Repulsion9513

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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
And good luck if whatever crappy barcode scanning library they picked up out of someone's trash doesn't like your phone... I'm not salty
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
<insert "they're the same picture" meme here> Big company incompetence exists because, paradoxically, it's more profitable. The solution is making it less profitable, or better yet treating the business like you&#x
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
When they've made approximately nine digits off of it. After all, they need to be able to keep some of their ill-gotten profits, the lawyers need at least 7 digits (more often 8), the class representatives need perhaps 5-6 digits, and
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
Other than the "they have the right to refuse service" that sibling mentioned, umm... that's not what state or district attorneys do. In fact district attorneys prosecute crimes.
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
> Stuff like this is easy to charge back with your credit card company. Hah. Your card company will accept the dispute, Hertz will provide them with the rental contract you signed and say "he agreed to pay it!", and your card c
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
It actually is companies that do this stuff, in that if the company had sufficient monitoring and oversight in place the people working at the company wouldn't be able to do it. That would of course require them to strive to provide th
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
> We have this system in my country where there is a people's lawyer that can choose to take up cases that seem deserving We also have this in the US, actually we have many (state attorney generals, federal FTC and CFPB, and so on).
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
> The issue is that it relies on people to be perfect and never try to abuse the system Unlike the current system which relies on companies to be perfect and never try to abuse the system. Of course, companies abusing the system ha
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
Welcome to the corporatocracy.
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
> The distinction between a supervisor watching their employee vs. cameras + CV vs. using wearables to automate the watching seems completely arbitrary to me. I'd be pretty weirded out by constant camera and CV monitoring too > A
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
It's not that it can't do everything. It's that it pretends it can do everything.
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
The order is common throughout much of the world. The separators (especially with that order) are not.
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
Except for that all the good answers are showing their age and there's no realistic mechanism for them to be replaced with newer answers.
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
I haven't worked in the rental car world but I used to work for a place that rented moving trucks and RVs (and was also the area maintenance provider for them) and... No. They did not get regular maintenance, at least not on time.
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
> For example, employers ... track [workers'] movements using wearable devices 2nd paragraph of GP's link. > Abruzzo’s memo cites things like wearable devices for warehouse workers 6th paragraph of OP article. I don't t
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
The US has significantly less privacy in general than most of the EU. The way the whole freedom thing is implemented tends to skew heavily towards "businesses can do whatever they think makes the most profit".
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
I have found, between the span of $8/hour and $88,000/year, that the amount of tracking (and also the amount of "if you have time to lean you have time to clean"-type busywork) is very close to inversely proportional to
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
Programmers discover the benefits of static linking, and then programmers discover the benefits of dynamic linking, and then programmers discover the benefits of static linking, and then... Anyway containers go quite a bit further than just
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
Even once I got to the end I couldn't actually use the map because the left side of it (with the legend and year-switcher) was off-screen :) best web design A++
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
If they look atypical for the last 100 years or so, and also look atypical from the less "granular", even-longer-term samples... then how do you prove that they're typical?
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
Hmm, maybe whatever I was running into problems with just doesn't recognize the extension then. Sadly I don't remember what it was. Coulda been Plex, which wouldn't surprise me.
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
> not every difference can be accommodated in every situation, even if disability advocates don’t always want to admit it That's why labor law generally has the concept of "reasonable accommodations" and core parts of the
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
It's honestly even more subtle than this. I absolutely agree with you about talking on the phone. I avoid doing things when I know it will mean I have to call ahead - and I would much rather go down there in person and get looked at we
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
In this case since YouTube will provide it in Opus, Opus is the best choice, so that you're not re-encoding from lossy to lossy.
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
I remux into ogg which still supports Opus but seemed to have wider player support. Great way to get tracks that don't seem to be available anywhere other than streaming.
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
I've been meaning to do something similar but slap HTTP in front of it and use a bookmarklet. It seems like this script is both the daemon and the submitter though? That's nice.
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
> if the blobs (e.g. images) in the DBs are static, and transactions are read only/writes happen infrequently, then having all your blobs in one SQLite DB makes for an insanely easy backup strategy Does it? Suddenly instead of just
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
You're free to make that argument, and the stock market and capital will make a different one. Using that capital, the businesses competing against you will make sure that your good business is no longer a business. At which point it w
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
No, I think it's pretty well connected to real world software development. Most software developers these days, especially in web, tend to be more of "copy the stuff I've seen in tutorials before or find a library that does i
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by Repulsion9513 2y ago
Each layer of framework or abstraction you add, actually tends to make the complexity go up, as it includes so much crap you'll never use but gets in the way of the stuff you will use. And now when something goes wrong not only do you

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