travmatt

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by travmatt 9y ago
I wouldn't even call that mean so much as incompetent and desperate. I'd maybe try to explain a little that my salary is actually set through a competitive process of interviewing so it's not a number I personally have to hav
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by travmatt 9y ago
> there seemed to be some resentment that I was "just in it for the money" I don't know if I'd be able to keep a straight face if someone said that to me.
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by travmatt 9y ago
Meh... Reading the article I got more of a Miller test vibe, where apparently using their services with "claims of secret support" wasn't as acceptable as they assumed.
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Or maybe people that have the same short term goals, actually have the same short term goals and should be treated as though they have the same short term goals. Other than the fact they have the same short term goals, they're totally
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by travmatt 9y ago
And didn't the president promise to pay the legal defense of supporters of his who committed violence on his behalf to intimidate a free press? It seems you have an odd system of weighting where college kids policing language is weight
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by travmatt 9y ago
Then that truism should make it self evident why the far left and far right have the same goals.
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by travmatt 9y ago
Didn't a republican congressman literally commit a violent assault on a reporter, and then win accolades by the right and get rewarded for it? Do you believe violent assaults chill free speech?
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by travmatt 9y ago
Not OP, and US centric, but far left and far right are both united in seeing the status quo as their enemy, and both believe they're better able to harness any chaos that will ensue from overthrowing it. That's why you had Snowden
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by travmatt 9y ago
the intelligence community has had a very long history of writing fiction novels as ways to communicate some of their realities. see john le carre
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by travmatt 9y ago
I remember cracking up laughing when he described Germany's proposed austerity measures as 'fiscal waterboarding' - such a vivid description.
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by travmatt 9y ago
I just started 'Days of Rage', and much of what he discusses is the fact that from the end of the 60's, through the death of the hardline leftists in the 80's, bombings were an extremely commonplace means of violence. Th
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by travmatt 9y ago
As I understand it this is the crux of the case - that the creation of such software isn't illegal, but sale with the intent to be used in the commission of a crime is. I understand the indictment is pretty barebones, so I wonder what
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by travmatt 9y ago
Hasn't a Tesla self-driving system already caused a fatality when the system failed to identify a truck approaching from a perpendicular angle?
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Also, they may have found the evidence by some illegal means and plant the evidence to reintroduce it in an ostensibly admissible way.
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by travmatt 9y ago
I'd consider HN to be a news source, I typically check the comments on articles first. I'd say I've found this to be true.
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Exercise unilateral control of government policy. Chinese political power is vested through the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China. Although Jinping is first among equals, his exercise of political power is constra
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by travmatt 9y ago
I wouldn't call China a dictatorship... it's an authoritarian state, but calling Xi Jinping a dictator isn't really accurate.
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by travmatt 9y ago
> requires you to do things you probably are not used to doing, and mobility you probably do not have Learned this the hard way. I'd encourage anyone tempted to try out his program to take a week or two and work on your mobility fir
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by travmatt 9y ago
Funnily enough, I'm on page 30 right now.
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> Steve McConnell in Code Complete (a book which criticizes the widespread use of the waterfall model) refers to design as a “wicked problem” – a problem whose requirements and limitations cannot be entirely known before completion. The
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by travmatt 9y ago
Your point is irrelevant - the post you replied to asserted that it's tough to create a diet with no carbs, to which your suggestion is to not eat at all. Not eating is not a sustainable diet.
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Doesn't Netflix as well?
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>5. The Tangled Web - Written by Michal Zalewski, Director of Security at Google and author of afl-fuzz. This is the book to read alongside The Web Application Hacker's Handbook. Unlike many of the other books listed here it is a pr
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by travmatt 9y ago
ahh that should teach me to read the article :) but I do disagree with 'the UI could use some work', and I've never found I need the marginal time removed by smart speed.
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by travmatt 9y ago
I'm surprised I haven't heard Downcast mentioned here yet - it's by far my favorite podcast app. iOS and desktop versions that sync together well.
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you're not lying. Upstate New York and it's deer tick population seem to be breeding some terrifying diseases.
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What you're saying reminds me of http://www.timewellspent.io/
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What if the brain operated more like a neural network than a calculator? Your second point seems to raise another, separate issue, whether or not knowledge gained can be applied in an unrelated context, or even if these two calculations wou
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by travmatt 9y ago
I've always saw Amazon and Walmart almost as large cats with overlapping ranges. Like they've seen signs the other is around, but haven't actually had any run-ins or direct confrontations.
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""" When mathematicians describe equations as beautiful, they are not lying. Brain scans show that their minds respond to beautiful equations in the same way other people respond to great paintings or masterful music. The fin

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