axlee

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by axlee 3y ago
Bargaining always feels like an hostage situation from the side with less power. Lucky enough, workers united can tip the scales in their favor, while alone they are nothing.
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by axlee 3y ago
> In other words, not losing is heavily prioritised over winning in top chess, currently. It's more that once you are in a losing position, winning is extremely difficult, and a draw is often the best thing you can achieve. From the
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by axlee 3y ago
Checkers have been solved 16 years ago and still see competition. A game being solved is not exactly the same as "apply this memorizable algorithm and you'll win", especially if the solution implies scanning 10^n positions fo
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by axlee 3y ago
Why would it render human games moot? Why would a software participate in a championship? The draw percentage in checkers/draught and in chess are roughly similar, (anywhere between 50% and 60% at high-level play), despite checkers bei
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by axlee 3y ago
PTM has won a Grammy, they don't need planners to get a sense of their style. If anything, GSheet might be their styles.
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by axlee 3y ago
I'd like to know which country/region has a low average of >$400K/y for a SWE so that you'd be "lucky" to find one for less. I know we're well paid, but definitely not that well.
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by axlee 3y ago
I still do not understand what the US might get out of this in 2023.
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by axlee 3y ago
The point is also to keep people around. Software engineers are notoriously feeble, as they get offers extremely regularly.
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by axlee 3y ago
> I meant something different by "anything goes." I am ~40 and was born in Eastern Europe -- but even in the US, back then there was still a strong value that a good life a combination of having a family and raising the next ge
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by axlee 3y ago
I don't want dynsmism, I want reprodicity.
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by axlee 3y ago
I'd like to understand how asian and pacific islanders are mixed up in one "group'". Is the person grouping ethnicities together judging by squinty eyes, or what? All these "ethnicities" stats are worthless, gi
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by axlee 3y ago
DKK is pegged with the euro at 7.46, it's just a currency in name.
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by axlee 3y ago
I'd prefer if Amazon et al paid their taxes and society as a whole could decide how to spend it to better itself, through the democracy that we are supposed to live in.
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by axlee 3y ago
What are devcontainers bringing more than what "docker-compose up" already does, if your app is already compose-ready for local?
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by axlee 3y ago
Says who? This sounds more like preaching than anything else.
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by axlee 3y ago
Because other people seem to be pushing the idea that race is the signal, as they are pushing for a redistribution along racial lines rather than economic lines.
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by axlee 3y ago
How many slaves in the family tree should someone have to qualify? Do white slaves count? How far back should we go? Would citizens whose families have immigrated to this country after the deed be also on the hook for reparations? Should re
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by axlee 3y ago
Instagram has 500M DAU / 2B MAU. A huge chunk of Meta's MAU come from Whatsapp, and Threads isn't promoted there.
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by axlee 3y ago
> 100M signups in five days is impressive at first glance. However, if you do some quick math, you will see that 100M signups (defined by install the app + click a button that says signup with your Instagram account) out of 3.8 billion m
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by axlee 3y ago
We started seeing reports about it in GSC early July, when over a single day all our scores turned to crap with no explanation. We are in the yellow, but the biggest culprits for blocking time are...Google Tag Manager, GAds (and Ganalytics
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by axlee 3y ago
How did they rank the ranking prompt?
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by axlee 3y ago
Doubt it, we've started a fresh property as well which should theoretically guarantee isolation. Time will tell.
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by axlee 3y ago
Correct, we stopped giving them any sort of feedback (conversion or otherwise, due to removing Analytics as well) on the ads we were running.
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by axlee 3y ago
Since June 2022, we have stopped sending conversion signals back to our Google Ads account, and have completely disconnected Analytics and any Google-related tracking code from our site. We also started a new Ads property and retired the ol
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by axlee 3y ago
Check out "les étoiles d'ivry" from Jean Renaudie then, you might like it. Habitat 67, but triangles. And a lot more green. https://hiddenarchitecture.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/n8...
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by axlee 3y ago
I don't really understand the point you are trying to make.
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by axlee 3y ago
Do you truly think there is no one on earth who could do a better job than Pinchai for, let's say, $80M a year? $40M a year? $30M a year? $10M a year? Why is there downward pressure on wages for everyone except for this particular posi
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by axlee 3y ago
Because laws are there to fix asymmetries in negotiation power between parties. As you can imagine, artists and art collectors/galleries are not really on the same level.
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by axlee 4y ago
Because it seems you have some experience in the field: is there a way to develop and support a multi-platform app in 2023 without suffering? The idea of having to hire 2(x n)FTE to handle developing mobile apps which will, at the end of th
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by axlee 4y ago
Has anyone here have experience with this? We're currently looking at a forward-looking stack for our multi-platform app, and to be fair the general feedback we read is that they all suck in certain ways. What's the least bad out

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