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by bww 5y ago
It’s rather remarkable how many comments in this thread dismissively explain that, sure, the US has created far more super successful companies in recent years but, hey, who even cares about that and actually big companies are stupid anyway
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by bww 5y ago
The irony here is that English is widely spoken mainly because it is the dominant language in America, a superpower where people resolutely refuse to learn any other languages. Even if France's motivations are purely nationalistic, it&
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by bww 5y ago
I appreciate the sentiment here, but this strikes me as very dangerous advice, especially framed as a blanket rule. Even more so when dealing with someone who has presumably far greater resources. There's no way you can know what this
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by bww 5y ago
These are certainly valid concerns you raise, broadly speaking. However, as mentioned in numerous other comments, there is a compelling case to be made that remote work is more productive for a lot of people. I certainly wouldn’t be surpris
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by bww 5y ago
The idea of representing an expression as an abstract syntax tree for interchange is not an inherently bad idea. Trying to shoehorn a general purpose data interchange format into a highly specialized application like that is a common anti-p
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by bww 5y ago
I do think this production company should just pay their vendors. That said, and assuming that this company cares about the quality of the production and their relationship with Netflix, I doubt highly they're trying to hire the equiva
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by bww 5y ago
Your question assumes that transparent, behavior-based, cross-site user interest tracking is somehow essential functionality for the web and we just have to find the right way to do it. I think most people who are criticizing FLoC would cha
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by bww 6y ago
The second part there is the key. Bikes work just fine on roads built for cars and building bike lanes is dirt cheap compared to pretty much any other kind of infrastructure project. You do, however, need the political will to actually take
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by bww 6y ago
I think Liu is trying to dismiss the west’s concerns on the only basis that he can: the short term economics. In reality there is a more important strategic priority at the core of these initiatives, but that’s a whole lot harder to play do
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by bww 6y ago
FWIW, I also have a 16" MBP and I've also had a ton of problems with Bluetooth on this thing. I've noticed that Bluetooth connectivity is significantly worse when the laptop is closed. You might see if keeping it open helps.
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by bww 6y ago
This begs the question: when nobody in the world speaks a language fluently and only three people speak it at all, who exactly benefits from the ability to register a business using the characters of that language? This is a legal formality
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by bww 6y ago
No class of argument is more malleable than who was there “first”. Sometimes it means you’re right and you’re entitled. Sometimes it means you’re wrong and you’re exclusionary. All depending on the perspective of the person using it for lev
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by bww 6y ago
You've probably noticed that there aren't really any successful companies that are run as democracies. There are good reasons for that.
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by bww 6y ago
I guess this one contrived benchmark proves it. Case closed.
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by bww 6y ago
Summary: a blog about machine learning is criticizing the writing in a culture magazine for being too florid. His argument is that all writing, no matter the audience, should be written in a terse, declarative style at an 8th grade reading
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by bww 6y ago
I think OP's concern (which I don't necessarily share, but which I think is valid) is that indexes are generally considered to be relatively safe investments but if you're personally choosing the securities in the "index
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by bww 6y ago
This is great. Non-programming text editors (along with task management, notes, email, and others) belong to the broad class of software for which the options available on Linux are typically extremely unappealing. Especially in contrast to
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by bww 6y ago
I’m not sure that you understand your own position. Yes, corruption is a spectrum. Color values are a spectrum. Politics is a spectrum. Two examples on a spectrum are not equivalent because they’re on the same spectrum, if that’s what you’r
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by bww 6y ago
I have no affection for Elastic Co, but why should they sit there and let Amazon eat their lunch? Maybe I’m forgetting something but I can’t think of a single significant open source project created by Amazon. As far as I can tell they pref
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by bww 6y ago
A less dramatic way to put this might be: the person who is paying the bill is the person who gets to decide. In a large company this may be some manager who controls the budget your compensation comes out of. If you’re an independent contr
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by bww 6y ago
Isn’t zoning and housing inherently specific to the location of the housing or whatever is being zoned? It seems natural to discuss it with that frame of reference implied.
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by bww 6y ago
When it comes to baking cakes for gay weddings or offering birth control in health insurance plans the far-right considers the discretion of a business to determine how it is run inviolable. When it’s their own interests at stake for the sa
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by bww 6y ago
Just a reminder that it's probably not a wise idea for anyone to get further in bed with Zoom than they already are. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/18/zoom-he...
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by bww 6y ago
I also don't particularly like Jira. The problems you have, however, seem to be with the very idea of tracking what needs to be done, has been done, or really having any kind of process at all by which a team coordinates their efforts.
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by bww 6y ago
On more than one occasion while driving through Italy last year, Google Maps attempted to navigate me to the center of cities by driving through ancient, pedestrian-packed streets barely wider than the hatchback I was in—even as (I eventual
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by bww 6y ago
It certainly makes sense for the U.S. government to act against large-scale, commercial, copyright-infrigning streaming services. These estimations of the impact to the U.S. economy that online piracy represents have always struck me as hig
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by bww 6y ago
From her email: > So if you would like to change things, I suggest focusing on leadership accountability and thinking through what types of pressures can also be applied from the outside. For instance, I believe that the Congressional Bl
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by bww 6y ago
Why would retired police have special access to this sort of permit? The entire justification for it is that their dangerous job necessitates special privileges. That justification doesn’t apply to retired people. It may apply to actively e
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Apple is so huge it doesn’t know what “small” is(blog.brianwolter.com)
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by bww 6y ago
This article seems to view “APIs” as a monolithic concept wherein the trade-offs required are the same under all circumstances. Particularly for public-facing APIs, unless you want to maintain a client library in every language your users c

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