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by vageli 7y ago
> No, it's not. Certification is an extremely expensive process with dubious benefits for safety. Why would you change hardware that has worked fine if it can fulfill your requirements? Is it fair to say the hardware is fulfilling t
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by vageli 7y ago
> My boss does an evaluation of my performance for the purposes of HR, but he doesn’t really manage me and I don’t think he makes more money than me. Our IC roles go all the way up to Director level without having any reports. I think it
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by vageli 7y ago
> That’s not true either. Who’s the highest compensated person at Square? Is he a manager or an IC? > The root poster is absolutely correct. The responses that say you can have a great life without climbing to the top of the highest l
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by vageli 7y ago
I see your point. I'm left wondering if there aren't real impacts to testing this technology in the real world though. Like if there have been any deaths due to emergency responders being stuck behind these vehicles or something s
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by vageli 7y ago
> unfortunately for you, we are not yet living in a dictatorship. so no, the government can’t simply “turn it off”. Why do we need to be in a dictatorship for the government to be able to arbitrarily seize assets? Civil forfeiture is rea
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by vageli 7y ago
> I'm going to interpret this as charitably as possible: Are you attempting to bring attention to the fact that doxxing is rarely prosecuted, even though it's illegal and there's boatloads of evidence that it is in fact a
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by vageli 7y ago
> A very conservative lower bound is that every day we don't have self-driving cars costs the country $1 billion in lost value. Every single day. And every day we don't have solar cells are 2000% more efficient than current tec
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by vageli 7y ago
> This group of german companies founded their own security group [German Cyber Security Organization (DCSO)]. That speaks a lot about their trust in their public services. > The only time I've been involved in a hacking attempt
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by vageli 7y ago
> While this raises some good points, it's worth mentioning the history between Aaron Greenspan and Facebook: > https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/01/technology/01facebook.htm... . I wasn't a
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by vageli 7y ago
Ah I had not seen this. Thank you!
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by vageli 7y ago
> Agreed. > I found that the best way to get reliable ops long-term is to mercilessly dive into the code for every issue encountered, and fix it at fundamental level. > It takes significant time, but after following this practice f
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by vageli 7y ago
> A lot of this would be solved by knowing how much people make, what they spend it on and where the money came from. > If you want democracy, let people vote on who is a scumbag, investigate those people's financial history and
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by vageli 7y ago
> Spotify vs Google Play Music is the perfect showcase for this. They both get the job done but Spotify is better in so many small ways. Meanwhile, instead of being improved, GPM is in the process of being abandoned for the new shiny thi
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by vageli 7y ago
> Well, the search engines decided that robots.txt was the better approach for them. Which makes sense, since they want control over as much data as possible, that's their profit motive. The jury is still out on whether that's
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by vageli 7y ago
It's crazy, we understand that libraries should be barred from handing over our book checkout histories but somehow we allow corporations to do that and much more.
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by vageli 7y ago
> What does it mean to "Carry modern slavery risks"? Do you mean "they employ slaves, e.g. the owner took their passports and controls them like slaves?" Human trafficking is a real thing. Coffeedoughnuts provided a l
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by vageli 7y ago
> "The precision of keeping all those threads perfectly spaced is one thing" > Making the first precision screw requires a "screw originating machine".[1][2] This is a special-purpose device which can make a better
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by vageli 7y ago
> I think it should also be noted that the best way to show an employer that they need to do better is supply and demand, quitting entirely and working for someone else is not only more effective than simply demonstrating or slacking off
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by vageli 7y ago
> Its weird how it's socially acceptable to admit you're reliant upon this specific drug to get work done. But any others and it's bad. The most interesting aspect is that this acceptance is near universe across cultures.
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by vageli 7y ago
> I think it's a massive economic barrier. How much does it cost to have an online experience of socialization or eating with equivalent quality to an offline one? People still take vacations, pack up their bags, and fly on planes t
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by vageli 7y ago
> > they're often limited and have diminishing returns > Right. I think therefore the thing is, to be conscious about the purpose of those games, ask questions about what kind of value they bring to their players and the socie
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by vageli 7y ago
> > Those who claim to have a societal model where everyone can happily accumulate wealth while benefiting others and hurting nobody, know exactly what they are doing. > I'm not claiming that. I'm claiming that activity i
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by vageli 7y ago
> What does this have to do with Libra? I bet most Americans are in favor of stopping Libra; aka Facebook's private currency. > Central banking is a huge part of international economic policy and stability. There's a reason
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by vageli 7y ago
> This could be an extremely interesting legal argument, but I suppose the language used requires a request in 'writing' of some sort, which I suppose HTTP requests would fail. Are emails not considered communications "in
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by vageli 7y ago
> This is not going to scale. Lambdas are hella slow. The cold starts will kill you. Frameworks like Zappa handle this out of this box by setting up executions to run via cloudwatch event cron.
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by vageli 7y ago
> For Lastpass at least, I have two specific examples: 1) in Lastpass, the password length selector is a drop down, not an input or a slider, while in 1password it is a slider. This means you need to scroll a bit to choose a longer lengt
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by vageli 7y ago
> And keeping a truly reliable backup is hard. Do you print out recovery codes, laminate the paper, and put them in a fire resistant home safe, or a safe deposit box? This had me thinking about off-site backups and eventually my mind got
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by vageli 7y ago
> I built Logflare for Cloudflare. A good example of what you’re talking about I think. https://logflare.app Total aside, but I really love the feel of your site. Very polished and I love the way the tool is presented (not to
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by vageli 7y ago
> They can't be a central bank because they are not a government. Isn't the federal reserve in the United States a private corporation that is not part of the government?
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by vageli 7y ago
> Data Structures are more like Types than Classes. Any useful program is going to have Data Structures and Algorithms that operate on it. OP v FP are just different opinions on how that should be organized, either combined into a single

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