BadassFractal

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by BadassFractal 6y ago
That seems true of many jobs, like programming. Become good enough and eventually you get promoted to manager, director, VP, C-level. You might have loved the joy of programming and making something yourself at some point, but sooner or lat
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by BadassFractal 6y ago
I haven't been following the fallout of the Panama Papers leak, but has anything concrete (and positive for us vanilla tax payers) actually come out of it? Or did the ultra wealthy simply move their tax evasion schemes to a different s
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by BadassFractal 6y ago
Selection bias?
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by BadassFractal 6y ago
Excellent taste in colony survival titles!
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by BadassFractal 6y ago
Reminds me of the "if we understand it, it's just a machine, if we don't, that's technology". Nobody calls a bus "technology" anymore, but ML, now that's technology!
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by BadassFractal 6y ago
The reality is that most people don't care, or don't know enough to care, or don't care enough to know. Switching to a meatless diet isn't an insurmountable hurdle, it's just inconvenient. And even that small inconv
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by BadassFractal 6y ago
Is there a way to become a node for PeerTube, and help the cause with your CPU and bandwidth?
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by BadassFractal 6y ago
Not obvious, but entirely plausible. I'd be curious to see what a more sustainable pricing would look like on the consumer's end.
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by BadassFractal 6y ago
You should explain classism to our female coworkers who get assaulted and regularly harassed on the BART and co.
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by BadassFractal 6y ago
By providing a service that was more convenient, safer and affordable than the alternatives protected by regulatory rent-seeking.
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by BadassFractal 6y ago
I remember reading that toxoplasmosis might also cause people to be engaging in more risk-taking behaviors. How do you even factor that, or similar behavior-altering parasites into a legal situation?
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by BadassFractal 6y ago
Firefox is my daily driver as well, and I experience a bunch of lag with it too. Overall it's stable and reliable, but it feels slow. I usually fail over to Chromium if Firefox is misbehaving.
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by BadassFractal 6y ago
Interesting that their senior software dev is in the 140-170k range, which isn't too far off what you would be making at mid stage startups. Sure, it doesn't compare to FAANG, but most jobs don't, especially if you factor in
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by BadassFractal 6y ago
I don't entirely grok how the Bay can be the IT capital of the world and also have such poor fiber penetration. I've experienced commercial fiber first-hand in downtown SF, but that was never an option for residential use. Only Co
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by BadassFractal 6y ago
I was also wondering about how they would handle these cables being replaced, or breaking due to some natural calamity, and so on. Will the locals have a way to repair the damage without the FB staff around? I'm assuming the answer is
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by BadassFractal 6y ago
COVID is throwing an interesting wrench into dating. No more bars, clubs, large social gatherings, everybody working or studying remotely, most people wearing masks in public, meeting in person carries the risk of contracting the virus. Mee
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by BadassFractal 6y ago
Or they knew this would blow up on Twitter, but that they would get in trouble in China for refusing the government request of their own volition. So they did what the govt wanted, waited for the uproar, and now they can CYA by blaming the
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by BadassFractal 6y ago
It would be amazing if there was a tool like Krisp that could automatically noise cancel outside noise in your headphones for people who work with audio in loud environments. Not clear if that's at all possible without your headphones
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by BadassFractal 6y ago
They won't be missed. I hope they use this as an opportunity to re-evaluate what exactly they're offering to students for the currently astronomical prices inflated by reckless borrowing.
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by BadassFractal 6y ago
Or might make gender bias even worse: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tri...
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by BadassFractal 6y ago
Same reason why clubs want to be exclusive and keep a long line of non-VIPs outside waiting to get in.
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by BadassFractal 6y ago
Wasn't that study mostly debunked? My understanding was that journalists took some inconclusive data and blew it out of proportion and it became a self-perpetuating meme, disconnected from the original source.
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by BadassFractal 6y ago
That's one heck of a shot, nice work. Puts my landscape work in perspective. The 2 min exposure does wonders there, especially with the stars suggesting motion. Something I would have probably done in post, had this been my shot, would
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by BadassFractal 6y ago
You're hitting the nail on the head here though: it's currently still inconvenient to have access to the kind of vehicle you want on a moment's notice. Getting a car through a traditional rental company is excruciating, and s
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by BadassFractal 6y ago
Having let go of my car years ago and having never missed it, I feel that car ownership is still not cheap enough to make sense, and we can do better. I realize that if you live out in the countryside or in the suburbs, the car is your life
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
A more accurate approach would be monitoring calories in/out AND your insulin level.
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
In a "fresh out of school / fresh out of first job founder-wanting-to-build-a-startup" context, you often start with no connections, no capital, no world-class skills, no team, no game-changing idea. The only variable you can
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
Slightly overkill, but just as a thought experiment, it would be neat to have something where you declare calories / macros / food preferences, how much time you have to cook and how many cheat days you want. Then the system will
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
Would be interesting to see employers that let you work 2-3 days a week.
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by BadassFractal 7y ago
One way to look at this is as the rise of a new priest class in the secular West, with the fall of traditional organized religion. People versed in the obscure academic language of the different branches of grievance studies, who, not only

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