Frost1x

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by Frost1x 5y ago
There are some small businesses that are barely viable who really can't operate at much higher labor costs. That means they probably shouldn't be viable because labor is propping their model up with artificially low wages.
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by Frost1x 5y ago
>The "needy" have no claim on the output of the productive. Then the needy have no need to participate in, support, and follow the rules of society and might as well support principles of anarchy. Why should they bother with th
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by Frost1x 5y ago
This made my day, thanks!
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by Frost1x 5y ago
I'd call that the realistic argument. What's the optimistic argument if that's pessimistic? That an entity the scale of Amazon and AWS just can't figure out how to report system status? Or they forgot? Or didn't hav
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Well it's often my job to come in and fix these messes after both of those fail or there's no one senior and competent to handhold and prevent these messes from forming until they've become unmanageable yet mission critical.
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by Frost1x 5y ago
>I'm surprised it took this long for AWS to launch something as basic as this. I'm not surprised. I'm convinced AWS has strategically focused on making costs difficult to keep on top of so you just pick a service, assume i
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by Frost1x 5y ago
There's some similar work that frames some of this around cognitive artifacts. There are processes people perform that create an artifact in their mind they can use for other purposes of problem solving. The model leaves a sort of prec
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by Frost1x 5y ago
A lot of state departments of highway/transport already do this. You can even access the video streams online, intentionally. Just check your state, there's probably a lot of traffic cameras you can access. These are often used fo
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by Frost1x 5y ago
>people naturally have an instinct to suspect and react against bad behavior in other people, but this instinct is muted when they interact with technology. That seems like an evolutionary trait where survival considers if you're be
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Not sure about those but it'll be incredibly useful for research grant funding monies. Most research grants are "use it or lose it" so if you have any essential infrastructure, capital with short shelf lives/frequent rep
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Just caveating a technical statement I knew wasn't quite true, not making any sort of assessment either way. As someone who has had to extract data from large sets of PDFs and modern web presentation formats, I'm not a fan of eith
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by Frost1x 5y ago
>PDFs don't have any dynamic interaction... Just a caveat to that statement, you can literally do interactive and dynamic 3D graphics rendering in PDFs: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/enable-3d-conte
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by Frost1x 5y ago
I spend significantly more time dealing with messes of Docker containers that were thrown together ad-hoc with a slew of bad practices than I ever did having to hunt down and resolve dependencies. Docker really makes it easy to create mes
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by Frost1x 5y ago
>some people will still pour their whole lives into work, which creates an iterated game that pushes the equilibrium for everyone toward working more. there's no practical way to mitigate this powerful, arguably inate, incentive. Th
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Depends on the industry and profession. A lot of professional healthcare workers are hired well below competitive market rates. Source: partner was one, doubled salary after, is friends with dozens more who went through the same exploitatio
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by Frost1x 5y ago
It's interesting how we celebrate that capitalism instills competition that leads to global improvement for everyone, yet we like to hand-pick the segments of capitalism where we want competition and the segments we don't want com
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by Frost1x 5y ago
I'd say exactly 1 for very moderate or average values of 2. The very large values might converge on 21 but I'll have to flip a coin on it.
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by Frost1x 5y ago
I used to exercise 1-2 hours a day, everyday (I was in great shape), that's gone completely. I'd love to go hiking regularly, that rarely occurs now. I used to spend a decent amount of time doing amature photography, I don't
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by Frost1x 5y ago
I'd take it a step further and ask if we really want such an extreme in utilitarian ideals guiding such fundamental human needs like employment and its associated income that serves as a generic resource pool for food, housing, healt
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by Frost1x 5y ago
The whole deeply-seated protestant belief that work ethic instills value in life always escapes me as well. There are so many things I'd love to do that don't even require a lot of financial resources or resources in general to
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by Frost1x 5y ago
It's really an issue with ego in organizational structures and power. I've managed people far more experienced or skilled in areas than me. It simply requires you to realize you're not inherently 'superior' to the
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by Frost1x 5y ago
The issue with all this is that, professionally, we're held by businesses and clients to basically know everything (then there's the legal liabilities I won't touch on). So the culture is, any admission of ignorance or clear
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by Frost1x 5y ago
I had an very relaxed Indian professor who served as as department chair when I went to university and he always had open book/note quizzes, tests/exams with no restrictions. These exams weren't designed to be more difficult,
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by Frost1x 5y ago
I think the main discerning function is that most smart phone communication mechanisms are asynchronous first. For traditional dumb phones, the only async feature was really voice-mail and message recorder systems which, from my experience
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by Frost1x 5y ago
If you're in the US, you very likely already live in a society that only values lives based on their output as given to someone else (unless you're in the capital holder class and happen to be on the other side of the table). I th
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by Frost1x 5y ago
>Would you rather have a government agency assign credit scores? The abuses would be rampant. Do you think the abuses are any less rampant when power is privatized? The main problem that would be solved by a government institution is a p
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Yes. In case you're asking what OPM is and not just the acronym intended, OPM is an agency that manages and maintains stewardship of a stupid amount of information about all employees that work for or closely with the federal governmen
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Planned obsolescence seems better than unplanned obsolescence? If your uniformed consumer were informed of the lifetime of the product they buy, they might not be conned into buying things your informed consumer is aware of and avoids. Th
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by Frost1x 5y ago
A lot of corporate gains have been at a cost of squeezing on labor resources in some form or another, either time, lower comp, higher productivity, etc. or some combination of these elements. There has been some innovation in general techno
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by Frost1x 5y ago
You don't have to provide a fix to a discovered problem. Discovering and pointing out a problem is valuable in and of itself. If you force every problem discovery process to provide a fix, you create disincentive to the discovery proce

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