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by cletus 5y ago
It's obviously a burden on the not-so-wealthy to be a US citizen living overseas. There's the annual requirement to file a tax return (most countries don't do this) but also the implications for opening accounts thanks to FAT
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by cletus 5y ago
So let's give the risks here the benefit of the doubt and assume the odds of dying from the vaccine are 1 in a million. Given that we've administered >1B doses, that would mean >1000 people have died from the vaccine. This c
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by cletus 5y ago
On some level I'm sympathetic to the argument of the textualists (vs the "living document" philosophy. As you say there's a process for amending the Constitution. But there are a number of problems with this idea. The fi
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by cletus 5y ago
In 2000, WHO declared measles "eradicated" in the United States [1]. Of course, that's no longer the case thanks to those who have decided their feelings and watching an unverified Youtube video trumps science. Requiring vacc
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by cletus 5y ago
Yeah and the raids are generally good but everything else is, well, trash. Coincidence? Also, Blizzard tends to over-focus on the behaviour of Mythic raiders who are like 1% of the population. And I don't mean they cater to their needs
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by cletus 5y ago
There are several factors: 1. Organizations will often see bumping up an employee's pay to match another offer as some variant of extortion and it's they view this as disloyal. Never mind that the other offer clearly shows they&#x
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by cletus 5y ago
So this scratches a big topic of what's wrong with WoW. In short, WoW has transitioned to being run by people who don't play the game, don't understand people who do play the game and are targeting the game at people who don&
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by cletus 5y ago
Brack also played (plays?) WoW and he brought us LFR [1] so there's that... But hope springs eternal. [1]: https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/wow-producer-discusses-k...
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by cletus 5y ago
Make no mistake: this is Bobby Kotick trying to save his job. He may well succeed. I hope his head also makes it to the chopping block. Firstly, Brack was only president for 2 years and a lot of these incidents happened prior BUT if you&#x2
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by cletus 5y ago
Printers are just another example of how effective loss leaders are in selling products (or subscriptions if you want to call them that). Classic example: fast food burgers are typically sold at or near cost. It's the fries and drinks
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by cletus 5y ago
I expect that there are some things that are "universal" and some that aren't. For example, if life--any life--forms on a planet, it is likely that some macro-organisms will evolve that consume other organisms. On Earth we ha
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by cletus 5y ago
You have a point Cook is not a product leader cut from the same cloth as Steve (I mean... few are). His talent was always for supply side management. This is really significant. To secure components and manufacturing capacity for Apple&#x27
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by cletus 5y ago
> Does anyone know why this happens? Oh it's easy to explain. Steve Jobs said it best [1]. He talks about innovation at Pepsi being a new bottle. That's what Activision Blizzard is. They have a "monopoly" with their k
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by cletus 5y ago
So there have been two stories for me recently that just show how important and powerful leadership is. Perhaps more importantly, it seems like the culture that develops with bad or absent leadership can be really hard to correct to the poi
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by cletus 5y ago
The Steve Jobs quote on why Xerox failed [1] strikes again. The finance people have taken over Acti-Blizzard and they've been coasting for 10+ years on their original franchises. All we have is annual CoD releases and Blizzrad coasting
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by cletus 5y ago
All over the Internet you'll see these predictions of doom and gloom as the moratorium on evictions and foreclosures ends. I honestly just don't buy it. For one you have a certain number of actors who haven't paid their rent
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by cletus 5y ago
The whole "right to repair" issue is somewhat complex but farm equipment is a pretty good example of the why this is necessary. For anyone that doesn't know, farm equipment generally lasts a long time. There are farms out the
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by cletus 5y ago
While that trial didn’t have the desired result, didn’t it show or at least strongly suggest that gender and background are factors in recruiting in aggregate? We can speculate what this means. One possibility is that the Australian public
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by cletus 5y ago
> It isn't easy. People interact on social media and at work and so if you're angrily criticizing the plight of the Palestinians on social media, your pro-Israel co-worker may bring that conflict into work with them. There are
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by cletus 5y ago
I believe (but I'm not 100% certain) that I personally first heard this term when I heard about these studies. I remember it because it's something that hadn't occurred to me. But that's the thing: your mind is capable o
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by cletus 5y ago
A lot of behaviour is obvious in aggregate but hard to identify in particular cases. If you make a job posting, get 5 applicants, interview 3 of them and hire 1 it's hard to point a finger and say you did (or didn't) do anything w
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by cletus 5y ago
If you haven't read the state of California's claims here you should. It's the result of a two year investigation and the claims are.. shocking. I want to make a point about "culture fit". "Culture fit" in
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by cletus 5y ago
Should tutorials be expected to teach people sufficient security? Should code snippets be production-ready to put on the Internet for the general public? I tend to think not. Is this just me? So here's a partial list of issues you&#x27
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by cletus 5y ago
There is a fundamental question here: what are the limits of journalism? So you receive classified information and publish it. In the US at least there are is some precedent for journalistic protection here. Think the Pentagon Papers [1]. L
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by cletus 5y ago
Bullying may not have a gender but in the aggregate it's different between boys and girls. Note the word "aggregate". There are invariably anecdotes the contradict the aggregate view but the point is that it's not an abs
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by cletus 5y ago
This common desire for FTL should be an object lesson in how wishful thinking distorts objectivity. We see a constant stream of ideas that spring from simply not understanding the domain of a function. You can put a negative value into mass
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by cletus 5y ago
Perhaps I didn't express this properly but I found Google's C++ dialect quite easy to work with, readable and intuitive because it banned things like exceptions, writing your own templates and no mutable reference function paramet
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by cletus 5y ago
Honestly I never want to write C++ again. It's a horrible Frankenlanguage at this point. I wrote C++ for awhile at Google and Google uses a fairly subset of C++: - No exceptions. Instead they had util::Status (open sourced as absl::Sta
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by cletus 5y ago
Hypothesis: what you're labelling as "childish behaviour" is in fact "narcissism".
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by cletus 5y ago
Tourists aren't a negative per se. Tourists staying in illegal hotels in areas and buildings not designed for such in a way that sometimes belies their total lack of having to deal with any of the consequences... that's something

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