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Iceland's latest volcanic eruption decreasing in power, and defenses are holding(yahoo.com)
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by borski 3y ago
> The carrier thing was true, but they could have launched outside the US. Instead they found a carrier desperate enough. That’s not quite how that happened. They were turned down and laughed out of the room by nearly every carrier they
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by borski 3y ago
That’s where approaching someone like the EFF comes in.
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by borski 3y ago
That is not true. That is now how Signal works. Unsure why the downvotes, but I assume it’s from this misunderstanding of the Signal protocol.
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by borski 3y ago
But it’s irrelevant, as the chats are end to end encrypted regardless. So sure, they’d know you had a Signal account, but not the contents thereof.
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by borski 3y ago
The way to get rich if you’re VC-funded is also to make things people want by getting more paying users. You don’t become Dropbox or Stripe by having a terrible product. The fools optimizing for “growth” without anything sustainable aren’t
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by borski 3y ago
Being bootstrapped doesn’t somehow absolve founders of that. It’s a false sense of security. VC-backed companies eventually exit, yes, but bootstrapped companies often just… die. And, plenty of VC-backed companies do not commit the cardinal
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by borski 3y ago
But it does require thinking about more than just the headline. A lot of people are lazy (I don’t mean that as a moral issue, just literally) and don’t want to think for themselves, so often they simply parrot.
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by borski 3y ago
And that’s ok! But those protections are worth it for a lot of other people. :)
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by borski 3y ago
Fair point. I don’t live in LA and was not aware of the school issues there. But by and large, CA does have great public school, and top-tier public universities.
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by borski 3y ago
I agree SF has shit roads. I do not find that to be the case almost anywhere else in CA. I’ll put it this way too: while I’m mindful of potholes, generally, I have yet to have a single issue popping any of my 21” thin sidewall summer tires
732.
by borski 3y ago
Anecdata. I know, not great for a scientific study’s purposes, but I cannot deny my own experiences either. :)
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by borski 3y ago
Yes, but the percentage of funny people skews heavily toward those who are miserable. That is to say, the center of the Venn diagram is much larger than either of the two individual sides.
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by borski 3y ago
I have many friends who have bought homes. Some in Gilroy, some in Mountain View, me in Cupertino, and so on. None of us were born with money, and none of us bought them 20-50 years ago. None of us were even alive 40 years ago. It’s doable,
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by borski 3y ago
I mentioned Florida as the notable outlier. They have a lot worse other things, but I agree the roads in FL are great.
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by borski 3y ago
Nope. I don’t spend every day walking around in my best threads. But I do spend some time doing it, and it feels special and important, and it shows I respect the occasion and the other party enough to put in the work. Moreover, it shows
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by borski 3y ago
I agreed with your first comment, but this isn’t quite fair. People put their best foot forward not because they are lying or pretending their negative qualities don’t exist, but because showing the positive ones can often lead someone to o
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by borski 3y ago
You can have no sense of humor and still be miserable. Humor absolutely is a defense mechanism for people who are sad and depressed; I know because I have anxiety and depression and am funny, and I know why. But that doesn’t mean everyone f
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by borski 3y ago
Where are you from? To be fair, I mean relative to other states. Not that they’re perfect.
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by borski 3y ago
Oh yeah, and spectacular public schooling - the state schools are top notch, as are many of the lower education public schools.
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by borski 3y ago
Tell that to Tahoe or any of the many mountainous regions of CA. :)
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by borski 3y ago
Fair enough; I shouldn’t have said “everyone” because that’s obviously not true, but only pedantically, for the most part. It’s not insensitive to say “everyone has a nose” and mean “except the very small percentage of people that don’t hav
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by borski 3y ago
Bay Area, but I’m from NYC, so my standard for “bad road” is relatively high - there are a lot of potholes right now from the rain, but in general they get fixed quickly, the roads are wide and many-lanes, and generally don’t do insane thin
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by borski 3y ago
In my experience, it correlates fairly well, with Florida being the notable exception. I have no idea why their roads are so good.
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by borski 3y ago
Overusing sarcasm is a method of expressing displeasure or discontent without actively pushing away those around you. You’re not actively insulting them, you’re “just joking,” but simultaneously expressing negative feelings. As a pointed re
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by borski 3y ago
Everyone has an imagination. Some people have had it beaten out of them or were never taught to pay attention to it or use it, but everyone has one.
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by borski 3y ago
Dno. The roads here are way better than other places with lower taxes, it’s beautiful, the air and water are clean, and so on. Everywhere has plenty of things to complain about. I’d like to spend less in taxes, always. But at least it does
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by borski 3y ago
In CA, it’s any employer with 5 employees, thanks to the CFRA. https://www.rigginslaw.com/cfra-vs-fmla-difference-between-c... . CA really is by far one of the most employee-friendly states, on nearly every issue.
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by borski 3y ago
> I genuinely don't understand this comment, we shouldn't do it because it's hard or the results might be imperfect? Yes. Imperfect solutions, when driven by the government, don’t change for decades, causing terrible conse
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by borski 3y ago
Required reading: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

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