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I expect the large social media platforms to emphasize verification that accounts are controlled by real humans even if they are pseudonymous. X (formerly Twitter) is already heading in this direction. AI social media accounts and even acco
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It is especially sad that VC money is currently being spent on developing AI to eliminate good jobs rather than on developing robots to eliminate bad jobs.
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You can make unselectable text on a webpage selectable by going into the browser inspector and disabling any "user-select" or similar CSS property. You can also inject a "user-select: all" into the HTML element containin
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"Quality code", in my experience, often means "code that looks like how I would have done it". In other words, it's usually pointless nitpicking and you're better off not engaging in it. Of course, there's
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I suspect the only thing most people use EGS for is to claim the weekly free games and the free Amazon games.
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I'd actually agree to a significant extent that people should own their employment (this is the original American Founding ideal of "free labor" that Jefferson and Lincoln both believed in) but I think you're better off
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I'm in Philadelphia which is definitely a coastal city in the US and $200k would be way above market here unless my understanding of the local market is dramatically wrong.
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Where are there plenty of $215k jobs? That's way above the range I'm seeing even on most "senior" or "staff" listings.
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The major issue Racket has is the same one other functional languages have: its hard to find any developers who know those languages or are willing to work in them. There are compelling arguments for functional programming[0] and I enjoyed
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In written English, getting a/an wrong is usually a typo or an editing error. In spoken English, it means somebody is a non-native speaker with a beginner's level of fluency in the language.
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They were using the internet before 2008 or so but mainly for sending and receiving emails. Younger people who weren't that into computers mainly used them to message their friends on AIM and pirate music on Napster then Kazaa then Lim
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I think the best path to a "Google replacement" is probably to reinvent Yahoo or dmoz. You'd still have to human curate the worthwhile sites through a ton of SEO spam and, if you go the dmoz route of volunteer curators, that&
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Ever since Youtube killed Vanced a few months ago, I've pretty much reduced my time on that web site to NFL Sunday Ticket. If it becomes impossible to watch that without disabling an adblocker, I'll cancel it, save about $450 or s
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Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Remote: Yes (fully since March 2020), strongly preferred Willing to relocate: No (occasional travel fine) Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript/Node/React/Angular, GCP,
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I agree that getting out of a toxic culture is a great idea but you can also just check out, give them what they want and save as much money as you can. Especially if your goal is to eventually start your own company. Ideally, you should be
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The consistent header and footer pattern got me thinking about why blogs replaced personal web sites. The ability of blog software like WordPress to do that automatically was a big part of it. If you design a personal site with HTML and the
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Information is being lost constantly on the internet. Whether it is CNET deleting old articles as an SEO tactic[0], domain names expiring, formerly popular sites like Geocities being erased altogether, Google mismanaging its Usenet archive
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The main reason why the Wagner Act was passed into US federal law as part of FDR's New Deal was because FDR believed the Great Depression had been caused by low wages. Specifically, lack of purchasing power on the part of working peopl
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I never implied that transactions are one-sided. Accepting employment is beneficial to the employee, in our current economy. If you attempt to start your own business without sufficient capital (in the form of savings, outside investment or
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The solution that Jefferson and Lincoln (among other American Founders) envisioned was that everybody would eventually be self-employed even if they started their career as an employee to gain experience and save up capital. Working for som
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I'd say the best thing for billionaires to spend their money on would be whatever they're interested in. I think philanthropy is probably a poor use of resources compared to starting businesses with a purpose other than just maxim
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The headline seems to be misleading. The article says you can invite up to 15 people to review your matches within 24 hours and they don't have to have Tinder accounts of their own. They don't have to be your mother, a family memb
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That's the argumentum ad populum ("popular = good") fallacy[0] which is probably most of the most common logical fallacies. You can tell quite a bit about a person, not just as a developer but in general, by whether they alwa
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Most experienced software developers in the US also aren't active open source contributors. Most experienced developers who have contributed to open source probably did so as part of their job whether because they worked for an open so
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The idea of "strikes" is pretty standard in the US from the 90s era "3 strikes" crime laws (i.e. commit 3 crimes and you get life without parole; these have generally been repealed in the last 5-10 years or so) that were
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The fault here lies with the US government for passing an easily abused law like the DMCA where there are woefully insufficient consequences for fraudulent takedown requests and where fighting fraudulent takedowns requires you to dox yourse
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> Without the unions spooking the management drones, you get things like Walmart and McD's going and outsourcing what was previously done via payroll to State benefit programs. Part of the blame there lies with the government allowi
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Their original reporting on Tuesday was just the Hamas claims, typically attributed to either the "Gaza Health Ministry" or "Palestinian Health Ministry" rather than "Hamas".
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> The UAW’s targeted strike at a total of five assembly factories at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis have prompted all three companies to lay off workers. In other words, this layoff seems to really be about pressuring the autoworker
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That's basically the reputation of a significant number of private equity firms. Their standard operating procedure is to load the company up with debt, cut R&D, cut investment into the product, cut wages and raise prices to increa

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