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by bialpio 6y ago
I actually hate my Dyson vacuum (animal 8 I think, or something like that). To me it's absurd that it has a trigger - very inconvenient when carrying it around, and tiresome to use for extended time. Made me think that Dysons are form
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by bialpio 6y ago
There are definitely cases where playing music violates the license, but I wouldn't call it illegal[1]. Playing music at some business almost certainly is not allowed by default, you'd probably need to get a permission from someon
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by bialpio 6y ago
For one thing, they have agreements between whoever provides them service, and if they have not been taken down, it means their business partners feel that they uphold their end of the bargain. Or they run their own infra so they only answe
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by bialpio 6y ago
Thanks! It did make me think of Sun Tzu-styled wisdom, but I thought it may be some well-know phrase that was parodied here that I was not familiar with. In any case, the joke was great even without me getting this part!
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by bialpio 6y ago
I didn't get the reference, if there is one here. :( Can you or someone else explain?
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by bialpio 6y ago
This also depends on where you're from - I had a cell phone for the past ~20years and only learned that you pay for receiving texts in the US when I first visited, ~9 years ago.
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by bialpio 6y ago
I'd not treat it as a data point for that - he's no longer anonymous at all, since he signed his name at the end of the post, and links to his psychiatry practice. It looks like it took him that much time to decide that he can mak
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by bialpio 6y ago
Average gross salary in Poland is ~$1400 if you are looking for options. But please do some research before relocating, current political climate is one of the reasons why I'm not really considering moving back there...
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by bialpio 6y ago
Ouch, that's pretty steep price for additional 8gb ram. How does it compare to other devices in the same category? I'm out of the loop when it comes to laptops, for desktops iirc you can get one 32gig die of ram for cheaper than t
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by bialpio 6y ago
Nitpick: they vote on Dec 14th, but the votes are counted on Jan 6th. Thanks for the link, very educational!
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by bialpio 6y ago
So can I be banned from a social media platform if it so happens that I am a member of a church that forbids something and it so happens that I am vocal about it? > But by and large, if you do or say something on my premises that I disli
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by bialpio 6y ago
> In my opinion, this is pretty clear cut. If you don’t like Twitter’s policies, don’t use their website. On one hand yes, but on the other, does that also apply to other services? Can I open a shop only for <insert skin color> peo
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by bialpio 6y ago
Election silence is unenforceable and becomes muddy in the era of the internet - with elections in USA, who do you sue if UK news outlet runs with some story? Who has jurisdiction? Besides, reporting news itself is usually still allowed as
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by bialpio 6y ago
As a non-native English speaker, the bigger problem to me are not homophones, but homographs that aren't homophones. Or in general, same groupings of letters that are pronounced differently. That aside, there's a bunch of words th
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by bialpio 6y ago
> Unlimited data plans are totally worth it (particularly with visible where it’s only $25/month on party pay). That's highly individual. I pay approximately that much with pay-per-GB data plan. Except now that I'm constan
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by bialpio 6y ago
> (...) having every travel decision be a purchase decision is a lot of overhead and is a constant pressure not to go somewhere. That's why doing the math once and then no longer worrying about it makes sense. I generally am opposed
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by bialpio 6y ago
They can already get geniuses for paltry wages, it's called "outsourcing". I feel that a lot of people operate with the assumption that a person needs to be in the USA to "steal someone's job" - that's not
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by bialpio 6y ago
The problem is that it is anecdotal. I have been frequently approached by my skip level manager and asked if I know anyone that we could hire since we have headcount that's open for months (this was MSFT) and we won't be able to w
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by bialpio 6y ago
The problem in the US, as I understood it, is that there is shortage of workers in IT [1]. To me, it sounds like turning off the stream of potential workers, without fixing the underlying issue. With the current rules (85k H-1Bs a year), it
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by bialpio 6y ago
My point is mostly that even if you do open everything up, that won't convince everyone to start going out and spending again. After seeing what's happening around mandatory masks ("muh freedoms!"), I don't trust my
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by bialpio 6y ago
I think the main problem is that there are simple ways to reduce the chances of virus spreading, but people ignore them - the only tool you have left in your tool belt is to shut things down. At this point, opening things up won't chan
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by bialpio 6y ago
It's not like this is being advertised when you are subscribing to some service. "Subscribe now and if you ever want to cancel, we'll make you pay! PS. We know where you live." What could the consumer do apart from relyi
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by bialpio 6y ago
A _header-only_ library. Not sure how LGPL works for those - not much to avoid linking against... Throw it in your own .dll / .so and use that in your closed-source projects? Standard disclosure: IANAL.
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by bialpio 6y ago
I use @mailinator.com for that purpose, it's oddly satisfying to put "lolno@mailinator.com" / etc in those places.
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by bialpio 6y ago
No-one is saying they are not good, but I've read the top-level comment as implying they are better than software engineering, and after reading responses in the thread I'm not convinced that this is the case.
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by bialpio 6y ago
The main problem is that since it is illegal, there's no easy way to address abuse (victims will not want to talk because they are potentially at risk of being punished). So if VR can reduce the amount of sex workers (less demand ->
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by bialpio 6y ago
How do you define "good"? One criterion that comes to my mind is: prostitution is illegal in plenty of places, so reducing the need for it reduces crime. If by "good" we think "good things are the ones where no-one
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by bialpio 6y ago
So? If I get to pick how I waste my time, then that time is not really wasted.
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by bialpio 6y ago
Immediately made me think of: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/bring... Too long; didn't listen: same thing but related to Alzheimer's disease research where scientists would i
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by bialpio 6y ago
Does it take into account purchasing power / cost of living? That seems relevant when comparing across countries and talking about poverty.

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