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931.
by dools 4y ago
Yes the odious part is not about how much labour it will eliminate but about how it will take a “commons” and enclose it much the same as pharmaceutical patents have done for folk remedies or the enclosure of common lands.
932.
by dools 4y ago
I had a close friend go through something similar last year
933.
by dools 4y ago
Of all the reasons to choose AWS over GCP, account management would NOT be one of the ones I would consider. Amazon's account management is a fucking nightmare. I basically just don't login to Amazon anymore because it's so
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Tell HN: Idea to End TXT Scams
1 points by dools 4y ago|1 comments
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by dools 4y ago
Sure thing. My brother needed to go to a psychiatric hospital, and of course it's very difficult to be involuntarily committed. We got him there in the end, mostly due to the enduring support of his partner. My lesson from that was tha
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by dools 4y ago
Then perhaps they need a house and a job, and mental and physical healthcare. And perhaps that needs to be provided for a few decades to reverse the generational trauma caused by involuntary unemployment and poverty.
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by dools 4y ago
> I love this idea in theory, but recognize that you are moving the discussion from providing effective, safe, and equitable transportation towards solving homelessness. Sure, but if the objection to "public transport should be free
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by dools 4y ago
If free attracts the "destitute and mentally ill", then probably we should be: 1) Not allowing anyone to be destitute and; 2) Also providing free and comprehensive mental health care
939.
by dools 4y ago
Leonard Susskind Stanford Physics Lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6i60qoDQhQGaGbbg-4aS... Seminar on Macroeconomics, Randall Wray: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnw-449iRxO-BbfN55F
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by dools 4y ago
Maybe we should think about providing houses for homeless people instead of trying to kick them off public transport then ...
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by dools 4y ago
By enforcing a "user pays" model on public transport, we are requiring that the most disadvantaged support their own transport system, which they use to get around to go to jobs to support the wealthy. Meanwhile, the richest peopl
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by dools 4y ago
Then it’s a variable.
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by dools 4y ago
It’s obvious that the only value in using different cases is so you can differentiate between different types of thing: 1) functionsLikeThis 2) variables_like_this 3) ClassesLikeThis
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by dools 4y ago
This is so fucking dumb. As if you need a lawyer to contest a parking ticket in the first place. The last time I got a parking ticket I had photos and documentary evidence that I should not have been liable. After I lodged my intent to cont
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by dools 4y ago
Work for the federal government or work for a company who largely contracts to the federal government. If not federal, state, the larger the agency the better.
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by dools 4y ago
It was the comment section of Graeber’s Guardian article written in response to this paper which first lead me to MMT. EDIT: since I see the discovery of MMT as the most important information I have ever learned, I think it’s a good idea to
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by dools 4y ago
Jinx!
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by dools 4y ago
“Anyone can create money, the trouble is getting it accepted” - Minsky
949.
by dools 4y ago
> All economy is fragile because it is based on perception. Not really, it’s based on laws, specifically taxation.
950.
by dools 4y ago
“Good enough for government work”
951.
by dools 4y ago
You would probably love being an independent security researcher if you can make a living off bug bounties.
952.
by dools 4y ago
Unions aren't even the half of it, they're just so in demand. Strong bank profitability and lending are basically the bedrock of our economy, people's homes have appreciated so much they're able to borrow obscene amounts
953.
by dools 4y ago
Wow this is just like my product BenkoBot only better! Nicely done
954.
by dools 4y ago
It’s also breaking the guideline against editorialising in the title
955.
by dools 4y ago
Oh right, I assumed it was meant as VPs, like the TV series. I didn’t realise that was a cute way of referring to anyone working at the company. I was wondering why anyone generally would be caring so much what happened to the Vice Presiden
956.
by dools 4y ago
“I needn’t labor the basic plot” proceeds with complete retelling of entire film
957.
by dools 4y ago
I’ve been using this hosted on my own server since it was first posted in 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5696127
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by dools 4y ago
You should tell him to move to Australia. Tradies in Australia are like royalty.
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Twitter Outages Reported in Australia(downdetector.com.au)
3 points by dools 4y ago|0 comments
960.
by dools 4y ago
In my experience of building stuff in a way that I guess you would describe as micro services, but purely by happenstance (ie. I didn’t set out to “do micro services”) at the heart of micro services are queues. Queues are awesome, just use

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