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by tsotha 11y ago
That's kind of clever.
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by tsotha 11y ago
I worked with someone who is bipolar. There's no way you could confuse her problem with that of a healthy person who's just too emotional. She needed lithium to have the semblance of a normal life, and even then when she started
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by tsotha 11y ago
I agree with this. If the survival of the species is the goal we'd be far better off building a deep bunker complex on Earth than trying to get a self-sufficient colony going on Mars.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>I've no trouble being convinced that the way the government is attempting to investigate these comments is ham-handed and excessive. >I have a harder time getting outraged about someone's inalienable right to talk about sho
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by tsotha 11y ago
Sure, but the idea is the 18-34 set is developing brand loyalties, so when they actually do have money the marketing will pay off. Cars are a good example. I'm pushing 50, and when I go to buy another car I'll probably buy a To
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by tsotha 11y ago
Manning was in a different position because he was military. Putting your signature on that recruiting document both increases the legal expectations on your conduct and decreases the rights you have after you break the rules.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Surely if this is possible you could find one example in all of human history.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Give me one historical example.
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by tsotha 11y ago
That never, ever happens.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Spying is a wash - what you're saying is true, but it's only half the equation. Sometimes that second guessing is what keeps the conflict from becoming hot. Spying can compromise a country's defense to the extent another co
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by tsotha 11y ago
As a vendor do you care more about the number of people who use your product or how much money you're making?
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by tsotha 11y ago
The package insert isn't enough. Those things contain so much BS most people have stopped reading them.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Is this project destined for failure? Probably. You should probably have a heart to heart with this guy and tell him how you feel without evasions or minced words. In the end you're a professional, and professionals don't nee
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by tsotha 11y ago
Interviews which have you rebalancing trees and what not are really just legally safe IQ tests. They purport to be testing skills, but nobody really cares if you can implement a search algorithm - 99.9% of the time you're going to m
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by tsotha 11y ago
The key is to keep the project small. Once projects reach a certain size there's a whole ecosystem of bureaucratic parasites that latch on and begin feeding. "Purple suit" projects like this one are particularly prone to th
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by tsotha 11y ago
>By oscillating super-fast, these sound waves are able to gently open up the blood-brain barrier, which is a layer that protects the brain against bacteria, and stimulate the brain’s microglial cells to activate. You'd want to study
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by tsotha 11y ago
Nope.
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by tsotha 11y ago
That's something both mobile and landline phone providers do. They add a separate line on the bill and word it so you think its a tax when it's just a charge they made up from whole cloth. Hotels do the same thing.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Companies large and small have been outsourcing development work for decades.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Twenty years? No way. Maybe five or ten years for something like nursing. Programmers can learn a language in a few months and become professionally proficient in two years or so. It's a lot closer to factory work than rocket scienc
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by tsotha 11y ago
Nothing is truly tamper proof, but you could make it an order of magnitude harder to diffuse. There's a MacGyver episode from 1986 ("Countdown") that involved a bomb extortion plot that was, in retrospect, almost certainly in
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by tsotha 11y ago
If I were running things free speech would be absolute, including incitement. We already have laws against incitement, and they're only enforced against the people the government doesn't like.
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by tsotha 11y ago
The H-1B visa should be eliminated. It's been nothing but a scam from the start. If there's a demand for a certain type of skill high wages will attract people to the field.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Speech is too complicated to spell out things explicitly. There are too many ways to imply things ambiguously, particularly when you take context into account. In practice what you do with hate speech laws is give the government tools to a
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by tsotha 11y ago
>There are morons on the internet and there need to be ways to enforce a takedown for hate speech IMHO. No. God no. This is functionally no different from every justification for censorship since the invention of the written word. How
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by tsotha 11y ago
Yeah. The founder of one of our vendors sold his company for eight figures recently. His only obligation after the sale was to stay on for six months (at an exorbitant salary) while the management structure was integrated into the new par
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by tsotha 11y ago
The big payday isn't from an IPO any more, but rather from selling out to a larger company. Big tech companies have more money than they know what to do with.
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by tsotha 11y ago
That sounds right to me. Why sell off equity when you can borrow the money you need? There's a hell of a lot of money out there willing to take risks for what used to be considered a mediocre rate of return.
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by tsotha 11y ago
The great thing is when one of your other properties has a good year you can lower the valuation of that sock to reduce your tax burden.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Good luck stuffing that particular genie back into the bottle.

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