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>> Here is the hard thing to swallow: Some people are worth more than others. I would add a qualifier here - "in some situations". As human beings per se we all are "worth" the sam…

in some circles it is considered "cool" to be admixed or foreign. there's also a fair amount of virtue signaling attached to that as well.

how far of a distance before the line is drawn? by that logic chimps are also " a group of humans that genetically differ to an unexpected degree from modern humans."

>> We don’t describe speeders as “illegal drivers.” that's not apples to apples. "illegal driver" would be someone who is breaking the law by the very fact of them driving - ppl wi…

I'll just pick on the low hanging fruit here: >> Conservative media does a very good job at keeping at least 50% of the country comically uninformed... goes both ways depending on …

debit cards(not to be confused with bank cards) are closer to credit cards than ACH. in some cases - for example "signature debit" vs "pin debit" - just about identical from the fl…

>> but has a delay for clearing... not only is there an ODFI-clearing house - RDFI delay caused by the actual "clearing" process - the whole flow starting from the merchant->paymen…

>> Bitcoin is supposed to be a currency. not really. it's a "...peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another wi…

depends on your definition of "career". there's nothing preventing you from getting to a senior architect/staff engineer/senior consultant etc type level working from home. if your…

Speaking of backups :) We had a very large mission-critical system that we developed and hosted for a fortune 50 client. Long story short - prod DB with tons of records took a crap…

ok, so 4 pools have over 50% of the hashing power, add 4 more pools right under them and you're at >70%. ( https://blockchain.info/pools ). if that's not centralized I don't know w…

From my personal experience (which probably has to do with working in industries where incoming data has a wide array of clients who need it ASAP) - the biggest challenge with any …

Not sure why he's getting downvoted. for a "decentralized" currency bitcoin is quite centralized and is not that hard to control "IRL" so to speak. We're talking like 10 subpoenas/…

NoSQL is a great fit for OLAP-type systems where there's tons of high volume writes, eventual consistency (or BASE in general) is good enough, strict schema is not enforced and the…

... or you can simply enforce a handicap along the lines of how Asians and to a lesser extent Whites get discriminated by US universities admission process today.

for me personally the bigger issue is the actual 9-5ish work hours. I'm way more productive later in the day, so if the schedule would allow something like a Noon-4 pm/break/8 pm -…

Well, yea there are scenarios where encryption alone doesn't help, but again it's one of the cornerstones of data safety. Other security measures like restricting data access to a …

>>Encryption is not a panacea. Sure. But it is a good first step, a must really when dealing with sensitive data. Proper encryption at rest, like let's say a 256 bit AES encryption…

>> Sugar is 3x as expensive in the US as it is in latin america. Why? We have restrictions on imports, and thus we have to have american companies growing sugar. not sure this exam…

Not sure why he's getting downvoted. Unions are only interested in company's existence but even then very often they are willing to see it go to the brink not budging on concession…

there are some pretty notorious organizations out there who did "something good" at some point in the past, but that still doesn't justify bringing them back or endorsing them.

Before something like this happens we need to address the costs. There are ridiculous situations where you can pay $X in cash but when using insurance the charge against the policy…

What about sales engineers though? I've never seen them get commissions even though in a vast majority of cases they are the ones doing the heavy lifting of convincing the client's…

Ok, so how about we lower the tax the "american workers" (more like upper middle class) are paying? Get rid of progressive tax system maybe? Fix the situation where the "bottom 50%…

upvoted. as far as the rural areas vs ACA are concerned - before ACA a lumberjack/construction/handyman/hunting-fishing guide etc type dude could by themselves cheap health insuran…