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by MAGZine 7y ago
>How do you define everyone, access and good? Everyone means everyone. Access means that based on where you reside, there is a school within a reasonable distance, or transportation to one. Good is more tricky to define for me because I&
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by MAGZine 7y ago
Controversial opinion: I think everyone should have access to good education, and I don't see why a public system is incapable of providing it. Private systems aren't outcome orientated, they're profit orientated. If a public
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by MAGZine 7y ago
Then just keep tracing it back up the hierarchy to a single common ancestor, declare that without that ancestor, none of the productivity would have been possible, and by the transitivity of worth that you've described, where one is in
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by MAGZine 7y ago
I do wonder how related this to to efficiency increases with shorter work weeks. Are we seeing a symptom of this in 40hr work weeks, where people are really only working some value less than 40h, but they just expand their tasks? If you red
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by MAGZine 7y ago
I have every confidence that once self-driving cars have done a pretty good job of mastering city/fair-weather driving conditions, that ML will be able to handle poor weather just as good or better than humans. For example, humans are
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by MAGZine 7y ago
you're making the case for Los Angeles then, not San Francisco. Local weather is something you experience every day, not something you travel to. Same goes for snow and tahoe.
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by MAGZine 7y ago
I'm sorry you're getting blasted for your opinion, especially since it's one I share. I LIKE seasons. I LIKE snow. I LIKE watching leaves fall in the autumn and rebirth in the spring. I LIKE sweaterweather falls and, cold win
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by MAGZine 7y ago
Eu airports also fly significantly less distance, and have significantly higher traffic. Canada has 33MM people with like 8 airports spread out across the size of continental europe (700MM+ people)
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by MAGZine 7y ago
If you're going to tell me that the matter of intellectual property laws have never hurt or hindered anyone on any matter, I'm going to have to categorically disagree with you.
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by MAGZine 7y ago
Iirc a large part of Canadian airline ticket prices come from the fact that airports impose large fees on tickets to pay for improvements to the facilities, rather than subsidizing the cost from municipal and provincial taxpayers. Canadian
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by MAGZine 7y ago
like alcohol, pharmaceuticals, weapons, etc? or like copyrighted works, perhaps? Generally I support a free market approach except for where it's been proven that a free market approach alone won't suffice.
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by MAGZine 7y ago
that's a slippery slope fallacy but movies are generally all priced the same and make up the difference in volume. Nobody pays different ticket prices at the box office for blockbusters.
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by MAGZine 7y ago
I think the copyright lobby is too strong, but it would be a very positive move to change tv/film licensing to mirror radio's royalty model. Let the best service provider win, with a (more or less) complete catalog.
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by MAGZine 7y ago
Not that it is necessarily the answer—but things like buying organic (reduce pesticide use), planting flower varietals that can be homes to diverse insect populations, consuming less animal protein, can be a good start. Part of what I think
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by MAGZine 7y ago
Unfortunately planet Earth doesn't care if you ran out of green cotton notes. Make it work.
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by MAGZine 7y ago
IIRC, California has had strong pro-environment policy long before it was popular to love the environment. So I don't think it's an outright abuse of language.
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by MAGZine 7y ago
Poor nations will continue to do whatever is most economically expedient to them. Does that mean burning down the rainforest? Overfishing oceans? Or any number of other environmentally unsustainable things? Yes, it does. People do these thi
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by MAGZine 7y ago
Do not store your 2FA codes in 1Password. It turns your second factor into the same one as your password. I was storing backup codes in 1P before I realized that I was putting all my eggs in one proverbial basket.
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by MAGZine 7y ago
My H1B at a ~200 person org was returned RFE and then denied. I'm a Canadian who worked at a bonafide SV startup. Been hearing a lot of the same.
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by MAGZine 7y ago
This is 100% caused by stack ranking, and the problem you identify is a very real one. Chopping off the bottom 5% of employees works if you have a LOT of dead weight, but realistically you can't really do it continuously or you start r
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by MAGZine 7y ago
Selection bias... I used those bags for garbage too, but the number of bags I received to the number I used for that purpose was not comparable. There was already an abundance. PlanetMoney said you needed to use a bag 131 times to be equiva
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by MAGZine 7y ago
I've considered doing this. Isn't it an easy defence for them to say "there's no way you can attribute the leak to us, case dismissed?" Actually asking because I had the same thought as you.
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by MAGZine 7y ago
Absolutely!
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by MAGZine 7y ago
A lot of what's in here reminds me of what we do at PlanGrid, and as someone who has been around to see our system evolve (and add my own feedback to it), I generally agree with the principles that it lays out. There is one thing that
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by MAGZine 7y ago
Illegal in this case may not mean streaming from some random website, it may mean buying a regular cable subscription and rebroadcasting it to your bar. You need special permission (and may need to pay extra) to "perform," copyrig
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by MAGZine 7y ago
The author of this talk actually specifically mentions the phenomenon of software engineers going home and working on more software, for free. People are motivated, and the reason why makes sense. https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by MAGZine 7y ago
Why would I give them my business now, after being kicked off? If I'm going to pay for a service, I'd sooner pay for Google Drive.
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by MAGZine 7y ago
I just ran into this because I use Dropbox sync with 1Password. My 1Password standalone license is now limited to three connected devices as a result. Very disappointing. Can't say I'll be giving dropbox my business.
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by MAGZine 7y ago
How much has Google grown in the last three years? Or Facebook? Or Netflix? Or Atlassian? Uber not growing in value in three years, in the hottest economy, is a disaster
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by MAGZine 8y ago
I'm a little disturbed that you trust the national inquirer more than, say, the Associated Press or Reuters. You can still ask why is a particular point of view being presented while absorbing the facts, which many publications still v

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