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by beachy 4y ago
> So any country that goes all in on the carbon-free world will end up economically worse off -- it's goods won't be competitive in the global marketplace. A government cannot subsidize itself to competitiveness in all markets.
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by beachy 4y ago
> Basic income or revolution. That's going to be our choice. So many menial jobs are kind of like basic income anyway - you put in 2 hours of actual work to pad out the entire day at some shitty low end job, knowing all the time tha
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by beachy 4y ago
> This year's UI/UX trends have been an absolute disaster. Many brands are now using some kind of an amalgamation of animations + on-scroll effects that transition into this linear 3D experience. Replit is a good example of thi
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by beachy 4y ago
Nice rant but, like those popups that ask for your email when you show signs of leaving the site , the proof is in the pudding - do these live chats increase conversions?
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by beachy 4y ago
My Dad (rest his soul) turned me onto Bond books. I'm surprised by the lack of appreciation in these comments - wondering if many people are going off the films rather than the books. The thing I love is the detail he uses. Mundane obj
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by beachy 4y ago
> Assume good faith One of the HN rules, and one that I think would vastly improve on line discourse if others followed it. I have to go on FB from time to time (since that's where a community I follow is based) and it's horrif
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by beachy 4y ago
> Not scanning for CSAM on your own servers isn't a realistic expectation It is if the false positives are overwhelming, given their impact on innocent people's lives.
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by beachy 4y ago
Wait until they realise how much faster oil deposits are being depleted than formed. Humans gonna deplete.
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by beachy 4y ago
Slashdot's moderation used to be (maybe still is?) something like this. With meta moderators that annointed and oversaw the mods. At its heyday slashdot would have been far bigger than a small village - more like a giant metro. That sa
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by beachy 4y ago
> If this is really such a big deal as everyone claims it is, then people will inevitably have to find a compromise with Russia. Why? Better to defeat them militarily and solve the problem once and for all - even if the world has to get
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by beachy 4y ago
I agree with all that. However you said "You lost me at call for moderators and volunteers". I do not agree that just calling for moderators and volunteers means a business is unsustainable. Perhaps it does in this case - I don&#x
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by beachy 4y ago
Wikipedia would be unsustainable using that test. Yet it's been around for two decades and shows no signs of going anywhere - if that's not sustainable then no web business is.
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by beachy 4y ago
> a team that delivers net savings can’t be justified on the basis of cost-cutting ..in theory not, but in practice cost-cutting is often less a scientific, data-based project and more a cataclysmic purgative process where factors such a
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by beachy 4y ago
That is incredible, thank you for posting! Another comentor said "You'd have enough time to go eat breakfast, mow the lawn, take a shower, and then come back to it being only 58% done." and apart from mowing the lawn it'
555.
by beachy 4y ago
I would love to see how Netscape on a machine from back in the day would handle rendering this page.
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by beachy 4y ago
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less." To me, like most people, REST means an http-based API where we use GET, POST, PUT, DELE
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by beachy 4y ago
If you're talking about HATEOAS (which many zealots equate one to one with REST) you may be pleased to know there is no reference to it whatsoever in this article.
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by beachy 4y ago
> My wife and I keep wondering / looking if there's anywhere in the world where people by and large take this infection seriously China? Seriously though, you might better to look for places where you can interact with others m
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by beachy 4y ago
Indeed, thank you.
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by beachy 4y ago
> small group of people decided to use it while they did a bunch of nasty stuff. Try again. A genocidal regime that conquered western europe by force, almost succeeded in overthrowing world democracy and caused the deaths of tens of mill
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by beachy 4y ago
It's hard to avoi nd this chicken and egg situation. I use fastmail and they allow you "alias" addresses. So even though my primary email is on my custom dimain e.g. myname@mydomain.com, Fastmail also gives me an alsia of myn
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by beachy 4y ago
> A ticket represents a process Yep, and that process also involves other people, to review/ approve the fix to the typo. It then goes from being a few seconds of elapsed time and actual time (to just commit a fix to the typo) to ta
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by beachy 4y ago
> To make docs work you have to treat it more like a codebase: clear ownership, standards, review processes, approvals, up front design, refactoring efforts etc. Maybe true in large orgs. But for smaller companies what I've seen is
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by beachy 4y ago
Congratulations on working at what you love. I love bats. As you may know, two species of bat are the only mammals native to New Zealand, where I live. I hope to see one one day!
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by beachy 4y ago
> There have been misperceptions that our investment in FTX is an investment into cryptocurrencies. To clarify, we currently have no direct exposure in cryptocurrencies. I'm no expert in crypto, but isn't investing in flakey co
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by beachy 4y ago
I would really encourage you to push forward with OfficeLife. I believe the HR space is primed and ready for a decent open source offering. For what it's worth, APIs would be super useful, e.g. in the recruiting world there are hundred
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by beachy 4y ago
> Every re-write I’ve ever seen or been a part of, has either failed or taken way longer and a lot more effort than initially projected. On the face of it what you say is true, but I've seen (and I'm sure many have seen) situat
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by beachy 4y ago
> But maybe even more importantly, especially if you want to be selfish about it, we need to remember and be uncomfortable so that we're part of avoiding the next conflcit from starting. I agree with some of your points, but not thi
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by beachy 4y ago
I'm not big on motivational but this one from Arnold Schwarzenegger resonated with me and still does. You have so many hours in the day, it's what you use them for that makes a difference https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by beachy 4y ago
Is this true? Sounds exciting if so.

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