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by avalys 5y ago
Do you think “add more administrators” is the correct solution to every problem?
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by avalys 5y ago
I'm not talking about taxes in particular, I'm just talking about government in general. The US federal government is 20x larger than that of the Netherlands. The US is also more economically, socially, and ethnically diverse than
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by avalys 5y ago
Your question is, why isn't the federal government of the United States, a country of 330M people, as efficient and effective as the government of the Netherlands, a country of 17M people? Large organizations are less efficient than sm
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by avalys 5y ago
This is not the free market, it’s a perfect example of what’s wrong with government. The fact that the IRS rules are set by politicians and bureaucrats, not accountable to market forces, are what allows this corrupt situation to persist in
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by avalys 5y ago
What exactly is a “non-user use”?
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by avalys 5y ago
This seems like an anti-scraping measure to me, they are limiting how much content you can access on the site without an account? Seems like if they did not have protections like this, another group of people would be complaining about easy
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by avalys 5y ago
This article is probably bullshit. I mean, it might be true that Apple is requiring some employees to wear a body camera in some circumstances, but none of the evidence cited even indicates that this is directly in response to leaks. It doe
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by avalys 5y ago
I feel like these tutorials always fall apart when they start introducing Haskell syntax and say "That's Monad, simple as that!" class Functor f where flip fmap :: f a -> (a -> b) -> f b class Monad m whe
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by avalys 5y ago
This is interesting to see quantified but not surprising at all - this isn’t really any different than regenerative braking from coasting down a steep hill.
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by avalys 5y ago
You’re telling me I could fill a typical water tower in 1 hour with a 500 W pump running off a kitchen outlet?
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by avalys 5y ago
Can anyone comment on the significance of this accomplishment, and why it was hard to achieve before? I (naively, apparently) assumed this had been possible with open-source toolchains for a long time.
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by avalys 5y ago
An encoding for words that allowed rendering as different words on different platforms would also be stupid. MacOS: grimace Windows: frown Android: scowl Samsung: growl Firefox: angry face That’s pretty much what the emoji si
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by avalys 5y ago
It is so stupid that Emojis render differently on different platforms. In particular there are subtle differences among the facial expression emojis that make them pretty useless if you’re not sure the recipient is on the same platform tha
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by avalys 5y ago
Because the purpose of regulation is not simply “stop people from doing things I don’t like.” Why is it that the default response of so many adults today is to demand that an authority figure impose their own will on someone else?
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by avalys 5y ago
Git clones the entire remote repository to each developer's machine. So, if you accidentally committed something you shouldn't have two weeks ago, everyone will now have a copy in their local repo. And you can't always just t
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by avalys 5y ago
Things have gotten a little better. But, try to do something off the beaten path in Git, and you may ultimately get the joke. For example: “two weeks ago an intern accidentally committed a file containing IP we’re not allowed to use, we nee
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by avalys 5y ago
I don’t think this is about charging for new features - it’s almost about the opposite. I read this as “A customer that asks for advance notice of feature changes is likely to be a big enterprise customer that values stability and predictab
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by avalys 5y ago
This happened to someone I know with a reasonably well-run but not super technical small business. Someone compromised the email account of their accounts receivable person, silently monitored it for a while, and then used it to send a few
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by avalys 5y ago
What actual benefit will anyone derive from this?
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by avalys 5y ago
Not as bad as “inflammable”, my personal vote for the most dangerous word in the English language.
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by avalys 5y ago
How does Amazon protect itself against unscrupulous buyers ordering $7k cameras and then claiming they received an empty box?
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by avalys 5y ago
How many lives were saved by the fact that nuclear weapons prevented a “hot” war between the Soviet Union and the USA?
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by avalys 5y ago
Because they already made plans to drop the hardware, and the software team missed the deadline.
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by avalys 5y ago
Maybe they like their home, their community, and their neighborhood, but what they don’t like is having a bunch of people living in population centers far away who don’t share their values telling them how to live their lives?
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by avalys 5y ago
If you read the entire article - it’s not as if this man’s entire life story is pure bullshit. He really did start as a low-level worker at one of their plants, he really did come up with some concepts for Hispanic-style flavor variations t
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by avalys 5y ago
That was not the only validation set they used.
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by avalys 5y ago
I think you'd be pretty upset with what would happen to the world if FB was allowed to pay people to use it.
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by avalys 5y ago
In most of the US, “pictures of food on the menu” is associated with low-end but highly marketed national chains that serve large amounts of unexceptional food - Applebees, Cheesecake Factory, etc.
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by avalys 6y ago
“Instead, an AirTag that has not paired locally with its iPhone in three days will emit a sound.” Ugh, so if I’m gone for longer than a weekend all my stuff at home is going to start beeping? I’m sure my roommate will love that.
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by avalys 6y ago
"Someone used the internet to do something illegal." This is not really news. "Someone used this specific product on the internet to do something illegal." Still not really news. "Some small business you'v

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