toast_coder

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by toast_coder 8y ago
But if the situation was reversed and Trump was the email server bandit this thread would be 50% hate on Trump posts. Thats just how it is on HN.
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by toast_coder 8y ago
Money.
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by toast_coder 8y ago
The US, Germany, and Japan are all technology leaders. None of those nations leapfrogged into a developed nation by copying others.
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by toast_coder 8y ago
Why is it the wrong thing?
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by toast_coder 8y ago
Its a funny reference to bring up California. So many responses to GDPR have been a blanket refusal and cutting EU users off from a nontrivial amount of content on the internet. As a US citizen, I already know that everything on earth cause
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by toast_coder 8y ago
That poster literally contradicted himself in two sentences.
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by toast_coder 8y ago
You bet there are absolutly people who want protection from this discrimination. Those people want it broken down to the concept of nothing more than 'I was here first, you must offer the job to me or I have cause to sue'. It is o
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by toast_coder 8y ago
If your negociating with walmart or mcdonalds you have nothing to offer in terms of skill. (for the jobs you are referencing) Those people who have skills worth money like to negociate. The great thing about that is everone can better thems
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by toast_coder 8y ago
Except for the last 30 years...
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by toast_coder 8y ago
If you dont wont to be in debt, dont take the loan. Saying that you not getting your secondary education paid for by somebody else dooms you to a life of serfdom just sounds like you whining
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by toast_coder 8y ago
> I would much rather worry about whether my life truly matters than worry about whether my life will immediately come to an end if I can't kill or grow enough food. I cant help but think negotiating those situtations is exaclty wha
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by toast_coder 8y ago
I thought the consensus was that jobs was a jerk, but since he was a brilliant jerk its OK to idolize him.
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by toast_coder 8y ago
Thats a technical term for something your political opponents do.
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by toast_coder 8y ago
Did that premise matter to you when a majority of californians voted to ban gay marriage? Did you jump up and say 'the system is broken'. I really doubt it.
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by toast_coder 8y ago
You think this only effects IT? You think salary negotiations are somehow immune to those same price pressures when we are dealing with the ppl who mow lawns, pick produce, and clean bathrooms?
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by toast_coder 8y ago
I think thats a ridiculous statement. Should we also limit how many books are written and who can write them? What is the difference?
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by toast_coder 8y ago
Exactly.
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by toast_coder 8y ago
I don't think plastic is an option. There isnt an artificial material that can replace skin. The options are to keep the mangled face, or replace.
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by toast_coder 8y ago
California exports to the the rest of us mostly. Lots of food, high end manufacturing, services, and they have a huge slice of the asia-us trade logistics.
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by toast_coder 8y ago
Take the money and run...
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by toast_coder 8y ago
Winner winner chicken dinner.
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by toast_coder 8y ago
This seems fairly benign. What's giving it the coverage and negative feedback here is the fact that somebody call it a 'psychological trick'. Is an ice cream truck playing music and slowing rolling down your street on a hot s
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by toast_coder 8y ago
Yeah that's some fun logic. This isn't a broken web application sir, it's a static web page that displays important exception information.
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by toast_coder 8y ago
>99.8% yield on each step of a 500 step process is good for 38% overall recovery. What does that mean? Is 'yield' not the end usable product from the batch?
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by toast_coder 8y ago
I'm desperate to start a business. Over 20 years of working in lead software dev positions and understand the grind that occurs in almost all organizations. The counter point to your 'horribles', is that the support level you
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by toast_coder 8y ago
Entirely true. I bought i super unique house, 100 years old out in the country. While talking to the appraiser asking him if the house was worth what i had offered, he said somthing like 'well if thats what your offering thats what it
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by toast_coder 8y ago
I agree with your statement, my business model IS incompatible with the spirit of GDPR. You and I are just looking at GDPR differently. You think its somthing good. You are wrong about the business profiting from personal data however. That
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by toast_coder 8y ago
GDPR is criminalizing all websites because compliance is impossible. It puts european officials in exactly the possition they want to be in, everyone is breaking the law an enforcement is a matter of who their friends are. Majors websites a
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by toast_coder 8y ago
Because the work involved in creating eneyerprise scalable software platforms that deal with financial transactions is REALLY hard.
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by toast_coder 8y ago
Do you think you experience emotions differently than other human beings? It seems really presumptuous to say you love somthing more than others ever have. Presumptuous and insulting. Furthermore, i think alot of people would say sacrifice

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