SirSourdough

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by SirSourdough 5y ago
It’s a community-edited encyclopedia with thousands of contributors and billions of users, I feel like community engagement is very central to that. Global development also seems central to scaling their core product. Communications is like
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
Isn’t the question here more like putting Man City (elite professionals) up against average professionals? I don’t see the 10x goal differential there necessarily. It would be unremarkable for a “10x programmer” to be 10x better than a hobb
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
Content designed to answer individual questions (eg StackOverflow) is often different in form than content designed to provide comprehensive education like college classes.
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
I don’t have much of a dog in the Freenode fight, but the idea that people who are in the right don’t need to work to convince others is just patently false and not supported by reality. Especially when one side is seen as the side of “good
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
It seems premature to be claiming that people won’t return to transit given that in many major cities life is decidedly not back to normal, and mass transit seems like it would be about the last thing to bounce back. Events and in-person wo
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
So why does a temporary and rare event like the pandemic require a total overhaul of transit?
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
I mean, the pipeline in question provides half of the gas to the US East coast. You don’t have to love oil to see that losing 40% of the supply to more than 100m people overnight would be a public safety (what if emergency vehicles can’t bu
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
And what person is frugal enough to save $10k/yr, which is probably around a quarter of their total income at 19 with no degree, but financially dumb enough to use all of that hard earned, long saved money to buy a new Tesla...
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
I don’t believe that you can make a comment as sweeping as “most Bay Area women... are so useless you could trade them for a jerry can of diesel” that doesn’t reflect a stance on all women. There are 7.75 million people in the “Bay Area”, p
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
So much for lightly veiled... I think this comment is a perfect example of why women feel the need to speak out against sexism. They wouldn’t need to “complain” if people like you would just listen.
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
Saying that a person shouldn’t be hired into a prominent position where they will likely manage women on the basis that that person has said women are worthless is nothing like lynching.
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
Are you implying that men in tech in the Bay Area don’t find their jobs exhausting? There are posts by men from the Bay Area talking about burn out on HN every day. Now imagine you are a woman in an industry dominated by men, a significant
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
Since when can you not judge a person on what they write in a published book? This isn’t “crime”, nobody is claiming it’s illegal. But it’s still sexist and flat out wrong to essentially say that most women are worthless, and it’s perfectly
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
Because good advertising still impacts you even if you “know to ignore it”, and there’s lots of ways to advertise to people that aren’t ads in the classic sense. I suspect that adblocker usage is also a lot lower than you expect, with a qui
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
Where the "full assessed value" is still only 5 or 10% of the price paid though? Doesn't seem like it hits at the heart of the issue. Seems like the sales price should be far more of factor in these ultra-luxury sales; the ma
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
I mean, that’s pretty much China’s position with regards to other countries IP as I understand it. There’s just a lot of power still held by the nations that do support a US-style approach to IP, so many countries have incentive not to igno
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
It wouldn’t surprise me if the pervasiveness of online advertising creeping in at the fringes of our attention normalized an increase in the amount of ads that do this in the physical world.
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
There’s probably truth to that but I think it stems from what seems to be a quite commonly held opinion that ads are hostile to humans. They clutter our browsing and viewing experiences, not to mention our physical world. They use malicious
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
I don’t think this is cut and dry, and instead depends on the nature of the relationship. To buy a laptop, Netflix didn’t have board meetings, deep contract negotiations involving the executives of both businesses, or an ongoing relationshi
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
I’m sure lots of businesses want to exploit workers, but that doesn’t mean they should be permitted to. The issue here is Netflix/Kinect being able to act on a predatory want.
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
The power asymmetry massively favouring the production house in this case is the reason they are able to make such an aggressive demand as having a professional work intensively for a week for no pay in the first place. I don’t think you wo
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
I don’t see how the fact that this behaviour has been normalized in a notoriously abusive industry makes it any less predatory... I agree it’s not new but it can still be an important discussion. It shouldn’t continue to happen just because
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
Based on these numbers I’m almost surprised they were resistant to regulators calling for a recall in the first place because it put them in a bad PR position over only 2% of their units.
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
I’m not hugely involved in this space so this is just speculation, but my impression is that Blender is relied on by companies more than GIMP. It seems like Photoshop still dominates the space GIMP occupies. So there’s probably just a lot m
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
Considering there are individual ships that carry more than a billion dollars worth of cargo and way more containers in a single trip than are lost in total in a year, I think you are probably correct.
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
Maybe they missed a chance to own global messaging, though I’m not sure that’s true given the number of competing messaging platforms, but iMessage being a walled garden has sold a shitload of devices for Apple and served as a major way of
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
Reminds me of cigarette advertising in Formula 1, where brands like Phillip Morris have constantly tried to find new ways to sneak imagery and color schemes onto the cars that are reminiscent of their branding despite cigarette ads being ba
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
I don’t think that promoting exercise as a component of healthy living makes a statement on body image. People who exercise have all types of bodies, all of which are acceptable. It is paternalistic to “force” people to go to the gym to rec
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
I think it’s culture, or at least perceptions of. For the demo that tech companies are trying to attract, I think the perception of Florida is as an older, conservative “place where dreams go to die”. It’s also in the South which I think is
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by SirSourdough 5y ago
I think it depends on your viewing habits. If you decide what content you want to watch and then seek it out, you might have a tougher time finding what you want with all the streaming services segregating content. But if you start by openi

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