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by benced 2y ago
"I don't value software but that's not a respectable opinion so I'll launder that opinion via subscriptions"
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by benced 2y ago
Seriously, the number of “you weren’t meant to fire that foot gun” defenses in this thread…
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by benced 2y ago
I can't think of a single aerospace company that is not dual-use. I doubt Boom is building with that in mind but if they're around in 50 years, I'd be shocked if they did not have a thriving defense business. (which I think i
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by benced 2y ago
This literally doesn’t matter. The energy consumption of a train is trivial compared to displacing cars. If there was a way to trade this savings for higher speed, ridership, or frequency, it would be worth it. (If there’s not, this is a fr
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by benced 2y ago
Because it provides an extremely convenient service that has made life better for most people? People seem to forgot that this class of job used to not exist in our lifetimes. Was it better to be a low-skill worker on the job market in 2010
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by benced 2y ago
What a weird Jira ticket it must be to get "implement complete turn-off".
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by benced 2y ago
Due to those higher costs, buying something from the US pretty much guarantees quality, i.e. the logic of "if someone has a successful business selling saffron in the US, it must be pretty great saffron". This compares to other co
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by benced 2y ago
I'm really not convinced by passkeys as a socio-technical phenomenon because it seems to lock people to their OS. As a technical user, having them in 1Password which is OS-neutral (and plans to support export eventually - I'll cha
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by benced 2y ago
That's a cop-out. Just as the CEOs could transfer their higher wealth to average Americans, average Americans could transfer their higher wealth to Indians without changing or giving input on their healthcare system. (which is absolute
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by benced 2y ago
I agree! I'm only suggesting leaving if you think murder is justified.
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by benced 2y ago
If your belief is the United States is so bad that it justifies murder, you should leave. If you're more reasonable, I would not recommend leaving.
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by benced 2y ago
You can leave! Nothing is stopping you from staying in the US. Particularly if you're on this website, you probably have talents other countries would like to acquire. The fact that you haven't says you don't believe what you
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by benced 2y ago
Most of those people are making several multiples the average Indian's lifetime earnings. Should those call center folks pay for the Indians' healthcare?
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by benced 2y ago
I like it and enjoy it right now. I don't have anything locked into it so if it goes to hell, I can go back to iTerm.
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by benced 2y ago
I've made edits to config files on the GitHub mobile app while on-call. Not something I like doing but I like having the option.
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by benced 2y ago
If you think work from office is more productive, then yes, they are taking something from the company and their coworkers who can't learn from them. If you feel that WFH has no productivity impact, then fair enough that you see any co
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by benced 2y ago
Even accepting your claims about medical access at face value - which I don't, they're ridiculous (even if you believe, as I do, the American medical system is bad) - the existence of a substantive population that has the means to
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by benced 2y ago
This falls apart the second you realize it's trivial to find a doctor who will say or do literally whatever you want if you pay the right amount.
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by benced 2y ago
And it leads directly into the US being richer than all but tiny petro-states and growing faster than all of its peers. Fair enough if that's not what you want but there are tradeoffs.
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by benced 2y ago
It's slower but out of spite I usually go into the console and remove the `onpaste="false"` nonsense from their markup.
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by benced 2y ago
Part of the design of modern credit cards is that even authorized purchases can be reverted if the customer is not delivered the promised goods. My understanding is that crypto people think that is a design flaw, not a feature, but most fol
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by benced 2y ago
A lot of people here seem justifiably angry at Boeing management's total destruction of an engineering corporate culture. It's unclear to me if fixing that is what the machinists are demanding or if they just want normal union thi
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by benced 2y ago
A lot of these regulations are regulation on speed not noise. I expect some governments will be amenable to changing their speed restrictions to decibel restrictions (which Boom claims they can comply with). If not, there's always tran
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by benced 2y ago
To be clear, I like login.gov considerably more than random SaaS logins.
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by benced 2y ago
Maybe we should create some sort of super-stock that can be any company and give employees that. We could also make that super-stock valid tender for burritos or houses or bulldozers. Oh wait, it's money. Fungibility is great!
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by benced 2y ago
The new tech stuff the government has been putting out is legitimately fantastic. login.gov is probably my favorite sign-in experience, maybe slightly behind Google's (and considerably ahead of Apple or Microsoft's).
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by benced 2y ago
District courts can set their own policies. The Northern California District - where this was filed - allocates a case according to the last 2 digits of the case number. Source: https://www.cand.uscourts.gov/judges/civi
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by benced 2y ago
There's been proposals in the thread calling for it to be opened. I also saw one on Twitter calling for it to be opened under the DMA.
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by benced 2y ago
This API either shouldn’t exist or should be Google only. It would be an absolute disaster if everyone had access to it.
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by benced 2y ago
I don't think this is accurate. Ticketmaster/LiveNation control most good/big venues so artists have to deal with them in some way. Artists generally don't want to charge market clearing prices to their fans (for nicenes

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