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by vanusa 5y ago
Wirefraud could be 20 years in federal prison. This guy is worse than a rapist? Wire fraud that destroys someone's life savings (i.e. on the Madoff scale) can be arguably put in the same ball park as a sexual assault, in terms of net
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by vanusa 5y ago
Yeah, that's what I see it as -- in part as a quick stand-in for a higher-end IQ test (or whatever of one wants to call "innate" intellectual ability). As well a way for the company to signal that of course they're all
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by vanusa 5y ago
Does have to be not just "strong" -- but "extremely strong" evidence? Not to split hairs - but it does seem to be a peculiar choice of words, there. I just don't see why the DSA filter has come to be considered so
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by vanusa 5y ago
But the ability to problem solve complicated problems where the obvious solution is probably not the best one. Problems like designing "the most popular package manager on macOS", for example? I think what the author finds stran
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Do I Have to Read My Child Antiracist Books, Even When They’re Bad?(nytimes.com)
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by vanusa 5y ago
Thanks - that echoes a lot of what I'd been quietly suspecting. I just didn't have heart to raise the issue with the resident 'DevOps Evangelist' a certain place I worked at recently.
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by vanusa 5y ago
But they don't want to. The working conditions that everyone rags on about there are a feature for them, not a bug.
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Pegasus spyware used in ‘jaw-dropping’ phone hacks on El Salvador journalists(theguardian.com)
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by vanusa 5y ago
So would you say DevOps is ... more a "brand" than useful proscription for anything? Or what are its useful / redeeming features, in your view? Don't mean to be dismissive, I'm still trying to figure out what it is
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by vanusa 5y ago
Showing someone a certain atypical probability distribution I was graphing. Next week, hired.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Who-like I-was frustrated with how our company manifested 'Devops', and also-like I-had zero interest in trying to play the 'hearts and minds' game of undergoing a devops transformation This sounds juicy. More details
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by vanusa 5y ago
I don't think it was that nuanced, actually. Basically it came down to an attempt at FUD: "Everyone is biased, you can't really trust anyone, therefore I don't need to acknowledge of any of the substantive points you are
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by vanusa 5y ago
"5 years of REST" required, as if there's anything to REST that can't be learned in a week. And ditto for basically all of these "years of X" requirements. Yes, some of these certainly do take more than a week
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by vanusa 5y ago
So, why Python programmers prefer making classes when the language has dictionaries? Bound methods. And yes, if you don't drive it into the ground, inheritance can be useful, also.
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by vanusa 5y ago
https://archive.fo/lWWkD
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by vanusa 5y ago
Same reasons as everywhere else: The vaccines ended up attenuating in their effectiveness faster than expected, while everyone who was vaxxed went around town (and going to restaurants, and clubbing, etc) thinking they were now bulletproof
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by vanusa 5y ago
The DMV is also “reviewing” Tesla’s use of the term “Full Self-Driving” in its branding, which has been criticized by experts and government officials as misleading to customers. As outright fraud, in other words. Which should be suffici
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by vanusa 5y ago
Who pays the anthropologists? Yeah I guess they're all just paid shills, and have no idea of what they're talking about.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Actually the problem is that a sizable cabal has come to understand the exponential function all too well. And has applied it to the theory and practice of capital investment in exchange for increasing returns (back to the investors) -- wh
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by vanusa 5y ago
Actually it's written by anthropologists. If you look at how our species came to self-organize, there has always been a strong component of innate, voluntary cooperation (and of course violent subjugation as well). It's a mixed
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by vanusa 5y ago
The interesting thing is that this is literally how all governments originally emerged. No - there are also revolutions and secessionist movements. Which already in their formation can be better thought of as mini-governments than "
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Wari elites used beer-like psychedelic drink for political advantage(phys.org)
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Russia’s belief in NATO ‘betrayal’ – and why it matters today(theguardian.com)
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Held at Gitmo for 20 yrs wo trial, petitions Biden for release. He also paints(theguardian.com)
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by vanusa 5y ago
Also, it overlaps with non-political topics (energy tech, and the cult of you-know-who).
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by vanusa 5y ago
This just feels like you've never left the US If you only knew. In brief: of course there are many shameful / antagonizing aspects to the culture here. But the broader undercurrent of acceptance here (rather than tolerance as
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by vanusa 5y ago
Lest I come across as a glass half-empty person, let me mention a few things about this country that I genuinely like and which rare (if not unique) throughout the world: (1) Genuine ethnic diversity (simply unmatched in its breadth and sca
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by vanusa 5y ago
Was it ever? Social atomization, hyperconsumerism and a generally blighted physical environment (who-gives-a-fuck suburban sprawl nearly everywhere) are what define your life in most parts of this country, if you don't earn a high enou
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The Restaurant Industry Has Always Treated Sick Workers with No Remorse(grubstreet.com)
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by vanusa 5y ago
So not "the UN" as you misrepresent, but rather: some operatives from some of the planet's most brutally repressive regimes (after the PRC, of course) -- specifically: Bahrain, Belarus, Cuba, Eritrea, Djibouti, Iran ... there

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