TheOperator

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by TheOperator 6y ago
A third of the websites in the world use wordpress which can certainly be configured using "no-code" and yet it's being sold as something brand new. Excel is everywhere and allows for "no-code" automation. No-code
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by TheOperator 6y ago
His open condemnation of the word "Islamophobia" in response to a non-binding motion and posing with a guy wearing a "I'm a Proud Islamophobe" t-shirt inbetween the somebody shooting up a Canadian Mosque and the Chr
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by TheOperator 6y ago
I can buy the argument that they could require special treatment but I'm much more sceptical that social media specifically resembles a public utility. If I decide Facebook and all it's products are trash I can pretty trivially no
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by TheOperator 6y ago
He's a reasonably successful psychologist and his opinions on psychology are often well founded. He's more controversial when he's speaking well outside of his domain which he does all the time. He got into politics because
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by TheOperator 6y ago
Looks like a lot of work to dust.
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by TheOperator 6y ago
I do see the trigger as being relevant because psychadelics cause connections to happen in your brain that wouldn't normally happen - which is why the drugs are particularly dangerous. I recommend them to the person with nothing to lo
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by TheOperator 6y ago
A few things that aren't obvious come up. Like how stoicism can get you more help. So what you do is you say you're feeling great. Spend time with others talking about nonsense. Then you ask for help only when it really counts
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by TheOperator 6y ago
Eich headed the company for like a week and people pronounce his firing as the sole mistake that took the company down. If Eich is such a god of leadership why aren't we all using Brave? Sure in hindsight maybe it would be nice if th
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by TheOperator 6y ago
Giving money to a private school that excludes gay people is far more of a choice than being a gay person. In this case by tolerating the intolerant you end up creating an inescapably intolerant society for gay people the sake of avoiding
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by TheOperator 6y ago
Pay should be relative to your value to the company and the CEO is not providing said value. You are allowed to run a company that gasp drives down average CEO pay instead of herding your pay brackets.
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by TheOperator 6y ago
Problem is that the CEO isn't worth the discount rate never mind being worth the raise.
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by TheOperator 6y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that a good number of commercial VPN services are monitored by the US of A.
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by TheOperator 6y ago
There are more workers than software developers. Specialised version of Word and Excel are literally provided in the CPA exam. The general concept of having an integrated "suite" of office software compatible with eachother, G-s
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by TheOperator 6y ago
>I would've hoped that an expert who was lecturing about language and culture would've anticipated the problem, and been more sensitive to it. If you're speaking Mandarin you are going to hear this homophone with even less
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by TheOperator 6y ago
Sure
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by TheOperator 6y ago
Competitive markets combined with regulation are the way we allocate resources in virtually every country. Unchecked competition can lead to exploitative races to the bottom, concentration of capital in the hands of people who cannot use i
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by TheOperator 6y ago
If he was born into some other family he wouldn't be bill gates but he would still be a very successful if far less notable businessman. To become world famous does take a degree of luck not just merit. People who only have merit are
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by TheOperator 6y ago
He has broad experiencing in tackling infectious diseases through methods like vaccination & propaganda and he also has doubtless expertise in computers. He has long before COVID frequently been the target of conspiracy theories of him
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by TheOperator 6y ago
>He has done no work you could point to His work in eradicating Polio. Choosing which projects to finance is a skill in itself, something he's likely more capable of than a traditionally credentialed expert. I can't help but
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by TheOperator 6y ago
Buying the albums mostly supports the music industry when you do the accounting and does little to support the actual band directly. The middlemen mostly exist to build a machine to allow people to profit from music... Which is an arguable
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by TheOperator 6y ago
Equally presenting heterodox theories with less evidence to casual news readers doesn't drive science forward so much as it gives people a confused sense of what conclusion most scientists and experts in the trenches believe is most pl
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by TheOperator 6y ago
I wouldn't call it dishonest but it is important context. "Study says same thing as consensus" doesn't garner clicks. I think the broader issue is how much the news is tilted towards focusing on contrarian viewpoints.
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by TheOperator 6y ago
Plenty of comedic and satirical shows have been censored for racism. Plenty of violent forms of entertainment have been censored. This campaign is also calling for the censorship of anti-vaccination and climate denialist views. I've
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by TheOperator 6y ago
The campaign espouses it's "American Values", they specifically talk about US electoral interference, they specifically want to remove exemptions for politicians from censorship rules, and they also want to ban groups of anti
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by TheOperator 6y ago
People within IT have a bias towards overestimating the importance of it. For a LOT of companies mediocre IT services and products are literally good enough. Hell for some companies crappy minimally viable software is practically a featur
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by TheOperator 6y ago
I've heard non-technical folks with their heads in the clouds expecting to run millions of dollars in transactions through an IT system, but cringed at my suggestion that they're likely to dump more than a couple hundred grand one
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by TheOperator 6y ago
So the native population simply is not of the same caliber as the immigrant population?
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by TheOperator 6y ago
This depends on what you mean by success. If your aim is to end up steamrolling hard enemies with a broken deck and getting a large high score than synergies are worth going for. If your goal is to eek by with a win as often as possible t
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by TheOperator 6y ago
I would argue aiming for synergies is fundamentally wrong headed unless you're trying to moonshot with a lucky deck. There's way too much varience in expecting to get offered certain cards. That being said some synergies like si
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by TheOperator 6y ago
>Fundamentally having more cards is bad, because it increases variance in what you can draw. StS has a number of enemies that shuffle bad cards into your deck, so this dillution works both ways. On higher difficulties more of these card

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