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by dave4420 2y ago
1. Proportion of people who die due to violence/suicide. Bit tricky to define this rigorously. Does euthanasia count? Abortions? Starvation due to war? To market economics? I’m not sure how applicable it would be to a hive mind species
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by dave4420 2y ago
Certain large tech companies may find themselves less profitable should antitrust bite them.
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by dave4420 2y ago
Britain is going down the toilet, but it is not going down the toilet that badly.
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by dave4420 2y ago
> Astoundingly, she said they are more than 200 times more efficient. Than solar panels? Which already convert light to electricity with >20% efficiency?
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by dave4420 2y ago
We can support maybe half our current population with our available agricultural land. Having to rely on food imports has only been a problem during world wars.
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by dave4420 2y ago
:-(
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by dave4420 2y ago
Surely there is a browser plug-in that will allow you to prefer light mode for some sites and dark mode for others? Or even add a toggle to the browser UI? I don’t see the value in having this implemented by individual websites.
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by dave4420 2y ago
Speaking generally (as I am currently between roles) the whole team always comes to retro, including the team’s product person. Sometimes external people (e.g. from Customer Success) have been invited as well. And I’ve never seen any proble
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by dave4420 2y ago
Something I don’t understand is: why do we need to allow the user to explicitly set dark mode or light mode? Why can’t we just check prefers-color-scheme and leave it at that?
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by dave4420 2y ago
Product people take part in your retros, right?
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by dave4420 2y ago
Action items should be assigned to named individuals, and should be reviewed at the start of the next retro. Hold people accountable if they ignored their action items.
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by dave4420 2y ago
Still, execs might actually listen to these people.
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by dave4420 2y ago
First work out which laws you can use. Where do you live? (Country and state) Where is the company based? (Country and state)
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by dave4420 2y ago
Positive population growth implies positive economic growth. As a superrich capitalist, he can skim more (in absolute terms) off the top.
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by dave4420 2y ago
In certain cases, yeah, why not? For example, maybe at an epidemiology or food hygiene conference, or for Halloween. But in general, no.
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by dave4420 2y ago
Fastly is still out of budget for hobbyists who want to run their logic at the edge. For comparison, Cloudflare Workers starts at $5/month. It would be nice if Fastly could make the stuff that’s only free for 30 days available at a sim
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by dave4420 2y ago
To add to what everyone else has said, there was also new competition from mailing lists administered via the web, and from web based forums. I feel like Google Groups deserves a (dis)honourable mention here — it was a free web-based interf
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by dave4420 2y ago
Looks like the interesting stuff is only on a 30 day free trial. If you want to use it for a hobby site beyond that, you need to pay US$50+/month.
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And who would check the numbers if they were entered onto a blockchain?
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by dave4420 2y ago
No. When they want to talk to me, they can talk to me. If they want to talk to me after I’m dead… they will need to come to terms with me being dead. I don’t see how a jumped up Markov chain pretending to be me will help with that.
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by dave4420 2y ago
Depends on what you mean by “true free will” really.
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by dave4420 2y ago
It means “not being kept up to date”. I don’t think it means “unfinished”.
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by dave4420 2y ago
How does a blockchain make it more transparent than just publishing it on a website? Why would people need a private key to read the blockchain?
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by dave4420 2y ago
Somehow an abandoned profile page on Facebook or LinkedIn is less embarrassing than an abandoned home page.
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by dave4420 2y ago
Wait, people try to do functional programming in Go? The language feels hostile to it.
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by dave4420 2y ago
Could long covid help cause WW3? Yeah, sure, why not? So could Parkinson’s / Alzheimer’s / other dementia, or an unfortunately timed heart attack or bout of food poisoning or whatever. Could ChatGPT compensate for this? No. You ne
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by dave4420 2y ago
And having enough savings to be able to not care whether you get pushed out by the new round of redundancies is great for your mental health.
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by dave4420 2y ago
Easy to imagine the Korean situation remaining unresolved for another lifetime.
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by dave4420 2y ago
> Your session has timed out. Please go back to the article page and click the PDF link again.
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by dave4420 2y ago
How soon counts as “impending”?

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