tyri_kai_psomi

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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
Since go makes it so easy to build a binary for most any platform, I think one area anyone could introduce is it into their toolkits is by building small, simple, purpose-built programs you can easily run on the command line to perform a re
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
I hear this a lot, and while it may be true for the core platform, the American left have some of the most extreme progressive views in the world, for example, on abortion.
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
Perhaps that contributes to why the problem exists in the first place? Out of sight out of mind?
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
I just had a week long experience there and I found it to be surreal. I went in thinking "surely conservative media is exaggerating" and sure enough, I took a stroll from my conference at SVN down Market Street to a bar called Loc
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
An attempt to generate a business idea actually fits extremely well here. I am not sure where you get that feeling from but I am interested to hear the rationale at least, as a conversation starter perhaps.
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
I fortunately think you might be wrong, and unfortunately for this article nowhere is it mentioned that large corporations are actually the ones leading the charge to push for a national privacy law because obviously from a regulatory cost
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
Well yes. It is my theory. I did make it up, formulating my own hypothesis. What is your point?
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
(DISCLAIMER: I am hoping we can discuss this from a purely intellectual perspective and not bring ideology into it) I have always postulated that the increase of estrogenic compounds may have some impact on what seems to be an utter surge o
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
> You don't? You like people not giving a shit and parking in disabled spots/ramps, double-parking everywhere, civil services closing at noon because they have "work to do", employers paying employees starvation wages
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
Who in the hell actually hates Greek culture? It's the best part about Greece! No re malaka, we just leave for the money and jobs, but we would all come back if we could have the same economic opportunity and environment. A true Greek
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
> all these robots doing, better, the job previously done by humans. I don't know if you use ATM's a ton, but when it's the only option you have for interacting with your bank, it's pretty terrible, because your opt
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
Gotta hand it to this place, it's one of the few places I visit where 200-300 dollars is considered penny pinching. The other is the country club.
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
Money costs money.
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
You put a spotlight by saying "privacy and security focused alternative to segment" Are there things you believe make segment not privacy and security focused? As a long time user of segment, I find their protocols feature and new
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
As the twitter thread notes, he seems to have gotten some of his historical information about ancient Mesopotamia from a website called historywiz ( https://www.historywiz.com/flood.htm ), which I suppose is good if you are w
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
Add to this Richard Dawkins new book, "Outgrowing God" which is rife with inaccuracies, baseless conjecture about the motivations behind some of the ancients civilizations he talks about (an assyriologist posted a pretty pointed t
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
Startups is such a loosely qualified term these days that it practically means any business that has "recently started", so no you don't need a citation because the word in of itself is subjective.
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
What about non-vc backed high tech startups, which are the by far the majority of tech jobs? (my company, fwiw) We have investors sure, but the two founders retain the control. All of the companies we have acquired were in similar situation
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
It used to be. There are a ton of popular songs from the 60s, 70s and 80s, especially in country music, about "9 to 5" jobs being the gold standard and basically how you had it made if you got one.
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
What I don't understand is what is so mind boggling to GP? This is the norm for the vast majority of private companies.
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
We have a contract with the USPS IT department and let me tell you, it is absolutely awesome for their employees. They do about half the work we do in twice the amount of time, get paid more, have more holidays (2 weeks + every single feder
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
You are not wrong in your reason for why a certain type of person attends a conference: to satisfy ego or some other vanity, you are wrong in assuming all (or even a majority of) people attend conferences for this reason. Conferences in my
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
> How do we interpret and apply information like this? Specifically for me, I like the fact that my Apple Watch reminds me to stand after it has detected I have been siting for a long period of time. It also prompts me to take a brisk wa
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
I am not just picking Finland however. I am picking Scandanavia as a region, which consists of 21 million, or a little over half of Canada's population. The sample size is large enough, in my opinion. It passes the smell test as well:
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
> ) and speculation (everyone is better without heavily structured schooling). https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/sep/20/grammar-sc... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
Because it is much more lucrative for them to have a phone with the best camera in the world.
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
"I have never experienced this thing, therefore this thing must not exist"
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
You don't lose it on a whim. In the US, you can file for COBRA to extend your benefits, at which point that alots you plenty of time to apply for medicaid if the circumstances were extraordinary (why do I get this weird feeling most pe
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
counterpoint: you are just as free to take the same liberty with your employer. You can drop them like a bad date, and take a job somewhere else. additional counterpoint: part of your job as being a grown up responsible adult is your abilit
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by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
It's more along the lines of, and the maturity required to understand that, there are two sides to every story and the people on the "other side" are human beings, too, and in fact, not your enemy. Average Americans most of t

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