reallydude

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by reallydude 7y ago
> 1. by eating less you are going to lose weight > 2. It's no(t) going to be easy > Not at all Self righteous nonsense. It does matter. I would suggest, that it would be compelling to stop with the deterministic statements tha
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by reallydude 7y ago
How is that relevant to the topic or infrastructure comment?
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by reallydude 7y ago
SMH Your assurances that you know what the NSA (or proxy) would reason is laughable, for example. You have a view that he's a bad actor and it doesn't matter to me, other than it's a trivial thought experiment to justify his
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by reallydude 7y ago
Not just specific companies, but largely specific areas (which have to compete with specific companies). New grads will, statistically, never see signing bonuses in their career, much less out of school. People paying bonuses for new grads
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by reallydude 7y ago
I have never seen a signing bonus. Options, yearly bonus, even rev-share, sure. > There can be other facets of a company that should influence your decision, such as what type of healthcare they offer, Almost universally, company health
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by reallydude 7y ago
> What are the motives for leaking information regarding our actions on foreign soil against foreign citizens? 1. Removing plausible deniability. "Well we might be deeply involved in domestic surveillance but we certainly don't
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by reallydude 7y ago
It keeps industries (affecting the currency, in the case of banks) stable. There's only 1 asshole to talk to, when it stops being reliable or the populace gets uppity enough for the political animals to notice.
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by reallydude 7y ago
> 26 cents per ride That's terrible. Other non-tech businesses, hell EVERY business that I've ever worked in that used AWS did better per transaction - healthcare, digital advertising, virtual office tooling, gaming. If you can
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by reallydude 7y ago
> rock phosphate is a finite resource and the biggest supplies are mined in politically unstable places A similarity with oil? I think it's a forgone conclusion that politically unstable places are ripe for becoming stable under wha
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by reallydude 7y ago
> 150 degree weather I guess that depends on what you consider "weather" If I said "ground temperature", would it matter to the discussion? 60C (140F) was the Average temp in the triassic. With the amount of water in
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by reallydude 7y ago
The survival of our technological civilization is very much uncertain. It has been since the nuclear age. If someone wanted to take meaningful action, they would be sinking container ships. In aggregate, they contribute to more pollution (o
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by reallydude 7y ago
I don't draw any "consequences", whatever that's supposed to mean. I have been following the article's claim and explaining it in simpler terms, because there was a misunderstanding of the claim. Who do you think Ca
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by reallydude 7y ago
You continually make the grave error of framing the criticism as if I had proposed it. I am clarifying what is plainly stated in the article, by Callender, but somehow has escaped the narrow focus of individuals like yourself. > It doesn
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by reallydude 7y ago
systemd wasn't necessary for init when you ignore Poettering's binaries which broke with common interfaces (now there are more, sigh). It's worse from a maintenance standpoint, for init. It's quite sane for a daemon mana
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by reallydude 7y ago
It seems incredibly self-defeating, to quit over a lack of CODE REVIEW at any point in someone's career. Hiring someone just to review your code is not a sane business decision, so you might want to think about how you overvalued that
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by reallydude 7y ago
> No. It is posible to define the entropy of an object that has no internal indivisible parts, for example a black hole How? If there is no system of parts, there is no entropy. I'm not sure why you have a "black hole" as
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by reallydude 7y ago
> UBI is especially a terrible idea if you don't want people like Gates and Torvalds and Stallman to emerge naturally from an environment that enabled and fostered their genius every step of the way. The Pareto principle applies, re
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by reallydude 7y ago
> The money taken from billionaires/millionaires would eventually dry up. The Pareto principle remains. Wealth is measured. Ergo, there will always be people who maintain a network of wealth that far exceeds the norm.
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by reallydude 7y ago
These aren't bold claims, if you've been reading about it for a decade. Even the New York times covered these points (more or less). https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/technology/technology-in-.
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by reallydude 7y ago
> Yes well I'm talking about chopping trees down and building homes out of them https://youtu.be/zVPUFMwm73Y?t=228 Relevant: Coppice
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by reallydude 7y ago
The Rey-Palpatine clone is just as compelling... https://youtu.be/hzG3m-ZW198?t=358 There are hints with the theme of the Emperor being played at times. The sounds of his laughter haunt her visions, along with her distincti
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by reallydude 7y ago
> So you’re talking about software which doesn’t exist, right? It exists on my computer right now (didn't use an actual admanager, just coded a remote call). You want to believe the gun pointed at the door with a string on the trigg
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by reallydude 7y ago
As per the principle, the lack of failure is how success can be measured. ie Consequently, a successful endeavor (subject to this principle) is one where every possible deficiency has been avoided.
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by reallydude 7y ago
> That seems like a semantic distinction only. The semantics matter because of subjective interpretation. "I think" and "should" and "the majority of subgroup x" are not usually correlated to be the same thi
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by reallydude 7y ago
No. I haven't looked through many js packages. I could make it without any effort via: > https://github.com/feross/funding/blob/master/messages.json Currently it's "manually curated&quo
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by reallydude 7y ago
Seems like an opportunity to compete in a market. It's just a matter of time now before npm has competition.
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by reallydude 7y ago
If the ad makes a remote call during execution (for an dynamic ad serve), it's an attack vector. There is always custom ad code for analytics that adserves use to fill (the ad placement space) and report back, called an admanager. As a
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by reallydude 7y ago
> Why didn't the same Congressional Republicans who pushed through the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 push for similar changes to how other federal agencies fund their pensions? I don't know. Probably somethi
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by reallydude 7y ago
Talking about people in high school who will end up in public service is irrelevant. Having more money in the bank than you take out for a car loan is fiscally responsible. Not exactly. More than. That's WITHOUT your holdings (bank acc
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by reallydude 7y ago
> If fiscal responsibility were the goal, they'd have required the other federal agencies to do the same That's not how the Federal government works. It's a LARGE organization that sometimes have people with philosophies a

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