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by alemanek 3y ago
For me it is a combination of the search results being of equal or slightly better quality combined with all the nice little touches (Lens, auto redirect, etc). I am trying to banish ads in general and Google specifically from my life so I
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by alemanek 3y ago
Oh yeah I agree. I was using “If we win the war on Ads” much like “If we achieve world peace”. Unlikely to the point of impossibility. Liability for malware distribution was something I haven’t seen proposed before but totally makes sense
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by alemanek 3y ago
I have a bit of a different take on this. If we win the war against Ads lots of content won’t get made. But, the content that thrives in an Ad driven world is mostly toxic rage bait. I would argue that losing this content and instead only
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by alemanek 3y ago
Not sure about Sweden but in the US Tesla does RSU grants in addition to the standard ESPP plans as well
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by alemanek 3y ago
> offshore job is a remote job While this is undoubtably true being in office won’t save you if you are in office in the US. I am full remote and for what my company pays me they could easily get 10 Indian engineers. If time zones are
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by alemanek 3y ago
Its far more likely that Microsoft is just trying to salvage their investment in the most direct way possible. It doesn’t make sense for them to take this risk absent recent events. They tried pressuring the board according to the rumors o
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by alemanek 3y ago
For the team I am on maintaining virtual office hours has really helped in this respect. One or more (but at least one) senior+ person just working/hanging out in a zoom call where others can drop in and talk about whatever. With remo
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by alemanek 3y ago
Musk is failing into the fallacy that free speech means freedom from judgement. He is so self obsessed that he doesn’t see that others are simply exercising their freedom of speech by way of disassociation from him and his businesses. It’s
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by alemanek 3y ago
Hell No. Code reviews have nothing to do with “trust”. It is another pair of eyes proof reading your code and providing at least a sanity check of the logic. Think of this way. When you were in college you wouldn’t turn in an important pap
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by alemanek 3y ago
Fairly certain horse rentals were a thing. Might be a bit of a stretch but post houses would fit the bill [0]. So, this lets us go back to the 2nd century BC. Just need to find some data on renter behavior now. [0] https://en.
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by alemanek 3y ago
Consider that normally rental car companies get steep discounts on their bulk buys. They didn’t with their Tesla order which further hurts them. But, here is the overly simplified normal math: (Resale Price + Rental Income - Maintenance -
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by alemanek 3y ago
I like that. We could always dust off “Modulith” as well.
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by alemanek 3y ago
No good when everything is on fire /s
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by alemanek 3y ago
Western Union surprisingly gives the blue dollar rate here in Argentina so if you have access to a foreign bank account that is a decent way to do it. From what I can tell it tracks pretty closely to the rates on the “dólar hoy” website.
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by alemanek 3y ago
If work wants me to install applications on a device then they can provide me with that device. At my work it is an option to add messaging applications and such to our phones. I just don’t. If there is an emergency they know my phone numb
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by alemanek 3y ago
Not surprising but even outside of FAANG companies in Europe you can get a much better deal in another country
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by alemanek 3y ago
This is interesting. I have only used k8s and k3s at the larger scales. For small scale hosting who do you recommend? I have a few projects I want to get going and thinking it might help to be able to leverage my existing kubernetes knowl
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by alemanek 3y ago
Nope, Russian air defense has been shooting down their own planes for awhile now.
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by alemanek 3y ago
Problem for that region isn’t that wages aren’t growing. The issue is that they are very low to begin with. France for instance pays senior engineers much better. Poland pays better when adjusting for cost of living. Germany is on avera
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by alemanek 3y ago
Novo is for the blatant assassinations. Proghizin had some actual power so this is Putin providing an opportunity for that power base to come back quietly.
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by alemanek 3y ago
Three actually if you count PayPal. Everyone forgets he was a member of the “PayPal Mafia”
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by alemanek 3y ago
Your right that figure isn’t accounting for the $23.8 billion cost of the program so far. That $5billion per launch figure is based on an optimistic number of SLS launches which haven’t happened yet. SLS and Orion are dead ends. I wish th
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by alemanek 3y ago
Well said. For Macs specifically I just tell people for me it is basically Linux where the hardware always works really well and you don’t have to screw around with drivers.
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by alemanek 3y ago
I have worked remotely for 7 years and in a few different companies in that time. In my experience the companies that struggle with remote work are the ones the manage via attendance. One company drove me insane with random “Hows it going”
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by alemanek 3y ago
Ok, now I am really interested in your story. If you don’t mind sharing. How did you find yourself in a second career as the owner/operator of a tugboat company?
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by alemanek 3y ago
Eh, cutting out sugar and high fructose corn syrup makes eating less so much easier. A good portion of the US is so addicted to sugar that their body doesn’t tell them they are full. Once you cut that out then I agree with you. It’s hard
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by alemanek 3y ago
The benefit to the employer is that they get to recruit in as many localities as they are willing to do the taxes for. Also they have an easier time recruiting and retaining people if they aren’t toxic. I have had enough leverage to be 100
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by alemanek 3y ago
A virus
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by alemanek 3y ago
It’s about control not productivity. WFH means an employee can easily interview elsewhere. It is harder to manipulate them into working an unhealthy amount. It is less likely their entire social circle will be at the job which hurts emplo
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by alemanek 3y ago
If you read it in Samuel L Jackson’s voice it makes it a lot better.

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