ashtonkem

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by ashtonkem 4y ago
Because if they do declare all sales final, it kills sales. Customers do not like final sale, and regularly go for sellers they trust to take care of them. Generally final sales are only acceptable to consumers on things that obviously ha
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
That's not how the legal theory works, fyi. The theory is that “sincere belief” is not a choice, and since it’s impossible to determine that externally the only choices were to not protect sincere belief or to protect all religion sinc
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
The reason why the “bake a cake” thing was ever an actual point of controversy is because it centered around an immutable aspect of people; their sexual orientation. There is leagues of difference between denying service due to who they are
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
Most universities required immunizations before covid, although I suspect that enforcement varied wildly. I distinctly remember having to get a whole bunch of vaccinations because we’d lost my records and couldn’t prove that I was in compli
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
Humans exhale all kinds of stuff aside from just CO2, including moisture and other metabolic byproducts depending on what you’re eating. Probably some bacterial metabolic products from our mouths too. I guess I’m less into the semantic diff
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
I think its too early to declare it a fad. It hasn’t been around long enough en masse to know whether that’ll be the norm, or disappear yet. We’ll know in a year or two.
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
> So its likely about how that smells I thought the theory was that they follow the CO2 we exhale.
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
Oh, that’s an interesting observation I’ve never realized until you pointed it out. I’ve always been the target of mosquitos more than anyone else I know, but it seems to get worse the fitter I am. Now that I’m a bit pudgy and out of shape,
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
> I imagine this specific case is a conflux of all the issues. That’s a much more nuanced way of putting it, I agree completely.
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
I stopped a Google interview halfway through in 2012 because they would only consider junior engineers in NYC and Mountain View, and I didn’t want to leave Chicago. But I don’t think our one off experiences make a trend. Facebook and Google
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
> Very hard to attract workers to come to a city where they have to walk through needles and poop to get to the office. Or after they’ve been attacked by a mentally ill pan handler. Are we ignoring the past 20 years of startups and major
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
Duh? I wasn't literally suggesting that GP walk from a hotel; baggage was obviously implied by the context. I'm just commenting on how taking a taxi on that route is less time and speed efficient than walking. Obviously a bus woul
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
The big dig is actually a pretty phenomenal example of what we're talking about. It was a dumb project that was extremely expensive, incapable of fixing the problems it was supposed to fix, highly disruptive to locals, and it still go
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
> Have any metro areas built entirely new subways where there were none before in recent times? None that I can think of in the US, but Madrid is generally pointed to as the stellar example of rapid and cheap subway expansion . They add
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
Also, you don’t need to add a ton of subway stations when you already have an extensive network. 3 stations in 50 years would be a much worse outcome in say, Cincinnati.
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
Right? I genuinely don’t understand why “I want my commute to be more pleasant” isn’t a more common answer. Not everything has to be productive!
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
> It’s a lazy slogan that gets us nowhere. “Cars are land inefficient” isn’t a slogan, it’s literal fact. > I live in NYC and we’ve built three brand new subway stations in the last fifty years Ah, the stereotype of New Yorkers not pa
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
It’s symbiotic. We can’t build denser housing because we need space for car storage and roads. We can’t encourage people to reduce/eliminate their car usage because our infrastructure makes that miserable.
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
A reasonably fit person can walk 2 miles in 30-40 minutes, so your cab was literally going walking speed.
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
It’s amazing how many downvotes pointing this out gets. People have quite the kneejerk reaction when the downsides of car transit are pointed out to them.
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
> Taking the metro many places (for example, from my apartment in an urban "luxury" apartment building to my boat near the waterfront in downtown DC) doubled the time it took to get there. It was actually faster to drive there
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
> Why are all the major cities in the western world seemingly hitting this limit at the same time, even though they all have different populations? I can’t speak for Canada, but in America the answer is always cars. Car based transit is
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
> While correct, the same is true for most projects at these companies. Very little work that a single engineer does can be assigned a provable revenue number. How does someone working on an internal build tool get promoted? Or a new tra
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
The article is commenting on a very common critique of food not being “authentic” and therefore inferior or not worthy of eating, especially foods that visibly derive from other national cuisines like tex mex.
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
And even when scoped to a specific place and time, definitions get fuzzy and the whole discussion gets a bit too navel gaze-ey for my tastes.
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
Which is how most “undo” features work for email.
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
Alas, in some orgs you will need permission to authenticate davmail to Outlook. My IT department has not approved davmail.
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
It always baffles me that concerts are allowed to get so loud. A few of my colleagues were complaining about their ears ringing after an AWS party, which is a strong indication they suffered some hearing damage! Also worth pointing out that
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
I personally interpreted that as professionals knowing how to do more post-shot tweaking than amateurs. That obviously doesn't matter if the results are bad , but if the defaults require significant tweaking that isn't going to b
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by ashtonkem 4y ago
> Other cults are certainly worse (NEVER go to a "private" meeting!) I’ve had friends joke about going into the scientology temple in Hollywood as a joke. I always warn against it; cult recruiters are practiced and you are not.

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