LapsangGuzzler

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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Yeah, but you're taking it much further than they are. They're arguing that Kia should use an immobiliser that is standard in most other cars. They're not asking Kia to install cameras, etc. It's a sane default that dete
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
This is exactly why tort law exists, to argue in court that someone else is causing an undue burden and should compensate you. > The courts aren't a way to enforce unwritten legislation. OK, so some big company storing your PII gets
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
because they usually don't have the kind of money that's worth suing over
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
That's not an accurate comparison. The chief complaint cities have is that stolen cars result in other crimes, which drains law enforcement resources. > Yet in 2015, 96% of new cars sold by other manufacturers did come with immobili
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> Anything that makes content can be used for vague general propaganda/lobbying, but impacting product-decision in a specific way? A/B testing and tracking metrics on user behavior is a very mature practice in the industry. Som
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Hurricane Harvey is a prime example of this. The Army Corps of Engineers released a dam during Harvey and homeowners whose houses were built on the reservoir plain were never told that they lived in a flood zone and lost everything. https:
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
People think journalism is draped in ulterior motives now, just wait until these publishers are just front ends for AI content created by private companies. What’s the point in having sponsored content when your supposedly unpaid content is
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> Participation has dropped from more than 550 deals and a quarterly peak of nearly $50 billion in 2021 to fewer than 200 deals and a quarterly peak of around $15 billion in 2023, Stanford wrote. > As IVP's Tom Loverro so prescie
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
I think a similar effect is seen in the US. Perusing the (notably fewer) recruiter emails I’ve gotten lately, they’re almost all below my current pay. Contrasted with a year ago, probably 30-40% of cold recruiter outreach were for higher pa
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
I believe they tend to take action before a formal vote is held, which gives them plausible deniability.
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> From project implementation until 2020, those 18 projects were expected to generate up to 89 million carbon offsets to be sold in the global carbon market. But researchers estimate that only 5.4 million of the 89 million, or 6.1 percen
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Agreed. Twitter had achieved the novel recognition that so many companies kill for: universal verbification (I.e. I’m gonna tweet this). Destroying that kind of brand equity over a personal obsession will go down as an all-time failure in t
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Never once did I tell anyone else that’s what they should do, and I clearly communicated that I’m not a recovering alcoholic. You’re the one ascribing assumptions and intentions that clearly aren’t there.
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> Isn't this mutually beneficial for the employer and employee? Employers don’t want mutually beneficial, they want control. Working from home gives people the ability to work while handling other priorities as well. I’m sure the em
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
I got sober at the beginning of the year and it’s been the single best lifestyle decision I’ve ever made. There’s definitely a growing sobriety movement, at least in the US, I’ve noticed a major shift in bars accommodating non-drinkers in t
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
I experienced the same thing. The economy that shaped their worldview is gone and probably isn’t ever coming back. The ideal “middle class” lifestyle is eroding away underneath rising real estate prices and fewer good jobs.
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Right, but this article points out very clearly how Musk’s actions are actually making it harder for people to have children. The control that his class demands on capital and labor is actively harming reproduction. Fundamentally, billionai
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
That’s because pronatalism is just an excuse that people like Musk hide behind in order to justify their misogynistic lifestyles. Seriously, how many children with how many partners does he have now?
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
I’d love to see AI take on some of these 50 year old COBOL monstrosities, partly because it’s desperately needed but also because I have little faith that AI is anywhere near sophisticated enough to undo half a century of bad programming de
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Yep, average COBOL salaries don’t touch modern SWE salaries. The crazy money is limited to a few expert consultants as you point out. > A lot of new COBOL work just gets shipped off to India to be done cheaply. This is becoming less true
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
I think it all comes down to what your definition of authenticity is and acknowledging that the vast majority of social media behavior is learned to elicit some sort of reaction and not to necessarily replicate your real-life behavior and m
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> This manufactured pity instead blindly inflates the value of the work in question – as if to say: if the story is sad enough, the art is automatically good. This poor fool still believes that social media has a shred of authenticity le
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Misalignment of incentives is such an understatement. > But looking back, he felt that the rigorous scrutiny of the traditional path might have forced his team to address underlying business challenges they'd later face. This is suc
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> Storm suggested creating a version of Tornado with KYC / AML enabled, but Tornado’s unnamed venture capital investors were dismissive, saying, “I just don’t know if anyone will actually want this.” The investor added, “It would be
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> Will bad people abuse it and do things you don't like? Yeah. That's the risk that comes with it and we have a legal system to identify and deal with those bad actors. The problem is that things like cryptocurrency are largely
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Personally, not for the day job. I love experimenting with new stuff in my free time but when the pressure is on to deliver for the business, I want to go with what I know works.
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Because JavaScript rules web dev and the JS community has pushed so many mainstream ideas that have turned out to be duds. It’s a major echo chamber due to its size relative to other web dev communities. I also partly blame the careerist ob
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> It’s just a shame that dealership grift has to get this bad until the government enforces regulations properly. Enforcement costs money, and one of the easiest ways to attack the government budget is to argue that enforcement "isn
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> there are other strategies True, but those usually involve adding some sort of linter to ensure that your style sheets are clean, which is an additional build step, which is an opportunity for a build to fail. Tailwind gives me this ou
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
I stayed away from Tailwind for the exact reasons you described until i joined a company that used it heavily and now I really see the value of it. I’m weary of new tools and cargo cult but Tailwind won me over. It really shines for apps th

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