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by grapehut 3y ago
It's often not that simple. As a concrete example, I think Golang made a giant mistake with 'nil interfaces' ( e.g. https://go.dev/tour/methods/12 ) which can lead to extremely confusing and weird
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by grapehut 3y ago
I'm not familiar with that area, but considering it's not coastal it seems hard to believe the water is simply wasted once it goes into the ground in the lower Colorado basin.
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by grapehut 3y ago
It depends a lot on where the farm is, how much they irrigate, and when they irrigate. But often something like >90% of the water goes back into the ground, where it will eventually make its way back into the aquifers and rivers. It&#x27
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by grapehut 4y ago
I think it would require pretty exceptional circumstances to make any sense to try counter-sue. Like in my case I have pretty conclusive proof that part of her allegation is a lie. And that makes her look sufficiently bad that she's wi
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by grapehut 4y ago
You've made the wrong takeaway. I was falsely accused of sexual assault by a woman. It has nothing to do with gender. It definitely can cut both ways.
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by grapehut 4y ago
We had a gaming party at work on a Friday afternoon, and I happened to have recorded my games. Reviewing it, I found I did play against her (and 2 others) in a free-for all. But it was clear she just fabricated the events. Funnily enough wh
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by grapehut 4y ago
These stories leave a bad taste in my mouth. It hasn't yet gone to court, so the guys allegations could be really be anything from the God's honest truth all the way to a complete fabrication. Yet there is a huge amount of irrepar
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by grapehut 4y ago
I think what's not discussed is that most of this water ends up back into the ground and eventually back into a river. In some ways it even helps regulate river flow. Perhaps one improvement could not not allowing irrigation during fro
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by grapehut 4y ago
This is a particularly egregious case, I've never seen a fake domain slip through like that before. However, I have reported dozens of phishing sites for the company I worked for. The phisher would simply buy ads for $BRANDNAME and cre
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by grapehut 4y ago
It is brutally unfair to hire by one standard and then suddenly hold them to a higher one. And fairness aside, if you do not look through an anti-racist/anti-oppression lens you would destroy years of work of improving company diversit
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by grapehut 4y ago
The issue is that it becomes necessary as marginalized candidates are given preferences during the hiring phase. So if the same privilege is not extended during layoffs it will unfairly impact them.
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by grapehut 4y ago
Reminds me of my story: I met a girl in Mexico and decided to quit my job and move in with her. Since I couldn't open a bank in Mexico, I decided I'd just wire the girl all my money. Except upon trying my bank (of America) froze m
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by grapehut 4y ago
Probably because most of us have first hand experience with how well our elected officials are with spending our money
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by grapehut 4y ago
The large redemptions are what is causing them to be 0.1% off the peg...
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by grapehut 4y ago
Have multiple entities buy shares
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by grapehut 5y ago
Absolutely agree. The company I worked from had a persistent problem with someone stealing customer details by buying AdWords targeting our brandname with a fake phishing site. We would report it, 2-3 days later Google would take it down. T
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by grapehut 5y ago
I think the far more worrying trend is trying to silence anyone with different political ideologies. Like their handpicked example of a user discussing "'destroý' Islam". Note, they added the quotes around destroy. But t
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U.S. Fed reverse repo volume hits record $1T(leaderpost.com)
19 points by grapehut 5y ago|14 comments
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by grapehut 5y ago
The issue isn't funding, it's structurally dysfunctional organizations. But that's a much harder problem to solve than blaming lack of funding. I was involved with a certain tax collection agency's project that was a nev
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by grapehut 5y ago
That's not really a problem. You don't hash the entire video, but do something resembling a merkle tree. i.e. look at a torrent, they're identified by a hash but you can download and verify a random chunk
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by grapehut 5y ago
That's fair, but would you also rather people unemployed than working for less than a living wage as well?
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by grapehut 5y ago
I've conducted technical interviews for a FAANG company for several years, and been explicitly told to go easy on and inflate the scores of minorities. On one hand it makes sense as we're trying to hire minority groups on a greate
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by grapehut 5y ago
Yeah, in reality it's not what happened. Exchanges don't instantly margin-call positions, they have to use time-outs and do it slowly (or there simply isn't going to be the liquidity). So it's pretty easy to get the pric
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by grapehut 5y ago
Generally spikes like that happen because of fat-finger mistakes that blow through the order book, and typically return to normal within seconds.
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by grapehut 5y ago
Tether is particularly easy to short because it's pegged to a dollar. That means there's no significant risk it'll become more valuable than a dollar.
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by grapehut 6y ago
Another good example, one of the the then top HN users by karma: 2015: "Most advantages of Bitcoin which matter are captured by, and improved upon by, a LAMP app which simply holds account balances." 2019: "I acknowledge that
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by grapehut 6y ago
Third time if you include the bizarre Ayaan Hirsi Ali hit piece too. I guess it's a product of actual-journalism not paying the bills.
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by grapehut 6y ago
I think a lot of it is just people not wanting to admit they were wrong. It's far easier to double down. I remember almost being convinced by patio11 that bitcoin was stupid and dumping it at like $30, but thankfully didn't. Now I
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by grapehut 6y ago
No, it doesn't. Imagine there is 1 share, owned by A. He lends it to B. B now (short) sells it to C. Now from C's point of view, he owns a share. So he lends it to someone. That person then short sells it. So you have 1 share, tha
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by grapehut 6y ago
I am personally responsible for 100e1000 US dollar trade volume per day. Taken with the above statement, >99.999% of all US dollar trade volume is fake. I guess USD must be a joke currency.

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