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by callc 2y ago
Consider no stock market. Just keep the company private. Honest question, why do so many companies strive to go public?
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by callc 2y ago
I view it as US got strong by being late to WWII. Then every country in Europe, Russia was in shambles from the war. Japan got its expansionist hopes crushed by two atomic bombs, US’ new “don’t fuck we me I’ve got a delete everything button
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by callc 2y ago
I am largely unconvinced of the downsides of passwords presented in the article. Especially the historical angle. Old != bad. In fact, it is a testament to the fact the the password system is simple enough to be done analog, easily understo
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by callc 2y ago
Humans are already capable of “post-truth”. This is enabled by instant global communication and social media (not dismissing the massive benefits these can bring), and led by dictators who want fealty over independent rational thinking. The
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by callc 2y ago
Try “set-option -g mouse on” in your ~/.tmux.conf. I’ve never used the copy/scroll mode, always use scroll wheel on mouse. Yeah, copying can be weird. I full screen a panel to copy multiple lines of text using the terminal emulato
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by callc 2y ago
Wow that really sounds like a captor killing a few captives and then asking the rest of the “ok, so who else wants to try to work together to escape?”
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by callc 2y ago
Stay strong, use this as a opportunity to become a better person. Just do the opposite of Trump / Musk, it will get you so close to being a saint.
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by callc 2y ago
> We're far from the days of "this is not a person, we do not want to make it addictive" and getting a firm foot on the territory of "here's your new AI friend". That’s a hard nope from me, when companies pu
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by callc 2y ago
I sincerely hope you consider adopting a kinder approach to dealing with fellow humans, and dealing with a complex task such as reforming government in a responsible and respectful way. There's no honor is treating people like the way
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by callc 2y ago
It’s not just the “easiest thing in the world”, it’s an easy task with a gun pointed to your head. Do you not see this? Even more than that, the threat of firing by not complying is likely illegal. It’s a false equivalence to say that peopl
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by callc 2y ago
Let’s be real here, an honest email trying to check if people are checking their email could be: “MANDATORY: click this link: <link with presigned URL>. This email is to measure if there are inactive accounts.” An email of “respond to
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by callc 2y ago
Why Holmes? I can’t tell if this is sarcasm. I would rather not see a person known to be psychopathic a lier, and lacking empathy (imagine the mindset to fake medical devices, having a direct impact on the healthcare of individual people) b
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by callc 2y ago
Every bit counts. And to make a dent, start with the things with outsized effects with simple alternatives. It’s easy to make laws about it: - private jets/charters: only allowed if have enough passengers (calculate the CO2/person
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by callc 2y ago
Startup that movie night with the rule that all phones get stored away. You will have a good time
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by callc 2y ago
> All this is to say that if people fill out these forms using this definition of sex, they’re guessing at a question which is both impossible to answer and socially irrelevant. I agree with the article’s broad points. Don’t be the assho
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by callc 2y ago
Ah yes, the “we have all the power but pinky promise to only use it on the bad guys” playbook. I have complete confidence and trust in that promise. /s
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by callc 2y ago
The idea that the sanctions ‘we’ (I will treat ‘we’ as the western world) place on NK directly cause NK starvation and death needs an exuberant amount of evidence. NK literally and figuratively puts guns to the heads of their citizens and
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by callc 2y ago
It’s the year 2032, free speech is now only allowed on Twitter. Any speech criticizing Trump is automatically flagged and your personal details used to automatically fire you from your job, executed by the new “efficiency heads” installed i
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by callc 2y ago
Ah yes, automatic type coercion. A literal “WTF were you thinking” feature of JavaScript. So much pain for so little gain.
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by callc 2y ago
> So here’s my question: if you were in charge of addressing this problem, how would you tackle it differently? For one, with responsibility and care for the public. Not with reckless abandon. Not with malice. Not with a child-like perve
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by callc 2y ago
Thinking that people in charge can correctly identify the bottom/top X% of their employees on some sort of metric is fooling oneself into believing those in power are better than those below them. It’s going to be 10% of _something_. O
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by callc 2y ago
Electricity is not a luxury good. People need it to survive. We should not allow companies to have control over these basic necessities, since companies invariably care about profit over human wellbeing (and is mandated as such if publicly
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by callc 2y ago
If you had the power to make the laws however you wanted around universally needed basic services of electricity, gas, water, sewage, how would you do it? Non-profit? Government run? Capitalism with minimal regulation? Capitalism with stric
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by callc 2y ago
Legacy 12 year old? Try 40 - 45 year old code. Back when people mandated an 80 character line width because their CRT monitors only had so much resolution
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by callc 2y ago
Have human wellbeing as the priority in making products. Treat users with respect. Make hardware open, firmware open, repairable. Let’s be honest here, there are user hostile products and pro-user products. Let’s make making user hostile pr
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by callc 2y ago
I’m not Apple fanboy by any stretch, and I use Google maps, but Apple/Google maps are so valuable to my life, in the purist definition of valuable. Directions (garmin), finding businesses and places (yellow pages), pinning places (like
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by callc 2y ago
You never know, your website may just be mission critical, like if there’s some code on the ISS running: while true; do wget $NetOpWibby_website || sudo shutdown; done
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by callc 2y ago
And obsolescence via “TPM2”!
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by callc 2y ago
Sure. Price every good from not-USA 1000x and let’s see what happens. I thought the republicans were in favor of a free market, but it seems more like those with power don’t mind putting some weight on their side of the scale, since they ow
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by callc 2y ago
I had to look up what “single player payer system” means since I thought it meant something like “each individual pays for themselves”, the opposite of a social safety net. I was completely wrong. Single payer means there is a single (gov)

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