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headphoneswater··on FBI's ability to legally access secure messaging app content and metadata [pdf]
In that example it's keeping me safe from you
headphoneswater··on FBI's ability to legally access secure messaging app content and metadata [pdf]
If this is what it takes to keep us safe, I and most americans are ok with it. We live in dangerous times.

The US has a balanced criminal justice system -- as long as due process is preserved privacy from the state should not be a major issue

headphoneswater··on The Patriot Act Has Threatened Freedom for 20 Years
That's hard to believe, we essentialy won the war on terror

here's a real report not a political charged blog: https://www.justice.gov/archive/olp/pdf/patriot_report_from_...

headphoneswater··on The Patriot Act Has Threatened Freedom for 20 Years
It's hard to argue with results we haven't experianced any terrorist attacks on that scale since it was put into law.

Maybe my freedom is being infinged somehow but I haven't noticed it

headphoneswater··on Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand
I find relating things to litature like that kind of silly but VR is pretty amazing these days and the quest2 shockingly nice to use

3d interaction clicks with people, i'm not suprised they are doubling/tripling down while leading the market

headphoneswater··on Fable is a compiler that brings F# into the JavaScript ecosystem
I'd imagine the folks who take up these projects require f# everywhere in their lives to obtain happiness
headphoneswater··on AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go
Free at a small scale sure, my company pays CF a bundle and we're not a unicorn
headphoneswater··on [dead]
What in fininace isn't?
headphoneswater··on Why nobody hires junior developers and what happens next
I screen resumes for my team and pick up one or two juniors a year honestly it's hard to wade though the 20-30 identical resumes we get a week from bootcamp grads with the same copy and pasted example projects listed under their completed work

Now I've worked with some bootcampers who excelled and turned out to be fantastic developers so I'm not aginst the concept but you've got to differentiate yourself a bit

headphoneswater··on Tech compensation in 2021
it's weird it looks like I make half of what I could as a senior, espcially in a 'hard' algorithm heavy domain

but I still oddly don't want to work for them, half the pay is still decently middle class and I'm very happy overall

there's also the internal argument I've had in that most of them don't really do anything interesting (usually things that were good ideas years ago)and even if they did odds that I'd be near what was are slim