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Found the GAP employee. And if you aren't this story could have come from one.
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> Isn't that just part of everyday life as a grown-up? Yes it is. The question isn't if you mask, it's what you are masking and to what extent. There is a big difference between having sense enough not to wear your favorit
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"Public messages risk a wide audience seeing the message and recognizing it’s inappropriate, then taking action against the person, reporting them, or highlighting the inappropriate messages for mob reprisals." You're defendi
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> There's no inherent terror in it. Go watch the classic black and white "Frankenstein" for a portrayal of mob justice. Torches and pitchforks! How about the French Revolution... where the head of the mob meets the same en
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> mob reprisals Great choice of words here, it's an accurate description of the terror of the commons. Force everything into a public venue so we're all watching each other and then get every one invested in reporting on every
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> What's wrong with "personalized ads"? They are fundamentally rooted in the past --- and the past is often no longer relevant. Just because I searched for a car last week doesn't mean I haven't bought one alread
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1y ago
You might not have been here 25 years ago when the dot com bubble burst. A lot of us ate shit to stay in the Bay Area, to stay in computing. I have stories of great engineers doing really crappy jobs and "contracting" on the side.
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> Takeaway: Be paranoid about MBAs running your business. Except Andy is talking about himself, and Noyce the engineers getting it wrong: (watch a few minutes of this to get the gist of where they were vs Japan) https://www.yo
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The coverage of WMD's was appalling. Both the BBC and the Guardian were reporting how fucked up it was, but NYT ra ra America fuck yea just went along with it. There were other us news orgs that spoke up but no traction. And this is th
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> Having been a reader of the New York Times for almost 50 years, I can say the New York Times hasn't changed that much. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/07/new-york-times... https:&#x
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1y ago
Well. Don't try to write "good" go and it becomes easy too. I would rather see clearly defined, readable, documented code that isnt optimal... than good code lacking any of those traits. And good code often isnt clearly defin
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> Can somebody explain to me how backdooring every app does not lead to the real risk of an entire population's bank accounts being emptied, or similar more hidden but widespread attacks that absolutely cripple any country doing thi
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> But you don't refute this, The 66 percent turn out rate is not that high period. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voter-turnou... If non voting renters showed up, this could easi
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> Voters don't actually want house prices to come down. You have this wrong. > Somehow the homeowners almost always win against the renters First lets look at homeownership rates: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/serie
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> Finder the least flexible file explorer of any OS. Tell me how you getting around your system on linux? Search is and remains a first class citizen on Mac, and is for the most part on Linux. Spotlight still edges out linux choices. Win
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> If this low contrast blobby window thing makes its way to the laptop I’ll be very, very not impressed. You have quite a bit of control over all of these features. Dark mode, contrast controls... There is a lot there you can tweak to ha
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> I think everyone is underestimating the advancements in wafer tech and server compute over the last decade. What advancements? We have done a fabulous job at lowering power consumption while exponentially increasing density of cores an
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> and pretty much the same The top 5 percent of India and China is a pool of 200 millon people. The top 5 percent of the US is a pool of 17 millon people. If your looking for talent and not looking to other nations your going to come up
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I'll replace all your coworkers with random DeVry grads. After all people are interchangeable like parts of an assembly line.
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> If engineers can't even manage their own security, why are we expecting users to do so? This latest attack hit Crowdstrike as well. Imagine they had gotten inside Huntress, who opened up about how much they can abuse the access gi
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India, China, both home to a billion people. Mathematically if we collected all the brightest people from both these nations, say the top 5 percent of their population thats 100 million people in that pool to pick from. The entire populatio
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> I've been doing ruby on rails for most of my career. ... do I need to find a different language or framework to work with? Yes you should be branching out. Politics has nothing to do with why.
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> With that kind of control, why would they share with the artist? Its in both parties benefit to find a mutually lucrative deal. More so when the customer is not that bright and motivated by "passion" and "fan culture&quo
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Because the person they are importing is probably brighter than you. If you're talented and smart you come to the US and likely the Bay Area (or west coast) to work in tech. Why? For the same reason that baseball players all end up in
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How does a republican raise taxes without raising taxes. This is how they do it. What industries are going to get hit hardest? Tech and medicine, two of the largest money makers in the country. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a
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> Not startups. 100k is like 75% I dont know of a single person here on a visa making less than 150k salary. They get the same stock, bonus and benefits that every one else gets.... it's well over 300k to have that staff member when
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NO Scalping has existed since forever. The thing was it was local promoters + local sales (aka criminals) who would get tickets from management (yes thats the artists management) and kick the money back to the artist if they were lucky (if
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Most of the workloads that people with homelabs run, could be run on a 5 year old i5. A lot of business are paying obscene money to cloud providers when they could have a pair of racks and the staff to support it. Unless you're paying
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> I've never encountered a foreign born medical grad in all my years. Where do they work? https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/immigrant-health-car...
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If you are going to run a non deterministic system on three very different hardware platforms doesn't it behoove you to tell your users where their experience is coming from? Calling the platforms A, B and C might help provide us the i
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