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by eszed 3y ago
"Capitalism" is very much in the eye of the beholder, and different regulatory models create market economies with different incentives. What you're talking about is "normal" in certain places. I didn't mean th
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by eszed 3y ago
Huh! An accidental orbit is an interpretation which - almost - makes it work. It wasn't one I'd thought of, and I don't think it would be the first thing most people think of, so... I'd still cut the line. It's re
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by eszed 3y ago
In my jurisdiction I make my payments on the county's property tax website without any authentication at all. Put in the address / parcel number, enter my email address and credit card number. They send me a receipt. Anyone could
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by eszed 3y ago
Restaurants work as part of a larger money-laundering operation, though. Cash washes through the till in the restaurant, and you sign the receipts for all the non-existent food your buddy's supplier sends you. There are probably some o
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by eszed 3y ago
> Work with honest, intelligent people That's such good advice. On the same note, it's so discouraging when someone who is not/neither takes over, those people leave (one way or another), and you have to start the search a
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by eszed 3y ago
I could quibble by saying that making Flash games was a gateway into programming for many of us on this platform, and I don't see similarly useful skills being exercised by making TikTok videos. On the other hand, our elders by and lar
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by eszed 3y ago
You'd be interested in Annales historiography: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annales_school
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by eszed 3y ago
Thanks for the compliment, but honestly... Please don't. I was writing quickly (and admittedly looking for a "nice turn of phrase") when I came up with that, but as a metaphor it doesn't work. "Not touching down&quo
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by eszed 3y ago
My favourite bit is that he's the answer to the trivia question of who's the only first class cricketer to win a Nobel Prize!
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by eszed 3y ago
Thanks for fleshing out my point a bit. I completely agree. Centralized platforms always drove culture, but when that was broadcast (emphasis on the first syllable), it was a) visible to, (potentially!) comprehensible, and able to be influe
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by eszed 3y ago
> we've got this pent up energy that has no where to go. It's no wonder why a lot of kids are producing content for youtube or tiktok... but this has a lot of problems as a replacement. No argument there, but it has advantages,
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by eszed 3y ago
You're right, of course, about "influencers" and advertising and how they work now. But so was the poster to whom you responded, in that those do not create a shared mono-culture.
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by eszed 3y ago
This is amazing. The examples are like Lucky's speech from Waiting for Godot . Pozzo commands him to "Think, pig", and then: > Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattmann of a personal
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by eszed 3y ago
What if there's a vulnerability in the app itself? I have no idea if that's what they're concerned about - they may just be being arseholes in this case - but from the outside it seems like a legit reason to build in the capa
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by eszed 3y ago
Just curious, since I'm not really active in this space, but wouldn't the threat model of most concern be that an external actor breaks (maybe an outdated version of) the app or protocol? This would leak data without you or the re
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by eszed 3y ago
See, now you just sound like Christopher Walken.
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by eszed 3y ago
I suspect you're correct, and am rooting for them to hit sustainable , as soon as possible. I don't know what their maximum sustainable size is, either - that's equally important, though always a moving target. I only wanted
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by eszed 3y ago
But, again, do they need to? It seems to me like "market share" is a metric relevant to companies pursuing VC-founded, unicorn lottery-ticket scale. If they generate enough revenue to pay competive wages, cover their operating cos
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by eszed 3y ago
"Lower your home's sale price by 10% or 20%" is bad framing. For one thing, it's speculative: there's no way to tease any particular nearby building project's effect out of the thousands of other factors (most
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by eszed 3y ago
Like the author, habitual coffee drinking gives me significant anxiety. I didn't call it that, when I figured it out in my early twenties - I said "jittery" - but it's elevated heart-rate, so same diff (that's somet
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by eszed 3y ago
Nothing against Django, just suggesting another option: Laravel offers the same "out of the box" tools that Django does. Django is built with Python, Laravel with PHP. Someone will be along in a moment to start the flame wars abou
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by eszed 3y ago
> Americans think it is the most natural thing in the world. By and large, they do not. (Where did you go to high school? I'd like to send my kid there, if that's true to your experience.) Argumentative essays seemed just as &q
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by eszed 3y ago
RNLI standards for crewing and training are very high, and their equipment is top-notch. They have years'-long waiting lists for applicants. (That's at least true in the regions in the South with which I'm familiar. Not sure
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by eszed 3y ago
I did not know that! Thanks. Indeed, "family run", depending on where they are in the internal-to-the-family management-transition cycle, is more encouraging to me than "publicly held". ("Private equity" is alw
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by eszed 3y ago
Yeah, totally. That's where branding used to be a valuable signal, under the assumption that a company wouldn't deliberately choose to destroy their long-term value. I don't believe that anymore, so I'll place what remai
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by eszed 3y ago
Without knowing anything particular about Miele, all this anecdote suggests is that they were great thirty years ago . They could well have enshittified between now and then. I'm at the point where I don't trust any brands at all
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by eszed 3y ago
If I'd done that I couldn't have context-switched back to the documentation so easily! Nah. I get what you're saying, and it's a great idea. Sometimes I do go for a walk. More often I do dishes. Those are both, however,
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by eszed 3y ago
Hard agree. Another flaw in his thinking: brain cycles and sub-conscious processing. I'm in the middle of a hard problem right now. I ran out of ideas, and opened HN about half an hour ago. In that time, without "trying", I&#
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by eszed 3y ago
> Flowers recommends building a community on a chat platform like Discord, Gitter, or Slack to make it easier for people to get involved informally with a project. “It makes people feel less hesitant to ask quick questions,” she said. “A
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by eszed 3y ago
Good call. When you've got no idea where to start, that's how to start. Mostly, though, I think people "flail" because they don't know the pipeline well enough to even do that. I know I've been in that position

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