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by __jal 7y ago
I'm really curious about this. I've known one of the people I talked to a long time, and while I don't audit his business, I believe him when he says the contract says he can't hire his own drivers. What, exactly, is fal
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by __jal 7y ago
> that could only emerge in a post-Uber world. Maybe, but a lot of restaurants despise Ubereats and want it to die, so they can't count on goodwill or loyalty there. (This is second-hand from a couple local restaurant owners; I am n
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by __jal 7y ago
I quit Amazon a while back. Because of what I bought from them, counterfeit garbage was less of a problem for me than for some, but their shitty dark patterns and information sharing pushed me over the edge. If they put a quarter of the eff
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by __jal 8y ago
Heard someone saying "What took so long?" in my office. I pointed out that the Enron scandal events started in the 90s, started making news in 2001, and Skilling was sentenced in 2006. The wheels of justice grind slowly.
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by __jal 8y ago
I'm going to guess your father's CEO didn't beat, rape or starve your father with the full support of the law.
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by __jal 8y ago
Yeah, I've always found it entertaining that their corporate culture is characterized by a unique multi-decade inability to stop those darn engineers from writing backdoor accounts. It would be more entertaining if I thought other vend
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by __jal 8y ago
Assuming you're talking public libraries, it depends on the state. Some states do ILL much better than others, including lending through multistate compacts. Having both a family member and a couple friends who are/have been libra
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by __jal 8y ago
This. I've been informally tracking time spent on systems my team manages and managed tools we use. (I manage infra where I work.) There is very little difference. And workarounds and troubleshooting spent on someone else's system
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by __jal 8y ago
I suspect they zealously protect their privacy, but because their cult is considered "weird" in some parts, they do it on the down-low.
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by __jal 8y ago
...Which defeats the "simple" in 3-words pitch. "No, I'm `heartfelt-triple-coma` from 2003, not current. Oh, you're using a Spanish-language phone; I don't know which dataset you use."
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by __jal 8y ago
> You could choose to build out your system to be completely cloud agnostic but that is generally regarded to be economically irresponsible [...]. I don't see it being anywhere near that clear-cut. Seems more akin to what the RDBMS
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by __jal 8y ago
The difference is regulation. The US is firmly gripped by the belief that "regulation doesn't work", and keeps electing people who try to prove that true via incompetence, cronyism and ideological malice.
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by __jal 8y ago
> I don't expect scammers to pick up this tactic because it would double their OpEx Except my missed call log is full of back-to-back calls from random phone numbers in my prefix. Either half the folks in Metro NYC (where I haven&#x
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by __jal 8y ago
I doubt it. I generally think of Google the same way I think of the NSA. If they stop doing something invasive, either it didn't work, they found a better way of doing it, or it was transferred to a legally distinct category, and we on
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by __jal 8y ago
Same here. It is used internally here as a written abbreviation, and we use it as a prefix in a numbering scheme to identify a certain category of defects, but I don't think I've ever heard anyone use it verbally.
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by __jal 8y ago
There are more options in the universe of reactions than "Eek! They're going to get us all killed!" and "Eh?"
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by __jal 8y ago
Police may be one of the few professions below who have real privacy protections in US, although most decent humans would never want to take advantage of particular ones in effect. The special rights the police have are amazing, and that&#x
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by __jal 8y ago
Personally, I expect devices that claim to function with TCP/IP, DNS, https, etc. actually function with them, and not with a tiny subset of their proprietary implementations. If Google wants to sell captive toys well, that's noth
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by __jal 8y ago
1Password has gotten confused a few times for me. (No way I'd ever use Chrome's. Or Apple's, for that matter.) Although now that I think about it, I think not in a while. Still annoys me - a classic example of offloading the
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by __jal 8y ago
Is the claim that journalists should only write about crime? Are articles (assuming they meet your aesthetic criteria otherwise) allowed to mention anyone who does things in line with prevailing legal policy, yet might be problematic? I, pe
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by __jal 8y ago
Got me, but I just added Topology Eyewear to my list of companies to never do business with. Don't spam in my pleasure reading.
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by __jal 8y ago
Metric-driven automated employee tracking is everywhere. If you're a software engineer or similar at a tech company, be aware that you have a very cushy, unmonitored job by most comparisons. It isn't "just" Amazon wareho
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by __jal 8y ago
This ignores a huge array of practical reasons why people stay where they are. Family networks are probably the number one reason. Child/elder care, food/housing/etc. sharing and a lot more are all major factors that by defin
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by __jal 8y ago
Which communities would those be?
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by __jal 8y ago
That's lovely sounding, but false for a couple of reasons. 1) There's a capability gap. Charities can't do a number of things that are needed that local government can. Simple things like permission to operate portable toilet
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by __jal 8y ago
A different approach to attempting something similar (in a wider range): https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/podcasts/07172018/tyler-cowe... No idea how Cowen's thing will turn out, and I'm not sure the
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by __jal 8y ago
Your manager's job is aligning their talents with company goals. When your manager aligns you with company goals, that's no longer called a 'job', is illegal in civilized countries, and isn't a role many folks seek
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by __jal 8y ago
Trying to annoy me into shaping my behavior into what you want means you 'win': I'll stop talking to you your web server entirely, and screw your app. There is no site (other than my own) so unique that I can't find a re
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by __jal 8y ago
If you expect everything everywhere to be a grid, sure, your mental model is not reality-compatible. Thing is, that's also true of most "grid" cities, too - San Francisco offers you two grids, and then ignores both of them in
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by __jal 8y ago
I got serious enough about metalwork to start buying machines about three years ago, but became interested in such things helping a friend who bought a used CNC wood router on a bit of a lark. Spent about a month generating gcode in Perl, a

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