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by ativzzz 6y ago
> removing Dictators from power One way to remove dictators from power is to disrupt their money flows, so tighter banking regulations to prevent fraud and money laundering. > simply because they have 10x-100x more employees There are
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by ativzzz 6y ago
A one off situation like you describe can be limited to punishing the particular branch manager. However, banks like Deustche and JPMorgan, who seem to be having these issues nonstop with regularity, are clearly run to allow these kinds of
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Large companies will continue doing illegal things while reward outweighs the risk. This reminds me of pharmacy distributors that contributed to the opioid epidemic. They continue operating even when they were told not because there was no
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Probably not, hence the article being about the US
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by ativzzz 6y ago
It really just depends on your relationships with your parents. I moved in with my parents when I started working remotely a few years ago, and lived with them for two years until I moved in with my fiance. Moving in with them was a fantast
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Makes sense. If I had old f you money, I'd be more concerned about preserving it for multiple generations than growing it significantly.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> they reduce profits, and they limit the ability of a company to exploit it's workers. Right, so bad for business. Great for most workers though.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Agreed, I've met one of these people and discussed this trait with them. He described it as an obsession, something resembling OCD that he was literally unable to function, or would go crazy, if he didn't sit down and do the work
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> and too much tolerance for it is bad for an organization Passive again! "An organization tolerating it too much is bad" is active :)
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by ativzzz 6y ago
I can't say I agree in the slightest. Corrupt third world cops are far worse than US cops (maybe not if you're black but that's a different issue, and i'm sure you'd get even worse treatment being black in Mexico).
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by ativzzz 6y ago
While you're running experiments, it doesn't matter, but publishing any sort of result or using your code in parts of other publishable code IS production code, and you should treat it as such.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Network effects. The value of a job board is the amount of companies and potential workers that use it. Being tied to his digital nomad community brings in a supply of workers and companies that work remotely.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> not using React nowadays is actually harder than using it For a solo dev, the only thing React makes simpler is dealing with JS that has to manipulate a lot of HTML. If your app doesn't do that (IDK if nomadlist does or not), then
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by ativzzz 6y ago
The difference I've noticed between American corruption and Eastern European corruption, is that you need to spend a lot more money to be corrupt in the US. To get basic things done in Russia, like official paperwork, basic government
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Every game I've tried so far works either out of the box with Steam's Proton (even ones without official linux support) or through Lutris, or requires you to tweak a config file which you can find by googling. Some have minor glit
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> lack of penalties for those that hire illegals provides an unfair advantage to those employers who, brazenly, break the law I've thought for a long time that the easiest way to curb illegal immigration would be to re-allocate reso
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by ativzzz 6y ago
It's great that you are a technology-savvy teacher who is capable of taking advantage of these tools. Unfortunately, a large number of teachers and school districts do not have the skills, resources, or leadership to support this kind
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Yea the workouts obviously won't be similar because you're not going to simulate that weight properly without a squat rack, but there are plenty of workouts you can do that will have similar positive effects on your body mechanics
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by ativzzz 6y ago
The Anytime fitness near me is open and there are always 5-6 cars there. Not sure what policies, if any, they have in place for safety.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
You can maintain a very healthy body using only body weight exercises, with practically no weights at all from the comfort of your home. With youtube and the like, you have access to near infinite workouts as well. Not having access to a gy
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> I don't understand why we don't (as a society) fund more scientific research, in general. Humans are much better at handling short-term projects than long-term projects. There are many reasons for this including, but not limi
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by ativzzz 6y ago
We have a slack bot that replaces daily standups with those exact questions. It's called standuply
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by ativzzz 6y ago
They criticize and mock the government, yet they do what the govt tells them anyway, because money. Looks like Chinese businessmen are willing to do the same.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
You can, but clearly the people designing this system have weighed the pros and cons and found that there would be more benefits to them to leave the source code unchanged.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> for high traffic work Considering how prevalent Rails is for Ruby, we can assume that the majority of Ruby codebases are web apps. There are tons of way to scale Ruby web apps for high traffic, and a tiny minority of companies end up r
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Remember this is designed by companies that already have existing, large, ruby codebases. For them, it makes a lot of sense to be able to incrementally add typing without having to make changes to the underlying code itself.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
> Tracing our every move and our every thought is a clear human rights violation. Not being snarky, but under which legal system? Maybe in the EU to some extent? AFAIK, the U.S. does not classify privacy as a human right, though there ar
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by ativzzz 6y ago
Or more likely MS figured out they can make more money licensing Bing search to other search companies instead of trying to appeal directly to consumers.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
I think this is pushing it a bit. By similar logic, paying taxes to, or simply being a member of the US (or almost any country) is contributing to a platform that is directly responsible for human harm.
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by ativzzz 6y ago
People in power tend to curate content so as to consolidate and improve their power, not to make average people's lives better.

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