Arnt

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by Arnt 5d ago
If you want an explanation: that kind of name-calling is an attempt to use your authority to diminish someone else's standing. It has up to two effects: it either diminishes that someone's standing, it diminishes yours, or both. I
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by Arnt 11d ago
Sorry, no. What I'm saying is that we'd pass the point of no return independently of what China did, or India, or Africa. The countries that started emitting CO₂ earlier went on emitting, and that's enough for us to pass the
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by Arnt 11d ago
I had to look that up. Wow. Does someone rent out rack space in Mount Hagen, or how did you come to have a server there?
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by Arnt 11d ago
I subscribe. There's a newspaper downstairs, I'll fetch it later. The paper news is better than the screen news, and I'm not going to try to explain what better means.
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by Arnt 12d ago
IMO it matters roughly as much as it's common. Do you know any country where, say, 10% of public companies have non-voting stock your can buy and voting stock your cannot easily buy? 20%? 50%?
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by Arnt 13d ago
Indeed, shares can have different voting weights. And that matters, if you care mostly about the corner cases.
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by Arnt 13d ago
Eh, I know someone who did that. I needed to use that software and didn't enjoy the experience. Claude reverse-engineered it between breakfast and lunch. Now I have a pleasant interface, all vibecoded.
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by Arnt 13d ago
That's a succinct and good summary by the AI.
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by Arnt 13d ago
It's one share, one vote. And you have a choice: You can ask the company to pay you (ie. apply for a job there), or you can pay for a share in the company. Either way, the decisions are made by those who pay. And that can include you —
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by Arnt 13d ago
Companies have a largely democratic component at the top, called the board. Voters (those who own the company) have representatives on the board. Some boards also have representatives from the employees, that varies.
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by Arnt 15d ago
Slowing the growth from a high level just means accelerating towards the point of no return, but moderating the acceleration. It doesn't mean stopping before the point of no return. It means continuing towards the point of no return, a
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by Arnt 15d ago
I don't know about standard behaviour, some people consider behaviour normal that I consider slimy. I heard at the time that a WP Engine employee had told someone that his/her pledged "full time assignment" had shrunk to
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by Arnt 16d ago
Would not have done so yet you mean. The other biggest emitter is still barely decreasing its emissions, far less halting. A slight decrease in the rate per year does not save us from the point of no return.
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by Arnt 16d ago
Only to the extent the company pledged to do so. It did pledge, and the follow-up on that pledge was minimal.
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by Arnt 17d ago
He read the commit logs and understood much of what he read. That's deep understanding of the product. That alone puts him in the top few percent of CEOs. IMO.
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by Arnt 17d ago
This sounds as of AI has wider appeal. Like those bland mass-market beers that nobody likes very much but nobody hates either. Restaurants have those on the menu as a second choice. While a real, published, author has taste and appeals to s
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by Arnt 20d ago
Answering users on forums looks like a very, very tiring job. Kudos to the companies that keep up the forums. And... ouch what a bug, too.
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by Arnt 21d ago
There might well be a defined test like this one, from a different jurisdiction: 179 seconds is standing, 181 is parking.
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by Arnt 24d ago
I assume they want the developers to dogfood the software they work on. Not crazy if so.
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by Arnt 1mo ago
I am Norwegian and have voted by mail within the country. Or maybe I didn't vote by mail. I handed in the envelope with the vote form at the post office, if you want to be precise about it. But if you want to argue that Trump is joinin
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by Arnt 1mo ago
How odd. Isn't gas typically expensive, and used only for peaks? Yet these people say they want to use it for their base load.
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by Arnt 1mo ago
I come from one of the countries on that list, and from a quick glance mine is one of the more restrictive one. Yet I've voted by mail in ~10 elections and the restrictions haven't bothered me, ever, so based on a sample of one th
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by Arnt 1mo ago
I love that cursor.
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by Arnt 1mo ago
Finding the right people. A small subset of the general audience. Trying to get your word in front of all eyeballs in the hope of hitting the right ones at the right time is a hopeful strategy, not a well-considered one.
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by Arnt 1mo ago
A sovereign nation is just that, sovereign. What it decides isn't an agreement. You may not want to obey the posted speed limits or pay something the law demands, but that's not about a contract you sign or don't, it's a
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by Arnt 1mo ago
I follow the standards processes, and while I don't see a push to against self-hosting mail, I do see a push to stop storing cleartext passwords. Which is typically what your MUA uses to access those self-hosted mail servers.
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by Arnt 1mo ago
Friends of mine say that internal reports from their workplaces are often worse.
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by Arnt 1mo ago
Did you know that during WW1, the front lines moves from far west of Ukraine to the far east, and then back again? This war isn't like that. And it really isn't. Back then the front moved and it mattered. This isn't like that
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by Arnt 1mo ago
It does much more than that. Wildberries had 45% of the logistics and large warehouses. This means that every company that produces something will have parcels coming in from Wildberries every day. The businesses that owned the ~$6B of burn

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