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by JSavageOne 3y ago
How is it a scam if the people buying it know exactly what they're buying, and the code is all open source? The word "scam" implies someone is being misled. How is cryptocurrency any more of a scam than fiat currency, ie. dig
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
Yea was just listening to a song on the Android app today, paused it on my Airpods to talk to someone, then tried to resume and nothing would play. Played something on a separate podcast app to test if there was an issue with my phone audio
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
Google search to retrieve specific factual information is pretty good. Google search to retrieve anything opinion related has been horrible and infested with blogspam for years (hence people searching Reddit to get that kind of info).
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
> With your incentive model it has 0 priority This is just factually incorrect as I've already explained, such as via the ability to provide bounties on technical debt reduction. Also an incentive doesn't mean that one has to c
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
If a code refactoring can increase dev productivity and shipping speed, then that is certainly worth something - though obviously can be hard to measure. Infrastructure updates can directly reduce server costs, latency, or have other benefi
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
For anyone looking for an offline Notion, I've been building https://mindgarden.app Allows you to load a local folder directly in your browser, and works completely offline. No login or installation required. It is still a
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
Did Tesla employees quit because they became millionaires, or because there was no further direct upside to their additional labor? I explicitly mentioned profit sharing because that is different from simply owning stock in your company. Ow
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
Companies seem to be under the delusion that return-to-office mandates will increase productivity, and I think this is absolute nonsense. Return-to-office mandates will demoralize your workers and make them seek greener pastures. Workers wi
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
> an office is superior for productivity. If I'm forced to commute to and work in an office 8 hours/day, 5 days/week, then I will be more miserable, lament my job, and thus be less productive towards my day job. I will fee
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
Great resource, thanks!
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
I started building something like this last year, but eventually stopped working on it https://nomadz.app/ I still like the concept. But it feels tough to compete with Google Maps in the geo-information / review space.
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
This is a great resource, but I wish data structures & algorithms courses would focus more on applications. I'm more interested in knowing why a data structure is useful and in what context I should reach for one, vs. simply know
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
So essentially the modern framing of the luddite movement is a giant strawman argument mischaracterizing labor as being against technology when in reality they were just trying to figure out how to survive in a world where their work and li
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
https://zsync.xyz Like HN, with tags. Not many people yet though.
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
Plenty of public bathrooms in Japan and Korea. The U.S can't have many nice things because it has an epidemic of homeless people, many of whom are mentally ill and/or addicted to drugs, but can't get treatment.
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
Plenty of public bathrooms in Japan and Korea. Hell even India seemed to have piblic bathrooms within reach when I visited
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
"Return to office" is all about control. Companies want to control their workers' lives to squeeze every last ounce of work out of everyone. They'd demand employees live on premise if they could get away with it. Forcing
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
Hilarious that companies were complaining about tech shortages while simultaneously having interview processes consisting of multiple rounds of absurd competitive programming questions that require months of preparation for and have nothing
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LLMs Create an Exponential Flywheel for AI Advancement(zsync.xyz)
2 points by JSavageOne 3y ago|0 comments
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
Site not loading for me
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
Governments should make this illegal
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
Google, Meta, Amazon, and Apple have all been vehemently anti-remote work and adamant in rolling back remote work policies - though fortunately accepting a 3 days in office per week hybrid remote work policy. A couple points: - Amazon has h
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
Yea but if I haven't even seen the product yet, I'm not going to bother and give away my email + personal info. I understand sometimes you need auth, but the app could just show the live app and then pop up a signup modal when the
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
With a Progressive Web App you can just download it as a desktop or mobile app by clicking on the download app icon in the URL bar
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
Personally I refuse to signup just to check out something I'm only passively interested in, and I will never understand why startups do this. I imagine they're immediately turning away >80% of potential customers vs. just letti
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
Some benefits of websites as apps - Instantly supports all operating systems and mobile devices - No need to download/install some .exe files (or your OS equivalent) with all the associated security risks - A web app will likely get up
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
I said in the article that we should implement a Universal Basic Income > "we can embrace AI and leverage it to free people to spend their time at their own leisure, moving society collectively up Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs&qu
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Implications of Approaching the Singularity(zsync.xyz)
3 points by JSavageOne 3y ago|4 comments
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
It's clear that we're approaching the singularity, & most are drastically underestimating the impact that AI will have on society within the next couple years. Some predictions: - Humans will not be writing code by hand in a f
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by JSavageOne 3y ago
NPR Planet Money just did a podcast on this a week ago https://www.npr.org/2023/08/17/1194467863/europe-vacation-ho... They interview MIT professor Tom Kochan who says that in the 1930s U.S unions like t

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