ehmish

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by ehmish 7y ago
nah i've had it too, granted it's on a 10 year old Xeon box I got for 40 bucks 4 years ago on an equipment auction at my work, but Asana and clickup are unusably slow, so when I last tried to switch for Firefox I'd just use t
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by ehmish 7y ago
I've wondered if the reason governments haven't passed legislation taxing or otherwise outlawing advertising is that they rely on advertising companies to get elected (election advertising)
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by ehmish 7y ago
There are a number of IP rights which have dubious value, century long copyright is one, software patents are another. They do benefit the Americans because they were the first movers in terms of Hollywood and the software industry, but the
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by ehmish 7y ago
The approach seems fairly reasonable, it sounds like it's limited to explicitly violent extremist content, and it's being done using pension funds of various governments in a activist investment manner to try to bring about change
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by ehmish 7y ago
This doesn't seem wildly inconsistent with my understanding of Elon musk, in that he has a higher level of confidence of his understanding of the world than others would, and in a "you don't know what you don't know &quo
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by ehmish 7y ago
Depends what you burying, if it's paper and food waste, it is sequestering. Paper and food contain carbon pulled from the atmosphere, and by preventing it from decomposing by excluding oxygen (e.g most landfills) you get carbon sequest
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by ehmish 7y ago
You don't seem to be refuting the central claim, but rather accusing the person of being non-genuine, can you point out any flaws with their assertion?
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by ehmish 8y ago
The former has happened a number of times, for example with Kelly Johnston and Lockheed martin's Skunk Works, or many other institutions with charismatic dictatatorial engineers at the helm (Tesla, Linux, Microsoft). I'm definitel
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by ehmish 8y ago
This one here is a slightly different case to "intentional but mistaken". It is however one I've seen in software engineering environments: Person A designs something (in this case it's a gun, in software it could be an
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by ehmish 8y ago
It's mentioned here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-North_Shelter_Forest_Pro... , but the cited reference to it is in "The Epoch Times", which from what I've seen has quite an ideological bent a
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by ehmish 8y ago
Counterfeit goods are a good example where it's not black and white. Say Louis Vuitton runs a factory, and it's workers sneak back into the factory, make a couple of handbags and then sell them themselves, literally the exact same
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by ehmish 8y ago
No, but we should really not have upvoted it quite so highly considering it's a non-primary source that isn't really adding anything
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by ehmish 8y ago
The Dell precision 5520 supports 32 GB of RAM, I'm presently running it in that configuration at the moment, it has an nvidia graphics card unfortunately which I had a couple of issues with until I uninstalled the nvidia drivers and ju
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by ehmish 8y ago
I have a feeling a war would do more damage to the climate than someone pulling out of the paris agreement would ever do, if that's how you're suggesting how to enforce compliance
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by ehmish 8y ago
Here's another article from the ABC (generally considered reputable in Australia) http://amp.abc.net.au/article/10262552
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by ehmish 8y ago
An example of this is say, cigarette advertising, if you were doing this for a job, you'd sure as hell not want to be ripped off by the company, if you're going to sell your soul to the devil, he'd better be paying you fairly
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by ehmish 8y ago
Atlassian may have been founded by Australians but its headquartered in the UK (for tax reasons I assume) and listed in the US, it's as exposed as any multinational to this sort of thing
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by ehmish 9y ago
You're required by to set up systems to ensure accounting information can not be tampered with, even if people tampering with accounting information isn't considered to be a high risk. To make it more concrete, it means you can&#x
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by ehmish 9y ago
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/retail-sales I'm not seeing any crisis as of yet (there's a small dip, but looking at the 10 year historical data it looks like it well within normal ranges)
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by ehmish 10y ago
I prefer the cost of service to be up-front and clearly labeled, tipping obscures the cost
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by ehmish 10y ago
There are tip jars, but there's no expectation to tip (at least in Sydney), it's just a thing if you're feeling generous that day.
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by ehmish 12y ago
The chart that showed the movements of the various percentiles showed an interesting thing, where in 2003, the 25th percentile's wealth started to drop, while at the exact same time the higher percentile's wealth suddenly went up,
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by ehmish 12y ago
My guess as to why that might be is because there seems to be a trend of expenses of institutions expanding to their budgets, private institutions (especially the glamorous ones) have big budgets. Presumably the perverse incentives problem
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by ehmish 12y ago
He instigated a few reasonably influential movements, I think influential people are maladjusted almost by definition. Whether or not he is universally adored is irrelevant to whether or not he has clout.
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by ehmish 12y ago
I would say pretty much every exchange is essentially to do with your skill as a mediator, however according to the article there is definitely exchange of material goods.
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by ehmish 12y ago
Good point, I think the obligation side of that may be at play with the "punishing" example. It's possible that the sort of people that were recruited for the study were the kind that resented being obliged to give more than
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by ehmish 12y ago
I don't believe anyone's been present to document the establishing of a "big man" system in these small tribes. But consider the influence of Richard Stallman. If he'd just been some guy writing his manifestos and s
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by ehmish 12y ago
The idea that people would punish, rather than revere unconventionally generous individuals sounds like the opposite of the "Big man" system, which has been rather well documented to exist [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.or
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by ehmish 12y ago
I found quite interesting his point regarding the redirecting of funding away from automation innovations and towards military and advertising innovations. It resonated with a blog post I read recently[0] [0] http://slatestarcodex
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by ehmish 13y ago
Another New Zealander here, there's merit to encouraging safety consciousness in children. An injury like a broken back (That most people think will "never happen to them") can doom someone for life. Teaching rigorous safety

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