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by dimitrios1 1y ago
This is one of those assumed truisms that turns out to be false upon close scrutiny, and there's a bit of survivorship bias in the sense that we tend to look at the technologies that had mass appeal and market forces to make them cheap
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by dimitrios1 1y ago
I am not here to argue for a "side", to win an argument, nor provide a thesis defense with citation and references -- this is an answer you can easily get from ChatGPT. There's quite literally hundreds. To add a wrench to bot
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by dimitrios1 1y ago
For every example of privatization going wrong, there's least one example (if not two) of it going right. But serious question -- what is the difference these days anyways? Our entire government is effectively privatized anyways from t
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by dimitrios1 2y ago
There is no uniform tactic for this type of marketing. They will compare against whomever they need to to suit their marketing goals.
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by dimitrios1 2y ago
The false dichotomy is that you need big government to have a society that does not go hungry.
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by dimitrios1 2y ago
I am not part of Trump's fan base, and I am in favor of taking action to reverse decades of negative trends I've seen happening as a result of American corporations selling their souls to the highest outside bidders. It's goi
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by dimitrios1 2y ago
hard to tell which side you are talking about here TBH, because while one side has talked up a big game about what they may or may not do, the other side has been actively weaponizing our institutions against aforementioned side.
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by dimitrios1 2y ago
Still running CS2 from an old ripped disc over here. Does 95% of what I need.
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by dimitrios1 2y ago
Correct. "Huge" in the case of antitrust matters is big enough to act anti-competitively. It's much more broad than you think, and it sees a lion share of litigation done by the Feds. For example, there's currently an on
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by dimitrios1 2y ago
I get what you are saying at, but viewed in a another way, you just said that the fastest thing in the universe is really slow.
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by dimitrios1 2y ago
It's like trying to say Elixir wasn't influenced the most by Erlang
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by dimitrios1 2y ago
In my experience, the job hopping for an increase only works up to senior / lead level (or engineering manager for manager counterpart). Anything after that requires time in role having a consistent, positive impact, and building up a
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by dimitrios1 2y ago
Yes. Advertisement is a helluva drug. No one's IRC server has a billion dollar marketing budget. Also Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, et all all started off pretty uncensored and unmoderated to build the moats. Then they started cracking d
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by dimitrios1 2y ago
Again: The platform is IRC. The servers are the individual communities. There were hundreds of IRC networks. You were not blacklisted from all of IRC. You were blacklisted from a particular server. And in my personal recollection, you only
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by dimitrios1 2y ago
You were not kicked off the platform. You could join any other thousands of rooms, boards, etc. And you were only booted if you truly were a real dipshit.
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by dimitrios1 2y ago
This is where I really feel my age. Every message board and chatroom (bbs, forums, irc, icq, aol, et all) on the young internet was virtually uncensored and a 100% free for all, yet we all mostly got by. You went to the places you knew to g
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by dimitrios1 2y ago
https://thehill.com/opinion/4723678-cuba-russian-relations-c...
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by dimitrios1 2y ago
This has been debated ad nasuem in America since at least the 60s. It depends on your philosophy both economic and political.
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by dimitrios1 2y ago
Actually, it's worse than that right now for many on welfare, as they face the "benefits cliff". Inflation is rampant and some low wage earners are getting modest increases to keep up with inflation, but this increase is subs
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by dimitrios1 2y ago
This is the fundamental problem with education: everyone treats it as some problem to "solve" with tools, and technologies. The issues with education are human ones -- interpersonal and policy -- not because it's lacking some
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by dimitrios1 2y ago
Must incentives exists in perpetuity? I would say the next course of action is come up with incentives for the next thing that needs incentivizing. Once that's done, move on to the next, so on and so forth. If there's a lapse and
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by dimitrios1 2y ago
The prime criteria for being clickbait is if it is sensationalized, deceptive, or intentionally misleading. This strikes me as none of those things. It's the last sentence of a blog post.
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by dimitrios1 2y ago
I am not buying this argument. America for better or worse (mostly worse) has a two party system that in practice functions as mostly a uniparty prioritizing defense spending, entitlements, and the economy, with some lip service paid to red
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by dimitrios1 2y ago
"I'm sorry officer, I didn't know I couldn't do that"
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by dimitrios1 2y ago
Comparing the time it takes for a prog language to spread from the 80s to today is a bad vantage point. Stuff took much longer to bake back then -- but even so the point is moot, as other commentors pointed out, it took off roughly the same
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by dimitrios1 2y ago
Quite dissapointing, because I found the authors book "A Mind For Numbers" to be good.
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by dimitrios1 2y ago
I work for a large enterprise and we use terraform open source atm, but I can pretty much guarantee we move to OpenTofu once the dust settles a little more.
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by dimitrios1 3y ago
It's not so dumbfounding when you uncover what Microsoft's real goals and aspirations are for Github.
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by dimitrios1 3y ago
But there is a risk of dying from heating up tissue.
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by dimitrios1 3y ago
> Modern goods are fractally complex: individuals can't be expected to become experts in all the disciplines required to judge the quality of a good Indiviuals do not have to understand the fractals of complexity inherent in what it

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