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by _jal 5y ago
You seem to be replying to something I didn't say. > At the point where people are attacking something in Germany that line becomes meaningless. Exactly my point. I'm not saying desperation and ego won't drive him (along w
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by _jal 5y ago
This is pattern-matching taking the place of reasoning. Even if you don't, I promise you Putin understands the difference between attacking a plant in Ukraine and attacking one in Germany.
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by _jal 5y ago
> It really shows how much of a paper-tiger they are In a straight fight, it sure looks that way. But a weak, frightened and embarrassed authoritarian nuclear power is a very dangerous thing.
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by _jal 5y ago
One aspect of building a business is resilience: What happens when things break? Because things break. I personally would not use Google business products for a startup. They're fine for established shops where when Google fucks up you
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by _jal 5y ago
Are we talking about the SE? If so, I have one too. Closest thing to the iPhone 4, which I consider the peak of the line.
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by _jal 5y ago
Small claims court isn't that demanding. Another aspect of that is that if you opted out of arbitration is that small claims is a huge hassle for large companies. They will usually deal with you rather than fly some lawyer in. If you d
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by _jal 5y ago
No, instead Apple has Catalyst to give things that slightly janky, cheap-port feel.
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by _jal 5y ago
Software that does its own resolution will not run on my network, and we have banned it by policy at work. Of course it becomes another game of whack-a-mole. My house, my rules; you don't get to subvert my network security and continue
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by _jal 5y ago
You can like his policy or not, that's your aesthetic choice. But are you claiming he didn't do what I described?
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by _jal 5y ago
Truman was a bit of a shithead, and nowhere near Oppenheimer's caliber. He also lied heavily about about his finances as a sympathy play as he left the presidency, and basically stole petty cash on his way out the door. https:/&#
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by _jal 5y ago
So that other people don't waste their time on that company, of course. Why do you believe the company should be able to keep bad behavior secret?
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by _jal 5y ago
Past the proof of concept, "developers" should frankly not be making these decisions. People who understand systems and failure analysis should be. You might have devs with that experience, but they're comparatively rare. As
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by _jal 5y ago
When we were starting a consulting company back when, we fell for this once. As the article states, once you're aware that this happens, it usually isn't hard to spot the signs. After that, if we suspected we were being suckered f
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by _jal 5y ago
Welcome to the country that loves to shout about the virtues of the free market almost as much as it loves captured markets. Just wait until you see US medical bills.
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by _jal 5y ago
I can't imagine using a Mac without Little Snitch: https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch Among other things, it is disturbing how chatty a lot of things are. (Did you know Apple Mail keeps track of which account
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by _jal 5y ago
> If it's large and expensive the likelihood that it's some random person decreases We have identification requirements for other types of planes that cost significantly more. On the other hand, I've seen utility-branded w
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by _jal 5y ago
> but you don't need google numbers to make money The article is titled "The Next Google." I was responding to that, not "A Profitable Also-Ran".
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by _jal 5y ago
Also important for anyone actually thinking of taking Google on, very few of the features listed are things Google can't easily do, too. Attacking their strengths is crazy. You better have something both crazy good and hard to replica
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by _jal 5y ago
The old rules still apply: if you don't control the computer, you don't control the data on it. In a way, this is sort of a digital-era generalization of "freedom of the press belongs to those who own one."
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by _jal 5y ago
Tell me you've never run a business without telling me you've never run a business. > Negative campaigns that function solely to tear down your opponents, as the article says (and my experience matches), are relatively uncommon
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by _jal 5y ago
Not an audit, but they corrected a mistake I made in my favor once. It was a trivial amount, like $30 or something, but they sent me a little packet explaining what they did, why, and a check.
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by _jal 5y ago
Politicians are surprisingly cheap, so long as you're talking about topics that don't get a lot of press. And thanks to Citizens United and similar decisions that have driven up the cost of US elections, US pols are very expensi
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by _jal 5y ago
> That said, most of the almonds are grown by a billionaire on stolen water Well, don't keep us in suspense. To which wealthy, wetfingered nut nut do you refer?
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by _jal 5y ago
Welcome to the 'ops' in devops.
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by _jal 5y ago
I fully agree with this. Maybe they're working on something big, but Canon, et al. to me appear to be headed the way of Kodak, at least in the consumer market. They would have a hard enough time with casual users just because the camer
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by _jal 5y ago
The core idea is the more desperate people are, the lower you can push their wages. Same reason exploitive employers oppose increasing the minimum wage, single payer, etc. Keeping people wretched means a steady supply of new bodies if the o
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by _jal 5y ago
> The subtle and possibly long term ones are still unknown So just say you won't take it and be done, because there is no mechanism that can satisfy you.
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by _jal 5y ago
> Does the money go to Firefox or to funny projects and (what I consider) insane exec salaries? Serious question: do you ask other vendors (Google, Amazon, Wapo, whoever) you use about HR and internal budgeting choices before deciding to
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by _jal 5y ago
> Human cultures have adapted using shame as a tool. A rather poorly targeted and counterproductive one. Note that you immediately assumed a puritan view, that addiction is solely an individual moral failing. > there are temptations t
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by _jal 5y ago
I'd be happy not having to read the words 'innovate' for an entire paragraph. SV PR copywriters use 'innovate' like some people use 'fuck' - it substitutes for just about any other word if you work at it.

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