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by caskstrength 3y ago
> Apple is the evilest of evils. It must be fought with great determination if we are concerned with freedom. Continuing using Apple products while periodically expressing your frustration on Reddit/HN is not a good way to "fig
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> they've already shown a shadow of their true colors when they banned flash under the guise of security For which I'm eternally grateful to them even though I don't have any Apple devices.
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> Way too much emphasis on if you went to the "right" high school or college for something given to people with ten year's experience, interest in those that took a hyper competitive view to niche hobbies in their high sch
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> And there is a significant cost to a host country that is now accommodating a potentially large number of people from faraway places with vastly different cultures. (Some may ignore or deny these costs, but they're real and being
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> We're about to hit increasingly aggressive competition both to hold on to people, and to attract immigrants as more and more countries start getting bitten by demographic shifts. And yet we are seeing more and more walls (literall
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> The benefits OP will take in his old age will largely be paid by the children of his generation. Bringing up the children of OP's generation is paid by OP's taxes. Moreover, parents probably pay less, not more taxes for havin
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> Your end of life care is entirely dependent on other people having and raising functional children. Presumably OP is in US and is not planning to have any kind of state pension or socialized healthcare when they are old?
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> Technically, that makes you a sort of parasite. You have no trouble taking your share of the benefits that come from living in our society, but refuse to do your part to create the next generation of people who would comprise that soci
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by caskstrength 3y ago
You might want to read his blog [0] to get more insight into his character. I got the impression that the author is a great and likeable human being that became rather cynical due to his disillusionment with humanity. [0]: https:/&#x2
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> If you like this book, I recommend Accelerando, Piranesi, Dick's Ubik, and Ted Chiang's collections. Thanks for the recommendations. I read and liked most of the books in your list, so I'll likely also appreciate the one
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> super fancy whiskey and then sparkling white wine that you pick up at Lucky on sale. Off the shelf Macallan and Balvenie bottles from his photo is what some Eastern European owner of chain of car repair shops would buy in duty free air
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> Even if you're _very good_ at Git, finding the correct invocation of "git blame" (is it "-w -C -C -C"? Or just _two_ dash C's?) to even find the right messages that are relevant to the code blocks you care
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by caskstrength 3y ago
He is fabulously wealthy and his private stash is... Macallan 18?! It seems no amount of money can substitute nonexistent personality and improve poor taste...
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> But of course the developers will revolt against that. Why would developers revolt? OTOH users would definitely be unhappy when every little app for their iPhone suddenly costs as much as an airplane ticket.
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> Computers get much better every couple years Did you write this from 2010? _Consumer_ computer products has been barely getting any better for a decade now. (last big WOW for me personally was getting first gen Retina MacBook Pro with
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> China has very little in the way of a consumer sector, quite the opposite of the US consumerism. This means there's very little for consumers to spend their money on versus a US consumer. FWIW Chinese middle class tend to gobble
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by caskstrength 3y ago
Any plans for UHD display and a good keyboard?
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by caskstrength 3y ago
Usually office coffee sucks though. Do you have real manual espresso machine in the office and a person who is responsible for operating and regularly cleaning it? The automatic kind with "americano" and "espresso" butto
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by caskstrength 3y ago
What is your office like? The ones I've had dubious honor to work in is like you describe, but with dozens of noisy adult children in the same room with me, not the next one.
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by caskstrength 3y ago
Yes, but you know _the_ rule of leaving Google - one must always publish an article about it to ensure that the whole world is aware ;)
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by caskstrength 3y ago
Nitter is hobbyist-ran, it is not some big tech company with army of lawyers who can sue you anywhere in the world. Allowing randos to arbitrary and capriciously shutdown any resource on the small web with such "guilty until proven inn
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by caskstrength 3y ago
How do you prove it is you on the image? And that you didn't sign a model release? More importantly, are random registrar or a hosting provider capable of handling such cases? And should they? Maybe police is better equipped for that?
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by caskstrength 3y ago
Shouldn't the subject complain to the police instead? How can Njalla even validate whom the request comes from and why should they?
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> But it misses the most obvious answer (and most likely where the question originated from): terminal, console, and shell often refer to the same thing. Not really. If you ask people at watercooler which _shell_ they are using you are g
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> It's confusing that folks are upset about this. If it doesn't work for you, don't work for Apple. While you are indeed free not to work for Apple (that is what I do!), policies in FAANG companies have significant influen
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by caskstrength 3y ago
If you are working in tech, you can just save let's say quarter of your salary every month as a personal unemployment insurance and still be much better off than some dude working in EU Google office for half your salary (or even less!
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by caskstrength 3y ago
Oh, I'm from eastern Europe myself and of course you can have quite comfortable life there for 80k gross. The counterpoint to that is that 80k is not nearly close to average salary of a person "developing web sites from their sofa
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by caskstrength 3y ago
Define "comfortably". In EU cities with developed IT job markets (Munich, Stockholm, Paris, etc.) you will be spending half of more of your after tax salary just on rent. And you won't be able to afford to live there anymore
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by caskstrength 3y ago
> It's all a matter of perspective. From my perspective, if you can sit on your sofa, build a website, and pull in €80k, you're doing just fine. Where do you put the sofa? For locals who inherited and apartment somewhere in Sto
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by caskstrength 3y ago
You don't have control over drunk-driver-in-heavy-pickup-truck-who-is-browsing-instagram-while-speeding crushing into you on the road.

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