Jiro

33 ms·

361.
by Jiro 5y ago
The web is like that because content farms are optimizing the pages to be found by Google and Google doesn't know how to filter them out, so we really can't treat it as a problem independent of Google itself.
362.
by Jiro 5y ago
> It's intended to restore equity by giving greater opportunity to those historically disadvantaged, No, it literally isn't. Bakke in 1978 said that affirmative action is justified because diversity benefits everyone. It is
363.
by Jiro 5y ago
Is there anything on this which doesn't exist on Mega Drive but could be ported to it like the Atomiswave games were ported to Dreamcast?
364.
by Jiro 5y ago
Some policies are more aligned with the employee's well-being and future success than other policies. I think that most people mean something like that when they say the company "cares about" such things, rather than meaning
365.
by Jiro 5y ago
Not understanding the existence of unspoken social conventions that have no written rules and nothing explicitly preventing you from violating them, is the definition of poor social skills. And you did that on the forum, so people get to po
366.
by Jiro 5y ago
That's not a refutation of the difference, just an explanation of the difference.
367.
by Jiro 5y ago
> This is a cost they factored into their HR budget in an attempt to impress and retain better employees; it is not done because companies are nice. There are things factored into budgets that you're still not supposed to do. Store
368.
by Jiro 5y ago
If you walked up to the person at Costco and said "I have no intent to buy the product; will you give me a free sample anyway?" They're likely to say "sure, I don't care". This is not a likely response if you
369.
by Jiro 5y ago
>You don't force them to do it, you don't lie in your resume that they decided was a desirable candidate. When you apply, the implication is that you might accept an offer and that if you don't, it will be based on things
370.
by Jiro 5y ago
I use a standard Android phone, but my go to app for playing music and podcasts is Musicolet, which is a purely local player for MP3 files, that has had every feature I needed.
371.
by Jiro 5y ago
>Social problems arise when you pay for your spot on the road with your willingness to sit in traffic instead of a congestion fee. On the other hand, it's a lot easier for a bureaucrat to siphon off a congestion fee to fill his own
372.
by Jiro 5y ago
We've come a long way since the TRS-80 had "HOW?", "WHAT?", and "SORRY.".... https://www.trs-80.org/level-1-basic/
373.
by Jiro 5y ago
>There's no way they'll recoup their $600M investment by going after companies that sell low volume, low margin devices. Patent trolls sometimes sue people without money in order to get precedents that can be used against peopl
374.
by Jiro 5y ago
This is one of those things "rationalists" do that doesn't always make sense. It is possible to tell someone to "taboo their words" to obstruct someone, in order to make it hard for them to discuss something whose
375.
by Jiro 5y ago
Distribution matters because it triggers legal consequences--you need a license to distribute. The FSF can't rewrite the law. So they can't say "doing X is distribution" and then claim that doing X requires a license.
376.
by Jiro 5y ago
Companies tell employees to delete emails after 18 months because there are two alternatives: 1) delete emails after 18 months (or some similar time period), or 2) never delete emails, ever. If your policy is "delete emails based on p
377.
by Jiro 5y ago
Even companies who are innocent, and don't have any damning evidence because they did nothing wrong, need policies like this. You can be innocent and someone can still sue you, find the suspicious-sounding messages, and use them again
378.
by Jiro 5y ago
If there's no expired support contract, that would be making a false statement of fact in order to get someone to sign a contract and pay me money. It's plausible that that would be fraud. Of course it's also plausible that
379.
by Jiro 5y ago
The problem with the review is not that the movie is good. The problem with the review is that the movie is bad (I assume), but Ebert got that part right by luck. His review is a mixture of things he shouldn't be criticizing the movi
380.
by Jiro 5y ago
>One thing I've always appreciated about Ebert's reviews is that he [has explicitly stated that he] rates movies from the context of the intended audience For this particular review, if that's what he's trying to do,
381.
by Jiro 5y ago
It's the most common bot detection software and was used by over a thousand research papers.
382.
by Jiro 5y ago
I like this version (whose source seems to be unknown, I googled it and found https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/06/04/race-swift/ ): The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong
383.
by Jiro 5y ago
Link to actual lawsuit: https://aupdamages.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/PayPal_Fil... (I had to Google this and find it in a Reddit thread, so it's not directly from the court's website. If
384.
by Jiro 5y ago
The scenario "make your program cease to function for users who don't pay a fee", in actual practice, won't happen without your users being well aware that this is the plan from the very beginning. Furthermore, by framin
385.
by Jiro 5y ago
Changing your mind because of new evidence is good. Changing your mind because the evidence is pretty much the same, but the previous conclusion has become inconvenient for you, is not good.
386.
by Jiro 5y ago
Attempting to convince employees of something is not repression.
387.
by Jiro 5y ago
Will not work. Because few women will believe a man who says "trust me, I won't make you pregnant because I'm on birth control".
388.
by Jiro 5y ago
The salary that the company is willing to pay you depends on how much you are worth to them. In the scenario where you move to New York because they require your physical presence, your value to them depends on location so they would pay y
389.
by Jiro 5y ago
The ones from before 1923 go public domain in less than 100 hours. The ones from 1923 go public domain in 2 years and 100 hours (there's an extra 1 year gap), then it's one year per year until you reach 1946, which has a 10 year
390.
by Jiro 5y ago
Unfortunately, whatever the laws in Switzerland, none of those are in the public domain in the US until January 1 2022. https://www.copyright.gov/music-modernization/pre1972-soundr...

More ›