Xirdus

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by Xirdus 5d ago
I was getting that when logged in, without VPN (but still ad blocking.)
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by Xirdus 5d ago
Recently, the owner of the factory my grandfather worked for the last 30 years has retired and sold their business, as a single package, fully operational, with employees and pending orders. It was still shut down and all employees were let
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by Xirdus 5d ago
> In your model, the only possible business owners would be those with major capital resources to begin with Or you get a loan. Or you get an investor on board. How is that different from the current situation? > encouraging the sprea
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by Xirdus 5d ago
It's crazy what some people will come up with just to have something to criticize instead of the actual contents of the thing they're replying to. Nobody said continuing an inherited business is mandatory, least of all me. I am al
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by Xirdus 5d ago
It makes it impossible to share part of a business, including stocks. It also massively increases the friction of takeover by killing all employee, vendor, and client contracts, so the buyer cannot benefit from any of these without arrangin
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by Xirdus 5d ago
You can sell all your offices, desks, printers, laptops, machinery, land, inventory, intellectual property, and anything else you want to your heart's content, to anyone you want, for any price you want. The only thing you can't s
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by Xirdus 5d ago
You are forgetting that if PE weren't there to buy out local dentist offices at a premium, then these offices would sell at far lower price, making them affordable to the next generation.
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by Xirdus 5d ago
When interest rates are low, it's most profitable to invest in extremely high risk, extremely high reward unicorn startups. That makes way more money on average than any long-run profitability. In fact, long-run profitability is basica
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by Xirdus 5d ago
> So, what happens if person A is prohibited from selling their business? I actually made that thought experiment. Disallow selling businesses. Disallow selling shares. Disallow stock market. Disallow mergers. The only way to acquire a b
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by Xirdus 6d ago
My language has male/female/neuter in singular and male-person/everything-else in plural (e.g. singular dog is male and declines like boy, but plural dogs is non-male-person and declines like girls). It used to have dual numb
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by Xirdus 6d ago
This would explain why German singular feminine and plural everything use the same article (in most cases).
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by Xirdus 7d ago
Script kiddies are hacking sorcerers. Different discipline.
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by Xirdus 7d ago
Programming was never about communication. It was always about making the machine do the thing we want. Back in the day, a good game programmer knew which time intervals had writable video memory and which CPU cycles drew which scanlines, a
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by Xirdus 7d ago
If a web browser allows images, then the website always has full control over how content renders. It's the default. HTML and related standards are trying to persuade developers to cede some of that control in the name of accessibility
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by Xirdus 8d ago
The programmer can opt out by terminating the loop.
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by Xirdus 8d ago
The sorcerers have always outnumbered the wizards. Before AI, we called them code monkeys.
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by Xirdus 10d ago
> Quality furniture is typically made to order Exactly!!! It used to NOT be like that!!!
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by Xirdus 10d ago
But was Mercedes always inferior to Ford or were only some particular models of Mercedes inferior to Ford? If it's the former than my point still stands.
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by Xirdus 10d ago
You are literally calling one car much better engineered than another car. So what exactly are you arguing against? I said that you could pick bad car or good car back in the 60s, and it was easy to tell which one is bad and which one is go
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by Xirdus 10d ago
I wasn't saying things were better then than now. I was saying exactly what you're saying - cheap shit and expensive stuff was available, see furniture, see furniture, see furniture. Except no, it's like that anymore. It&#x27
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by Xirdus 10d ago
I'm sorry but I will need a second opinion. I just don't believe there was not a single brand of TV that was reliably good the way some brands of clothes, furniture, power tools, phones, spices, perfume, refrigerators, light fixtu
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by Xirdus 11d ago
Both historical socialism and current-stage capitalism suffer from the exact same problem - lack of competition and limited access to information. They arrived there in vastly different ways but in both cases it's very hard both to kno
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by Xirdus 11d ago
You know, it's pretty funny that we currently live in a world where it's much safer to trust AI with medical diagnosis than it is to trust AI to find and schedule a doctor visit for a human medical diagnosis. Not saying to trust A
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by Xirdus 12d ago
Where I'm from, LLC has nothing to do with criminal and everything to do with financial liability. They can cause millions in damages but only get sued for a couple thousands. But years in prison are still years in prison.
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by Xirdus 12d ago
It's very likely it violates the DMCA "breaking digital lock" provisions but the responsibility is sufficiently diluted that it's impossible to charge anyone in particular.
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by Xirdus 12d ago
The big question is was this grossly negligent or just extremely careless.
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by Xirdus 14d ago
Thermostats are made with way more granurality than needed, like body scales with 100 gram/quarter pound precision or battery testers with millivolt sensitivity. Most people have single zone HVAC with one controlling thermometer, and i
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by Xirdus 14d ago
Empirically, my wife can perceive a 0° change on a bad day. The same temperature can be too hot and too cold at the same time. That said, I have never encountered a situation where 1°F makes any difference. If somebody feels bad, it takes a
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by Xirdus 14d ago
In theory you can automate finding interesting research directions by identifying conjectures with many dependencies. And notation has never been mathematicians' forte, with them trying to cram the entirety of universe into single lett
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by Xirdus 15d ago
> Changing the name of a variable or block for example, could create “holes” in the calling sites WTF. Isn't the whole point of visual programming that you are NOT bound by the limitations of text as a medium? A block refers to a sp

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