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by gaius 8y ago
Free speech does not mean I'm entitled to someone else's platform. But if a platform wants to be a "common carrier" and not a publisher with all the responsibilities thereof, it doesn't get to make the distinction
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by gaius 8y ago
Dilbert is mostly stuck in some 90s version of cubicle life at a big company like Pac Bell And Garfield. The cat hates Mondays and loves lasagna, we get it...
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by gaius 8y ago
Devs: SOAP is too baroque Swagger: hold my beer
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by gaius 8y ago
Right. You just don’t want to be holding the bag when the wheels come off. It was the same with CDS’s in 2007. People who got out at the right time made fortunes. Theranos was another example of experienced investors hoping the bubble would
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by gaius 8y ago
Imagine you are a Dutchman in 1636. You know perfectly well that tulip bulbs are worthless. But you also know that any tulip bulbs you can buy now you can sell at a vast profit later. What do you do?
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by gaius 8y ago
SO literally gives you a reward in the form of a badge for your profile the more you flag questions! They give you a badge for downvoting, a badge for editing... The root cause for all these behaviours lies with whoever dreamt up those badg
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by gaius 8y ago
that don't follow the rules (as they see them The rules are exactly what is gamified via the points and badges system. You can’t fault anyone for responding to the incentives they are given, when explicitly set out by the site owners
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by gaius 8y ago
it's not really her fault the physics doesn't work That is an excuse on a par with “the black hole ate my homework”
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by gaius 8y ago
how were these people so easily bamboozled? The simplest answer is the most likely: they weren’t.
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by gaius 8y ago
I'd say this is exactly where some kind of web of trust could work. There is a temporal dimension to this too. Everyone loves their new toy just as they unbox it. What interests me is reviews after having used it for a few weeks or m
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by gaius 8y ago
Thanks to Amazon commingling you can order a genuine brand and get a fake anyway.
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by gaius 8y ago
these terms have basically lost all meaning now Hell, someone the other day passed me their phone and asked me to take a “selfie” of them...
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by gaius 8y ago
They call them NPCs now
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by gaius 8y ago
Roger Daltrey famously said "I hope I die before I get old" in 1965. He's 74 now...
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by gaius 8y ago
I work just a couple of hours per week Do you mean per day?
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by gaius 8y ago
and you know I have extra domain knowledge specific to this role Funny story, at a previous employer people who had been there 10+ years, would always say, it takes 3 years to really hit your stride in this company. They meant the time ta
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by gaius 8y ago
The current POTUS is anything but a "free trade extremist"
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by gaius 8y ago
Tweets are cheap - let's see them sack the Saudi government as a client before anyone takes their apology seriously. And that still begs the question of why an report on dissidents was compiled for their own internal use in the first p
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by gaius 8y ago
Another missing piece: HR people don’t get big raises for moving jobs and they don’t see why anyone else should either
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by gaius 8y ago
How about fairness in taxation? What do Google know about that?
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by gaius 8y ago
He is known as an unprincipled opportunist, he will fit right in at Facebook.
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by gaius 8y ago
Sometimes I’m just amazed that people haven’t risen up in bloody revolt yet. Well you could have had my man Bernie Sanders, if the DNC hadn't stabbed him in the back. So you know who to put first up against the wall.
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by gaius 8y ago
"one stick, alone, weak — many sticks, together, stronk". Just that the bundle is stronger than its constituents. Isn't there a word for a bundle of sticks bound together?
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by gaius 8y ago
Are these all not physically the same battery and the range is a software unlock? ISTR Tesla unlocking the additional range for free last time when there were storms in Texas.
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by gaius 8y ago
Great engineers understand computers all the way from the silicon up through the different layers and protocols and systems. When someone claims to be a “full stack engineer” this is what they are claiming. But the reality is always webde
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by gaius 8y ago
Personally if I were in your situation I'd remove all "old" dates and just put the last say 4-6 years of experience on the resume and leave the rest off so you've just got a few years of experience Doesn't that st
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by gaius 8y ago
Self-awareness leading to cognitive dissonance
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by gaius 8y ago
if your basis for the family border separation policy is to defend it with "well, criminals also have their families broken up," Not at all. I just find it curious that this one particular application of what is actually a commo
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by gaius 8y ago
The only foreign policy goal the armed forces exist to serve is defense of the homeland. Securing access to raw materials is defending the homeland. I live on an island, patrolling the shipping lanes is absolutely something our military s
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by gaius 8y ago
people have been separated from their children This happens any time anyone is sent to prison for any reason, no?

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