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691.
by dv_dt 3y ago
*state public university systems. Take away state funding, make it a business objective to capture students, add a abstraction of student loans and direct federal funding, and of course tuition increases.
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by dv_dt 3y ago
In the same time period, stay public university systems had their state funding also decimated. Federally sourced loans were favored over expanding grant programs. The thought that public universities should “run like private businesses” is
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Getting up to the point of doing the thing usually takes more time than the thing itself. that’s true in a lot of endeavors. Are you in a physical factory assembling product? The production and assembly time end to end is often a fraction o
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by dv_dt 3y ago
In terms of direct evidence of what the FTC thinks, I don't know. But it's interesting that India had some anti-trust action against companies that both owned online meta-marketplaces and had shops selling in the same marketplace.
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Prime shipping has degraded to me to the point that 20% and rising of the orders are late, and that’s with a recent warehouse in the same city.
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Notably while many other entertainment specialties have unions, I don’t think vfx does
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I don't like composing or editing in Notion. It has some lovely other data aware view and link functionality, but I find myself fighting the block vs content structure frequently. For example, the edit in
698.
by dv_dt 3y ago
Can one really separate the effects of mass covid with no vaccines, sick and dying parents & siblings, short planning, economic stresses, underfunded tech transition budgets in schools from remote learning?
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Yup, the windows OS (as opposed to Linux) is where they have no counterbalancing reason to not pursue darker patterns. So it's a window into unchecked tendencies.
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Why? Periodic meetups, discussion, pair programming, and a slack channel or other RT channel with an open invite to ping. What is missing? And actually in well documented places with pointers to sandbox environments (which remote tends to
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by dv_dt 3y ago
I think it an unsupported assertion that mentoring is not possible in remote environments. The mentoring process does work better when its intentional and remote may need a change in the process of mentoring vs in-office. But the can’t do i
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Oh I didn't realize that. Maybe similar teeth, different dragon. I'm cautious about Microsoft, but recently I'd have to say they've been a reasonable Linux community member - though if there are fewer larger balancing o
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by dv_dt 3y ago
It may shift to a different community balance seeing how RedHat employs a lot of the main contributors to systemd and more recently are showing signs of acting in a more closed manner.
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by dv_dt 3y ago
a) maybe they're not good clients for you, consider taking down their contact info and getting back to them when you're bigger b) save your answers, make a common security practices document that you provide and ask the clients to
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Not really economically viable unless you narrowly focus on profits. For total direct and external costs (i.e. total societal costs) it's already nonviable.
706.
by dv_dt 3y ago
More efficient than an electric drive helicopter I wonder?
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Quite frankly, he looks like everything I would expect from a pop psychologist attached to a business school. The Hetrodox Academy he founded has this criticism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterodox_Academy "Ac
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by dv_dt 3y ago
And before that people had worries about TV(dancing and rock and roll), and radio (war of the worlds), multiple music related scares sprinkled throughout.
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by dv_dt 3y ago
It's difficult to separate the effects of smartphones and wildly increasing wealth inequality.
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by dv_dt 3y ago
https://www.gather.town/ I feel like is one of the more mature, but there are multiple demos where locational audio meeting can happen. https://www.meetup.com/blog/virtual-gathering-tools-for-your...
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by dv_dt 3y ago
This data highlights how pernicious that the recent debt ceiling deal added work requirements for food aid for people over the age of 50. https://msmagazine.com/2023/06/16/mccarthy-debt-deal-snap-wo...
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Seems like a reasonable feature to more productive meetings in general? In-person meetings can degenerate to unproductive noise if people can't speak in turn. If you don't want the "talking stick" pattern there are othe
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by dv_dt 3y ago
I always found Zoom great for latency and communication. For some reason Google vid hangouts had us unintentionally interrupting each other more frequently - don't know if they've improved that now. I think it's one hidden re
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Employees should start associating in-office required days with just talking about a four day work week (which is probably another anathema thing to management).
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Legal compliance has a way of increasing focus on certain bug fixes, particularly if there are potential non-trivial fines :) Edit: I was happy to hear about some legislation and regulatory action against dark patterns.
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by dv_dt 3y ago
In California if you subscribed online the law requires online cancellation. https://www.pillsburylaw.com/en/news-and-insights/changes-ca... “ Even before these changes, the ARL has been a frequent focus of both p
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by dv_dt 3y ago
I've worked remote and non-remote jobs - the variation in productivity was imho independent of remote vs non-remote, and more a function of management curated environment & culture and developer mix. Distrust is a bigger anti-effic
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Moderator users do a lot of work. Even something simple, like a shared blocklist of trolling user accounts could save work. But, better federation moderation tools will also be able to bring some (most?) of the advantages of centralized pub
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by dv_dt 3y ago
> Remote work is challenging for companies that, and I need to say this, in the end must deliver predictable reliable value to their customers at reasonable prices. This is a fear that remote work would somehow not provide value, not a f
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by dv_dt 3y ago
I’m not sure it would be much shorter with some other version control program. Merges, rebasing and bisect are fundamental to what version control does.

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