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elliotec
4y ago
What does this mean?
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elliotec
5y ago
SimCity games had a major focus on transport and economy as well, just as you'd expect from any city builder. Both of these are really just SimCity copies, which I applaud because I am a huge city builder fan. That said, I hope we star
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elliotec
5y ago
> the distribution cost is basically 0 How do you figure? Surely you know the magnitude of ad spend on software products, not to mention hosting and scaling infrastructure. We're not shipping cd's to every mailbox anymore but a
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elliotec
5y ago
https://elliotec.com
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elliotec
5y ago
I think the suggestion is that we should use the word "complete" when we mean it. Presumably, unlike say a software project, there is an actual state of completion possible in sequencing the human genome. Why has that mark been su
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elliotec
5y ago
If "most of Utah" is on your shithole list, then I question your honesty on having visited.
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elliotec
5y ago
Austria and Vienna in particular is incredibly classist and I'm shocked that was even mentioned as something worse about the US. We have greater inequality but culturally it's another world.
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elliotec
5y ago
No single place in the country is representative of the country.
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elliotec
5y ago
There's a decent book about this called Team Topologies. Not necessarily the org design bible, but maybe close, and definitely addresses many specifics around this topic and your comment. https://www.amazon.com/Team-Top
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5y ago
Because it was first, and the word itself has permeated the psyche of society in ways that the other currencies haven't. People who know nothing at all about crypto buy into BTC because they've heard of it and heard it turns into
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elliotec
5y ago
Hm, this is a senseless comment. > May be I am naive, Yeah maybe.
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5y ago
I'd think most companies generally wouldn't be considered evil outside the "there is no ethical consumption/production under capitalism" thought - some obvious candidates for organizations that are not evil are thos
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5y ago
> I don't really see how their actions are substantially different from other corporations of their scale. I don't think they are, but the site/organization is just focusing on Google rather than "Big Tech" as a
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5y ago
The linked website has many of your answers. Some of the listed evils include mass surveillance, mass censorship, participation in drone killings, stealing and exploiting people's data for profit, building murder robots, colonizing phy
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elliotec
5y ago
So it works? And there are no errors?
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elliotec
5y ago
This website doesn’t seem to work.
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5y ago
This key storage system is a now very common and (ostensibly) very secure model that has been iterated on and is in wide use, especially for hardware wallets like Trezor. The model they use is called the "Shamir Backup," here'
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elliotec
5y ago
Maybe you should! Sometimes that's still a lot of work though. And sometimes for some people, the lines between life and work are pretty blurry.
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elliotec
5y ago
I'm somewhere in the early middle of it. It's dense but incredible. I also read Humankind. Funny enough both of these books are sitting on my desk right in front of me. Both provide ample hope that humanity can mature (back) out o
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This is really strange to me. Why does it have to look "professional" to avoid curiosity from the child, and what does a professional look entail vs video games if you're not literally playing video games? And what is the har
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elliotec
5y ago
> Better to give them actual toys that they will grow out of, rather than a screen that they won't. I know this is true, but why is it true? We have a 4 month old, she gets very nearly zero screen time, but on the rare occasion I ha
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5y ago
> There are a lot of risks to an acquisition (eg sexual harassment How on earth is sexual harassment a risk to an acquisition?
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5y ago
I see it here: https://medium.com/@coinbaseblog
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5y ago
dutchie | Full time | REMOTE or Bend, OR | Several roles and levels, especially Product and Engineering | https://dutchie.com/careers Founded in 2017, dutchie is an all-in-one technology platform powering dispensary operati
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5y ago
Brilliant comment. I'm playing the sims while reading this too and one can't help but wonder the extent of their sentience
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5y ago
From what I'm seeing in relatively extensive research lately, the KBB doesn't seem to reflect the difference much, especially for trade-ins. It could be that dealers aren't willing to put up with the inflated prices for trade
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elliotec
5y ago
New cars are not nearly as inflated. The answer to the first question is yes, it's a very good time to sell old and buy new. One stipulation is that ordering a new vehicle with specifications they don't have on the lot will take i
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elliotec
5y ago
Most front end engineers don't get to decide how the UI looks, typically product and design will dictate that maybe with the exception of really small teams or products where design is apparently not priority.
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dutchie | Full time | REMOTE or Bend, OR | Several roles and levels, especially Product and Engineering | https://dutchie.com/careers Founded in 2017, dutchie is an all-in-one technology platform powering dispensary operati
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elliotec
5y ago
Can you elaborate on that? Why journalism in particular? Have you done this? Are you better at docs?
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