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by BowBun 3y ago
China is a poor example if you're trying to say that people can circumvent political technology decisions. The firewall works for 90%+ of their population and allows them to present versions of events that don't align with the res
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by BowBun 4y ago
I landed in JFK a couple of nights ago after a vacation with my GF. I get Lyft priority for free because of some credit card thing. We both called Lyft cars at the same time. She got one faster than I did, and it arrived earlier, whereas I
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by BowBun 4y ago
> “In Canada, which we believe is a reliable predictor for the US, our paid membership base is now larger than prior to the launch of paid sharing and revenue growth has accelerated and is now growing faster than in the US,” Netflix said
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by BowBun 4y ago
It's evident by the replies that many people don't share your experience. I've also had very effective support from AWS, from technical issues to spending optimizations. You seem to really care about whether a ticket exists t
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by BowBun 4y ago
I get that the HN crowd is sensitive to FAANG layoffs. That being said, it's hard to take seriously an anonymous comment claiming they know better than Google's executive board about whether or not they needed layoffs. Unless you
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by BowBun 4y ago
It's law... you cannot disregard it if you do business there. Feel free to give it a shot and test it out, though. The agency in charge has been having a field day so far, though primarily with the big tech companies - https:/&#x
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by BowBun 4y ago
As a user of Youtube CC, I disagree
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A dutch lawmaker in the article said that e-fuels still release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. If the EU were to accept Germany's loophole, then there would be a known avenue for vehicle fuel pollutants to continue to damage our e
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by BowBun 4y ago
Data from the World Inequality Database refutes your statement - https://wid.world/world Every single socialist European nation (including the Scandinavian ones) has a better wealth distribution than the USA. > So union
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by BowBun 4y ago
What are you on about? Diversity in the makeup of a group isn't the opposite of the ability for a group to unite for a common cause. Being employed in the same industry is already more than enough to practice solidarity, e.g. unions. I
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by BowBun 4y ago
According to my subscribing and testing it out with the Sublime extension, you get to decide whether your code gets piped up into their model. Not that I've verified it by monitoring network calls.
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by BowBun 4y ago
This seems like an appropriate campaign to reach people who probably don't think about this kind of stuff. I think there's more than enough HN articles that show the tech circle's opposition to these kinds of measures already
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by BowBun 4y ago
I disagree, I think you're oversimplifying complex decisions to represent an individual's value system. I can think the community is more important than the individual, but still leave to protect my children from starvation. Reduc
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by BowBun 4y ago
> The US is a country of immigrants who for the most part came here because they valued the individual over the community I disagree with that statement, despite agreeing with the following: > The individualism lives in the deepest ro
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by BowBun 4y ago
No one has compared them except you. Using a word doesn't automatically mean someone is equating everything under the umbrella. You would do better to focus on the definition of the word if you're so inclined on arguing - "cr
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by BowBun 4y ago
I use this! And didn't know it was unsupported on M1+ since I'm not on that yet. Please keep it alive!
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I don't think most people that use it in casual conversation (which isn't logically sound to begin with) are using it in good faith. In my experience, it's used to shut down concerns that people have based on previous experie
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by BowBun 4y ago
People love to reference the logical fallacy[1] as though there have been no instances where momentum builds from a series of decisions and cascades in a massive shift. But then again, thinkers like these are happy to comfortably think abou
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by BowBun 4y ago
Absolutely not. A news site presumes that a majority of the content on there is vetted, researched, and somewhat accurate within the bounds of typical news bias. Twitter is an open platform that anyone can say anything on. It's a socia
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by BowBun 4y ago
I can think of worse evils than the animal consumption industry: child sex slave trade, starvation and death of millions, genocide. I get your point and don't disagree that animal suffering is terrible, but I wish people were more mode
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by BowBun 4y ago
Avid user for years, so cool to see you on the social web! Thanks for your work! I'm annoyed for you at all these people trying to tell you what to do with your project, after you've been doing it successfully for 10 years and the
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by BowBun 4y ago
Yet another point of absurdity. Only if I live in California do I have the right to demand a company clear all my personal data. Meanwhile we have multiple large organizations that have hemorrhaged data to the world and caused irreparable h
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by BowBun 4y ago
Wanted to join the chorus of nostalgic thank yous! I played the original for hours with my buddies on library computers in grade school. Definitely some core memories. Thanks!
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In general I agree that these companies retract from the forefront and maybe aren't the innovative powerhouses that they once were, however both IBM and GE do fine as businesses and will probably be around for a long time. And I think
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by BowBun 4y ago
There's been a few of these since the topic has come up regularly in the last few years - * https://keepmyfriends.com/ * https://getdex.com/ I haven't used any personally!
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That point is made in the article. > By participating in the legibility efforts, they have the opportunities to make the measures work for them. For example, ensuring that impactful work is appropriately visible to the group that can dec
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by BowBun 4y ago
It varies. Your neighborhood bakery/pastry shop may have a baker that learned from their parent(s). Or it could be a higher-end shop with a trained patisserie chef. Or it could be a 'front' bakery that receives their daily sh
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by BowBun 4y ago
Unfortunately you won't stop the tide with simple data practices. If they can't slurp up the the data automatically, they have an army of people making phone calls to gather employment data from other sources to add to their datab
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He received no damages after winning a case brought on by a company that prevented him from working for 1.5 years? That doesn't seem like justice to me.
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Historically, most countries go through these cycles where we depend on immigrant workers for lower level work. We definitely profited off of slavery as well as Chinese, Hispanic, and Irish (to name a few) workers to build the USA. The same

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