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by fardo 8y ago
Not at all, politics is often a question of values as much as one of logistics, even assuming AI can handle logistics. For example, consider homelessness. No one has any clue what, if anything, is the best solution, because there are tradeo
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by fardo 8y ago
If you don't write your own billing system, either: >Option one: The group managing your billing system is going to take a cut of your revenue, and if you're really big, that's unacceptable. One example: Stripe takes abou
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by fardo 8y ago
>I feel like this problem wouldn't be limited to a person's use of the internet but would be an indicator of a person's lack of curiosity in general I don't agree with that idea. When people say "The internet is
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by fardo 8y ago
>safeframes Safe frames are not the general solution that you make them out to be. First, site owners have to actively choose to use safeframes. My personal opinion, just based on people I've spoken with about this, is that most bus
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by fardo 8y ago
>Fraud? Malware? What does this have to do with adtech? A lot, actually. There are many vectors in which adtech and fraud/malware intermingle: > XSS Attacks: When your website loads HTML into a page without encoding it first, som
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by fardo 8y ago
>Don’t blame the email I blame the unspoken expectations that come with email. Email is, in my experience, a political problem rather than a productivity bug. Requests for support on active bugs comes through email. Your manager will req
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by fardo 8y ago
>The principle that a central authority gets to decree how we live, eat, breath, and think is inherently dangerous, especially when it comes with no evident limits. I don't agree that such an authority is inherently dangerous, this
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by fardo 8y ago
Have you candidly told him any of this? In your position, it sounds like you two need to have a serious talk about what both of you consider your role to be and about where the company is going. Find a free block of time and figure out wher
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by fardo 8y ago
The better question is "Why do you want to build these things", because the answer to that question would help answer yours. Are you looking to make money? Then Chrome extensions probably aren't a great way to do it, given th
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by fardo 8y ago
This is untrue in modern tech for most people. Let's attempt to break it down for a person who's single who wants to retire early: If you're pulling 100k or more, you should be more than capable, if you are living frugally, e
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by fardo 8y ago
I think the elephant in the room for making new friends over 30, is stagnation in one's daily routine caused by one's job. I don't think anything changed dramatically in the last 60 or so years on this point, even with the de
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by fardo 9y ago
>Perhaps there should be a central clearinghouse for people who don't want to be tracked by certain sites. This the most G. K. Chesterton-esque comment I have ever read on this site. Poe's law may apply, but if you're actu
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by fardo 9y ago
If we only get to pick one as a society, entertaining people, hands down. Society happily survived without proof of work for millennia, but I think it’s important to remember that entertainment is the good part of life that proof of work is
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by fardo 9y ago
It respects the people in society who believe that, as long as a commercial work continues to make significant amounts of money, they are entitled to the profits of their labors. It also respects the statistic that most creative works stop
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by fardo 9y ago
>Problem is, material in the public domain quickly becomes worthless I wonder if Disney, which built its empire on repurposing public domain Hans Christian Anderson stories as animated films, would have agreed with your assessment. The v
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by fardo 9y ago
Regardless of how impressive your side project is, unless it is a very special exception (e.g. you’re head maintainer of a linux distribution or open source tool the company hiring you is extensively using and needs your expertise on), it’
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by fardo 9y ago
>Put it in the context of operating systems, and the guy was saying "This is the next Windows." That would be laughable. That happened in real life! Consider what the launch of Linux looked like: http://www.thelinuxd
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by fardo 9y ago
Yes, I edit any article that needs copy-editing. You would be astonished how many articles have basic errors in grammar and spelling. I enjoy the idea that if I noticed it, others will too, and I’m preserving their flow on the article.