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by crmd 2y ago
What I remember of Triplebyte was, out of nowhere, omnipresent and inauthentic advertising that made it very clear someone was spending a lot of money to target me.
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by crmd 2y ago
In my view, corporate landlording is a relic of the past and really has no place in a progressive society. The financialization of housing stock in the USA where I live has been a disaster.
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by crmd 2y ago
There’s nothing wrong with, say, buying a two family home, living in one unit, and renting out the other to help pay the mortgage. But corporate landlording, where an organization owns multiple buildings and runs it as a profit-maximizing
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by crmd 2y ago
So I work in tech but am pretty well-connected to the trades within my family and friends group. The major shortage in every trade is in helpers and laborers. It’s not the case that they need people with journeyman-level technical skills, a
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by crmd 2y ago
Do these BLS statistics reflect “real” jobs, in the sense of what an average older American thinks a job provides, or are these mostly new economy “jobs”, with poverty wages, no healthcare, retirement funding, etc? My sense here in NYC is t
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by crmd 2y ago
Good answer!
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Picking a fight with a loudmouth incumbent can be an extremely effective PR strategy for small challengers seeking to increase brand awareness. The press lives for these stupid games. “Mr Musk, what do you say to Lucid and your former head
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by crmd 2y ago
In the United States it would be discrimination if, for example, the rules were selectively enforced against people of a certain protected class such as race or religion. HOA control is simply a covenant written into the deed of certain pro
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by crmd 2y ago
My grandfather had years worth of Popular Mechanics magazines from the 1960s and 70s at his house that I used to read as a kid. Typical cover stories were how to build a tool shed, how to design and install a septic tank, how to dig a well,
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by crmd 2y ago
Nonsense. The majority of my capitalist friends who own businesses work their asses off to build a company that reliably generates a 15-20% operating margin and then spend the rest of their career making sure nothing and nobody breaks their
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by crmd 2y ago
There is a procedure at the link below for doing just that. You disconnect leads for the cellular main, cellular sub, and GPS antennas from the DCM, and replace them with 50 ohm terminators. This avoids error codes and check engine light, a
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by crmd 2y ago
On late model Toyotas, pulling the fuse for the DCM (Data Communication Module - component that sends nonconsensual telemetry back to Toyota) also disables the car's bluetooth microphone and front right speaker. There is a procedure t
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by crmd 2y ago
100%. Monopoly destroys value for every market participant except for major shareholders of the monopolist.
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I like to imagine how insanely good Google’s customer service would be if no company including them captured more than 5-10% of market share.
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by crmd 2y ago
This is the kind of abuse of power that I wish antitrust regulators would focus on. Apple, Inc owns an operating system and a music app, and leverages its control of the OS to secure an unearned advantage for its music app over its rivals.
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by crmd 2y ago
The primary use case is not analytics. This data store is the system of record in their credit card authorization and billing pipeline, and so it has extreme consistency requirements. The lion’s share of its engineering is to provide consis
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by crmd 2y ago
The most surprising result to me is how scholars tended to report that moral concerns that a study’s conclusions could harm vulnerable groups was NOT a valid reason to avoid publishing (M = 29.61, SD = 27.68). I assumed this was a primary
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by crmd 2y ago
Silicon Graphics is my favorite logo from this era, but Sun is solid. I have great memories of being assigned my very own Ultra 2 desktop with Creator3D graphics on the first day of my first tech job.
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by crmd 2y ago
The big difference seems to come from self-reporting vs independent reporting. In other words, people around you think your personality is more similar to your dad’s than you think it is.
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Imagine if someone pitched this commercial to Steve Jobs
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by crmd 2y ago
When you become an older worker, and experience firsthand the vulnerability of seniority, you realize why your union was always so protective of older workers. I would think many tech workers over ~35 can relate.
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by crmd 2y ago
Google disputes this, if you read past the first sentence: >[A]ll of the workers who were fired were “personally and definitively involved in disruptive activity inside our buildings."
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by crmd 2y ago
This is the premise of Sneakers[1], my favorite hacker movie, where a pen test team is hired to steal a hardware module that can defeat any encryption system. Sidney Potier’s character Donald Crease has an apropos line: “There isn’t a gover
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by crmd 2y ago
I'm actually making a version of Kenji's macaroni and cheese (except with shredded baby back rib meat added) for lunch as we speak! His channel is great. I would also be interested in a Chef Jean Pierre simulator, where you learn
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by crmd 2y ago
I'm an Xennial with 20 years in tech, and I am seriously investigating switching to a trade. When I got in, the red hot areas in tech were all about building infrastructure technologies and software development was super close to the m
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I wonder if this "opening" of the operating system is their way of putting the metaverse project out to pasture - analogous to donating it to the Apache Foundation - without admitting that the company burned $36 billion on a misad
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The synthetic data creation and meta-learning scenario is the only use case that sounds remotely plausible.
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> Following a simulation phase, the prototype is currently under construction and will ultimately undergo an extensive testing process at Porsche AG
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I feel like a person who’s been eating only one food group for the past couple of years and has developed a scurvy-like disorder. My mind is craving thoughtful, non-partisan, deeply intellectual conservative analysis of current events. No
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by crmd 2y ago
>… concerns that coverage is frequently presented through an ideological or idealistic prism that can alienate listeners. Speaking as a lifelong NPR listener who recently had to cut them off because of ideological exhaustion: yep!

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