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by bdw5204 2y ago
Companies that wrongfully ban or delete email or phone accounts need to be civilly liable and this civil liability needs to supersede any arbitration agreement or terms of service agreement. An Apple or Google account is far too important t
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My impression of Rust is that it's a very opinionated language that wants everybody to program in a specific way that emphasizes memory safety above everything. That's a good idea, I think, for the systems programming use cases th
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by bdw5204 2y ago
I use Pandora and subscribe to Premium which allows me to listen to albums on demand. When I started out as a free user after I gave up on Youtube in the background apps, I didn't like Spotify because it kept forcing me to listen to aw
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by bdw5204 2y ago
Relying on a Chevron argument is not particularly wise given the pending Supreme Court cases Relentless Inc. v. Department of Commerce and Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo where the Court is expected to overturn Chevron: https:&#x2
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by bdw5204 2y ago
This is largely a lost art because of several bad paradigms that have become very popular in recent years, making software exponentially worse in the process. In the old days, it was common and NES games were even smaller than SNES games be
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by bdw5204 2y ago
Code is run more than it is read especially if you count users. And so-called "clean" code is a performance disaster[0]. It's also, if that link is an accurate representation of what "clean" code is, a readability d
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by bdw5204 2y ago
My impression has been that it is common in the US for jerks to call the cops and/or CPS if they see kids playing outside without an adult around. A couple examples: https://www.nydailynews.com/2014/09/17&#x2F
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by bdw5204 2y ago
I don't see anything good coming from depriving teens of their freedom of speech as a scapegoat for mental health problems that are caused by other factors in the first place. The problem is with a society where we deprive minors of th
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In my experience, most of the corporate world seems to care more about their aesthetic notions of the Platonic ideal of what code should look like than whether or not it works or whether or not it is efficient. Certainly that's my expe
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How is this any different from the current economy where great companies are frequently going bust because of Wall Street strip mining? One prominent example is a company called Sears which was Amazon before Amazon. Why is General Electric
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I'd prefer if China would allow American social media to operate in China to subvert the CCP regime and eventually free China but if they're not going to then I agree that Chinese social media companies should be banned from the U
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I think a better solution would be to bring back strong career security. Allowing companies to increase their profits by laying off workers is a policy choice. As is allowing companies to outsource jobs to cheaper jurisdictions. There is no
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The main reason is that we refuse to spend money to address the root causes of crime. We won't fix urban poverty or the failing urban education system so most people choose to live in car-dependent suburban hellholes that make our yout
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by bdw5204 3y ago
I've never experienced the latter but if somebody wants to waste their time sending me unwanted pull requests I can just ignore them.
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by bdw5204 3y ago
The main problem the news industry faces is they're trying to run for-profit businesses when they should see themselves as a public service that seeks to break even or produce sustainable losses. News should be subsidized by people who
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by bdw5204 3y ago
When the interest rates finally come back down and we're in the middle of the Greater Resignation, these CEOs will be admitting that getting rid of fully remote work was a mistake.
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by bdw5204 3y ago
You can set "Active Hours" to include up to 18 hours of the day effectively limiting forced restarts to whenever you are sleeping. They also only seem to happen when you leave the computer idle. Combine this with hibernate and you
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One major reason is the college rankings which are based on how much the college price gouges and how many prospective students it rejects after stealing an application fee from them. Another one is the federal student loan program which ma
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by bdw5204 3y ago
The thing is any government that says "we can't get out of this treaty" is lying. There is no such thing as "international law" and all nations exist in a state of anarchy with each other. That's why they, hist
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by bdw5204 3y ago
The issue in the current market isn't ex-FAANG employees. Most of them can probably find jobs elsewhere or should have plenty of savings to live on until the Fed cuts the interest rates and they can get funding for their startup. It is
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by bdw5204 3y ago
This really isn't that surprising. The FAANGs, including Apple, have committed serious anti-trust violations especially their hoarding of talent during the 0% interest rate years to prevent them from starting competitors then freezing
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Does that mean Opera doesn't consider Brave a "major browser" or that Brave's Leo is not a local model?
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by bdw5204 3y ago
Being able to point out the right things that need to be fixed is an important skill. Most people can tell when something is off about a product but can't tell you exactly what it is. You can easily identify the wrong thing as the prob
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by bdw5204 3y ago
The US government can pressure tech companies like Microsoft (owner of GitHub) to delete any repos with open source AI models. These companies would voluntarily comply as they'd be happy to be able to blame the government for the anti-
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It is most likely due to Denuvo being harder to crack because it is a widely hated DRM. Pirates probably want to crack it on principle. I don't think most of the pirates actually care that much about whether people download their relea
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This is a big problem because corporations will just leave a state if they don't like its labor laws and operate out of whatever state has the laxest labor laws. States used to have their own laws limiting interest on loans, usually be
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I'm surprised people who grew up with technology didn't learn from their own experience as a kid that censorware doesn't work and kids will always find a way to circumvent it if they want to. The best you can do to protect ki
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by bdw5204 3y ago
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Remote: Yes (fully since March 2020), strongly preferred. Flexible on time zones. Willing to relocate: No (occasional travel fine) Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript/Node/
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The history of strikes before federal labor law illustrates exactly why federal labor law is so essential to maintain a functioning economy that is fair for both capital and labor. Would you rather have a system run by the government where
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This has to be a joke but it's also good advice if you only care about having a minimally viable product to ship by an arbitrary date. A strategy of "cut as many corners as possible and do the bare minimum" makes money in the

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