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by annabellish 8y ago
>My advice is you make sure you have your savings in gear and then live paycheck to paycheck People don't live paycheck to paycheck by choice, usually. Savings first is not an option if it means not paying rent, bills, or food.
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by annabellish 8y ago
When you say "peanuts", do you mean "peanuts relative to what we get paid in tech" or "peanuts relative to the actual average wage"? For reference, the overall average wage is in the range of $6-800/week.
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by annabellish 8y ago
Fancy phones and watches are, given the current state of most carriers, not actually _that_ much more significant an expense than a cheaper device month to month. You can "buy" that explanation or not, but there's a lot of re
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by annabellish 8y ago
For most people? Yes, absolutely. Most people aren't paid enough to cover their needs + enough of their wants to keep them happy, never mind savings. We have a very different perspective to the average worker in tech, where we're
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by annabellish 8y ago
I'm not sure your comment is an accurate description of any form of socialism I'm aware of. What forms of socialism are based around "asking the state to enforce redistribution"? What does that have to do with social own
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by annabellish 8y ago
They are on day one, sure, but if the file format is documented and clear then there's no reason why other managers couldn't interoperate. It's not as good as using an existing standard, but I'm not sure there is _an_ ex
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by annabellish 8y ago
As an anecdote, somebody at my workplace has just spent a day tearing their hair out trying to figure out how to get our selenium tests running automatically on a headless machine, because the resolution flat refused to go above 1024x768. E
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by annabellish 8y ago
None of them are absolutes. Just as we do not expect that "simple" before "fast" means "the code must be 100% as simple as it could possibly be before we begin even thinking about speed", we do not mean "t
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by annabellish 8y ago
This is literally my point. >most interesting not most successful >the first implementations of smart contracts the latest in the long line of "no, _this_ is what cryptocurrency was always for! All the previous examples were wron
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by annabellish 8y ago
Significant usage of any kind, achieving some goal which couldn't have been achieved before without a list of massive caveats longer than my arm, or anything of that ilk. What we have right now is one neat innovation with a tonne of ca
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by annabellish 8y ago
I've done plenty of research, and I know about every one of those examples. Those aren't "success stories" - none of them have succeeded .
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by annabellish 8y ago
To what ends? There's no indication that those transactions are being used to fulfill any kind of purpose, and plenty of hints that many of them are spam and intentional churn. If nobody is buying anything, nobody is transferring money
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by annabellish 8y ago
> But are you seriously betting against crypto-currency long term? Yes. >Go back and check a computer from 1950. I'm sure plenty of people back then were laughing at how ridiculous the concept was of owning a PC. Computers in 195
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by annabellish 8y ago
Indeed, I'd never heard of this, which is unfortunate as I've previously tried to find something - anything! - in the void between "not so complex as to be unusable" JIRA and "perfectly simple - too simple" Tre
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by annabellish 8y ago
That doesn't capture the intent here, though, which is that they "deploy" in response to a "crash".
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by annabellish 8y ago
Of course we can know that. Basically all manufacturers save apple have a very long tail of non-flagship phones which nobody really pays much attention to, but which absolutely can answer questions like that. They have dozens of models, mos
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by annabellish 8y ago
That's assuming the exact opposite of this paper; that there's _infinite_ other civilisations, which is as obviously untrue as the idea that there are none. If the period of time before all high-power communication is encrypted is
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by annabellish 8y ago
Those things probably won't escape the atmosphere, however. It would be much harder to bootstrap an energy-hungry civilisation any time within the next few billion years, as we've used most of the easily-accessible sources of foss
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by annabellish 8y ago
Under _our_ technology, yes. Why would that be so for a civilization even a hundred years more advanced than ours, never mind millions? Why would they be doing planet-scale broadcasts _ever_, instead of focussing the communication as tightl
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by annabellish 8y ago
The best serious proposals I've seen tend to treat UBI as a form of "negative income tax". Say everyone gets $10k or $20k or whatever, enough to _live_, and then for every two dollars they earn they drop a dollar of "UBI
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by annabellish 8y ago
Almost all flaws are "not that serious" on their own, because people aren't generally _that_ dumb. "You can find out somebody's account ID" isn't that big a problem in the presence of other decent mitigati
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by annabellish 8y ago
>operators are distinct from functions >c# As python, C#'s operators are backed by functions - they're just static ones on the class.
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by annabellish 8y ago
I mean, sure, that'd be great. I think it'd need one heck of a societal overhaul to achieve, though. If we wanna keep it in terms of a capitalist market, the problem is that investors are essentially selling a service just like an
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by annabellish 8y ago
I got your point, I just don't agree with it! I think that's a consistent logical position to take, but I don't think it's undeniably _ethical_ because of that.
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by annabellish 8y ago
That it is common makes it neither more nor less just.
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by annabellish 8y ago
I think you might be confusing "wanting it bad enough" with "going to a sufficiently well-funded school" to a point there. Some schools had that kind of equipment available for the students to use, but it certainly wasn&
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by annabellish 8y ago
> Computers, being machines of will, equalise us all that way. It's _complicated_. I mean, almost everything in society is complicated: it's like sphagetti code written by millions of people with no single coherent goal. There&
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by annabellish 8y ago
>Likewise, as a founder, you often need at least some investors that can help propel you forward in some way. Which is the infuriating part, when the "investors" contribute nothing to the project but a tiny slice of money they
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by annabellish 8y ago
>Much safer for driving too. No form of talking on the phone is safe, do not do it.
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by annabellish 8y ago
No. The only reason anybody will be fined is if: a) They are doing the thing we have collectively decided is bad for society (misusing personal data) b) Do nothing about this when somebody invokes one of their new legal rights, whether that

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