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> It takes hard work to go from nothing to something. People doing the hard work are not confused about what’s meaningful. If that were true, every startup would be successful.

Decentralization. Although this term does not yet apply to the avenues through which this outreach occurs, but give it ten to twenty years and that too will change.

Interesting. iOS Safari seems to force the address bar to stay visible on this page.

Hands down, the number one problem in hiring and retaining senior engineers is being able to match the compensation level. FAANG-type companies have a huge difference to practicall…

Ave Maria?

This isn’t true. Wireless mesh networks could make for an anonymous medium.

Pretty sure I was asked that question in an Amazon interview.

On the other hand, containerization typically occurs on an independent (from other owners) instance of a virtual machine, which typically is running on separate processor cores, he…

Tone is relative. Although the words individually are not incindiary, the post being replied to was equally incindiary in nature. Subtlety in verbal attacks does not have true dist…

To me, the most interesting thing in this entire post is the following: > Funny enough, in the middle of that question, my internet died and interrupted the call for the first time…

It is, but the sound is _bad_: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iIIemMC4hrk

I actually gave a talk about automating influence on social media with what effectively amounted to chatbots, as a part of the 2016 election. Many of these factors were used, but a…

This isn’t always true, fortunately. I’ve seen JetBlue attendants yell at people who kept trying to jump in boarding classes. Line cutters are scum.

Why is this surprising? Their entire business model for having a news wing is to funnel traders into their terminal. Being the first to break market-relevant stories sounds like a …

“Warning: if your threat model is a state-sponsored agency, you are better off without macOS, see OpenBSD.” While my excessively paranoid self is inclined to agree, I am curious as…

Care to link to one of those studies? Very curious to see this.

> That’s actually the very definition of abuse. No it isn’t. From Merriam-Webster: Definition of abuse 1 : a corrupt practice or custom — the buying of votes and other election abu…

This should be provided by ATM manufacturers along with the ATM, and part of a mandatory daily check before the machine can be used.

They mention that if there is a tampered reader, the read is triggered twice.

Do pharmacists have to take the Hippocratic Oath? How is not telling your customers that the insurance copay is higher than cash not harmful?

Definitely not the implication. Everyone can receive racially charged behavior, however the outright hostility towards lighter-skinned Asians in the United States is significantly …

Having been in a mixed-race relationship where one partner is brown, I can tell you firsthandedly that if you think racism is rare, then you’re probably white or Asian or you have …

Making the assumption in the sense that this opinion would be viewed universally favorably on HN and not a flamepost provocation.

Same could be said for conservative candidates. You’re making the assumption the userbase of HN is politically homogenous, when it is not.

> Autodidact people are nearly always terrible programmers because they haven’t learned how to think. Going off of the StackOverflow 2018 survey, only ~48% of professional develope…