donw

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by donw 4y ago
They agree with me.
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by donw 4y ago
The big problem -- pun intended -- is that vehicles are de facto required by law to be huge. Imagine if we had cars that were built like cars from the 80s -- smaller, lightweight, tons of visibility, minimal equipment -- but with modern eng
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by donw 4y ago
This is for firefighters, not the FBI.
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Clarifying my ambiguous response: "Above comment" refers to "most teachers are jobsworths that don't care about their students".
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by donw 4y ago
My parents were both teachers. A significant trunk of my classmates went into teaching after college. We keep in touch. The above comment is accurate.
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by donw 4y ago
Unfounded fear. They'll be a littoral marine habit well before they become a museum.
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Exactly. This looks like a good alternative to importing a Kei car from Japan. With a bigger battery pack and some outlets, could be a be a perfect little runnabout truck for a small farm or ranch.
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by donw 4y ago
Six is where you start figuring out how you're going to split the team. Eight is where you actually make it happen (either into 4+4 or 6+2).
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Japan has effectively zero COVID restrictions.
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by donw 4y ago
People assume all institutions are default-corrupt. True for any social system that grants one group power over another. Only constant and consistent demonstration of honest behavior signals otherwise. Trust is a delicate thing, and must be
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by donw 4y ago
People have recognized that the New York Times and NPR are less trustworthy than crazy Facebook uncles.
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Especially as Apple is often the "well-funded attacker".
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I think the biggest damage came from effectively zero-interest loans to those with means: high net-worth individuals, financial institutions, etc. Insanely magnified purchasing power for those with access. Consider housing. Blackrock and th
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by donw 4y ago
Metrics will always be "gamed". The key is making the "game" the easiest way to get teams to do what you want done: A/B testing, TDD, etc. Once you've built in that institutional muscle memory, you can depriori
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by donw 4y ago
Pretty sure that recommendation came from a Git hosting service that charged by the megabyte.
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by donw 4y ago
> Because bribery and ”persuasion”, as you call it, is illegal and thus carries a lot of risk? You're thinking like a commoner. Which I get, I'm a commoner, too. I certainly wouldn't try that kind of "persuasion&quo
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by donw 4y ago
Yeah, same thing in Germany. I recall chatting with some highly-placed dude in Deutsche Post a few years back. He had come in from the tech industry to unfuck their... well, tech, and was amazed at the level of opulence available to him as
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by donw 4y ago
> My doubt is largely because they can just stop them existing and face little to no consequences. Why bother being cute? If Amazon's workforce manages to organize outside of the penumbra of the company boot, then there absolutely w
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by donw 4y ago
Rule of law isn't exactly fashionable these days.
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by donw 4y ago
You have to understand the theory behind the religion of Socialism/Communism/Democracy/Whatever The Current Re-Brand Is. A Socialist society is one in which True Equity has been achieved. The State sort of just fades out of e
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by donw 4y ago
For our younger readers, here's how the game works: 1. Amazon makes a big show about fighting unionization. Police, media, all the rest. 2. While doing (1), they quietly install leaders in the union movement that will do what they are
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by donw 4y ago
> Let go of pride and commute by bicycle. It has nothing to do with pride. Cars are comfortable and convenient. You get a nice seat, air the temperature you want it, and can carry actual cargo. It's easy to run a complete loop of er
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by donw 4y ago
> If we are in a capitalist economy We aren't, and haven't been for some time.
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I see a bit of measurement, but nothing that looks like an experiment; e.g.: observe, think, predict, test, iterate. Need to dig out the link, but there's a video of a British biologist from a few years ago, talking about how today&#x2
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by donw 4y ago
> Yes but you no longer have the burden of control and responsibility. Sounds like slavery with extra marketing.
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So, a kill switch with extra marketing.
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Point! You'd want some type of aggregation protocol, so that power-distribution devices can send more granular data up the chain, but yeah, it'd make more sense to build this into said devices: outlets, power strips, chargers, and
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I see three options if this is a necessary use-case against a shared-changeable dataset: 1. Accept that the results will be unstable as the underlaying set changes. Pagination may either miss or double-include items unpredictably. 2. Store
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"Big waste for a bit of lazy convenience" sums up the present state of things quite nicely.
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This times a large physical constant. I would be pleased with a world where every device I plugged in could broadcast its energy consumption via the low-bandwidth flavor of HomePlug (a powerline networking standard), with a filter at the br

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