BLanen

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by BLanen 3y ago
> to a project where the company aimed to delete from its systems any older communications and documents that were no longer required to be retained. Literally no reason to do this but for this precise goal.
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by BLanen 3y ago
> Forbes piece It's a web blog. Not a "Forbes piece"
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by BLanen 3y ago
Yes. I mostly use man pages when I already basically know the program and need to do specific thing. Even then I don't use man itself but usually a webpage of the manfile because of UX.
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by BLanen 3y ago
> harsh realities This looks normal. What typical American spin.
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by BLanen 3y ago
That's because we need to cut taxes to incentivize these geniuses of industry to make actual things!
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by BLanen 3y ago
Slogans don't make reality
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by BLanen 3y ago
Socialism is when capitalism does its usual thing?
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by BLanen 3y ago
I want DNN from scratch in Scratch.
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by BLanen 3y ago
> We need regulation > Ok, you're a securities exchange and have to act like one > NOT LIKE THAT
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by BLanen 4y ago
Effective Altruism not understand that this gift was never actually about being "effective", and if it does understand that then what's the point of bringing it up AGAIN as if it's an original idea("Geez, lets not w
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by BLanen 4y ago
Pretty much all fintech innovation is avoiding kyc, fraud, and hiding fees and leverage behind "complexity"(not actually).
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by BLanen 4y ago
New decorators are so good. I absolutely hated how the experimental ones worked and try to avoid using libraries that use it.
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by BLanen 4y ago
He's literally saying what you want him to say and still you're triggered because it doesn't mention "BOTH SIDES" or "NO SIDES" enough? What even is the point of your post?
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by BLanen 4y ago
I was thinking of making a modern distributed spaghetti version some time. FizzService, BuzzService, FizzBuzzService, CountingService, etc
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by BLanen 4y ago
The "positive effects" for some farmers must be offset by higher variance and less predictability due to climate change, surely?
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by BLanen 4y ago
I totally haven't heard this story for 20 years already. /s Such stories were used explicitly by the fossil fuel industry at those concerned with the new plastics back when they were introduced. https://www.dw.com/
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by BLanen 4y ago
Adoption(Actually using crypto as currency) is not in any way a goal anymore. The goal is now just to HODL till some mythical event where they'll be millionaires/billionaires with a single coin and then just use that as collateral
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by BLanen 4y ago
> He's gone insane. He has literally always been this way. He's a moron. There is no meritocracy. He got there through dumb luck and narcissism which the media/you people interpreted as confidence. If you actually listened
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by BLanen 4y ago
This is what happens when no-one takes their ethics classes seriously because naive "innovation good".
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by BLanen 4y ago
Gemini saying "yea uh you had to read the fine print and it's not actually us" is a hilarious copout and cryptobros repeating the line HAHA
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by BLanen 4y ago
Cypherpunk is pure idealistic nonsense for highly privileged tech people with no knowledge of the world or history to allow them to just deny the existence of politics, sociology, and economics. It has never let anywhere except compliance t
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by BLanen 4y ago
Your last post: - Amazon Becomes the First Company Ever to Lose $1T in Stock Value I'll let it speak for itself.
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by BLanen 4y ago
I would almost threaten to leave. The architect seems like a moron chasing a dead hype, which is even worse than a still-alive hype.
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by BLanen 4y ago
"Exchanges"(Exchanges and brokerages in one) are not supposed to be banks. Everything can be withdrawn from brokerages without them being insolvent.
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by BLanen 4y ago
This "refreshing" response is all hackernews has to say about everything always.
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by BLanen 4y ago
Because everyone keeps arguing against their own interests by rationalizing the status quo. Including in the comments here.
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by BLanen 4y ago
Stop falling for the productivity cult.
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by BLanen 4y ago
I don't know if this is a joke, but no.
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by BLanen 4y ago
You understand that the operators of the McDonald's don't own the building? The owners of the building have obvious incentives. It's not even a long-term vs short-term thing. The boring building increases your capitalization
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by BLanen 4y ago
Commodification incentivizes regression to some mean. (rental) houses are losing color because they have to design it in the least offensive way. Better be "acceptable" for 1000 people than "beautiful" for 10. That mcDon

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