pdeuchler

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by pdeuchler 6y ago
This is not a new philosophical problem. We already know what the inherent tension is here. Do we value the sanctity of a human life over the greater social order? Of course both answers to that question have very far reaching implications,
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by pdeuchler 6y ago
> I'm interested to know what the majority of the Windows machines are used for. Willing to bet it's SQL Server and Azure AD
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by pdeuchler 6y ago
Yeah some pretty clear propaganda going on... from reading the released summary of the study the vast majority of dependents that did not find employment seem to live in job deserts and economically depressed areas. Obviously UBI won't
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by pdeuchler 6y ago
Did you even read the article or the study? One of the only conclusive statements from this study was the UBI experiment as enacted here encouraged dependents to take up "fulfilling and meaningful jobs /w low wages" FTA: “Som
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by pdeuchler 6y ago
> There was no clear indication that basic income encourages people to find jobs. You can scratch that one off the list. You clearly didn't read the study or even the guardian article. There was clear evidence that basic income enco
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by pdeuchler 6y ago
I know a bunch of people who went to RSA in Vegas that got a mysterious flu that was extremely similar to Covid. Given the Vegas mayor's recent publicity it wouldn't surprise me that Vegas was fudging the numbers. Most people who
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by pdeuchler 6y ago
> The individual officers are often just too dumb You know, my dad always told me to just listen to people... eventually they'll tell you who they truly are.
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by pdeuchler 6y ago
The "is it doing X before we run out of money?" question is way overblown in startup land, usually by product people to skew developer time towards more features instead of much needed foundational work. In reality, this question
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by pdeuchler 6y ago
> RSA 2048 keys are unbreakable for the foreseeable future, and using 4096 bit keys are just being paranoid with no gain This is only true if you consider pure brute force as the only way to "break" RSA 2048. While as of right
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by pdeuchler 6y ago
Uhhhhhh, are you talking about bank term loans? Bank term loans have repayment periods over decades (usually), and use the physical assets as collateral. Not what OP is talking about.
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by pdeuchler 6y ago
> It’s not uncommon for companies to use leverage to fuel growth. High yield venture debt is often tied to growth metrics. This is, of course, exactly my point. "High yield venture debt" only exists due to absurdly low interest
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by pdeuchler 6y ago
Pretty easy to call their bluff and just pay for those people's unemployment instead
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by pdeuchler 6y ago
If a 50% drop in expected revenue _growth_ causes you to default on your debt you are either a startup that had trouble raising money, in which case now you know that you do not have a viable business plan, or you are running a completely
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by pdeuchler 7y ago
Crazy to me that they've released this without a way for organizations to disable using it with private repos... in no way shape or form do I want engineers using this app to access company IP on their personal phones.
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by pdeuchler 7y ago
> I honestly don't get the attitude against a certain level of preparedness. What is wrong with stocking more non-perishable food stuffs at home if those are the things you'd normally buy anyway? You don't need to fill you
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by pdeuchler 7y ago
[citation needed]
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by pdeuchler 7y ago
Will their consumption of toilet paper increase? This isn't hard.
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by pdeuchler 7y ago
The recent spate of people worried about "empty shelves" is kind of funny to me, it's essentially admitting to the world that you have no idea how the world works and the smallest disruption to your daily bubble is rocking yo
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by pdeuchler 7y ago
Please think this through. You're not completing a 6 week grocery trip in the same period of time as a single week grocery trip. You're going to be touching the same amount of items, you're going to be breathing in the grocer
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by pdeuchler 7y ago
DO NOT DO THIS! This is crazy FUD that will only make the situation worse. Stockpiling rarely, if ever, helps, and overwhelmingly hurts the poor and disabled. The absolute worst of "fuck you got mine" mentality on display here. Pl
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by pdeuchler 7y ago
Because outside of the bubble of the top 1% of the top 1% of security teams actual software engineering knowledge is barely existent
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by pdeuchler 7y ago
Why is this comment downvoted?
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by pdeuchler 7y ago
> He's not beholden to anyone's interests or greed or kickbacks or special interests. What a laughable statement. Of course he is, he's beholden to his own interests as a billionaire. Bloomberg is special interests personi
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by pdeuchler 7y ago
> All this stuff you here about “evergreening” is entirely the result of gaming the FDA approval practices Evergreening has absolutely nothing to do with the FDA and everything to do with the USPTO and the specific chemical makeup of ins
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by pdeuchler 7y ago
It's quite telling what you excluded in your rendition of history. The original research for the synthesis of insulin was actually done in Europe by a private citizen (not a government entity). That research was followed up on by a sur
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by pdeuchler 7y ago
Google is more of a monopsony than a monopoly
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by pdeuchler 7y ago
JumpCloud | Boulder/Denver CO | Full time | ONSITE Jr. & Midlevel SW Engineers JumpCloud is a fast growing startup in Boulder, CO. We offer cutting edge hardware and tools, full benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k), etc.) and
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by pdeuchler 7y ago
Hilarious. With the exception of Farrakhan, Facebook (and youtube, twitter, etc) is largely responsible for these people having such large platforms in the first place. But of course now they'll unilaterally censor them to widespread a
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by pdeuchler 8y ago
This is possibly the laziest critique of Greenwald out there https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aggreenwald%20fox%20news&...
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by pdeuchler 8y ago
Your experience mimics my experience almost exactly (although it sounds like you've worked on much larger and more complex C++ projects than I have), however I've been lucky enough to work with some extremely talented C++ programm

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