TheGRS

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by TheGRS 7y ago
I'm wondering if Seattle offers something like the LIFT service we have in Portland. If you qualify for the service you can basically order a minibus to your door to take you directly to a destination. Used a lot with the elderly folks
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by TheGRS 7y ago
I would love to see the data that suggests people are moving out of New York to Phoenix because they couldn't stand the public transit anymore
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by TheGRS 7y ago
It's probably helpful to think of the service as like a mini bus that provides an extra transfer point. You're getting some great efficiencies from all of the services that way. If you keep a few of these vans in a neighborhood in
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by TheGRS 7y ago
Discrimination in the workplace and society is a perfectly valid reason for talking about politics at work.
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by TheGRS 7y ago
I'm American and I've had plenty of political discussions on polar opposite political sides at work or with colleagues at a bar or wherever. There's two lines that should not be crossed: the obvious one is threatening someone
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by TheGRS 7y ago
I think the problem with this view, especially in software development, is that it will pretty soundly continue the current status quo in diversity. We won't get more diversity without some political discussion. If you believe diversit
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by TheGRS 7y ago
Telling people to stop talking about politics because one don't feel like the discussion is important or productive can be viewed as its own form of covert political discourse. "The status quo is fine, I'm doing fine, discuss
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by TheGRS 7y ago
I have a feeling that many of the activists who were just protesters alongside those big names didn't quit their jobs to pursue of lifetime of pure activism. I'm not sure why having a job precludes you from being political.
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by TheGRS 7y ago
Yes, every meaningful change in society has come to light because everyone calmed down enough.
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by TheGRS 7y ago
There is also a shared understanding that you don't debate politics with family, which would also be a pretty big block of time for many. Perhaps the forum isn't the problem, its that a good deal of people feel uncomfortable with
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by TheGRS 7y ago
I suppose one would have to debate these topics to figure that out.
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by TheGRS 7y ago
I know we're speaking broadly here and there's a lot of nuance to what constitutes right or wrong, but I think its pretty reasonable to say that if you're gaining money from being unethical, you are part of the problem - that
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by TheGRS 7y ago
Sure, ethics be damned right? I know a few pyramid schemes that are technically all within the rules as well.
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by TheGRS 7y ago
I would argue its actually kind of fun to speculate, but fair enough.
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by TheGRS 7y ago
This is a really elaborate way of saying that you can sell things better if you lie to people. I think most of us know that.
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by TheGRS 7y ago
The last company I worked at was geared at optimizing recommended items to customers on a storefront. Working there I kind of realized how saturated e-commerce has become. There will always be room for new ideas and tricks to squeeze money
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by TheGRS 7y ago
My thoughts as well. Kind of a clever trick and I guess I can give him that this particular marketing trick doesn't have any real victims nor does it really hurt anyone, but its still dishonest at the end of the day.
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by TheGRS 7y ago
Well if the debt prevents you from acquiring new customers since you can't add more features then that would certainly cause most businesses to die.
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by TheGRS 7y ago
A lot of the price has to do with doctor's vouching for certain costs as well. Other than the airline industry I can't think of a worse case of being built on a giant house of cards.
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by TheGRS 7y ago
Well the actual decision-making tends to be more important than just what one knows. A pile of cash seems more indicative of investment paralysis than some grander strategy. Like, "we can't figure out the best investment to make w
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by TheGRS 7y ago
There's some nuggets of good things to look out for in here, but "don't do monorepo because your team is full of dumbasses" feels like a useless argument, maybe even a little adversarial. Monorepos solve versioning probl
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by TheGRS 7y ago
The whole premise is flawed. We know certain people are more prone to heart disease or need more of this or that. If that's the case I can't see how some sort of conclusion can be made about when to eat. Some people are going to w
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by TheGRS 7y ago
I have seen bicycles built using bamboo. I mostly agree with the assessment that the tech and need just wasn't there in antiquity, but I would definitely stress that it could have plausibly been built using the materials available.
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by TheGRS 7y ago
Lost revenue seems like a combination of bad weather seasons as well as cities outright banning the devices at times. We re-introduced them back to Portland just a couple months ago and Bird doesn't have nearly as big of a presence thi
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by TheGRS 7y ago
Other than being a logical fallacy it's also a race to the bottom in terms of what we (as a society) deem appropriate. "Oh what I did was wrong? Well what about that guy over there? Why aren't you judging him first?" The
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by TheGRS 7y ago
I don't know if that's great advice, but its certainly advice that will help get you promotions and salary bumps. Like anything there's a grey zone here. Understanding the political realities of a business is highly beneficia
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by TheGRS 7y ago
Well that would assume such practices were around when that code was created.
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by TheGRS 7y ago
I can't imagine programming with ESL and having to deal with code where some english speaker thought they were super clever and named various classes and variables after things that are super referential or punny. I see a lot of classe
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by TheGRS 7y ago
When I had a support engineering job it was pretty magical. Super easy to store notes and kept a lot of my life and browsing curated and organized. I took pictures of whiteboards and stored them. But like many others here the app became blo
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by TheGRS 7y ago
There was a time I was super into a project where I had a streaming server that used my Spotify account and would allow anyone with access to the server to change the song. I was basically trying to replicate what Sonos does with a Pi. It w

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