tynpeddler

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by tynpeddler 3y ago
You're confusing a single wiretap warrant that was a small part of a large investigation with the investigation itself.
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by tynpeddler 3y ago
> Groups of people don't have guilt or automatic responsibility, only individuals do. This is not exactly correct. Governments are composed of groups of people and governments maintain continuity of responsibility even when all the
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by tynpeddler 3y ago
> Black Americans were quite clearly discriminated against as a group. This is clearly true, but it also reduces the impact of what really happened. Black Americans were discriminated against on an individual level. Ruby Bridges is still
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by tynpeddler 3y ago
I've done many database migrations from db2 to MySQL. It's a thing that happens quite a lot. ORMs and Java's usage of database access layers over the underlying sql drivers vastly simplified the process.
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by tynpeddler 3y ago
If misleading statements was the problem, then people would be a lot angrier about the blatant lies and propaganda large oil companies pushed for decades. Dishonesty is the problem, but not in the way you suggest.
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by tynpeddler 4y ago
Except the whole pregnancy scenario is incredibly common example of a social faux pas.
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by tynpeddler 4y ago
I was lead on migrating several systems from traditional deployment to a cloud provider for a major company. Part of the migration was switching a microsoft DB to MySQL. The java ecosystem and ORMs makes this so easy it's barely worth
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by tynpeddler 4y ago
What is often missed is that chimeric viruses are easy to detect. The viral genome will show clear evidence of manipulation from random base insertions and clear homology with all the ancestral viruses. Hiding the signs of manipulation woul
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by tynpeddler 4y ago
According to the article, the desired outcome of the election was a free and fair election. Not a particularly terrifying conspiracy.
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by tynpeddler 4y ago
I'm concerned that you've selectively ignored parts of my comment and have read meaning out of it that I did not put into it. >do you have any justification for why obsessing over alienation is bad? Obsessing over alienation is
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by tynpeddler 4y ago
Most of the public discourse on the current problems of capitalism is not serious. Many folks aren't actually comparing capitalism to an alternative, instead they're comparing their current situation to a mythical alternative real
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by tynpeddler 4y ago
First, the same problem applies to service names like "Galactus" or "Buttforce". Second, a descriptive name is not the same thing as a service description. A descriptive name or label is as much a mnemonic device as is i
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by tynpeddler 4y ago
After the 10th sms service I'd be curious to know why people have done the same thing ten times. If there is a real difference in functionality between those ten services, I suppose the next question is why don't their names refle
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by tynpeddler 4y ago
Amazon's contract says something similar. A court case might be difficult to win if your project is very close to your work projects, but other than that, a company generally has to prove that you used company resources in some way for
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by tynpeddler 4y ago
I'm on the record as defending MOND from dismissal, but this article is taking it a step to far and ignoring important context. It's true that MOND generally does provide a simpler[0] prediction of galactic dynamics but that'
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by tynpeddler 4y ago
Interesting article, but I feel like this article is built around assumptions of similarity that I don't feel really hold up. Take this quote for instance: > "We miscalculate the extent to which our opponents’ viewpoints differ
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by tynpeddler 4y ago
Only by some measures and only with the caveat that the methods used to approximate wealth distribution in pre-revolutionary France are not directly analogous to the methods used to measure it today which makes direct comparisons messy. For
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by tynpeddler 4y ago
The process for rolling out breaking API changes is the same for monorepos as it is for multi-repos since, during a deploy, multiple versions of each service will be running simultaneously. The only advantage of a mono-repo is the atomic co
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by tynpeddler 4y ago
Really excellent point. Transitioning to a capitalist system is extremely difficult because other economic and political systems almost always have much more extreme imbalances in the distribution of money and power (especially if the situa
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by tynpeddler 4y ago
> The "burden of proof" is on both sides. This is a common refrain from folks, who either accidentally or on purpose, are attempting to throw up barriers to have their beliefs genuinely challenged, and it works by misconstruing
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by tynpeddler 4y ago
I wrote a short story on this idea a while ago. Two things become clear very quickly. First, this is a very stark existence. Advanced civilization requires lots of energy and energy production requires lots of physical infrastructure. Build
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by tynpeddler 4y ago
I've had meta and microsoft cancel on me. I also went all the way through the interview loop at one company, received very positive feedback but was told that they had decided to close the position without filling it. There's defi
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by tynpeddler 4y ago
Echoing the other, how did you configure your test suite to check for correctness?
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by tynpeddler 4y ago
One of the best programming aphorisms I've heard is "Everything in programming can be solved with another layer of abstraction except for the problem of to many layers of abstraction."
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by tynpeddler 4y ago
I don't think Intuit's total revenue is relevant to this discussion. The most relevant number is how much money did they make off this little scheme which seems to be much less than their total revenue. I didn't see this valu
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by tynpeddler 4y ago
I assumed that TurboTax has already adjusted their pricing tiers in response to the lawsuit since my vague memory of many years ago is that the lower tier was about $30. If someone can give more accurate pricing information for the effected
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by tynpeddler 4y ago
This is the important part of the article: > Consumers are expected to receive a direct payment of approximately $30 for each year that they were deceived into paying for filing services. Impacted consumers will automatically receive not
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by tynpeddler 5y ago
First, Revolution is not the same thing as genius. Second, even genius's don't bring frequent revolutions. Special and general relativity made very little impact on people's lives for decades. It took the Manhattan project, o
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by tynpeddler 5y ago
One more possibility to consider. Modern genius is so industrialized and so common that we don't recognize it as genius anymore. Every year we see an incredible number of technical advances that are just taken for granted. There are so
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by tynpeddler 5y ago
I get that Mearsheimer is supposed to be some kind of astute expert on this topic, but he is really embarrassing himself here. His whole argument basically rests on 3 points: 1. Russia is a great power. As such, it is effectively an automat

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