Verdex_3

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by Verdex_3 8y ago
Yeah, some of the explanation of benefits I've received are insane. Insurance is apparently able to negotiate ~50% bill reductions for multi 10K bills.
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
I think pregnancy and labor is what's going to finally break the camel's back. Having children is a pretty basic part of being human. And the costs are such that even millionaires are going to feel it. When basically nobody can
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
I was wondering the same thing. I feel my time playing various role playing games has helped the issues that I've had with social anxiety.
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
I really like it when people become concerned about cognitive complexity. I think it's one of the significantly ignored concepts in our industry and if we ever find a way to address the issue (either with some sort of cognitive comple
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
I remember trying to sleep in between classes. Like, I would close my eyes and touch the wall in the hallway so that I could "sleep" while I was walking to my next class.
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
Well, I don't know about that. For example, back when I was at university, my graphics professor mentioned that there were hundreds of algorithms for mapping a texture to a sphere going back hundreds of years because map makers had be
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
Not utilitarian calculus. It's closer to spider-man's Great power comes great responsibility. For example, if I figured out the secret to creating strong AI with respect to writing software such that I could replace the entire so
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
Bad things can work out for your own personal good. Or even the good of the whole of society. However, that doesn't make them not bad. I'm glad that your situation worked out for your own personal good. Nice things happening to
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
They should be free to live their life. If it turns out that the company doesn't actually have enough money to hire enough people to perform all of the duties that it needs to continue to exist, then that company should cease to exist
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
If the interview makes sure that potential employees are okay with being on call, then there are no problems. However, my employer has moral agency above me only insofar as I'm not committing a crime against them (ie fraud or embezzlin
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
You are right. It isn't cool. But I assert that the not cool party is the employer who sprung an on call job requirement without any warning. Additionally, if this job duty was actually important, then the employer would actually rea
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
Division of labor is a thing. I'm good at transforming customer interactions into requirements and then transforming requirements into working code. I'm not good with dealing with issues with a deployed product while I should be
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
Hear hear. Give me actual autonomy and I'll happily be responsible for my code. Make me implement a crappy design and then deploy before it's functional and I'll happily send out resumes while other people work nights and w
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
Like, I can appreciate that things can always be worse. But the other perspective is that what you're describing is objectively bad. And less of a bad thing is still bad. If I have to option to not do a bad thing (even if it is only
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
This isn't quite what I was going to say, but it's close enough. I think parts of an OS can and should be written in something rust like, however the whole thing should probably not be written in rust. My personal thought is that
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
The GURPS role playing system uses the term indefatigable as part of its game mechanics. Additionally, the Film Reroll Podcast uses GURPS as their game system. My guess is that OP either has played GURPS or listened to the Film Reroll. Al
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
There is a series of talks by Yuri Gurevich on Channel 9 where he talks about algorithms. While I haven't watched this particular video (yet), I did watch the other series a few times (3 videos IIRC). Anyway, in those videos Yuri s
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
We as an industry? Look friend. If I lose my job, you aren't going to do anything to augment my lack of income. You're not going to do anything to provide health insurance. And you're not going to do anything to help me fi
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
I wonder which is worse. If they were arguing that way for no reason OR if they were arguing that way because their livelihoods were dependent on it.
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
My plan is that you settle and then pay their licensing fee. At which point you've got the right to show the tattoos so you use that right. Create a new basketball player called LeBron Jame's Solid Oak Sketches LLC tattoos. It&
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
Wait, so the conservatives want less censorship and the liberals want more censorship? Is this one of those mirror universe things?
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
With respect to the call stack, a dynamically scoped variable is like the dual of an exception. That is to say, an exception is a way for a method to communicate with methods that are above it in the call stack. And a dynamically scoped v
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
Is there a prose explanation or justification for Algorithm Information Theory. I think I first heard of it when I saw your IOCCC entry, but I was never able to get my mind wrapped around what the goal of the whole field was.
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
Is this what your meant to write? I've worked on diabetes medical devices for about 8 years, did some research on diabetes to augment my ability to work on said diabetes medical devices, and personally know several people with type 1 d
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
Additionally, if you don't train Steve and instead just quit, that's not going to stop the Employer from asking Steve to do the unethical thing without training. Now the unethical thing is not only unethical, but it is also fille
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
Hear hear. When building a bridge it's obvious when they're building a test bridge or a real life bridge for people to drive over. "So you want to spend 100 million dollars on a bridge that you're only using for testing
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
No, he's saying that if he raises an objection, then his boss will fire him and find someone less competent to do the job. Then after he's fired for standing up for the good of society, society will tell him to starve to death be
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
There are no more coral snake antivenom manufacturers anymore because the regulations became more stringent and the company that made the only antivenom that was grandfathered in under the old rules decided it wasn't worth it anymore.
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
Here's a thought experiment. What if corporations hired a bunch of people whose job it was to be genuinely happy that it was your birthday. Maybe they divide their user group into days such that each day one of these employees would
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by Verdex_3 8y ago
Or you could just skip the middle man and hack the target's last pass account. Anything can be exploited if the criteria for exploiting it is somehow breaking into an arbitrarily secured network/facility.

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