fatneckbeardz

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by fatneckbeardz 4y ago
ok so to restate. proof of work blockchain use case: you want to invent a money transfer system that will attract criminals to use it, and they will think it is anonymous, but its not really anonymous.
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by fatneckbeardz 4y ago
one of the clearest examples of "privatize the profits, socialize the losses."
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by fatneckbeardz 4y ago
are you reading my mind? The idea "this could all be easily automated so those who don't automate it will go out of business" presumes efficient market theory is true. Markets are not actually efficient. Markets are based on
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by fatneckbeardz 4y ago
the cat food can thing is perfect here. there are, in fact, TKP trucks on longboards, there are extensive discussions on r/longboarding about the differences, and what it boils down to is that a skateboard is an individualized piece of
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by fatneckbeardz 4y ago
don't you mean ++C23
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by fatneckbeardz 4y ago
this has become standard practice in corporate America. It's done a lot with environmental damage: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/publications/e...
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by fatneckbeardz 4y ago
their customers don't find this problem bad enough to stop doing business with them, (including your big company), so Hertz will continue doing what they have been doing. adding any additional checklists , training, or quality control
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by fatneckbeardz 4y ago
"hello, fellow podcasters!" 'arent you the guys that committed war crimes, tortured POWs, staged anti-democratic coups, created the Taliban, ..' "no no no, that was some other CIA. We are the new CIA, CIA stands for
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by fatneckbeardz 4y ago
i think to change this, you have to start with a basic, fundamental respect for the liberal arts, the humanities, and for human beings in general. and that means you have to pay people in money for the emotional and mental labor of organizi
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by fatneckbeardz 4y ago
the thing is that we all see this system as a failure, but the people who make the decisions, and who run that system, see it as a success. their primary goal is not to provide reliable power, their primary goal is profit and ideology. and
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by fatneckbeardz 4y ago
"it's likely that most employees in this kind of circumstance can tell their employers to stuff it without any adverse consequence." wrong. you can be fired for no reason you can be put on a blacklist and become unhirable you
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by fatneckbeardz 4y ago
and when people stopped telling stories around the fire, and instead people went to their rooms to read books... something was lost then too. and something gained.
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by fatneckbeardz 4y ago
you do not have an address line 2 you do not have an address line 3 the amount data type is not clear (is that an integer representing pennies, is it a floating point? shouldnt be using floating point for banking) recipient name is not brok
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by fatneckbeardz 4y ago
engineers in college: "i'm not taking any of those waste-of-time, woo-woo, liberal arts bullshit classes" engineers in life: "OMG how do you draw like that, amazing" (guy draws a ball) "OMG how do u explain thi
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by fatneckbeardz 4y ago
where i work, alot of this could be fixed by recording/watching what users are actually doing then improving the UI so its more obvious what is supposed to be done. its like the old story about how on a college campus some administrato
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by fatneckbeardz 4y ago
this comment is literally the definition of gaslighting.
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by fatneckbeardz 4y ago
what a nightmare. Ops tech 1 - "hey... my database just dropped an entire table, i lost a week of work" Ops tech 2 - " thats a serious bug, you should escalate" Ops tech 1- "hey you wrote this thing, it dropped my d
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by fatneckbeardz 4y ago
it will do far less damage to society than facebook and tiktok
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by fatneckbeardz 4y ago
the ground is not paved , definitely not good for skating. you could maybe do an offroad skateboard though
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by fatneckbeardz 4y ago
"drafting is a low-value activity " "low-value workers". ... ... ??
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by fatneckbeardz 4y ago
i spent thousands of hours working on one of those open source CAD projects, and i made about 100 dollars. eventually i had to get a "real job", a job where i can't really be doing domain specific open source stuff without a
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by fatneckbeardz 4y ago
not at the bank i work for. they have some sites that only work in chrome, some that only work in edge, some that only work in internet explorer, and absolutely nobody cares except for some pedantic nerds like me. fixing the problems wou