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by amflare 3y ago
Its due to the rise of identity politics. If you like cheetos, and I say cheetos are bad, if liking cheetos is how you see yourself as a person, then it could seem like I'm saying "you are bad (for liking cheetos)". It's
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by amflare 3y ago
If an ISP advertises $49.99/mo, then they need to itemize on the bill anything that makes the final charge greater than $49.99. Right now, ISPs generally have a "Fees" line, with no insight into what said "Fees" are
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by amflare 3y ago
Its an entry to an essay contest. He probably didn't expect more than the judges and probably his mother to read it.
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by amflare 3y ago
What is this article championing? An infinite universe? I thought that was already discarded, it certainly should be since it isn't logical. But aside from that, doesn't the theory put forward by this article violate the Second La
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by amflare 3y ago
But these companies don't have a legal monopoly on force. It's in my best interest, if I have to deal with both these problems, to keep them separated.
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by amflare 3y ago
So because malicious parties can track us via other means, we should just allow them to start doing it (even more) through our financial history? Anyways, it's not (fully) about information sharing. It's about control. It's t
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by amflare 3y ago
This is the difference between the government needing a search warrant and having to come to your house, and them needing a search warrant but a law enforcement officer already living in your house. Sure, they still "need a warrant&quo
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by amflare 3y ago
Yes, he mentioned in a comment[0] that he got his hex diagonals confused. > My brain was clearly too melted by that point -- I got my hex diagonals confused. CURSE YOU DIAGONALS! [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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Charles Schwab facing internal meltdown after C-level abruptly reverses on RTO(old.reddit.com)
50 points by amflare 3y ago|29 comments
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by amflare 3y ago
I'll grant everything up until your last sentence. The point I was trying to make was "what better idea do you have"? "urban highways were generally a failure" compared to what? The US has the unique problem of bein
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by amflare 3y ago
brb; gonna found a startup to develop a JIT-sidewalk.
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by amflare 3y ago
Thats a bold claim to make so axiomatically. Disastrous in what regard? Why do you feel like you don't need to expand? What is this seemingly obviously utopian vision you have that the greatest civil engineering minds of the 20th centu
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by amflare 3y ago
Businesses, Families, and Villages are fundamentally different creations. Unless you are going with the "company town" idea of a business. A business has a many to one relationship in regards to effort and goals. A Village has a m
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by amflare 3y ago
Spoken like someone who switched 15 years ago and never looked back.
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by amflare 3y ago
> While at first, they might seem obscure, unhelpful, or tools for people who write in low level programming languages, they do serve a purpose. Firstly, no one says that bitwise operators don't serve a purpose. Secondly, this is an
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by amflare 3y ago
This sounds like what I need too. I would absolutely love to see the app once you are ready to show it!
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by amflare 3y ago
> My hope is that this newsletter will survive on Mailchimp/Substack servers and one day my child will see that their mother's love for writing about human rights and technology came before writing a letter to them That's
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by amflare 3y ago
Good for them. As long as it's not dangerous, I'm on the side of the kids on this one. And it looks like there are plenty of adults supervising the situation to keep it reasonably safe (it is the internet after all). The kids are
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by amflare 3y ago
Temperature control maybe? The ground is a pretty good insulator all things considered, so if the organism is producing more heat than it can shed into the soil, protrusions into the air like this may help.
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by amflare 3y ago
Capitalism, Feudalism, and maybe Mercantilism all come to mind.
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by amflare 3y ago
There are very few economic frameworks that actually value people at all. And unless your idea is to replace capitalism with an agrarian structure, then almost anything else you could suggest would see people as an expense, which is the eco
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by amflare 3y ago
I believe the point GP was making was that the "algorithm" is not the important part, and is actually reasonably easy to reverse engineer if it's not just copied wholesale from an existing algorithm. The important part is the
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by amflare 3y ago
Exactly this. It's like panhandling; it doesn't matter how many other people are out there on street corners, it's still a bad look and I'm still going to wonder how you can't at least hold down a job at Burger King
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by amflare 4y ago
> Modern software engineering is rotten. I should know — it's been my livelihood since I graduated from college in late 2019. I'm so sorry that one of the most lucrative entry-level jobs in the world didn't live up to your
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by amflare 4y ago
You say this like there is an obvious and right way to handle the situation. But the reason such a situation might end up Goodhartable is if you had three tests every day with no time to study. Unless the requirements change, it would be im
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by amflare 4y ago
This is cool. At first I was skeptical that the sketch had nothing to do with anything and it was just feeding the prompt into an AI. But using the example "sun behind mountains"[0] it seemed to work alright. What really blew my m
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by amflare 4y ago
I worked in fast food during school and there are absolutely physical buttons[0]. They are tiny little pill buttons under a plastic label. They don't get as dirty as you think, mostly because the sanitary requirements in food prep mean
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by amflare 4y ago
Despite being repeated ad nauseum, this has been patently false for the better part of a century and has no relationship with reality.
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by amflare 4y ago
In my experience it's less about what the end user does or doesn't want, but more about what the company can or cannot sell. That is why new features are the priority, because once a feature is complete, there is a clock on how lo
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by amflare 4y ago
Firefox is alright, and I use it for some things, but the killer feature preventing me from transitioning over is the inability to cast to my TV. Even with the janky plugins, the friction is too great to allow me to commit to a full switch

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