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by confluence 7y ago
This is in reference to the Boeing 737 that just went down over Tehran: https://twitter.com/TheBelaaz/status/1214757041123803136 https://twitter.com/Asylumseeker111/status/121477024874367
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by confluence 7y ago
Existential threats are a hell of a drug.
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by confluence 7y ago
Show that it is easily programmable and hackable by end users, like an Arduino.
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by confluence 8y ago
Want to know a really good way to increase the power of a separatist group? Build internment camps. Congratulations, you played yourself.
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by confluence 8y ago
Psychopaths just pay better.
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by confluence 8y ago
Aren't they all?
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by confluence 8y ago
Some improvements are ensuring that when there are too many interactions, we slow down time, and speed it up when there aren't.
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by confluence 9y ago
I don't have that impression. I do believe we need a coalition that builds towards the ideals promised. The closest we have is the FANG cohort, but even then in only a few verticals (with some "progress" not being particularl
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by confluence 9y ago
Difficult to bring about the singularity without historic levels of technical competency and financial investment. Anything less is simply being contemptuous of the true challenge that must be overcome to achieve even 1/10th of what co
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by confluence 9y ago
Everyone's a hero until the bullets start flying.
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by confluence 9y ago
Ah yes, with a late June notification. Maybe communicate earlier hmmm? That would be better management rather than hold my beer I'll probably close this round while I risk the livelihoods and futures of my rank and file.
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by confluence 9y ago
Funny thing is that salary changes with a raise, so technically they'd be < 100% of their promised benefits after July, and past that, who knows?
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by confluence 9y ago
A great manager doesn't make promises he can't keep.
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by confluence 9y ago
Not holding management responsible makes me think you might have owned a company. Let me spell out the compact that undergirds capitalism: employees don't take risks and are paid a constant stream of cash, owner's do take risk, an
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by confluence 9y ago
Key aspect of becoming a manager is making promises you may or may not keep. They cost you nothing, and when they come due it's the employees who suffer.
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by confluence 9y ago
This is the crux of negotiating. The person with more options has more power. There's really only one way to get a raise: pay me X or I walk. If yay, good, if nay, walk.
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by confluence 9y ago
As an employee of a company, I'm paid salary for my time. I'll take a pay cut for more equity if I want it, not for nothing. If I take risk, I get rewarded with ownership, but if I'm paid cash, why do I honestly care what ha
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by confluence 9y ago
Not the time or place.
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by confluence 9y ago
Strongly concur. Also make this a yearly habit, so you stay on the ball, know where the market is at, and become comfortable leaving at a moment's notice to avoid this life changing anxiety you might be feeling. Once you do it regularl
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by confluence 10y ago
This is brilliant. My day just got so much better.
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by confluence 10y ago
Like I said, you just suck at hiring.
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by confluence 10y ago
Pretty much. Ever notice that anytime anyone wants to "fix" hiring they end up developing systems that are just cancer. If you can't figure out if you want to hire someone in < 1 hr talking to them, you suck at hiring.
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by confluence 10y ago
So you see a high developer attrition rate, and go, I know, I'll fill it with 3 month code bootcamp graduates? No wonder their attrition is so high. Apparently they are incapable of observing the fact they are just an awful place to wo
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by confluence 10y ago
The more time goes on, the more confident I become in the notion that I am currently living in an episode of Black Mirror.
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by confluence 10y ago
For anyone who doesn't get this, watch Black Mirror.
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by confluence 10y ago
You mean like the government? You pay in taxes, government dispenses research funds, you don't know where the money is from.
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by confluence 10y ago
He was very clever with that wasn't he? Everyone should be free to consume whatever they want, so long as they know what they want is killing them, and there are no distortions by the purveyors of such products that they are anything o
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by confluence 10y ago
They can't win because they are on the wrong side of history and they are fighting dirty by using stealth operations to turn the conversation from diet to exercise. As if the average American can, or will, exercise enough to even burn
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by confluence 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12463263 Looks like the source deleted their tweet.
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by confluence 10y ago
I believe that the point of this story was to shine a light on how one of the wealthiest cities treats their poor and to show us what courage they have to keep fighting.

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