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by apatters 5y ago
Or smash the Google monopoly and let the content on independent blogs be discovered again. Let the free market of ideas on the Internet operate the way it was intended to.
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by apatters 5y ago
Not quite. As I said, it is possible to avoid the working hard part. The part you can't avoid is investing for the long term. So they don't want to do that, or they don't realize how important it is. On one hand I identify wi
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by apatters 5y ago
Yours is the best rebuttal by far, but I think your reference to "provincial" parts of the US reveals why we arrived at very different conclusions. My #1 non-negotiable for my first job after college was very contrarian at the tim
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by apatters 5y ago
What sucks about hustle culture is that 90% don't make it and they waste valuable time. When there is an alternative that's been around for decades (centuries?) and it works. Build skills, work hard, live frugally, invest whatever
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by apatters 5y ago
I don't mean to suggest there are no problems with cost of living. In broad strokes here's what happened since '65, or let's go back a little further to the start of the post-WW2 world. 1. Millions of women entered the w
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by apatters 5y ago
He said he DOESN'T make 250k. He said he and his non-programmer gf make much less than that combined. And yet they're still doing just fine. My post has numbers. So does his. They're earnest attempts to show that the numbers
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by apatters 5y ago
Comments like this are just so far outside the realm of what I am fairly sure is reality. In the nation called the United States, on the planet Earth, in the prime material plane, the average office worker makes about $40K a year. And the a
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by apatters 5y ago
This comment is a lame hit job. WordPress is the most widely used publishing platform in the world and highly extensible, so there are always going to be third party plugins and themes which get compromised. If security is a concern you can
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by apatters 5y ago
This is an important distinction. Claiming someone else's statements are false in fact is not censorship. What it is though is confirmation that Facebook is a publisher which publishes editorial opinions about things. (It's incide
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by apatters 5y ago
Sounds lovely for the suits. As a longtime Blizzard fan and a former Microsoft employee, maybe I'm just getting too old for this shit, but there's really only one thing I care about: Will they finally start getting the fucking gam
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by apatters 5y ago
At the risk of oversimplifying this, why don't you just stick your phone in a drawer when you get home? I do that (and when possible, put it in another room entirely) when I want to get some focused work done. Same goes for when it&#x2
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by apatters 5y ago
You're a godsend, this stupidity wasted an hour of my time, you fixed it. What a trash joke Firefox has become.
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by apatters 5y ago
The author is on to something noteworthy for sure. It's a shame he only devotes one paragraph to his "recipe." Boy is that a topic I'd like to read more on.
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by apatters 5y ago
It's rational and commonplace behavior for a monopoly to prioritize profit maximization over product quality, there must be thousands of case studies over the years. If a firm has no viable competitors, why do they care whether their p
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by apatters 5y ago
Are adults not capable of getting vaccinated and eliminating their risk of severe illness?
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by apatters 5y ago
I mean, corporations are created by government regulations. If you don't have a law which specifies how they work, they don't exist. So if you have a body of law which enables the creation of these things, details how they are man
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by apatters 5y ago
And it seems that something like the 90-9-1 rule is in effect - with over 7,000 comments, the top non-dang contributor is more than 100x as prolific as contributor #10,000.
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by apatters 5y ago
Not sure why this is getting downvoted - to some degree or another it describes the majority of the crypto enthusiasts I know. Furthermore I'm not even going to bother sending them this paper because I know that most of them rarely rea
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by apatters 5y ago
I don't get how this is a bullshit job. Gamer #1 likes to play the game. There are some parts he likes more than others. Gamer #2 comes along and says, OK I will do the parts you don't like, and I'll sell my output to you for
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by apatters 5y ago
A lot of the comments here seem to be missing the point and presumably come from people that didn't actually install the program and try it out, or hell even read the README. This thing is extremely minimalist. A little bit silly to be
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by apatters 5y ago
For anyone who wants to go down the rabbit hole and learn more about this topic, try Googling "eula unconscionability" There is a concept in contract law where if an agreement is heavily biased in favor of one party and that party
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by apatters 5y ago
Employee, significant other, these are roles we may adopt at certain stages in our lives, but they're certainly not everything. They represent only a fraction of your potential. Another way to look at things is that you've just ga
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by apatters 5y ago
They seem to be present in most Asian cultures. The ones I've had were similar to fish balls, mildly sweet and quite different from other sausages in taste and texture. They weren't terrible but I didn't really care for them.
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by apatters 5y ago
In that post Vitalik actually says he thinks there's a high chance block production will end up centralized. If it happens, what's to stop the government from going to the dominant block producers and forcing them to impose limits
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by apatters 5y ago
Let's say everyone on the planet is Ethereum enabled tomorrow. What is the business case for the winery to use it in your example? I get that Ethereum or any other crypto can be another payment option for their customers. Beyond that w
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by apatters 5y ago
So Web3 is built on blockchains which are decentralized and decentralization confers benefits such as censorship resistance, downtime resistance etc. But blockchains require resources to operate. At great scale they will require great cost.
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by apatters 5y ago
The 152 documented killings (and doubtless more undocumented) of African Americans between 1945-1951 are very sad, but you do realize that China carried out millions of political slayings about a decade later during the Cultural Revolutio
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by apatters 5y ago
We now have so many laws that my metric for assessing the relevance of any law has become - "how many people have been prosecuted under this law" Statistically I doubt I will be the first.
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by apatters 5y ago
I hate to be that guy, but... - Cookpad has infinite scrolling - The only way to change the site language is a link in the footer - As a result, just when you're about to click this essential link so you can read the site, more content
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by apatters 5y ago
I am a big fan of RSS one of the reasons (alluded to by this article) is the type of content that tends to get exposed via RSS. Frequently the type of content that gets syndicated via RSS is long form and non-commercial. It turns out that t

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