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by bernf 4y ago
This was already an incredibly stupid concept pushed by large megacorp polluters to make individuals feel bad about their miniscule contributions. The term "carbon footprint" was literally invented by marketing/lobby firms t
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by bernf 4y ago
Meanwhile, ISPs and mobile data providers sell your cell phone data to 3rd parties all the time to make money. More people keep phones on them than they do cars. Remember when NYT bought data in DC region and could track down secret securi
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by bernf 4y ago
You have no idea what you're talking about, there was no "insider attack" she had scripts the equivalent of a web scraper/sniffer.
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by bernf 4y ago
AWS CDK exists and IMO is way better than terraform if you're on AWS. So much so that terraform is making their own variant to be more CDK like.
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by bernf 4y ago
Plaid would be one of the worst companies to compare yourself to for privacy compliance.
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by bernf 4y ago
TLDR: This guy doesn't know what social engineering is. Guy probably thinks the bartender winking at him also is hitting on him.
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by bernf 4y ago
How to tell someone has never been in charge of a meaningful number of people. Growth and scale is hard. Multiple people interviewing is to de risk bias and have minimal critical exposure to a single person to what can cost a company a lo
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by bernf 4y ago
Not sure how I feel about this. I see a similar issue in what I consider mistreatment of delivery workers. There have been delivery services and transport services for disabled/elderly for a while now. People have been replacing the
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by bernf 4y ago
Isn't this all extremely elementary and common knowledge for someone designing these workflows? Next blog post about how to not waste money by just not doing something extremely poorly optimized.
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by bernf 4y ago
Coin market cap is also a made up term for alt coins. They equate it to how MV of a company is share price * outstanding shares. For a coin you can mint a million coins, and sell 5 of them for 10$ (to yourself most likely), and boom crypt
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by bernf 4y ago
From practice the Platform MLE is non existent in most cases except for places like OpenAI and maybe Google. The key thing not addressed here is that in software, the right levels of abstraction provide ways for pluralities of downstream ta
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by bernf 4y ago
This is not really correct. Art and a lot of jobs that don't pay well go to children of rich people because they don't need the money, their parents are usually already in the network of influence and patrons. The current state of