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by gaius 8y ago
It’s almost as though they don’t get that they need to keep working to innovate and please their customers to stay relevant. Like all enterprise software vendors their customers are the ones who buy it, not the ones who use it. In alm
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by gaius 8y ago
anyone has a problem with ads per se, as long as there aren't that many of them, they are contextual The ad industry 100 years ago solved this problem. Wanna sell widgets? Take out an ad in Widgets Weekly and you know you will perfec
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by gaius 8y ago
Do you have an example? If you are trying to buy product X and what you get is a fake made with inferior materials, what use are extra features that you didn’t even expect to have?
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by gaius 8y ago
HR managers appearing more concerned about avoiding negative publicity than protecting staff But this is literally the job of the HR department. That is why Workers need guilds or unions as a counterweight.
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by gaius 8y ago
Linear algebra and linear programming. So many problems in so many fields boil down to matrix manipulation in the end.
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by gaius 8y ago
Well, if I have misjudged you, I apologise for that! The thing is that Israel is a red herring, the traditional anti-Semitism of the left pre-dates its existence and is rooted in the stereotypical association of Jews with finance and hence
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by gaius 8y ago
It was a good faith question to see if you were aware of it, and I see that you in fact are. "Confection by Zionists" indeed. Dog-whistling at its finest.
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by gaius 8y ago
Yep, it's amazing how many pocket-sized 10,000+ lumen torches with hours of burn time for ludicrously cheap prices there are listed there. A common trick is they not only fit a knock-off LED unit, but running it at higher than rated vo
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by gaius 8y ago
So what you’re saying is, allegations of anti-Semitism are in fact a Jewish plot? Do you know how that sounds?
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by gaius 8y ago
From people concerned about the increasingly common anti-Semitism in the Labour Party
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by gaius 8y ago
Momentum aren't communists though, I don't think I've heard them described as Nationalising Socialists.
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by gaius 8y ago
Exactly the same thing is happening in the UK, the Labour Party has no idea how to deal with Momentum
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by gaius 8y ago
There’s a dive torch popular amongst newbie divers, the LED Lenser Frogman. I actually have one myself, they’re pretty neat, tho’ obv no substitute for my Light Monkeys. It should retail for £35-40 but you see knock offs on Amazon for <£
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by gaius 8y ago
Is The Guardian a legit source? It’s readership numbers have been declining and some of its writers churn out complete gibberish but it has been around for a long time and is generally considered to be a serious newspaper in the U.K. Disc
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by gaius 8y ago
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18092660
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by gaius 8y ago
I write kernel mode drivers as my day job, and this is certainly the first time I've ever heard of non-swappable being called "wired". For what OS? Consider https://wiki.freebsd.org/Memory Wired - Non
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by gaius 8y ago
The struggle is being self-aware enough to know whether or not you're being a curmudgeon stuck in the past I love love love the reboots of BSG and Westworld, as well as loving the originals, so I don’t think it’s that :-) supernatur
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by gaius 8y ago
and obvious political propaganda! Yes and no. Consider Dr Who. Loved that show when I was a kid and still love the classic episodes but it’s not made for me now, it’s made for the Twilight/Harry Potter crowd. “Supernatural boyfriend
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by gaius 8y ago
Yeah, it’s totally webdev. In other fields 10+ years experience of C++ or whatever would be totally normal.
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by gaius 8y ago
What is real? That which is irreplaceable.
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by gaius 8y ago
Easy to experiment / the Graun should enforce real names in its own comments section and see how it plays out
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Yale University Under Federal Investigation for Use of Race(wsj.com)
2 points by gaius 8y ago|1 comments
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by gaius 8y ago
without actually benefitting customers, and most of them involve strip-mining value built up over the long term at the expense of the future I think of this as the conversion of social capital into financial. The monetisation of things th
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by gaius 8y ago
I have a watch with wrist HRM and I can say without a doubt that it is a complete gimmick. Sometimes I will be sitting calmly at my desk and I glance down and see it thinks my heart rate is 190. Or I will get back from a hard run and it thi
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by gaius 8y ago
Yes and no. Nothing happens in a vacuum. If person X develops something that they could not have developed without certain institutional and social and physical infrastructure around them then it’s by no means as clear cut. For example I th
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by gaius 8y ago
understood why people feel strongly about "Code of Conduct" statements Offered as a possible explanation without taking a side: it is because the author of the CoC is perceived as asserting their moral superiority over the other
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by gaius 8y ago
I find the ruby syntax much more self-explanatory than python. Yes and no. Consider that these are different in Ruby but the same in almost every other language: f(x) f (x) Ever had to debug code that relied on this behavio
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by gaius 8y ago
Meaningful reform won’t happen until the wider industry looks at the CVs of ex-Google workers with suspicion that they may be smart but lack a moral compass.
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by gaius 8y ago
Yes, either you take it, or leave it That is a false dilemma, because there are more than two choices. To many of us, the third option is the one we choose.
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by gaius 8y ago
The vast majority of the financial sector does nothing significant to the outside world, and often just cause negative side-effects. So... like Silicon Valley then?

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