DrWumbo

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by DrWumbo 3y ago
The discussion around this on other platforms is turning into a case against Diversity&Inclusion policies when it should be strictly seen as poor leadership.
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by DrWumbo 4y ago
I can see that as a possible interpretation of my statement, thank you for the context. I see that being a mod on this site isn't easy, so thank you for your work. Reading the full guidelines now I can tell I've broken some of the
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by DrWumbo 4y ago
Not sure why my comment is flagged, or why this would be introductory to a nationalistic flamewar. Saying that the US has a lack of emphasis on passenger rail travel has nothing to do with Nationalism. This thread is about Southwest's
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by DrWumbo 4y ago
If a small dealership has higb fixed costs and they only turn a small profit per car, and don't sell enough volume they are operating at a loss. Sure each car might not be a loss, but if you can't keep the lights on then what&#x27
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by DrWumbo 4y ago
I'm curious how long a local small business used car dealership could last if it was unprofitable. This seems like another example of how technology doesn't 'disrupt' markets via savvy new ways of operating, so much as i
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by DrWumbo 4y ago
Yeah there's obvious reasons why organized crime is dangerous, but it's designed to lure people in with quick money/protection/sense of identity and then trap them. The same goes for any behavior where one knows adverse
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by DrWumbo 4y ago
There's a lot of shitheads out there for sure and when one commits crimes in which there are victims one makes a moral decision to inflict some kind of harm. Even with that, you can never truly know another person and categorizing who
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by DrWumbo 4y ago
I think you're overestimating Americans We got credit cards with chips way after Europe. We don't have anything close to GDPR because enough voters don't understand data privacy (and ofc regulatory capture).
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by DrWumbo 4y ago
I see a lot of commenters here talking about how they have no sympathy for the kid. I think it's important to remember that it's hard out there these days. A life of crime may not be the only option available, but it becomes more
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by DrWumbo 4y ago
I think part of the challenge is increasing tech literacy in America. Most of my friends and family have trouble understanding password managers or hardware 2fa.
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by DrWumbo 4y ago
I think the article presents a few different ways that this technology is concerning: the budget aspect (which seems to be neutrally aligned), the concern for privacy of US Citizen's near the border (also not a left aligned concept), a
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by DrWumbo 4y ago
Given the risks involved in storing this type of data, it may make financial sense to go the "don't store data" route.
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by DrWumbo 4y ago
Legislation has actually taken us in the opposite direction. With FOSTA/SESTA online platforms were required to make an effort to go through user content. I think a better analogy to use is these platforms being like bars or cafes. Yo
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by DrWumbo 4y ago
Not sure what is supposed to be controversial about balut. The article reads like an American boy experiencing another culture as a gross thing you do on a dare with some wikipedia bits mangled in.
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by DrWumbo 4y ago
These were great machines. I would wait till they were 4 years old and then buy them super cheap as my daily driver. 3:2 aspect ratio screens and solid build quality, great battery life from their second device onwards. I got a 2013 pixel i
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by DrWumbo 4y ago
If you need your apple watch to keep from getting lost in the mountains: you probably shouldn't be in the mountains. If you need your apple watch is helping you scuba dive: you probably shouldn't be diving. I can see a rugged, sma
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by DrWumbo 4y ago
Not quite what you're looking for but an interesting tangent: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
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by DrWumbo 4y ago
No mention of Vernor Vinge's "True Names" from 1981. I'd say it's as close to the metaverse as Snow Crash
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by DrWumbo 6y ago
Imagine how many of these companies send 'EVENT' data to Facebook on the backend as opposed to directly from your client. Just like any illegal activity, corporate data privacy violations will keep happening but be pushed further
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by DrWumbo 6y ago
This is a company that pays almost no Federal taxes, whose employees are forced to seek aid from the Federal govt. The least they could do is offer paid sick leave for those affected. Hardcore capitalism is doing as much harm to the US duri
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by DrWumbo 7y ago
I figured it out! It's an article designed to funnel traffic to the author's blog site by using outliers (like the janitor) as clickbait. Other commenters pointed out that this is partly absurd expectations of what middle class is
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by DrWumbo 7y ago
Overachiever is a loaded term. It has many negative connotations. As if someone went so far beyond achieving that they deserve to be despised for it. This type of rhetoric is often used to disparage Asian-Americans. I enjoyed reading t
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by DrWumbo 7y ago
With Slack unable to send messages, I had to contact people via trembles Skype for Business
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by DrWumbo 7y ago
This is awful. There's no chance of their system having a 0% false positive rate (positive in this case meaning spam). Even a low FPR means that potentially important calls will get blocked by default.
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by DrWumbo 7y ago
I had a friend collect calling me from jail for 8 days. It kept showing up as Scam Likely, so I wasn't answering. One day I decided to answer it in order to leave an awkward conversation and was shocked to learn what had been going on.
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by DrWumbo 8y ago
Happy Fastmail user here. Thank you for providing a quality service!
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by DrWumbo 9y ago
A very informative write-up. I believe that KNN is a great intro project for anyone getting into machine learning. I recently wrote an MNIST KNN classifier with numpy and pandas, this post certainly would have been helpful. https:/&#
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by DrWumbo 10y ago
Thanks for responding :) I took the package, and am very excited to move on!
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Ask HN: Does taking a severance package make you less marketable?
3 points by DrWumbo 10y ago|2 comments
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by DrWumbo 10y ago
I work at a Fortune 50 in the US, and we hire a lot the TCS devs and others from Chennai. A lot of them whom I talk to say they feel trapped where they are, and exploited by these mass VIT employers.

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