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by ashtonkem 5y ago
> Having your email and calendar on Google is not a risk as long as you sync them so if something happens to your accounts that you can move them to another provider. No, that’s not true. In the case where google shuts down your email, y
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How much of a minority matters though. There is a big social and economic difference between (number made up) 5% of jobs and 37% of jobs. Even if it never goes higher, that takes remote from a rare and exotic thing to a full third of the
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
From my limited vantage point in hiring, the overwhelming consensus among software engineering candidates is to remain remote. Even among those already in the same city as our home office.
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> "Generous maternal benefits" don't come anywhere close to filling this gap. You would expect some effect though, yet Northern Europe and Japan continue to have extremely low birth rates despite the efforts of their gover
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
I haven’t tried Magic Lantern yet, but I have been reasonably happy with Canon’s remote app. It has been reliable so far, with the only downside being that it doesn’t offer GPS tagging for my camera (EOS 80D)
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No, I don’t think that’s how that works. Your contracts with your customers is under the jurisdiction of where your customers live, not where your company is headquartered. It would be way too easy to side step any law they wished that way.
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
I don’t think that Canon and similar could offer anything to compete with smart phones. While smart phone cameras have gotten much better, the real secret sauce is that everyone already has a smart phone. It’s not that smart phones beat DSL
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This reeks of motivated reasoning on behalf of the manager, as this analysis makes absolutely no sense.
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In fact, high transit costs might make low paying jobs like Applebees completely untenable. Why take a job if the cost of getting there is higher than what they pay?
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
The incredibly frustrating thing is that the metrics they’re “growth hacking”, engagement mostly, aren’t great proxies for product success in a lot of cases! In a lot of these cases the constant design tweaks probably reduces the overall se
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
It’s worth pointing out that in a lot of countries, there’s also an inverse relationship between household income and fertility rate. Often those positioned to afford more kids choose not too. Similarly, even countries with extremely genero
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
I think a “harvesting effect” happened. A large chunk of people who were already thinking of having a kid decided to move up their plans to coincide with lock down. This results in a blip in birth statistics for the given month, but not for
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
The drop in R rated movie share in the box office is almost certainly a result of streaming, not a change in cultural taboos. The linked chart only includes people who paid money specifically to watch a movie in a theater, and does not in
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
> What people today are reacting to is that it feels like we are less free to speak our minds, at least on some topics, than we were just a few decades ago. And yet nobody ever produces any evidence that that’s actually true. This is par
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
> The fact that you need to dial as far back as 1930s to find a climate worse than what we have now (just so you can say "I betcha you didn't know about that stuff!") would seem to indicate... that there's not a lot s
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
> In the 90s the culturally most influential people tended to mock censors and championed being “politically incorrect” There is a sizable industry still doing that exact same thing today. Instead of saying that they’re “politically inco
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
Seems like a convenient way to not engage with the argument I made.
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How old were you in the 1990s? I’ve noticed that for a lot of people, the golden age of no strife just happens to be right before they became aware of how people actually behave in public. I too looked fondly back on the 1990s, but I was al
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
> But that, once upon a time, and it wasn't too long ago, there was a thing known as "civil discourse" in this country. In which (and granted the boundaries are fuzzy hear) -- in itself the mere fact of having an unpopular
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
> The window of what is considered beyond the pale has grown quite a big larger than it was in the past. Nonsense. I was born into a world where being gay was beyond the pale. My parents were born into a world where interracial marriage
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I think thats a big part of why powerful writers and journalists are complaining. They’re not used to the masses talking back to them, and they don’t like it very much.
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> As you point out, while boycotting someone based on your perception of their opinion is not new, the modality of mass mob boycotts of individuals over things potentially taken out of context is entirely new. … One other thing that&#x27
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
Your letting experience is missing one key factor; you’re not the customer to the letting agency. The building owner is the customer, not you. As long as the apartment gets rented out and maintenance gets done well enough, the owner doesn’t
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
Twitter is a mid sized tech company though, with a mere 5,500 employees. Facebook and Google are an order of magnitude bigger, and half the size of Uber and Netflix. It’s also a tiny bit smaller than Doordash and AirBnB by comparison.
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I replaced my Roku a while ago, and yes I keep my Pihole up to date.
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> I wish someone could tell me why Russia and the U.S. are not allies. Like, don't they largely share a similar cultural and religious heritage? No, they do not. Culturally Russia has always ping ponged back and forth between seeing
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
My experience is that Pihole has been getting less effective over time as more and more ads are being run through the same domain that legitimate content is. When I first installed it it killed ads on my Roku, that doesn’t happen anymore.
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I know, that's why I was talking about industrial use cases....
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It's genuinely the dumbest city design I have ever seen, and it makes transport an absolute nightmare assuming you're interacting with real technology and not magic. Cities are generally round for a good reason. You put the import
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It's a great idea ... for industrial processes and machines. Unfortunately this is not where the hype is, nor where continual profits are. Industrial customers have a nasty habit (from the seller's perspective) of buying stable st

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