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Soviet Shoe Factory Principle(wiki.c2.com)
201 points by dccoolgai 2y ago|146 comments
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
It could be a combo of 1 and 3: a competitor (or someone who thinks they might be in the future) ages those domains, then points it to their own product later.
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
I was recently watching a short history piece about some of the attitudes/egos Lorne had to deal with (e.g. Chevy Chase) and it struck me how similar some of them are to certain "rockstar engineers" I've worked with.
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
The U.S. engineer can be fired on a whim immediately and lose their health care (COBRA) and the company that fires them can even contest their unemployment benefits (that the employee paid into) if they feel motivated enough. That's on
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
Enshittification but for fruit
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
It would be an interesting idea if employees at tech companies organized unions _for each other_. Like the guys at Apple ran the union for Microsoft and negotiated for them and visa versa.
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
Recently, I've found myself trying to avoid any food that touches any plastic mostly for this reason. It's so hard to do - even aluminum drink cans are coated with plastic on the inside, apparently.
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
The "Stupak amendment" was exactly that. There were a group of Dems who wanted concessions on federal funding that were holding out until that amendment went in the bill.
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
I love this! Great work! Just an idea here, since you already have a form with the `action` set up, you could do some kind of `noscript` section with like 10 preset `input` elements, where the "n+1"th input appears when strings ar
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
A really level-headed take on what must have been a very tough experience. I'm reminded of the Star Trek TNG quote "It's possible to commit no mistakes and still lose that's not weakness, that's life."
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/gerr... "Nationally, extreme partisan bias in congressional maps gave Republicans a net 16 to 17 seat advantage for most of last decade. Michigan, North
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
You may have misread "first and worst". Democrats eventually follow suit, but the cherry picked example of CA doesn't account for the partisan overrepresention of Republicans in gerrymandrered congressional districts. It&#x27
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
No, from Super PACS (they were the Citizens United in _Citizens United_) to gerrymandering the Republicans do it first and worst. It's not even close. It's nice to think "both sides" but it's misinformed.
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
One promising anecdotal is that I've seen a big uptick in the last 8 weeks of people leaving my current place (not FAANG but you've heard of it) with work secured whereas that wasn't the case much for the last 2 years.
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
But that "harm" was caused by the City failing to secure the data - not this one person who said "the city failed to secure the data - anyone can get it".
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
When the railroad was the internet, it was really the Silicon Valley of its day. Really makes you think.
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
It would be odd, if the executives weren't paid 300x what the union assembly line workers were... This "heads they win tails we lose" system is the thing that seems odd. They make millions on the theory that they take respons
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
If I'm not mistaken, the berries can also be used to make a drink (iirc mixed with lemonade).
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
It was not the first, either: See "Cleveland Freenet" https://cfn.tangledhelix.com/
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
"suburbanites in Buffalo and Albany are not affected by the tax in any meaningful way, and should not have a disproportionate say in a policy that benefits millions of city residents." But it says in the article itself and pretty
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
yeah, I have a subscription there - you can jerry-rig it so 5 or more people can play on that (by creating the table with slots and not having players wait to join) but the game itself gets a little unwieldy with more people
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
Dominion is such an amazing game - the complexity that can arise from such a dead simple set of core rules is awesome. It tends to break down with more than 4 or 5 players - I wish there was a version of it for larger groups to play online.
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
I was a big player on isotropic too. (I played Innovation after they shut down Dominion which was also fun). The one at dominion.games really isn't too bad - not as good as isotropic IMHO but not bad either.
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
Yes, 100 percent. These dipwads pay themselves 100x salaries. The only way to defend that is that they take 100x responsibility for screwing things up. I would say differently if it was just a rank-and-file IC but this individual has enrich
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
If the Senate passes the Section 174 changes, this situation would reverse quickly and dramatically. I don't think most engineers understand the massive massive difference between "my salary is capitalized and amortized over 5 yea
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
IANAL but in my experience, the lawyers would say "doublecheck everything and if we're wrong, pay them so I don't have to spend a lot of effort litigating this". No, I would bet it's a combination of PR flacks and M
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
I was wondering when this was going to breach the Zeitgeist. I've been reading about it for a while now. I'd really love to watch the recent show about it (that apparently triggered the awareness of it in the U.K.) but I can'
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
Made a comment above. If SEs understood or could deign to get involved in politics at all, this would be reformed. It's 1) enormous 2) Poorly understood/ discussed
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
Another big factor (that doesn't get as much attention because it's wonkish) is the section of the TCJ Act of 2021 that forced software engineering to be amortized over 5 years instead of written off as an expense. Absolutely resp
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
"Lucky's Dad" is low-key the best character in the show.

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