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by exelius 8y ago
China has realized that given their population, climate change will disproportionately affect them. So the government has good reason to actually enforce environmental laws; they’re just too big to do it effectively.
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by exelius 8y ago
Very interesting article! I agree and have felt the tremors the author mentions throughout my own work in a related field. The last decade has taught me that corporations matter more than nations, at this point. In the case of corporate cap
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by exelius 8y ago
Single-party systems by definition have either rule-by-decree or rule-by-consensus as a feature; so I’m not even sure the “rule of law” applies in the same sense when the rules are that the people in power are a hegemony that can change the
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by exelius 8y ago
Watch it become the new hot property as a nostalgia item. I mean jnco is trying to make a comeback; anything is possible.
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by exelius 8y ago
Marijuana alone is the largest agricultural product by value in most states by a pretty wide margin. And that’s been true for a decade before it was legalized anywhere recreationally.
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by exelius 8y ago
There’s a flip side to especially permissive banking laws: your country’s cash flow becomes overweighted with dirty money, and that dirty money takes over your country’s political discourse. The most extreme example of this is Pablo Escobar
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by exelius 8y ago
Walking has never been feasible in the South US. It works in Cuba because Cuba is a small island with a lot of people. Density is forced, so you don’t need a car to get to everything — thus your walking trips are 10-20 minutes long. Living
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by exelius 8y ago
Part of my point is that I think the cause-effect relationship may be reversed anyway. Texas is also so hot in the summer that people will not be walking outside for any appreciable period of time; it becomes a health risk after a certain p
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by exelius 8y ago
Not disagreeing with you at all; just keep in mind that these conditions are ultimately no more dangerous than camping — where exposed, temporary electrical setups are common — which probably gave them a false sense of safety about the setu
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by exelius 8y ago
You front production with an API gateway and version your APIs. You turn migrations into a business validation and testing process rather than a technical dependency; using the load balancer / gateway as the control lever. In this way,
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by exelius 8y ago
Nobody can predict anything today, with president temper tantrum throwing weekly wrenches into the global economy. But over the last decade they would have been right; and keep in mind that even in China, most economic gains have been captu
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by exelius 8y ago
I would hold up Houston as the counterexample. It has zero zoning policies whatsoever and is one of the most sprawled cities in the country, and everyone lives in low-density single family ranch homes with huge floor plans and drives an hou
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by exelius 8y ago
I would not agree with this. I went to an elite business school and my Chinese classmates all felt there was far more opportunity for them in China with an American education. They’re not stupid, they look at China and see an economy growin
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by exelius 8y ago
The original company could have argued that the value received for its assets was less than its liabilities. It’s perfectly legal, but way overused in tech (where assets are overwhelmingly in the form of IP without an easily established mar
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by exelius 8y ago
Pretty sure Atom will just go away soon. VS Code is better at the same thing and now that they’re under the same roof it makes no sense to keep Atom around.
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by exelius 8y ago
Depends where you are in the market and what other tools you’re using. I’ve seen it set up many ways; from just recording macros in SeleniumUI, hand-parameterizing them and running them on SauceLabs to being part of a full enterprise integr
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by exelius 8y ago
Eh, I would say it invites just as much blackmail as it deters. Those policies add more negative consequences to the relationship being exposed — if there’s a chance you could lose your job because of a non-fraternization policy, you’ll be
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by exelius 8y ago
Oh of course; but I feel this kind of exploitation is closer to sexual assault than a consensual relationship. Any relationship with a strong power imbalance can lead to this. Which is a big reason companies discourage this through fraterni
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by exelius 8y ago
There’s almost always some complicating factor we don’t know about in cases like this: I would bet that blackmail was involved, he tried to cover it up, and the board felt they couldn’t trust him as a result of the cover-up. Because you’re
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by exelius 8y ago
At most companies it basically means that a manager should not have a romantic relationship with anyone in their chain of command. In the case of a CEO this would extend to the entire company. I know it sounds punitive, but it’s really a qu
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by exelius 8y ago
Yup; but like anything, you gotta fake it till you make it. Fake followers aren’t considered so much of a black mark in the industry but a sign you haven’t quite made it big yet, but you’re hustling.
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by exelius 8y ago
Ah, I believe they’re calling that Robotic Process Automation (RPA) now. Why bother to even look for the API docs for that shitty SaaS app? Just train Selenium to do it and feed it inputs, then hire some dude offshore to update the automati
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by exelius 8y ago
Buy a few thousand followers from a click farm and see if the responses start to change. That’s honestly the best way to establish yourself if you’re serious; everyone is defrauding everyone and nobody cares because they’re all getting rich
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by exelius 8y ago
I didn’t read the article that way at all; I read it as implying that Wake was intentionally written in a way to be unapproachable so as to frustrate literary critics (whom Joyce was undoubtedly aware of and influenced by). Almost like an
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by exelius 8y ago
Except the article we’re replying to makes essentially this same argument, while asserting that many Joyce scholars have come to the same conclusion.
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by exelius 8y ago
I feel that it can often help that foreigners (especially Americans) have a reputation for rudeness that has become accepted as “cultural difference”, such that people are not as offended when a gaijin does something that would be considere
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by exelius 8y ago
Welcome to being a minority. It can be just as bad to be one in the US without proper support. Life is hard for everyone.
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by exelius 8y ago
It’s not the cost of the fuselage itself, but the infrastructure to build it and the throughput with which they can build them. If you want to increase the number of rocket launches, you need to increase the number of rockets. We will alway
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by exelius 8y ago
It’s more that there are people who could be rockstars, but because they weren’t immersed in startup culture or entrepreneurship since childhood, they don’t know what’s important to the business. That’s why clear goals and responsibilities
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by exelius 8y ago
Once you start to manage people for real, you’ll realize that the truth is often very subjective and it’s easy to appear awesome to your boss without being so when he has 8 other people to evaluate. Getting to the bottom of it all is hard,

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