em-bee

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by em-bee 4mo ago
you booked an appointment in the future. before the day of your appointment arrives, british columbia changes the timezone. all appointments after that change now must follow the new timezone rules. therefore the time of your appointment re
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by em-bee 4mo ago
most of those who might hire someone because they don't know how to do it are now using AI instead. so that market is shrinking too.
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by em-bee 4mo ago
Both your first examples are clearly against HN mods' expectations as a close review of the searches I give above will show. i read every single one of those messages before writing my previous comment and i came to a different concl
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by em-bee 4mo ago
depends, at least he didn't claim that telegram is encrypted. the problem is that whatsapp encryption gives you a false sense of security, which arguably is worse than knowing your messages are not encrypted.
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by em-bee 4mo ago
i think anther scenario is more likely: you say you need a 1 million budget to run the IT department, but you only spend part of it, then next year if you ask for 1 million again, they will say, but last year you only spent 700k, so we are
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by em-bee 4mo ago
i disagree. i mean, sure, they could have said "i expect everyone will disagree with me" instead of "I'm fully prepared to be downvoted into oblivion", and it would have meant the same thing. but neither is complain
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by em-bee 4mo ago
and that was my initial point. the ability to do volunteer work depends on how stable your income is. you can be poor, and have a badly paid job, but if you are not pressed to earn more then you can use your free time on other ways. and tha
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by em-bee 4mo ago
if the majority of the team agrees, sure. but if i am in the minority then i'll appear uncooperative, and that may not be a position i want to be in.
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by em-bee 4mo ago
my paycheck needs me to.
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by em-bee 4mo ago
but those are exactly the cases where the distinction matters. when you have a situation where you can't duplicate the code exactly, then you really have to look carefully if this is actually the right place for a shared abstraction. i
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by em-bee 4mo ago
i actually do a lot of volunteering, so it's not that i am looking for excuses. i just find that for anything i do, i have to be able to focus on it, and if i am struggling to make a living, then i just can't focus on anything els
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by em-bee 4mo ago
i don't get your point. am i reading the article in a different way? my reading is: if you use AI to help you write, then i can't know how much of the work is yours and how much is AI. therefore, when AI helps i have to expect the
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by em-bee 4mo ago
they are, but when i read a scifi magazine like clarkesworld, i can trust that the editor made a good selection of stories. the work of the editor does have value. it's just a different value. and how do you handle the reverse? use AI
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by em-bee 4mo ago
they weren't complaining, they were expressing the expectation that their comment would be unpopular and thus downvoted a lot.
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by em-bee 4mo ago
there is no need for magic. it only takes a small part of the population that is motivated enough to get something going. education in the right direction is enough to instill that motivation.
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by em-bee 4mo ago
since the past few decades china was neither violent nor repressive to the average person living there. it also can't afford to much of that because unhappy people are more likely to revolt. so the goal is to keep people happy. a big f
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by em-bee 4mo ago
i think a big factor is also how you earn your income. if you have a badly paid but regular job and or even if you are unemployed but know that you can't find a job then you can use time when you are not working for other activities.
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by em-bee 4mo ago
another feature request: add a skip or "don't know" option. if i truly don't know a word then a lucky guess would inflate my score.
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by em-bee 4mo ago
i had the fonts for the phaistos disk but not linear a. i have no idea why i had that one even installed, but now i have both :-) only that last character (󲎘) is still missing. which font is that?
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by em-bee 4mo ago
so nobody can watch youtube without an account? that's going to go down well...
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by em-bee 4mo ago
if the society decides that they don't want properties to stay empty, then that's exactly how it works. and yes, it will change to that if people want it. german cities are already discussing options how to motivate owners to fill
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by em-bee 4mo ago
good question. i actually agree with you. but free market is defined as "without government intervention", and some people defend that rigorously. i found this article where government involvement in a public parks fail: https:&
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by em-bee 4mo ago
the market is not spending that money. the community/goverment is.
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by em-bee 4mo ago
a pure market economy would never allow for the existence of a public park. they are on valuable land, cost a lot of money but don't make any profit at all.
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by em-bee 4mo ago
i believe most of the demand for third spaces is for things that are free to use. parks, places to hang out, activities. these spaces are not profitable. in germany this is handled by supporting youth organizations. sport, scouts and other
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by em-bee 4mo ago
i don't know if this is the case everywhere in europe but i understand that at least in germany instead of zoning the local government approves the purpose of each building individually. so instead of deciding this is a commercial zone
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by em-bee 4mo ago
segregating poor people into their own area is a sure way to make them stay poor. i believe there is evidence that the best way to help people out of poverty is to let them live in mixed areas where they have a chance to associate with peop
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by em-bee 4mo ago
for me the key difference is who initiates the conversation. i never do, unless i have to. but i want to talk to people, so my approach is to put myself into situations where they want to talk to me. the next issue is that sometimes the con
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by em-bee 4mo ago
that's not a strong community, but an overbearing, suffocating one. but that behavior leads to disagreement or disunity. it's why i left germany/europe btw. a strong community stands by its members. it supports them. it doesn
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by em-bee 4mo ago
as i understand it, the problem is not getting to Åheim, but sailing along the coast, where, in this part, the conditions are frequently bad. the tunnel is not a shortcut to Åheim but a detour passing Åheim to avoid the coastal area and ins

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