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by aka1234 6y ago
I didn't mean to imply Best Buy employees get commission. I only called them salespeople to distinguish the people who roam the tech aisles rather than work the register, Geek Squad, etc. Anecdotally, I've definitely more than one
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by aka1234 6y ago
I wonder how much of Best Buy's success can be attributed to using 'emotional intelligence' to 'build relationships' with gullible people and sell $1,000+ HDMI cables to them. Does it happen a lot? Probably not. But
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by aka1234 6y ago
Must depend on the org and how you do it. My personal experience is that if you are open and up-front with going to a competitor, they'll cut your access and pay you for the remaining time left on your resignation letter/month .
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by aka1234 6y ago
"The biggest roofing company in my state, Salazar roofing, is American owned and operated." <--- This is a big part of what's happening. Most people screaming about how 'Americans' won't do jobs like farming
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by aka1234 6y ago
I can only speak from my layman's understanding of US law. In the US, there's a doctrine prosecutorial discretion. Basically the police and prosecutors can choose whether to arrest and charge someone for a crime. > "Maybe
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by aka1234 6y ago
Largely a distinction without a difference. The fact they have money is what gives them the power to say no. - Someone asking for a meeting/to connect? If you have money, people come to you; so it's easy to say no to networking op
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by aka1234 6y ago
When talking about screw-ups on AWS, public incident reports try to obfuscate and spin the Hell out of issues that boil down to "really, really stupid configuration issue". They owned it. That is more than can be said about other
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by aka1234 6y ago
Thanks for posting this. I'm really impressed with the transparency Twilio showed in actually admitting to having such a silly, silly bucket policy. Not impressed that it was there in the first place; but that should go without saying.
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by aka1234 6y ago
AWS's shared responsibility model is clear. AWS is responsible for security of the cloud. The customer is responsible for the security in the cloud (i.e. the customer's resources). By the way, enterprise support customers do g
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by aka1234 6y ago
Never heard of this in my organization. Have heard whispers of it in some corners, but not from anyone currently employed by Amazon.
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by aka1234 6y ago
This is why I've always felt Robinhood is evil. It is trading platform that combines 1.) user engagement/gamification with 2.) targeting a core userbase of young adults that are both financially unstable and inexperienced. It&#x27
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by aka1234 6y ago
>"There is some truth to the metaphor, but I wonder if it’s doing more harm than good." In my experience, whether the metaphor does more harm than good really depends on the individual patient. When faced with the chemical imba
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by aka1234 6y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but it strikes me as weird that police can use illegally obtained information as evidence in investigations. Isn't that fruit from a poisoned tree?
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by aka1234 6y ago
Kinda like how Amazon acquired CloudEndure, improved the service, and lowered cost by 80%? They really broke that. /s Full disclosure: I work at AWS. Not on CloudEndure or anything relating to pricing. But come on.
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by aka1234 6y ago
One of the more genius (and nefarious) moves American industry has made is to switch the narrative on environmentalism from large organizations (corporations, the government, etc.) as polluters to individuals.[1] Can individuals impact the
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by aka1234 6y ago
That seems like a lot of effort to address the symptoms, not the disease. The root issue is the user. Get rid of the user and you don't have to worry about all these half-measures.
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by aka1234 6y ago
> "That's an argument for banning swastikas, not banning anyone who displays a swastika." If you don't ban the person displaying the swastika, how can you possibly enforce banning swastikas? There must be a consequenc
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by aka1234 6y ago
> Is this true for civil cases? I presume no one is being charged with a crime here... Yes. The publishers are saying 'the Internet Archive violated my rights and has caused monetary damages. They owe us for those damages.' It&
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by aka1234 6y ago
> "No, the criminal in the above is absolutely on the wrong side of the law. That's the assumption after all." In America at least, the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty. So the assumption should be that t
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by aka1234 6y ago
Definitely get what you're saying, but knowing things unfortunately doesn't mean putting that knowledge into use. I don't know if the guy whose dog ate his homework actually did the homework. But I know that as a system admin
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by aka1234 6y ago
Pizzagate != Epstein Leaking Podesta's email spawned a conspiracy theory that high-ranking Democrats were a part of a satanic child abuse and traffic ring. It was specifically partisan. Meanwhile there are multiple layers to the Epstei
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by aka1234 6y ago
I too am shocked that Wikileaks would publish tabloidish material with little public value. Next thing you know, I'll hear that Wikileaks posted private emails of a government official talking about pizza. Emails which spawned ridiculo
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by aka1234 6y ago
Python works for a large swath of issues, and is much easier to learn. That's the point of it. With Python, you can more easily move from a purely syntactical focus to actually programming. If you need to go into lower level programmin
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by aka1234 6y ago
It intentionally gamifies financial transactions (see the OP's comment about the colorful confetti that displays when user make trades). The app is designed to provide a dopamine hit when making trades, the only purpose of which is to
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by aka1234 6y ago
It's a water bottle
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by aka1234 6y ago
This is overly charitable. Zoom isn't learning from mistakes and making improvements that the market demands. It's providing a feature it said it already had. Zoom knew E2EE was something the market demanded, so it lied about havi
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by aka1234 6y ago
It's not just IT. I transitioned to a career in IT when I was 35. I've done a _lot_ of things in my time; everything from bouncing in a world-famous downtown district to being a cashier a gas station. This is all good advice. Find
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by aka1234 6y ago
One thing people have to keep in mind when running these kinds of tools is they make tons of API calls. Depending on how you have things set up, use these tools can drastically increase your CloudTrail bill. Also, they'll often make
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by aka1234 6y ago
What IP restrictions? Must be different in other orgs. But I've never run into any IP restriction whatsoever.
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by aka1234 6y ago
> "Whenever nobody in a group has a different opinion on a serious subject that always seems extremely suspicious to me." With a criminal conviction we're talking about exercising the state's monopoly on violence and

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