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by Lazare 4y ago
Counter-proposal: Time for people to investigate moving East.
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by Lazare 4y ago
> The article specifically pointed out that the fraud charges are based on a single accusation of a former Ecuadoran judge The article was simply incorrect to do so. Again, there was an actual film crew following Donziger around; a key s
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by Lazare 4y ago
You are entirely correct, although I don't thin anything you said contradicted anything I wrote! It's quite clear that the residents of Lago Agrio suffered and are continuing to suffer; significant environmental damage was done an
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by Lazare 4y ago
The court system does need a way to force people to follow instructions. Since the legal system found Donziger committed fraud, it makes sense that they'd ask him to return the funds. Since he refused, it follows they'd take ste
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by Lazare 4y ago
It's worth noting that there is another side to the story. As Wikipedia notes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Donziger ), significant evidence of Donziger's fraud ended up being captured by a friendly do
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by Lazare 4y ago
Two of my acquaintances have EVs. One owns a Tesla and is....not thrilled. The other has a BMW and is pretty thrilled. One of them has had what I would describe as a luxury car experience - fit and finish is perfect, and every detail of the
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by Lazare 4y ago
> The previous owner shouldn't have sold it as a 90 or at least disclosed that, "It's a 60 but Tesla swapped out the batter with a 90 and left it configured as a 90". I mean, it's actually is a 90, and it was con
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by Lazare 4y ago
I think that misses the point. It's quite possible that if you have high salary ranges, you'll get high quality candidates through both versions of the job listing who will be happy with the offered salary. The issue is the compan
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by Lazare 4y ago
For now at least, Substack has much, much better UI. Beyond that, Substack is currently positioning themselves as a platform/tool for content creators to create their own brand and market to their own audience. If you aren't pay
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by Lazare 4y ago
That's the opposite of what happened. You may want to double check this. :) > people want to be outraged, but they don't want to pay for outrage Some prominent Substacks have tens of thousands of paying subscribers. Glenn Green
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by Lazare 4y ago
I've seen a fair bit of discussion about this, and so far, every author who I've seen talk about this has said they took the deal and came out behind, or they refused the deal but would have come out behind if they'd taken it
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by Lazare 4y ago
One suggestion I've seen (eg here: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/api-management/unders... ) is to distinguish between REST and OpenAPI designs. Because you're right, REST is a specific thing
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by Lazare 4y ago
Ah yes, I should have clarified I was assuming that the firehose even has the needed data; I don't think it's clear that it does.
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by Lazare 4y ago
Using entirely made up nunbers, I think the situation is something like: * Firehose shows 800m accounts were active yesterday * Using data from the firehose (user agents, IP addresses, behaviour analysis, etc.) you can flag 500m of those ac
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by Lazare 4y ago
It's generally much easier to detect a bot than to detect the purpose an account was created for, so I wouldn't be so sure myself. Also consider that there's also no reason not to allow such accounts. From a business poin
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by Lazare 4y ago
> Choosing to believe a company that has admitted to lying to investors is your prerogative, it doesn't make them trustworthy or correct More to the point, it's Musk's perogative, which he excercised when he signed a con
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by Lazare 4y ago
That's an interesting story, but irrelevant to this. Twitter claims that < 5% of their "monetisable daily active users" (aka mDAU) zfd bots, where mDAU is a very specifically defined term, but broadly represents "peop
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by Lazare 4y ago
Very much like that...except you're also in a legal system where the courts have ruled that the only "faults" that actually are major enough to count are things like "seller said it was 3br house; it's a one room sh
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by Lazare 4y ago
> I have little doubt anyone lending that kind of money would require the buyer to independently verify the mDAU. Nope. Musk's financing is not conditional on that.
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by Lazare 4y ago
Slightly different reasons, but I'm seeing something similar in New Zealand. Domestic companies benchmark against each other, and pay lower salaries. Meanwhile Australian companies have mostly come to terms with remote work after the l
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by Lazare 4y ago
Most of us probably don't interview at a statistically significant sample of companies, so I guess it's hard to say. For the record, I recently did three tech interviews for tech lead level roles. * Company A: Small startup in a n
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by Lazare 4y ago
One suspects if the legal system put liability on the banks, they'd very quickly find some good solutions.
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by Lazare 4y ago
> But I do expect the fact that oxygen molecules are airborne particles to be taken into account when we talk about the retention rate of airborne particles I did say particulates not particles . As someone who seems to care deeply ab
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by Lazare 4y ago
> But obviously measurement is not actually done at the most penetrating particle size, because retention at that size would be indistinguishable from zero. [...] If the MPPS is given... what is it? I'm not entirely sure what you me
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by Lazare 4y ago
From the same Wikipedia page: > The specification used in the European Union: European Standard EN 1822-1:2009, from which ISO 29463 is derived,[4] defines several classes of filters by their retention at the given most penetrating parti
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by Lazare 4y ago
For EU standards, a filter removes X% of the hardest particle size to remove (called the Most Penetrating Particle Size or MPPS). That size varies between filters, but is often around 0.3 microns. Filters will do better than X% for particle
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by Lazare 4y ago
The Wirecutter article is pretty bad though: > But it isn’t a true-HEPA purifier, or a very powerful purifier, period. It’s designed to capture PM2.5—that is, particles 2.5 microns in diameter and above, in contrast to the 0.3-micron H
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by Lazare 4y ago
Also: https://getporter.dev/ https://convox.com/ https://atomizedhq.com/ And closely related: https://humanitec.com/ https://www.okteto.com/ https:/&
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by Lazare 4y ago
Someone else linked another version of the story in another comment, which answers it: https://www.panam.org/pan-am-inspirations/634-saga-of-the-pa... A banker in Australia advanced them $500 USD, which was enough to f
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by Lazare 4y ago
I think what you're missing here is that there's nothing about the fact this was crypto that matters. DeFi, at best , is getting you back up to the point the traditional finance system has been at for decades. If you'd had

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