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by achenet 4y ago
In theory , if politics starts making SpaceX ineffective, the free market will provide an opening for a competitor with a more effective culture to eat their lunch.
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by achenet 4y ago
> No but if I am paying him $300/hr and what he is doing is not related to fixing the toilet and is in fact causing me more problems or distracting the electrician who is also costing me $300/hr. Getting rid of him is not pett
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by achenet 4y ago
> Someone will get to have their name attached to the decision declaring any government interference in how a business is run unconstitutional. Congress has the power to regulate commerce. [0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/
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by achenet 4y ago
yeah, but tulips can at least sit there and look pretty.
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by achenet 4y ago
This has not been true in my experience. The shitty small business masquerading as a startup treated me horribly, now I work for OVH and everyone is super nice.
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by achenet 4y ago
somewhat click-baity, but the general advice to "get out there, follow your interest and communicate" is valid, I suppose. ^_^
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by achenet 4y ago
you people... just suck the romance out of everything. Whatever happened to mystery, and desire, and letting your imagination run wild trying to fill in the blanks? It's like the computer is being used to narrow our horizons, not broad
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by achenet 4y ago
no, it's to buy drugs on the internet.
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by achenet 4y ago
even if there is an energy cost, for some markets (illegal substances/darknet), it's "cheaper" to pay that energy cost than the cost of laundering fiat money.
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by achenet 4y ago
This. The original purpose of money is to enable to government to quantify precisely how much of your stuff it will take each tax season.
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by achenet 4y ago
Were they also offering a simple 3 day training course to teach you how to do it, for only $999?
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by achenet 4y ago
that is kind of what the exchanges do. The thing is user friendly UX usually creates user friendliness by removing the user's ability to control the product. For example, macOS vs BSD. The GUI makes it much more user friendly, but at
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by achenet 4y ago
While it is a local optimum, it can lead to global inefficiencies. For example, L.A. traffic, where because everyone wants to drive (and, to be fair, in L.A. where everything is super spread out and public transport is non-existant, this is
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by achenet 4y ago
> nor do you get pouring rain all that often. Have you been to Copenhagen? Or is your definition of "pouring rain" one that only includes Category 5 hurricane levels of downpour?
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by achenet 4y ago
I disagree with this, I think it's just a force of habit, where outdated industrial era behavioral patterns keep propagating themselves because no one takes the time to rethink them. There are plenty of companies with flexible workin
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by achenet 4y ago
> I’m wondering if you’ve ever been married. I haven't, apologies for being naive. > People generally don’t live their marriage with the intent of divorce, so planning in the way you suggest seems obtuse. Having witnessed firstha
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by achenet 4y ago
"nerds wear glasses, study finds"
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by achenet 4y ago
>In particular, there has been growing anxiety about the potential conflict of interest presented where an expert could be financially incentivised to make a finding of PA in a system that allows them to recommend their own therapy or th
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by achenet 4y ago
The pre-nup getting outdated is a valid point. What if we made it mandatory to renegotiate the pre-nup every year or so? I suppose that could cause problems of its own, but it would 'fix' the outdate pre-nup problem (which would i
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by achenet 4y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Networks-5th-Andrew-Tanenbau... https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Networking-Top-Down-Approach... I'm using these two. The Tanenbaum book has a 6th edition, and I think th
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by achenet 4y ago
Daily meeting is at 9h30. I generally show up a bit before that if in office, or log on a bit before that if WFH. 9 at the earliest, generally closer to 9h15, 9h20. :)
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by achenet 4y ago
Frenchman here. I leave the office at 6pm at the latest, and I take 2 hour lunch breaks everyday. :)
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by achenet 4y ago
There's an interview with Ken Thompson from about 2008 where he says that most of the work in CS has already been done, and he's advising his son to go into biology. I feel like CRISPR is the transistor of the 21st century.
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by achenet 4y ago
Increase in Net access decreases rapes, probably due to porn.[0] Personally, I call that a good thing, even if yes, porn can be very unhealthy for both creators and consumers. [0] https://slate.com/culture/2006/10&
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Adventures in Rage Inducing Software(arielche.net)
6 points by achenet 4y ago|2 comments
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Bugs are evolving to eat plastic, study finds(e360.yale.edu)
414 points by achenet 4y ago|288 comments
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by achenet 4y ago
I may be being slightly too misanthropic when I say this, but I'd just string a nice long steel wire across the street they race on so they decapitate themselves :)
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by achenet 4y ago
not everyone can afford housing in the center/quiet bourgeois district of a major urban area. It's possible that those living near the airport live there because they have to, not because they want to. :)
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by achenet 4y ago
you make it sound so easy... why not just waltz into Russia, tell Putin and pals to leave and replace them with kind, competent, generous leaders?
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by achenet 4y ago
that seems like a logical contradiction. Money made with ads = how much advertisers pay Money made with ads per user = how much advertisers pay / number of users. If they average to... $10/user, then it's viable.

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