Avshalom

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by Avshalom 4y ago
So what you've done here is invent a hypothetical, state by fiat that it would end poorly, then used that complete fiction to argue that we build systems to prevent fraud then point to massive fraud in the system we built to prevent th
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by Avshalom 4y ago
Everything the FBI did here was under republican leadership. It's the fucking FBI, it's a fundamentally right wing organization that has always and will always be so.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
Probably shouldn't have brought it up unprompted in the first comment on the thread then.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
>>Software with a focus on simplicity, clarity, and frugality. >The developers also pride themselves on catering to advanced and experienced computer users, But, no. It's a drumbeat of less code and fewer features. Which is on
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by Avshalom 4y ago
>>not anything to do with today Only because it's still illegal today.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
> I didn't bust my ass for 30 years creating tech to have companies pull nonsense like this Hate to break it to you, but this is exactly what you busted your ass for.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
if 5 minutes is the upper limit you just have figure out how to delay the next cycle for 5 minutes, giving you a 3mHz clock.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
>>we shouldn’t humanize them Nah, our ability and willingness to develop empathy and emotional connections to dogs, bugs, robots, small rocks... It's one of our best traits.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
the paper is not turing complete, it's just the working memory/input but turing completeness is in the rules applied to that input, not in the what/who is applying them.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
but again, they don't actually want to sell powerwalls, they want to sell cars, they're just willing to sell powerwalls.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
e150 is the old van model
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by Avshalom 4y ago
Powerwalls aren't a business' core product, so they're priced at "how much to make it worth our time".
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by Avshalom 4y ago
There's an E-Transit coming out, not a 'mini'van of course but presumably there'll be a e-transit connect sooner than later.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
https://github.com/dolphinsmalltalk/Dolphin Dolphin had a 'view composer' but obviously it's a bit pining for the fjords.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
https://mobile.twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1603151698570... They also seem to be banning photos of other people, unless they (Twitter) feel like it?
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Rail workers oust union president who backed labor deal(perfectunion.us)
103 points by Avshalom 4y ago|164 comments
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by Avshalom 4y ago
I mean logic languages have a history of... trying to be distributed but it's never really worked out.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
People expect tutorial levels because nothing has a manual anymore games have a dozen buttons two sticks a d pad and half of them have multiple actions mapped to them.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
Don't know what to search for to bring it up but there's a story HN used to post occasionally about finding a CPU bug... talk about Always. Except.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
No, slashing the labor pool is supposed to increase the leverage labor has allowing labor to demand higher salaries. It doesn't just make salaries go up on their own. But as long as you can ignore the demands of that labor pool it does
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by Avshalom 4y ago
>>The result is often substantial improvement in railroad operating ratios, and other financial and operating metrics; at the cost of less-reliable service, particularly to smaller customers, long-term capacity issues, increased derai
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by Avshalom 4y ago
It's also worth looking at which unions ratified it, for instance SMART Yardmasters and Mechanical ratified it, but TD, the branch that is on the train, have not. BLET - similar story https://ble-t.org/news/split-d
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by Avshalom 4y ago
Rail Labor Facts is from the NRLC, which is the rail company organization, which is to say that aint from the union's mouth at all.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
Technically they have PTO, but it has to be scheduled, and may not be approved, a month in advance. Which is unworkable for almost anything.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
I mean don't get me wrong I'm just having fun, I'm not some socrates-truther but "generally fans don't talk directly with the creators of their process, for years on end" have you met fans? Hell yesterday the e
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by Avshalom 4y ago
Fan fiction manages to agree about made up stuff across thousands of writers. Fictional canons in general easily produce (approximate) consistency across writers.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
On a similar note: because Socrates never wrote anything down, it's entirely possible everything attributed to him was made up.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
also raises the question of who paxys thinks was funding tech companies before this.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
>>I would fully expect the next thing for you to say is "I can program my own Twitter in a week" as a perfect example you just called achenatx a moron by implying that they would insult twitter employees by implying twitter
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by Avshalom 4y ago
I think it's actually two months (for legal reasons) of being an employee but not being allowed to work at twitter, followed by one month of severance, under conditions to be determined

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