Goladus

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by Goladus 4y ago
You didn't make an argument. You just made an unsupported claim. You did not compare fraud rates, you did not measure costs or benefits, you did not account for the urgency of the established by the context or make any attempt to ass
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by Goladus 4y ago
You made no argument for it.
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by Goladus 4y ago
Estonia has a population the size of Maine.
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by Goladus 4y ago
I think it was the bull market combined with specifically a "hiring bubble" caused by aggressive, competitive hiring and acquisition practices as a risk-mitigation strategy to prevent disruptive competition
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by Goladus 4y ago
A failed business is more disruptive to the economy. There were programs aimed at individuals, though, such as ERAP for rent payment relief.
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by Goladus 4y ago
Exactly. It was a best effort move to reduce fraud and exploitation while still providing the desired benefits. You had to wager that the loan would be forgiven and you had to be approved for the loan by an established lender. Heart-break
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by Goladus 4y ago
> The whole PPP process was a sham [...] it was designed up front to be a giveaway to business owners. Yes. The goal was to put money into the economy to help absorb the shock caused by short-term COVID restrictions that would otherwise
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by Goladus 6y ago
His type of behavior and language brings out hate and revulsion in even the kindest people. From what I see, the hate and revulsion is brought out primarily by confirmation bias due to (a) subjective reporting on his behavior and language
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by Goladus 6y ago
I suspect the confusion here is that too much market-centered thinking, while essential for doing good business, can lead you to lose sight of "use value" in the big picture. If Google search and Facebook were to disappear tomorro
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by Goladus 6y ago
That's untrue and not really relevant to the point anyway. Spending changes are small relative to the total spending, and have been increasing, for the most part. NIH budget for example increased from $32 billion in 2016[1] to $41.68
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by Goladus 6y ago
> You have Bing, DDG, etc. Sure, they are crap, but they are not end of the world. They aren't, though. Google's search is no longer the undisputed best by any fair and comprehensive assessment. Here's a recent search I a
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by Goladus 6y ago
To be fair, the narrow question would have been far more compelling 10-15 years ago, when these companies were both less-huge and had largely unvarnished reputations as being the best large companies for software developers to work. 10 yea
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by Goladus 7y ago
Honestly what should we learn from people who are opposed to scientific reality? The idea of using CO2 emissions control as a form of social control doesn't sound crazy at all to me. Without knowing anything else, I'd assume it
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by Goladus 7y ago
You're just proving my point. You clearly have not had a real discussion with anyone who disagrees with your presumptions about the relative importance of emissions control. Your opponent is not a real person, it's a conservativ
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by Goladus 7y ago
Why not ask them about it? You might learn something.
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by Goladus 7y ago
Does that stuff help? Yes, if practiced as intended, which there is no guarantee. Did Italy do that? Perhaps not as quickly as they should have. The rest of the world is learning from Italy's experience (they should have been payi
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by Goladus 7y ago
It's progress by any reasonable use of language. Your definition of progress is worthless.
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by Goladus 7y ago
bunch of papers is not actual progress That all depends on the content of the papers. Protein folding is immensely complex. An actual progress probably would be something like : effective cure for a disease found. This is such a silly
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by Goladus 7y ago
You are correct, though though actually more complex than this. 1. Death from complications takes some time. You won't really know the real numbers until enough time has passed for the serious cases to resolve one way or the other. 2
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by Goladus 7y ago
Edit: If you're saying that the "reported" death rate "appears" lower based on reported statistics, then yes testing more people can make it seem like the actual death rate is lower. Otherwise: > 67 deaths out o
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by Goladus 7y ago
> The implication often given is general purpose productivity superiority. The post you responded to specifically used Java as an example, though. Clojure specifically is clearly targeted as an alternative to writing raw Java. A number
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by Goladus 7y ago
> Startup time isn't what is holding the language back. For what it's worth, I am a system administrator (or DevOps engineer or infrastructure architect or whatever the trendy name is now). I've written several non-trivia
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by Goladus 7y ago
> It doesn't help that our industry is still stuck in this world where "technical" and "non-technical" is a very strict dichotomy, where technical people are basically like a 2020 Mr. Spock and non-technical peop
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by Goladus 7y ago
> Advertisement providers should deliver a usable product for their client where usable doesn't refer to ease of implementation for the news agency. They should make an effort to promote in stead of bothering people. For what it&#x2
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by Goladus 7y ago
One lesson I've learned from 10 years using Stack Overflow is that its moderation is obnoxious. Eventually, in 2013 I started jotting down links to questions that were closed despite being well-written questions with thoughtful answer
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by Goladus 7y ago
Agreed. I cannot stand news from major news sites. Good articles exist on smaller sites, where there is a legitimate attempt to cover something interesting in a thorough and well-researched manner (for example today I just read this: htt
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by Goladus 7y ago
The only question that matters in this argument is whether a corporation's freedom to do business is worth more than stopping the action you consider immoral. Your attempts at refutation are all general and fail to address the critical
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by Goladus 7y ago
All this energy and effort would be better spent on getting the current admin out. For what it's worth, getting the Republicans out is almost certainly what this stunt is about. Maybe not consciously, but the groundwork of propagand
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by Goladus 7y ago
At what point is it appropriate for employees to start sabotaging GitHub b/c they dislike the ICE contract? When they have good enough reason to believe that breaking up the contract will achieve a positive end that is worth the viol
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by Goladus 7y ago
Yes. If you still don't understand, I am sorry I do not think I will be able to explain further.

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