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by anonymars 16d ago
Maybe, but check if there's another level to it: is it because their performance review is based on metrics for which meeting with customers is a hindrance? If I'm graded on getting tickets done or getting some feature out, then m
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by anonymars 16d ago
Simple example: feature X is rarely used (thus we should get rid of it) Hold on, why is it rarely used? Is it hard to use? Is it hard to find? Was it poorly named? Does it work right? Does it get me 80% of the way there? Does it get me 20%
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by anonymars 16d ago
> if a bank showed me the door and I had to take my money elsewhere Banks are required to return your money to you if they close your account. I wasn't talking about the various ways in which funds might be frozen (which go far b
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by anonymars 16d ago
Firstly, you seem to be conflating "know your customer"/anti-money-laundering stuff with "please explain why you're wiring this money because we don't want you to get scammed" But let's assume you&#x2
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by anonymars 17d ago
Always has been https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#:~:text=Ple...
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by anonymars 17d ago
The pattern is "take a place name and change the last word to America" (Gulf of America, Lake America, New America) The fact that applying that to produce "South America" which is a real place--and a continent at that--p
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by anonymars 18d ago
> I've had banks straight out ask me, on the phone, what a wire transfer that I executed via their online system was for Wire transfers are also a common source of fraud; it's common for banks to ask about them so their custome
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by anonymars 20d ago
> You're arguing US imperialism is the best interest for the whole world Where? Are you replying to the right message?
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by anonymars 20d ago
What rewards do you think the US is going to gain from this path it has begun to travel? Do you think it was all some noble charity case? The UK is likely to be an illustrative example, so it's apt you mentioned it
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by anonymars 20d ago
Oh yes, I think everyone remembers Germany's ballistic rockets "Don't say that he's hypocritical, Say rather that he's apolitical. 'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my de
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by anonymars 20d ago
I'm curious now, how is it being actively exploited? Unless there is already some other exploit with which it's currently being chained?
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by anonymars 20d ago
Have there been other rocket launches from continental Europe?
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by anonymars 21d ago
Monocultures are great!
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by anonymars 22d ago
Turbines are extremely reliable and well-understood in aviation propulsion
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by anonymars 23d ago
How prevalent do you think are children that live within wandering distance of a college that lets random children enter and use their computers?
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by anonymars 23d ago
As an aside, reminder to consider keeping your status page on a separate domain lest the problem be e.g. with DNS. You can see cloudflare does this (and we all know github does too as they give us frequent reasons to check it) https:&#x2F
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by anonymars 24d ago
I think young exposure to real computers (where you create, and have to figure things out; not consumption machines) provides access to a level of fluency that is otherwise difficult or impossible to achieve, just like many other skills (la
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by anonymars 24d ago
What's your reasoning? Did iPads/Chromebook exposure make younger people better or worse at computers? Maybe if there are education-tailored AI models strictly limited to explaining and never giving the answer, but even then, how
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by anonymars 25d ago
The blurb here might be of interest to expand on what you're saying: https://eagleman.com/latest/the-mystery-of-expertise/
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by anonymars 26d ago
Who could have imagined such a thing from the "move fast and break things" techbro crowd
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by anonymars 26d ago
Funny enough Terminator 2 was briefly back in theatres for its 35th (!) anniversary It aged pretty well...depending on how you look at it
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by anonymars 27d ago
Do they need advertisers for garbage like this? Just another entry in the decades-long disinformation campaign "Who bears responsibility for reducing the carbon footprint of those products? Shell, the companies that pumped the oil, th
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by anonymars 27d ago
Like a carbon tax?
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by anonymars 27d ago
By that logic shouldn't petrol be a lot cheaper than it is in Europe?
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by anonymars 27d ago
I don't know, the last few years have taught me that humans have exceedingly short memories
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by anonymars 27d ago
This is an interesting thought, but perhaps AI is an extension of the general case of the internet itself. Among the examples that come to mind: 1. buying/scalping concert/event tickets: in the past it would have been unrealistic
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by anonymars 29d ago
i before e except after c or when sounded as 'a' as in neighbor or weigh or just because fuck you, it's English https://www.espressoenglish.net/i-before-e-except-after-c-ru...
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by anonymars 1mo ago
Someone without children asks an apparent good faith question about why parenting is more significant and meaningful [than other pursuits] An answer is provided, but with an "isn't it obvious?" at the end On the one hand, one
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by anonymars 1mo ago
You mean like the SAVE act? Or restrictions on mail-in voting?
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by anonymars 1mo ago
If you click "reply" and copy the resulting link, there is no difference in behavior if you go straight to that link vs clicking "reply" to get there instead Think of a state diagram: "you are at the reply screen&qu

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