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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> Genuinely create value for society - not just look to make a buck. It's more sustainable and rewarding in the long run. I loathe reading stuff like this. Money is so important until you have it, and then it becomes fashionable to
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
You’re shooting for one of the hardest types of jobs out there: entry level remote work with decent pay. There’s not much of that around, which means it’s gonna be highly competitive. I’d advise against setting a hard timeline like 6 months
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> Now, in reality amazon is basically an internet flea market That is the perfect description of Amazon. The internet’s flea market.
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
This a perfect situation for cheap knockoffs to proliferate though. My dad wanted a Theragun and bought one on Amazon. He thought he got a deal and it looked just like a Theragun until it arrived and he saw the cheap power connectors and no
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
No one is saying that you can’t build something at your kitchen table.
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
This is why labor organizing is so important. The Hollywood writers got major protections against AI exploitation in their new deal, and surely SAG will follow with their own version. Hollywood can’t exist without its writers or actors and
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Whenever I read a piece like this or another UX blog, it just becomes so obvious how little we care about a11y. “Good” (as in accessible) design is pretty boring and decluttered compared to most modern expectations of web apps. I read Adam
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
This is how I’ve felt about it. I’m a member and I had no idea you can vote for board members, that never came up during the pitch to sign up. It was all about the member-only sales events and cash back rewards.
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
I’m sure the ad-driven subsidy on TVs plays a huge part. TV prices have declined as “dumb” TVs have been phased out of the market. A more niche tool like a large e-ink display might not make as much sense from to price this way since ad sys
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> and fortunately or unfortunately, for many, work provides that function. I agree with this, but the problem is that there is no guarantee of work being available to everyone. With the rise of AI and hyper-specialization of work, that p
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Typically, folks who are running or thinking about running don’t directly answer questions about it. It’s also very common for inside knowledge on an exploratory committee to be leaked to the press ahead of a run. Serious candidates hire a
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
I don’t think an attack like that works on the national level, he’s very polished in his media appearances and his public persona. His personal life is a potential liability, though. He’s a pretty well-known philanderer and that’s exactly h
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
That, I could see.
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
I’m very skeptical of this, I think he’s slowly raising his profile for a 2028 run. He’s categorically denied over and over again that he’s interested in forcing Biden into a primary and I think it’s a misread to see this as anything more t
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
You could apply this argument to so many modern workforce changes, for example, the 40-hour 5-day workweek. Throughout history, most workers have not had the kind of rights that they do today. I think we all deserve to make progress on thin
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
I imagine that trying to incorporate a new community and starting with a clean zoning code would reduce some costs, but there are still major concerns around the incentives. That private project sounds more like a company town attempt than
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
My company has a similar policy and it’s worked pretty well, but has some downsides. A big one is that being a smaller, super ambitious startup means that we are shipping at an incredible rate (yay). However, the fidelity of our planning ha
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Could be, it could also be that they tanked morale with massive layoffs and now they want to make it look like everything is good and they’re back on the growth train. When a company has to cut a specific percentage, it’s impossible not to
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
I agree with this, but I also think we’re going to start to see a social rejection of AI being applied this way if things continue. It’s threatening so many people across so many industries that I think it will become a brand risk to compan
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> Hollywood is not really in transition. This is not true, the pay and corporate culture in Hollywood has changed dramatically in the last decade, there’s a ton being written about this right now. The streaming services are a huge part o
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
I agree that we need more transparency on pay and how it impacts the bottom line, even just being able to publicly post total comp on all employees would dramatically change the tone of the conversation. That said, I don’t think there’s any
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Yeah, it’s an interesting idea but I still don’t think it’s viable because this already done in some industries and comes with its own problems. One high-profile example is “Hollywood” accounting for residuals paid out to actors and staff o
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
The fact that the automaker CEOs (and even POTUS) were putting out statements that they didn’t believe a strike was imminent only to turn around and see 150k workers authorize the strike says a bit about their mindset.
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> nor do I agree with the minimum wage, which is a similar overstep from the government into employer-employee relationships. Read up on the history of the minimum wage in the US. It was demanded by striking workers who were tired of wor
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
It’s interesting to see how they’re strategizing this strike by individually shutting down plants to apply pressure to the automakers gradually instead of all at once. This keeps more workers collecting a paycheck while the threat of a larg
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Adding friction makes sense in this context. The ease with which we as technologists move customer data between systems directly contributes to the privacy problem. It’s not the only avenue to improve end-user privacy, but as long it remain
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> As highlighted in the National Cybersecurity Strategy and its Implementation Plan Initiative 4.2.1, the ONCD has established an Open-Source Software Security Initiative (OS3I) to champion the adoption of memory safe programming languag
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
This is a nationwide problem, it's not restricted to states that opted out of expansion. Federal Law requires that ERs treat anyone who comes in, regardless of ability to pay. Until the poor are able to access other resources like urge
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
My understanding is that medical debt would still be collectible and could be sold to third party debt collectors. It just couldn't hurt your credit report.
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
True, but there's also the reality that maintenance costs increase over time for software projects as upstream vendors change their pricing models and codebases grow in size and complexity. I can see why a product like Kagi wants to ke

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