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by ahepp 6y ago
Yeah, I think the capital investment situation has certainly improved greatly. The labor situation is still very concerning to me. I'm sure it was awful even before uber, but there's a bit of "the devil you know" vs &quo
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by ahepp 6y ago
It sounds nice in principle. But often low quality services will lie about being high quality services, and there's not much recourse once you've paid. Thus I have found myself participating in the race to the bottom, not because
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by ahepp 6y ago
I recall an article in the nyt[0] about the very sad outcomes related to this market. Government regulation creates a massive synthetic asset. A market appears around the asset. Predatory subprime lending to people who don't understand
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by ahepp 6y ago
I'm trying to remember where, but I once saw this article presented with a very nice guide to replicating the exploits in a VM on a modern computer. I think it must have been in university, unfortunately when I look up the course numbe
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by ahepp 6y ago
That's actually Google's official position. Yesterday I hit the "support" button in Fi, did the dog and pony show of reading the "suggested resolutions", for the privilege of being directed to "community s
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by ahepp 6y ago
I've come to the conclusion that they don't care about their paid users. It's an ad company that operates at scale, "power users" that require support or expect services not to get randomly turned off only jam up th
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by ahepp 6y ago
When I was a broke college student, I cared a lot more about open source. Now that I have more resources, more experience, less time, and a personal interest in getting paid for software, I have stronger feelings about the interface. Whethe
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by ahepp 6y ago
I'm sure we all use this rhetorical strategy often. I know I do. But I also think it's fair to call it out, because the implications of half the middle class feeling this way are very different from say, half of left-twitter.
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by ahepp 6y ago
It's not clear to me whether this is the cause or effect though. I don't know how to present this theory in a falsifiable way, but I get the distinct feeling that a lot of these culture war battles are conjured up out "weak m
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by ahepp 6y ago
(if anyone wants to read the article but can't, feel free to comment and I'll reply with a new link)
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by ahepp 6y ago
According to the news sources I've been reading[0], this is a management failure by auto companies rather than some kind of structural issue with the chip industry. So it doesn't really make sense to me that automakers might build
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by ahepp 6y ago
Auto companies cut the orders because they anticipated falling demand[0] >Mr Duesmann described the problems as “a crisis upon a crisis”. Demand for cars slumped for much of last year because of the coronavirus pandemic, prompting auto s
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by ahepp 6y ago
The identity of a subject is perhaps the single most important piece of information possible to contain in a news article. It certainly shouldn't be left out when known, merely because the subject prefers it not be stated. If there&#
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by ahepp 6y ago
I think if you're writing a widely read, critically acclaimed, publicly available blog and feel that anonymity is crucial for your safety then yes, it would be appropriate to practice opsec. Journalists should be hostile, in the sense
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by ahepp 6y ago
ARM vs xtensawhatever
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by ahepp 6y ago
Ubuntu already has that option though, doesn't it? If someone has strong feelings about using Debian over Ubuntu, I would be surprised if it were a big hassle to find the install media they need. It just seems like a moot point to me.
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by ahepp 6y ago
I would be shocked if any component of consumer TVs was manufactured or assembled in the US. But if it was sold in a US store, from a US wholesaler, transported across the US, designed by US engineers, etc, it still seems like it would stim
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by ahepp 6y ago
Buying a TV manufactured in China still stimulates the US economy, doesn't it? It's 2021, supply chains are global for a lot of products. You could just as easily disparage paying rent by saying "it's great news for my l
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by ahepp 6y ago
Since repayment will be a burden borne by the fortunate through taxation and inflation, isn't "checks for everyone" in a sense equivalent to "checks for the needy"? Except we all save the trouble of means testing, o
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by ahepp 6y ago
It seems to me there are plenty of distros that cater to new Linux users. Freedom is such a core part of Debian's principles. Maybe obsession with user conversion or retention (over other Linux alternatives) is something from the comme
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by ahepp 6y ago
Why would the people who already live there care about some sob story about schools or work? There are lots of good schools, and lots of jobs where you can live near work for a reasonable cost. It's not as if they're walling you i
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by ahepp 6y ago
The question you're asking lends itself to anecdotes, so to chime in: I usually think of two kinds of "NIMBY". One is extremely concerned with their property value, and making sure nothing can ever damage it. Stereotypically
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by ahepp 6y ago
My understanding is that the insurance does not actually pay the price they tell you in your explanation of benefits. So if it's any comfort, I'd guess your insurance wasn't getting billed on top of that. They probably paid $
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by ahepp 6y ago
So practically speaking, many Americans have to wait even longer than those in the UK? Even if they have insurance? And perhaps even a well paying job with good benefits (an assumption of mine based on the setting).
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by ahepp 6y ago
It seems very disingenuous to say "you don't even have to open a textbook" and then link to a quant finance blog doing partial derivatives. That's well beyond the level of math that the average person would consider self
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by ahepp 6y ago
A book with a similar thesis, that may be of interest to you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
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by ahepp 6y ago
I don't feel that I'm particularly unreasonable. I'm certainly interested in understanding your perspective. I hope I'm not misinterpreting your statements, but it appears you agree that information is rooted in trust. I
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by ahepp 6y ago
I think the statement that "science can change over time", though true, is improper to use in most cases. The transition between different models of the atom is a great example of science changing over time. The existing theory ex
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by ahepp 6y ago
What about those do you think should be illegal?
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by ahepp 6y ago
This seems like an incredibly bad faith argument to me. Do you feel that the "Anonymous" op-ed was published in a manner that encouraged any sort of critical consumption?

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