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by _jal 5y ago
> wants to comprehensively eliminate "hierarchy" in favor of "freedom." You've come up with a workable alternate definition of anarchism.
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That's when I tell them I'm dumping their product. Seriously. I sit on the other side of this a lot of the time, and bullshit like this makes everyone's troubleshooting harder. I'm happy to work with someone to troublesh
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Reasoning about society by infantilizing adults is also a terrible way to reason about policy. Leaders are not parents, states are not families, national budgets do not compare to your bank account, and adults are equal partners in our so
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I'm fine with disdain. If pizza were French, there'd be legislation about it.
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All the productivity cliches I needed I learned in Kindergarden.
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I don't think I listen to anything that's autotuned. But I also don't think music is dying, so there's that.
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by _jal 5y ago
> But the rules are arcane and the agencies are perpetually understaffed Exactly, and this is by design. Here is how it was designed to not work in Florida: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/florida-u
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No. The problem is that systems are deliberately designed to be difficult to navigate in order to discourage use. It isn't money. It is a belief that recipients are not deserving, and so should be made to "pay" for it or deni
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There is HRXML: https://workforce.com/news/what-hr-xml-means-and-why-youll-c... But I don't think anyone really cared.
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- They fail to work with non-standard sized pans. - You can't use a wok on them. - In fact, you can't use them with lots of other things, or in many ways I use my gas stove. Yes, these are "off-label" uses, sometimes no
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Wow, this is really gross. I used to know some people there, and thought they were fairly decent. I'd ask "what happened", but that's just redundant. What's especially sad is I can't imagine this does them any
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https://github.com/RootMyTV/RootMyTV.github.io#mitigation-no...
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> Customer support is expensive. Yep, and that's a key thing to get right. One challenge for those promoting robots is that they are unpleasant to deal with and suck at their purpose (from the customer's perspective - they&#x27
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The post declares near the top: "ALL FIGURES ARE INFLATION-ADJUSTED INTO CONSTANT 2018 OR 2019 DOLLARS."
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Salary of full-time faculty at American colleges and universities: 1970-71: $81,798 2018-19: $88,703 Mean salary of American college and university presidents in 1983: $160,640 (2018 dollars). Median compensation of private college and univ
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> I guess the only way to protect my privacy in this case is to risk going to the physical store Never give them your phone number. They suckered me, and it took multiple calls to a very slow call center to get the text messages to stop.
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Renaming your phone also triggered the Log4Shell vuln at one point. https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/13/22832552/iphone-tesla-sm...
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> We definitely talk about corporations in this way. All the time, in fact! But it is always about individual bad actors, not "corporations". When MacDonald's franchises get press showing they're stealing employees&#x
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Wow, thanks, I appreciate the correction. Very much not my area, but I had no idea.
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To put a slightly finer point on it, I can't see through your walls with my lightbulb, but I probably can see through your walls with my router. Your creepy neighbor in the apartment next door is getting a new toy.
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> it really does demonstrate a lack of military sense. The US military is forbidden from domestic enforcement action, except in certain circumstances. Google "posse commitatus" for details.
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I think of Accelerando sort of the same way I think of Snowcrash. They're both just avalanches of mind candy barely contained by enough thin narrative to pretend they're novels. They're both incredibly fun reads, but awful fi
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I love Matt. But tell me I'm wrong. Any proposed solution is going to have to explain how to change the very strong financial incentives that lead to people doing the same things over and over.
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Google is a huge, public company. Any ideals that survived going public will slowly be ground out by repeated exposure to management consultants from McKinsey and the hordes of MBAs attracted to the smell of ibanker excitement. You can&#x27
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I'm talking about two sides. Which one are you referring to?
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The war started some time ago. One side is still in denial, the other is still building strength.
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Chatbots are simply another mechanism for pushing costs on to your customers. When something I pay for forces me to waste my time, I tend to switch to a vendor who treat customers like people. Because shoving a shitty robot that saves you s
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> ultimately just politics 101 In the same way that war is just politics by other means, yes. Wars are about logistics. If you think business is hard with the current disruption of our just-in-time economy when most actors are actually t
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Perhaps for their next trick they can improve the customer experience in a related niche with bundled ransomware.
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> fine that is also affecting the developer That quickly turns in to, the rich guy who will profit from the lawbreaking needs a scapegoat. Always more dignified to tell important people they're out of line by punishing their serfs,

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