plummeted.
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by topkai22 7y ago
Parents today aren’t as sucky as you think. Here’s some data on reading for 0-5 year olds: https://www.childhealthdata.org/browse/survey/results?q=7196... The vast majority of parents are trying, reading at least
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by topkai22 7y ago
Roughly $5k/year out of pocket, with employers posting $17k for full family coverage for very good insurance (as it goes in the US). Health care costs in the us are the most burdensome on the working poor and lower middle class because
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by topkai22 7y ago
It can lead to unnecessary hard feelings about small differences in pay. I’ve definitely had relationships go awkward when people discovered I made a bit more then them, and have struggled not to think “why did that doofus get $5k more than
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by topkai22 7y ago
If you are a “people person” IT consulting, technical sales engineering, and other “field” based technical roles at larger companies require a lot of generalist skills. Consulting and sales engineering are a lot more technical than I expect
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by topkai22 7y ago
The source of the quote saying the Trump pressured him to make sure Amazon lost the competition includes a follow up quote from Mattis telling his work group that they would be doing the acquisition by the book. There is reason to believe t
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by topkai22 7y ago
I don’t think so, unless they can’t get the experience quality issue under control and it starts damaging the brand. The stores serve an outreach component that 3rd party retailers can’t. As much as I hate them, the classes they host are al
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by topkai22 7y ago
I was asked to wait 45 minutes to pick up a bought and paid for phone. I left and came back later and found a more reasonable sales person, but still ended up waiting about 10 minutes. Then there was the time I made a service appointment, s
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by topkai22 7y ago
I completely agree. At the some point, businesses need to to have reason to say "no, what you want is feasible, and we won't risk the consequences of failure." For safety critical applications, technical decision makers need
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by topkai22 7y ago
I’ve seen a number of pieces like this that argue that the nuclear family is an aberration in history compared to the extended family. They are of course right, but almost inevitable fail to address the fact that the “nuclear” family is&#x2
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by topkai22 7y ago
I believe that you put a ton of time into your test, both creating it and reviewing it. However, as a candidate I have to make assumptions on where to put my time, and if there is a take home test prior to an interview I’m likely to pass- w
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by topkai22 7y ago
The difference between a take home project and an on site interview is that a take home costs the hiring company nothing, whereas an on site costs them hours of engineer time. With that being true, they can make a lot more candidates do tak
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by topkai22 7y ago
Thanks. That is an excellent case study.
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by topkai22 7y ago
The lionization of middle management is a bit off putting, but there is definitely an interesting point in there about the centralization of decision making and power, and how it has affected society. I don't have the data to back this
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by topkai22 7y ago
Great article. I'm very suspicious of attempts to "blame it on the boomers", but this has some very good analysis that should be built upon. There are some confounding factors - the baby boom's sheer relative to the pre
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by topkai22 7y ago
I’ve always felt this argument breaks down with smaller scale targets. I’d argue security through obscurity is not security, but there can be safety in obscurity. There are a massive number of systems that are completely bespoke for small o
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by topkai22 7y ago
Depends on how big that monolith gets. Microservices can definitely be overkill, but at some point its a real liability to not have well isolated abstractions. Yes, you can do that within a monolith, but the temptation to break isolation is
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by topkai22 7y ago
I always find it odd that atmospheric carbon capture isn't a greater part of the conversation on climate change. It's basically assumed that we'll need to be able to take carbon out of the system to meet our goals, but so few
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by topkai22 7y ago
It depends on your renters- I’ll bet there are plenty out tenants out there who are so mechanically averse they won’t plunger out their TP; I know I met a few kids like that in college. I’ve also seen my kids managed to do amazing things to
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by topkai22 7y ago
I can see a world where this ends with Spotify buying Sonos and it eventually getting called Spotify Home Audio, costing an extra $5/month.
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by topkai22 7y ago
As a Sonos user, it seems Sonos's key innovation has been its software and ease of use. Multi-room audio was HARD before Sonos- it could easily involve paying thousands of dollars to install low voltage wires over a house, along with i
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by topkai22 7y ago
I’ve used telemedicine (the proper name) for vision prescription renewal and to check with a nurse or doctor about some of my children’s various ailments. The biggest problem is that there seems to be a pretty limited range of conditions th
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by topkai22 7y ago
Who do you use? I use Bing and like it, but I also used to work there.
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by topkai22 7y ago
From TripAdvisors "About" page: The subsidiaries and affiliates of TripAdvisor, Inc. own and operate a portfolio of websites and businesses, including the following travel media brands: www.airfarewatchdog.com, www.bokun.io, www.b
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by topkai22 7y ago
Correct, but those air gapped data centers already exist- there are separate Azure regions for certain restricted civilian government workloads, DoD unclassified work, and cleared work.
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by topkai22 7y ago
I used to fly with my dog occasionally, and I followed all the rules: 1) Required to bring a recent veterinary certificate of health 2) Pay $75-125 to bring the animal on. 3) Demonstrate the animal weighs less then 20 lbs. 4) Demonstrate t
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by topkai22 7y ago
That depends on the municipality- I’ve definitely lived places where a goal of the transit system was “access” even if the buses were nearly empty on some routes. I’m not sure it’s an invalid goal eithier.
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by topkai22 7y ago
It’s $11 ppp per person per day of “spending”, so for a household of 4 people that’s $16k. I would think that world would be both discretionary spending and non-discretionary spending. While that would certainly classify as extreme poverty

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